Comparison

Melodist Composer vs Guitar Tab Notes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Melodist Composer

This app allows you to write and edit tablature for guitar, bass, drums, and synths on your mobile device. It features a unique version history for all edits and includes advanced music analysis tools to understand your compositions.

Highlights
  • Tablature writing for guitar, bass, drums, synth
  • Unlimited undo/redo history for edits
  • Harmonic and rhythmic analysis
  • Dynamic and motivic analysis
  • Pattern and style analysis
  • Import Guitar Pro, MIDI, and MusicXML files
Features
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Melodist is a powerful, easy to use guitar, bass, drum and synth tablature writing app on your phone and tablet. Traditional tab writing and song composition is destructive. One change and your previous version vanishes. With Melodist Composer, every edit is preserved in your composition's history: undo any change, any time. Melodist composer also has music analysis tools: - Harmonic & Rhythmic Analysis – Understand the structure of your music - Dynamic Analysis – Visualise volume, intensity, and expression changes - Motivic Analysis – Track how your musical ideas develop and transform - Pattern Mining – Discover recurring motifs and themes - Style Analysis – Get insights into your compositional style Melodist Composer also allows for importing of Guitar pro files from version 3 all the way up to 8! As well as importing MIDI, and MusicXML files for analysis and editing.

About

Guitar Tab Notes

Features
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Guitar Tab Notes is a fast sketchpad for guitar players. When a riff or a chord shape shows up, open the app and get it down before it slips away. Instead of finger numbers or fret numbers, every position on the fretboard is shown as the actual note it plays (C, C#, D and so on). You read the sounds, not the shapes, so an idea still makes sense days later and is easy to move around in your head. WHY GUITARISTS USE IT - Capture ideas fast. Tap the fretboard and the note appears. Nothing in the way. - Think in any tuning. Standard, drop, open, or completely custom alt tunings that you type in and save. Every note name updates instantly across all of your chords. - Made for sketches, not for perfection. Group ideas into projects, drop in quick section labels like verse or chorus, and reorder everything by dragging. - Hear it back. Tap play to strum a chord and check an idea on the spot. - Color your voicings. Highlight alternate notes in four accent colors (turquoise, violet, amber, coral) right on the diagram. Colors can even share one spot with the main note: the dot splits into colored sections. - Capo aware. Set a capo and the fretboard and note names follow along. EVERYWHERE YOU WRITE Guitar Tab Notes runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and your whole sketchbook syncs automatically through your private iCloud. Start a riff on the couch with your phone, then finish the arrangement on iPad or Mac later. Nothing to set up and no account to create. EXPORT AND SHARE Send a single chord as an image, or a whole song as plain text or as a print-ready PDF: clean black-on-white A4 pages with your section labels, automatic page breaks and a choice of 2, 3 or 4 chords per row. On Mac, exports go through the standard Save dialog. Simple on purpose and quick by design. Keep the guitar in your hands and let the ideas land.

Screenshots

Melodist Composer4 screens
Guitar Tab Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Melodist Composer at 15.5 against Guitar Tab Notes's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Melodist Composer versus Guitar Tab Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMelodist ComposerGuitar Tab Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNew World Code LtdUnited App Sp. z o.o.

In-app purchases

None

Melodist Composer

No in-app purchases

None

Guitar Tab Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Melodist Composer free?
Melodist Composer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Guitar Tab Notes free?
Guitar Tab Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Melodist Composer or Guitar Tab Notes have ads?
Neither Melodist Composer nor Guitar Tab Notes shows ads.

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