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Version history for tabs and chord sheets

Sep 25, 2026

Every time you save a tab or chord sheet, the version before it is kept (the last 20). Click History next to Save to see them. Pro members can bring any earlier version back into the editor.

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Never Lose Your Work

Sep 25, 2026

Signed in, the tab editor and the chord sheet maker now autosave your work in progress to your account about once a minute, outside your save slots. Come back later, on any device, and pick up where you left off. My Tabs shows anything waiting for you.

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Lyric sheets save in any language

Sep 25, 2026

Lyric and chord sheets written in Sinhala, Hindi, Russian or any other language now save to your account, and so do emoji and ♯ and ♭ signs. Until now those saves failed with a "Save failed" message. Chord diagram names and collections accept any language too. Thanks to the player who reported it.

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Bug Fixes with Voices

Sep 21, 2026

Multiple voices in tab can now be assigned without rhythmic values added first.

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Quicker rhythm editing

Sep 21, 2026

Select some notes and click a length to set it. Click the same length again to flip their stems to the other side of the staff, and once more to flip them back. Rest mode now has a keyboard shortcut too: Alt+Shift+R turns it on and off.

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Copy and paste a rhythm

Sep 21, 2026

Set the note lengths in one measure, click Copy Rhythm, then click into the next measure and hit Paste Rhythm. The rhythm lands on the new notes without touching your frets, including both voices and which voice each note is in. Keep pressing Paste to fill bar after bar, or select several measures to fill them all at once. Shortcuts: Alt+Shift+C and Alt+Shift+V.

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Try Pro free for 7 days

Sep 17, 2026

Pro is now free for your first 7 days. Full playback, watermark-free exports and unlimited saves, with nothing charged until the week is up and a reminder email before it is. Cancel any time and you pay nothing. There is also a new home for bass players at guitarscribble.com/bass-tab-maker: the same editor, opening on a 4-string bass.

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Transpose Fixes in Progressions

Sep 16, 2026

Transpose buttons now apply transposition and move the value in the key field. Changes are absolute rather than always referring back to the original written key to avoid confusion. There is more feedback for save.

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Open your chord charts in iReal Pro

Sep 16, 2026

The chord progression chart maker can now hand a chart straight to the iReal Pro app. Tap iReal Pro, then Open, and it lands in the app with sections, repeats, endings and N.C. intact. Copy link or Email link sends it to another iReal Pro user. Free with an account. The set list maker also has a new Copy as Text button for group chats, and the progression chart has Copy text for pasting chords by bar.

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Chord Diagrams in Progression Charts

Sep 14, 2026

If you're making progression charts, you can now click the "chords used" checkbox to show diagrams and customize them for your progression. Clikc on a diagram to edit it.

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Chord Collections

Sep 14, 2026

Chord collections interface got a little love so you can navigate them more easily. A chord collection is just a bunch of chords you can make a chord sheet out of or even a chord book for your guitar students or yourself. Click "my collections" to see the new buttons. Drag to reorder is automatically opened and your selected collection auto-opens in the editor.

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Auto Space Leading Zeros

Sep 14, 2026

In tab creator, typing a zero before a single digit auto creates a space. I.E. "09" is no longer a valid fret. Please note, alignment will look more centered in chords on export.

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Banjo and mandolin tunings, plus new sounds

Sep 14, 2026

The tab editor now has 5-string banjo presets (Open G, Double C, G Modal, Open D) and 4-string Mandolin, Tenor, Irish Tenor and Plectrum banjo tunings. Pick a banjo tuning and playback switches to real banjo recordings. The Sound menu also gains three sampled electric guitars: Clean, Jazz and Distorted. The tuner has new Banjo and Mandolin instruments with their common tunings, and Tune by Ear plays real banjo notes.

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Some Pages Have a New Look

Sep 9, 2026

Refresh the tuner and metronome as well as other pages for a new look.

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Ear Training has More Options

Sep 9, 2026

Ear training page (under learn) can now quiz you on a full two octaves with chromatics.

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Chords sound prettier

Sep 9, 2026

Synth sounds are now used for chord diagram maker and chord pages.

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Easy Ear Training

Sep 6, 2026

Go practice your ear by naming the second note or the interval by listening - https://guitarscribble.com/ear-training

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More Trivia

Sep 6, 2026

More questions added. Test your knowledge of the world of guitar at - https://guitarscribble.com/guitar-trivia

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7/4 and 6/4 Time Added

Sep 3, 2026

You can now write out "Money" by Pink Floyd ;)

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Hide Stuff

Sep 3, 2026

In tab creator, especially on phones and tablets, you can now hide just about anything, song details, sidebar of tools, intro text, to give you some more room to work.

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Bigger Printed PDF

Sep 2, 2026

Optional landscape print for full width tabs. Portrait PDF's also print a bit larger. PRO TIP: For max size/readability, don't use up all 100 chars. per line. Keep your lines a bit under full width.

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Slash Chords

Sep 2, 2026

Select slash chords were added to the library. Slash chords can be an infinite number of chords really, so its just the common ones for now. (D/F#, G/B, etc).

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Indent and bold on chords over lyrics

Sep 2, 2026

I noticed that my singer friend likes to indent his choruses on stage when reading lyrics, so now you can indent or bold sections in the lyric sheet creator. This really helps when reading lyrics on stage, especially if you want your whole song to fit on a page rather than repeating the chorus.

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Get the text out of your way

Sep 2, 2026

On the tab creator page you can now hide the text at the top of the page to make more room for your work!

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Access all your saved tabs from the editor

Sep 2, 2026

NEW- access all your saved tabs from a dropdown at the top right of the editor. You no longer have to do a lap to the "my stuff" page.

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Bug Fixes with Clear and Close

Sep 2, 2026

"Clear" and "Close Tab" now completely remove title and artist fields so you don't accidentally overwrite old work with new work.

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Even up Your Lines

Sep 2, 2026

In the tab creator, even up your lines (especially when using time signatures) with the new "even lines" button. The action is undoable.

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Guitar Trivia!

Sep 1, 2026

Go to Learn > Guitar Trivia to play. Your first round of the day counts toward the leaderboard. Capped at 3 practice rounds. You must be signed in to participate in leaderboard.

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Export or Copy as Text

Aug 31, 2026

By request we've added free plain text output. Export a regular ASCII text file of your tab or click "copy as text" to paste it to another app. Symbols like hammer/pull will be auto converted to plain text symbols. Keep in mind rhythm and other more complex symbols will not translate to text.

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Playback Controls More Obvious

Aug 29, 2026

Playback controls moved up above rhythm where you can see them. Remember all tool groups and entire left sidebar can be collapsed out of view as desired.

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Bug Fix with Closing TAB

Aug 28, 2026

Closing TAB now clears the workspace more fully, including title and artist.

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Refined Playback Controls in Tab Creator

Aug 28, 2026

New playback controls with return to zero, pause and "repeats off" to skip repeats. Hover any control to learn its keyboard shortcut.

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Bug Fix with Apostrophe

Aug 27, 2026

Special characters in title/artist improved.

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Rhythm bug fixes

Aug 27, 2026

Un-tuplet a tuplet by selecting and pressing the button again, fixed cross deletions between voices 1 and 2, hot keys added for more items. Second ending playback bug fixed. Duration always selected if no duration is chosen (predictive or sticky from last duration). Sticky duration now applies independently to each voice. (E.G. continue wiritng quarter notes in bass voice and voice 1 remembers your faster duration). Cosmetic time signature spacing fix.

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Chord Lookup Fixes

Aug 27, 2026

Fixed "E" and "E7" bug with chord lookup.

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Hide the Toolbar in Tab Creator

Aug 25, 2026

Completely hide the left toolbar on desktop, and the hide tools button has moved to a more logical place on mobile. You can now also hide the mobile keyboard to have more real estate to work with.

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Rhythm Mode Fixes in TAB

Aug 24, 2026

Better rendering, faster note durations added (1/64, 1/128th). Clearer view of voice 2 when you want to leave a note ringing while another note plays. ALT+B shortcut for breaking apart beams, layout improvements. You may experience some stem flipping if you have saved tabs with rhythm so please use ALT+S to flip them back as needed. See the help page for complete details.

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Whitespace fix for TAB maker

Aug 24, 2026

Fixed excessive whitespace under TAB's and a bug with view zoom.

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Sound Bug Fixes

Aug 21, 2026

Options for synth vs. sampled guitar and uke sounds, fixed a bug where double digits sounded as a chord during entry. Silent mode fixes for mobile and tablet.

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Bend without Selecting

Aug 20, 2026

Press Ctrl+B (or Shift+B) to bend the note your cursor is on. No more dragging to select a single note first. Press again to cycle through 1/4, 1/2, full, and 1 1/2 bends.

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Better playback for guitar and uke

Aug 20, 2026

Guitar and uke sounds now come from real samples. Not perfect but a huge improvement!

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Improved playback for BASS

Aug 20, 2026

New bass synth that is not buggy and sounds more like the real pitch.

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Undo/Redo in Set List Maker

Aug 19, 2026

If you accidentally moved a song out of order in edit view, you can now undo or redo it!

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Tremolo Picking and Swing Feel

Aug 18, 2026

Two new tools for making your tabs: a Trem button in the Picking section marks tremolo picking with the classic three-slash symbol (above or below the note, works on chords), and playback rapidly re-picks the note just like you would. Plus a new Swing 8ths toggle next to the tempo field gives your eighth notes that long-short shuffle feel, saved with your tab. Both are still fresh, so if anything misbehaves, please tell us through the contact page.

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Hide/Show Tools in TAB Editor

Aug 17, 2026

Collapse tool sections in tab editor to save space and customize your workspace. Keep the tools you use the most open and available for a streamlined workflow.

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Paste any text tab into the editor

Aug 16, 2026

You can now paste a plain-text (ASCII) tab straight into the tab editor. Click Import ASCII, paste, and hit Preview to see exactly what will happen before anything changes. The importer reads the strings, tunings, bar lines, and notes, picks up section names like Verse and Chorus, and can optionally convert technique letters like 5h7 and 7b9 into real hammer-ons, slides, bends, and vibrato, ready for playback. A word of honesty: text tabs in the wild come in every imaginable format, and while it has handled everything we have thrown at it so far, we expect it to stumble on some. If a tab imports strangely, please report it via the Help page, ideally with the tab that confused it. Every report makes the importer smarter.

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Rhythm notation and playback are here

Aug 16, 2026

The tab editor just learned to read and play music. Turn on Rhythm Mode to add time signatures, note lengths, stems and beams, rests, dots, ties, and triplets to your tabs, with two independent voices for melody over bass lines. You can even hear each note as you type it. Press Play and hear your tab, with a moving cursor that follows the music. Rhythm notation is free for everyone. Full playback is a Pro feature, and free users can preview the first measure of any tab. All of this is still in development, but we decided to make it available now instead of keeping it in the lab, and we would love your feedback. Tell us what works and what does not via the Help page.

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Chord progressions in your songbooks (Pro)

Aug 4, 2026

The songbook builder now takes your chord progression charts too. Your saved progressions list right alongside your chord sheets in the songbook picker, tagged so they're easy to spot. Tick any mix of the two, put them in any order, and build: one PDF with a cover page, a table of contents, and every song where you placed it. Songbooks you saved before work exactly as they did, and you can load one and tick a progression or two to add them.

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Playback is Coming

Aug 4, 2026

There are lots of requests to add playback to tab but that will require rhythm, so it’s a big project. It is in the works!

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Turn your charts into a songbook (Pro)

Aug 2, 2026

Pro members can now combine any of their saved chord sheets (chords over lyrics) into a single polished PDF songbook: a cover page with your title and band name, a table of contents with page numbers, and every chart in the order you choose. Pick a text size, and the optional shrink-to-fit setting nudges a song down just enough to keep it on one page. Find the 📖 Songbook button next to My Charts in the Chord Sheet Maker.

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Speedier set list attachments

Jul 30, 2026

Load speed improved for both online and offline mode in set list manager. Manage all your PDF lyric sheets and charts and enjoy increased load speed / smarter caching in stage view.

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Sign in with Microsoft

Jul 29, 2026

You can now create an account or log in with your Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, Live, or MSN) in one click, no verification email needed, just like the existing Google sign-in. If you already have a Guitar Scribble account under the same email address, the Microsoft login connects to it automatically, with all your tabs and settings intact.

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Smoother editing at line ends, mobile copy and paste

Jul 29, 2026

A batch of editor improvements, several straight from user feedback. Two-digit frets now stay together at the end of a full line: whether you type the digits or use the keypad's fret buttons, the whole number moves to the next line instead of splitting across two. Insert Column works even when a line is full, rolling the last column onto the next line so you can shift everything right without retyping. Deleting is smarter too: the Delete key removes the note under the cursor, and Backspace now clears the note you are sitting on when there is nothing but line behind it, so the last note on a line is easy to remove. And for phones and tablets: select notes with press-and-hold and a floating Copy / Cut / Paste bar appears, with a new Paste button on the keypad for one-tap pasting wherever your cursor is. The Help page covers all of it. Please report any issues.

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A Verification Note

Jul 29, 2026

Sometimes the email verification has trouble getting to users on Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud. Use Gmail if possible or email us to request verification and we can handle it manually.

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Highlights in Set List

Jul 26, 2026

Star a song in regular view or stage view to "highlight" it. Great for highlighting songs that need a bit more rehearsal or just making your favorites stand out to make sure you play them. Highlights auto-transfer from one view to the other.

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Hide the sidebar in TAB maker

Jul 24, 2026

In the tab creator, you can now hide the side tool bar on mobile devices.

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Lyrics over Chords

Jul 22, 2026

The lyrics over chords maker now has an "x line" button for deleting the current line. This can also get rid of empty lines that make your layout wonky. Additionally, I have added a "pre-chorus" label button. Don't forget you can also simply type your labels or chords if they don't exist in the built-in keyboards.

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Chord Progression Maker updates

Jul 21, 2026

Interface revamp: The editor now has a clean three-zone layout. Setup at the top (song details, presets, chord name style, chart size, bars per line), the chart in the middle with Preview, PNG, PDF, Share, and Save buttons repeated right below it, and a redesigned bottom keyboard with four tabs: Chords, Bars, Endings & Signs, and Sections. Every editing tool now lives in the keyboard, so there is far less scrolling, especially on iPad. Undo and redo sit beside the tabs on every pane. Clean workspace: New "Hide intro" and "Hide setup" chips collapse the page header and the setup area, leaving just your chart and the keyboard. Both choices are remembered. New chart options: Chart size (S, M, L) and Bars per line (4, or 8 at half width) are saved with the chart and apply everywhere it renders: on screen, in PDF and PNG exports, on shared public pages, and in set lists. The chart header was slimmed too: title and artist share one line, style sits at the top right, and the key line is gone. Fixes: The "chords are too long to fit" warning no longer appears falsely (and now catches real crowding it used to miss). PDF exports lost their oversized top margin. Opening a saved chart now retries automatically on a connection hiccup instead of showing a scary error. Admin got a New Verified Today stat and a cleaner feature-request reply display.

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Chord Progression Updates

Jul 21, 2026

The Chord Progression Chart Maker just got a big round of upgrades. The chord keyboard can now place a quarter rest, an eighth rest, or N.C. (no chord) on any beat. Eighth rests push a chord to the "and" of its beat for syncopated hits, and in compound meters like 12/8 a full-beat rest is automatically drawn as a dotted quarter rest, just like it should be. Navigation signs (now including D.C. al Fine and D.S. al Fine) each carry a little x in the editor, so you can remove a sign without disturbing the bar under it. Also new: undo, redo, and + bar buttons right on the bottom keyboard, a + Intro button that drops a labeled 4-bar intro at the top of your chart, a workspace zoom (50-150%) so you can see the whole song while you edit, and the keyboard's note keys now type into the Key field when it's focused. Exports and shared charts render all of it, and everything works on iPad. Just for fun I charted out "Kiss" by Prince today and its live on the learn section.

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Ukulele tabs, and smarter string switching

Jul 15, 2026

The tab editor now writes ukulele tab: set the Strings dropdown to 4 and pick Ukulele (GCEA) or Baritone Uke (DGBE) from the Tuning menu. Switching string counts also lands on the right instrument automatically: 4 strings starts as bass (EADG), 5 as 5-string bass with the low B, 6 as standard guitar, and 7 adds the low B.

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Feature requests: you decide what we build next

Jul 15, 2026

Guitar Scribble now has a public feature request board. Suggest an idea, vote on what you want most, and watch requests move from Under review to Planned, In progress, and Shipped. Find it in the footer or at guitarscribble.com/feature-requests. The quick suggestion box can also post your idea to the board now, and shipped requests link right back to this page.

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Tunings Dropdown is at the Top

Jul 15, 2026

Tunings dropdown is AT THE TOP near artist and title and will allow you to set a number of common tunings as well as "custom." This is not new but a lot of people seem to miss it.

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Bug Fixes

Jul 13, 2026

7 string saves and bar lines needed a correction. Endings (structure menu) can now span multiple lines as long as they're numbered the same. Please report any issues as lots of new features have shipped.

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Structure Symbols and Prettier Bar Lines

Jul 12, 2026

Tab editor got prettier bar lines, repeat signs now fall under "structure" with a bunch of new symbols for structuring repeats and general navigation. Also fixed a bug when pressing "enter" on a new chord symbol where the page would scroll away. This is a major update so please report any issues.

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Tuning Update

Jul 11, 2026

Switching to 4,5,6 or 7 strings now starts you on a more standard guitar or bass tuning for that number of strings. Ukulele tuning options added. If you change the number of strings AFTER creating a tuning, you will need to change it back.

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Chord Progression Output Size

Jul 10, 2026

Chord progression charts are now a bit bigger on export for easier reading on iPad.

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Chord Chart (Progression) UI Improvements

Jul 10, 2026

Move entire sections for easier builds, some buttons duplicated in bottom keyboard for easier access, ability to move entire sections added. Build a jazz lead sheet in minutes!

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Your work is safe, even before you log in

Jul 9, 2026

All the tools now warn you before you leave the page with unsaved changes. And if you head off to create an account or log in mid-project, your tab, chord diagram, progression, or lyric sheet is kept on your device and restored the moment you come back. No more lost set lists or vanished charts.

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Smarter hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bends

Jul 9, 2026

The H/P button now cycles through five styles: arc only, arc with letters, arc below, arc below with letters, and off. Letters are added automatically based on pitch direction and repeat between every pair of notes under longer arcs. Bends gained a 1 1/2 step option, and on mobile you can apply vibrato, harmonics, and bends to the note under your cursor without selecting it first.

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Lyric/Chord Sheets

Jul 3, 2026

Major changes to https://guitarscribble.com/chord-chart-maker which allow a more visual editing experience for lyric sheets with chords and direct copy and paste from other lyric websites, maintaining formatting. Very fast once you're accustomed to the process. Allows you to draw from your saved chord diagrams and notate strumming patterns now as well. Click "advanced text" if you prefer ChordPro style entry in plain text. Please report any issues from the contact page.

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Chord Progression/Lead Sheets

Jul 2, 2026

Big changes to chord progression chart maker, with a full WSYWYG editor interface and added features. Make iReal style charts much more quickly.

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Tab editor mobile bug fixes

Jul 2, 2026

Edits to mobile menu behavior on tabs page, floating keyboard now sticks to bottom in portrait mode. Made delete button more obvious. Updates to multi-note selection.

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Set List Maker Bug Fixes

Jul 2, 2026

Fixed a bug where PDF icon would improperly display if PDF was detected on another set list. Fixed bug where PDF icon would be obscured by long song title.

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Spacing and Maintenance

Jul 1, 2026

You may have experienced weirdness during today's maintenance. Apologies. Spacing of two digits chords now aligns better on export (if a two digit number is part of stacked chord in tab, the two digit number auto-centers to any accompanying one digit numbers in the same chord. This makes exported files look prettier.

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Text Tool

Jul 1, 2026

Generic text tool added. Use "chord" button to insert a chord name, "section" button to insert a section label like "verse," "chorus" etc., Use "Text" button to insert generic notes above or below the staff. Click on your text note to edit or delete it.

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Undo/Redo

Jul 1, 2026

Undo and Redo buttons added to mobile flyout keyboard for Tab maker.

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Bug Fix

Jul 1, 2026

Undo/Redo no longer affects working zoom state. Zoom in or out using the buttons up top to fit more of your work on screen. This does not effect output or exported files..

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Offline Set List + White Out Tool

Jun 30, 2026

Download button for using set lists offline with attachments. Be sure to download before the gig if you wont have internet! Added a whiteout tool for "erasing" things on your PDF charts attached to set lists in stage view.

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TAB Improvements and fixes

Jun 30, 2026

Improved mobile keyboard with numbers up to 24. Toggle your choice of "full" or "slim" note entry keyboard. Shift+D and Shift+U keyboard shortcuts fixed for picking strokes up and down symbols. Custom tunings can be entered via a popup modal. You can still choose from a list of tunings are alter the tuning at the beginning of a line manually. There has been many recent improvements, so please report any issues.

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NUMBER OF STRINGS ADJUSTABLE

Jun 29, 2026

Number of strings from 4-7 is now adjustable. This is a major update, so please report any bugs or problems.

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Bar Line Fix

Jun 29, 2026

Adding a bar mid-tab overwrites the current column as per usual, CTRL+Shift+\ adds a bar line as a newly inserted column. BUG FIX: Adding a bar line at the end of a line does not extend the line.

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