Open any Guitar Pro tab. Play it back. Practice it.

A fast, quiet desktop player for .gp3 to .gp8 files. Moving cursor, loops, metronome, tempo control, every track. Nothing else in the way.

Version 0.1.0. Free, no account. Windows 10 or later, macOS 12 or later. All releases and checksums.

Intro riffGuitar 1 · E standard

Made for practising, not for editing

Drag over the bars you are struggling with and they repeat until you lift the pick. Slow them down without changing pitch.

Mute the rhythm guitar, solo the bass, turn the drums down. Volume and pan per track, saved with the file.

Click on every beat or only on the downbeat, with a bar of count-in before playback starts.

Switch the view per track. Fingerings, bends, slides, palm mutes and harmonics are drawn the way Guitar Pro draws them.

A live fretboard or piano under the score shows what is sounding right now, in the current tuning.

Fretspire registers itself for Guitar Pro files, so a tab from your downloads folder opens straight away. Works offline.

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Fretspire is a player: it reads these files and does not change them. To write or edit tabs you still need Guitar Pro or another editor.

Download Fretspire-Setup-x64.exe and run it.
If SmartScreen shows a warning for an unsigned installer, choose More info, then Run anyway.
Guitar Pro files are associated with Fretspire during setup; you can change this in Windows settings at any time.

Download Fretspire-universal.dmg, open it and drag Fretspire to Applications.
On first launch, right-click the app and choose Open to confirm it was downloaded from this site.
Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both supported by the same build.