Write, collect and print folk tunes.
ABC notation with instrument tablature, playback, sets and printable tune books. Free, with no sign-up: your tunes stay in your own browser.
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Everything for a tune collection
Write ABC, see the score
The notation draws as you type. Click a note to jump to it in the code, and warnings take you straight to the line.
Tablature
Fiddle, mandolin, tenor and Irish banjo, guitar, DADGAD, bouzouki and ukulele, with transposing built in.
Play it back
Hear any tune and follow the notes as they play, even without a connection.
Sets and books
Group tunes into sets, then into tune books with a cover, contents page, numbering and your own notes.
Ready to print
Clean black-on-white pages for A4, with control over headings, tab labels and page breaks.
Bring your tunes in
Paste ABC, upload files or search more than 23,000 folk tunes. Take them out as ABC, SVG, MIDI or a full backup.
Private by design
Your tunes are saved on your own device, not on our servers. There are no accounts and no cookies, and we only count visits and feature use, never your tunes. Download a backup any time, and use it to move your library to another device. Read the privacy details.
More is on the way
Folktab is free to use, and we are working on expansions to the app. Watch this space.