Windows
Portable .exe: nothing to install
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A player for transcribing music
Learn the song
by ear, one bar
at a time.
Slow a song down without changing its pitch. Loop the hard part. Step through it from the keyboard.
EarBee is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Open this page on a computer to download it. See the downloads
Windows, macOS and Linux
Free. The whole thing.
Every feature on this page is in the download. Nothing is locked.
- No trial. Nothing expires.
- No subscription. There is no paid version.
- No account, no ads, no tracking. It all runs on your computer.
- Open source. The code is on GitHub, under the MIT licence.
It hears the beat.
You loop the bar.
EarBee finds the beats and bars for you, so you can loop one bar at a time.
Find the beats and bars
Press B. A line marks every beat, a stronger line the start of every bar, and you see the tempo.
- ← → jump to the next beat or bar.
- Shift + B plays a click on every beat.
On Intel Macs: beats only, no bars.
Loop a bar, then the next
Press \ to loop the bar you're in.
- = doubles the loop, - halves it.
- Shift + ] moves it to the next phrase, Shift + [ back.
- Loop edges snap to the beats. Hold Alt to place them freely.
What it does
- Slower, same pitch
- Play from 0.25× to 3× speed without changing the pitch. Or change the pitch, not the speed.
- Beats and bars
- Press B to mark every beat and bar, and see the tempo.
- Loops
- Shift-drag across the waveform, or press \ to loop the current bar. It repeats without a gap.
- Marks
- Press M to mark a point, R twice to mark a section. Name and colour them.
- Video
- Videos stay in sync at any speed. Show them big, or in a window on a second screen.
- From YouTube
- Paste a link, or search by name. Chapters become marked sections.
- Projects
- Save your marks, loop, speed and EQ in one
.ebeefile, with or without the song. - Long files, offline
- An hour-long concert opens in seconds. No internet needed, except to download.
Hands stay on the keys
Listen, stop, go back, listen again: each step is one key. Press ? in the app for the full list.
- SpacePlay, or replay from where you started
- ←→Step back and forward
- ↑↓Step size: 0.01 s to 10 s, a beat or a bar
- BFind the beats
- []LLoop start, loop end, loop on or off
- \Loop the current bar
- =-Double or halve the loop
- Shift[]Move the loop back or on
- MMark a point
- RMark a section: start, then end
- SStart from here next time
- VFVideo in a window, or big
Seventeen colour themes
EarBee's own dark and light themes, plus popular editor themes. Automatic follows your system.
- EarBee
- EarBee Light
- Monokai
- Dracula
- Nord
- One Dark
- Gruvbox Dark
- Solarized Dark
- Catppuccin Mocha
- Tokyo Night
- Solarized Light
- Catppuccin Latte
- GitHub Light
- Gruvbox Light
- One Light
- Tokyo Night Day
- Everforest Light
Download
For Windows, macOS and Linux. Free and open source.
macOS
Disk image, .dmg, for Apple Silicon or Intel
Drag it to Applications. The first time, right-click it and choose Open (it isn't signed by Apple). Not yet tested on a real Mac: tell us how it went.
Linux
.AppImage, any distribution
Make it executable, then run it: chmod +x EarBee*.AppImage
All releases ·
Source code, or build it yourself:
npm install && npm start