Community members may also create guitar lessons, and have their approved works published on the website and read by its users. Inappropriate words used to be censored by a computer that searched for and replaced undesired words posted within the community, until September 1, 2015, when censorship of curse and swear words was lifted on the website. Moderators are users who are rewarded for being particularly helpful and knowledgeable in a specific subject and are responsible for moderating forums that focus on the subject they specialize in. The website is regulated by an administrator and moderators. It is a strong community of forum users who frequent the site. UG app (also known as 'Tabs') has been downloaded more than 53,000,000 times. As of December 2021, the site and mobile app contain 1,600,000 tabs and chords for over 900,000 songs from over 115,000 artists.
Since 2008, Ultimate Guitar operates from San Francisco, US, with its platform available in most of the countries.
It was started on October 9, 1998, by Eugeny Naidenov. UG's platform also includes video courses, reviews of music and equipment, interviews with notable musicians and forums. Its website and mobile application provides guitar tablature catalogues and chord sheets. Ultimate Guitar (Ultimate Guitar USA LLC), which is also known as or simply UG, is an online platform for guitarists and musicians.
