Free Apps with 'Music Notation' feature

Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.

Professional music notation software for Windows and macOS with intuitive tools for score creation, MIDI input, guitar tab conversion, and dynamic parts.

Compose or publish music notation, produce teaching materials or learn the language of music — Dorico lets you make beautiful music, fast.

Collaborative online score editor with real-time music notation, browser-based editing, percussion support, file compatibility, history tracking, and Google Hangouts integration.

Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License.

Audiveris is an open-source Optical Music Recognition software which processes the image of a music sheet to automatically provide symbolic music information in MusicXML standard.

EasyABC allows you to edit and play abc files. It supports conversion from MusicXML and MIDI to ABC. The latter uses a custom implementation (midi2abc is not used) in order to produce very readable ABC output. Direct midi input is supported for people with a midi keyboard.

SongStuff is a software solution for song creating and recording. There are also a music notation module and a beat library in the program. This application is a very useful tool for song writers and music makers.

Change the speed of the music - from 20% (one fifth speed) to 200% (double speed) without changing the pitch.

alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from files like Guitar Pro or use the built in markup named alphaTex.

Learn to read music notes in all 7 clefs with fun, focused practice. Choose which notes to train on, use A-G or Do-Re-Mi, and master reading music at your own pace.

GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.

A simple web app called Cadence that rounds Spacebar taps (or screen taps on mobile) to standard note lengths to help you transcribe pesky rhythms (like dotted eighths, triplets, etc.). Desktop is recommended - mobile should be functional for most browsers.

Use this application to simulate playing a piano on your PC keyboard and enjoy learning chores and the note layout using the available songs.

Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.

NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff, drum notes, 5 lyrics lines, N-Tuplets, context changes, repeats with alternatives, configurable music...

Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, especially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms.

A sheet music reader for Android tablets. Install this trial version to experience freedom from having to lug around books and binders and the ability to access any score in your library in seconds.

Noteflight is an amazing online notation editor. On the free version you get 10+ instruments to choose from, lots of musical symbols and more. On the payed version (Cresendo) you get lots more instruments, guitar tab and sharing options. Best way to wite music on the web.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond.

ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that!

A simple and intuitive way to write musical notation, Crescendo allows composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. Arrange your own professional quality sheet music.

iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

Slow MP3 is a musician's music player that can slow down, transpose and transcribe songs on the fly.