Apps with 'Music Notation' feature

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  1. MuseScore Studio icon
     246 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • PortableApps.com
    • Haiku
    MuseScore 4.0
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  2. Guitar Pro icon
     71 likes

    Edit tablatures for guitar and other instruments with a realistic audio engine and interactive tools, supporting a format popular among guitarists worldwide.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    Guitar Pro 8 interface
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  3. Avid Sibelius icon
     35 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPad
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  4. Simply Piano icon
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    Step-by-step courses teach music notation and popular songs with instant feedback, working with any piano or keyboard. Personalized daily workouts included.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  5. Dorico icon
     12 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
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  6. Flat.io icon
     12 likes

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

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  7. Impro-Visor icon
     25 likes

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

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    In this window you can create or edit a new chorus.
    Here you can copy or cut melody and chords.
    Various transposition actions can be accessed this way
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  8. Frescobaldi icon
     18 likes

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Band-in-a-Box icon
     12 likes

    Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  10. forScore icon
     5 likes

    With forScore, your sheet music has never been better—it’s everything you can do with paper, and so much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  11. Audiveris icon
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    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.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Mac
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  12. EasyABC icon
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    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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  13. Opusmodus icon
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    Opusmodus is a comprehensive computer-aided environment for the whole work of music composition a virtual space where a composer can develop ideas and experiments for projects large and small. Opusmodus allows you to explore more than one structure at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  14. SongStuff icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. alphaTab icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  16. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  17. Denemo icon
     22 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  18.  1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
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  20. music21 icon
     8 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  21. NtEd icon
     7 likes

    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...

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    • Linux
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  22.  5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  23. SmartScore icon
     3 likes

    Scan, edit and transpose your music in just minutes. There is simply no faster way to get printable music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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