Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- BSD
- iPad
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
Professional music notation software for Windows and macOS with intuitive tools for score creation, MIDI input, guitar tab conversion, and dynamic parts.
- Music Production App
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPad
+3Impro-Visor is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be improvised.
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
+9Band-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.
- Music Production App
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor.
- Music Production App
- Freemium • Open Source
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
+1Interactive ear training, sight-singing, rhythm practice, and music theory exercises with instant feedback, customizable lessons, and detailed progress stats.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
+5With forScore, your sheet music has never been better—it’s everything you can do with paper, and so much more.
- Paid • Proprietary
- iPhone
- iPad
+6Everand is a reading subscription that offers access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and more - all in one monthly subscription.
- Audiobook Store
- Freemium • Proprietary
- iPhone
- iPad
- Online
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Apple Watch
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.
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
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The Tonelib JAM is a software for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music for guitar and other fretted instruments. You can use Tonelib JAM for regular guitar practicing, for learning songs or for advancing your performance skills to the next level.
- Music Production App
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
DaCapo Editor is a free Open Source music sheet editor which allows to easily create nice looking partitions. It is available as a web application as well as a desktop application for Windows, MacOS and Linux.
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2) music notation software (Windows). It has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making scores. This results in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific...
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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.
- Music Production App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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.
- Music Production App
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows