123 Like MuseScore Good alternative? YES NO MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com Export to PDF WYSIWYG Support Add a feature
40 Like Rosegarden Good alternative? YES NO Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
25 Like Sibelius Good alternative? YES NO Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS. Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
35 Like LilyPond Good alternative? YES NO GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
11 Like Frescobaldi Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
18 Like Denemo Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
14 Like Finale Good alternative? YES NO Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific... Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
6 Like music21 Good alternative? YES NO Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
7 Like Flat Good alternative? YES NO Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor. Create and edit your music score documents directly with your web... Freemium Web Google Drive Facebook Google Classroom Hangouts Chrome Web Store Collaborative writing Real time collaboration Add a feature
4 Like StaffPad Good alternative? YES NO StaffPad is a brand new class of notation app, designed to take advantage of the advanced pen and touch input found on Microsoft Surface* and other compatible Windows... Commercial Windows Windows RT No features added Add a feature
7 Like NtEd Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux WYSIWYG Support Add a feature
6 Like Noteflight Good alternative? YES NO 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... Freemium Web No features added Add a feature
5 Like Canorus Music Score Editor Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
3 Like MC Musiceditor Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
3 Like ScoreCloud Studio Good alternative? YES NO ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - “Like Google Translate for music” - * Instant Score from MIDI or... Free Mac Windows iPhone No features added Add a feature
