Finale Alternatives

Finale is described as 'Is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific tweaking of instrument sounds for each track' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Finale for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best Finale alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Finale are Dorico, LilyPond, Avid Sibelius and Frescobaldi.

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  1. DGuitar icon
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    DGuitar is a Guitar Pro (GP4, GP3, GTP) viewer/player that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and any other operating system that has Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. DaCapo Editor icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • DaCapo Editor is the most popular Android Tablet & Self-Hosted alternative to Finale.

    • DaCapo Editor is Free and Open SourceFinale is Paid and Proprietary
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    Power Tab Editor is a free tablature authoring tool created by Brad Larsen for Windows. It is used to create guitar, bass and ukulele tablature scores, among many others. The current version uses the *.ptb file format.

    46 Power Tab Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. music21 icon
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    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse.

    54 NoteWorthy Composer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6. NtEd icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Stave'n'Tabs icon
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    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
     
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