LilyPond Alternatives

LilyPond is described as '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 era when scores were engraved by hand' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LilyPond for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best LilyPond alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LilyPond are TuxGuitar, Dorico, OpenMPT and Avid Sibelius.

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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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    • Windows
     
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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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Graphical Notation is an app for music creation and graphical notation using Artificial Intelligence.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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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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    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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    Platforms

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

    • DaCapo Editor is Free and Open SourceLilyPond is also Free and Open Source
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    The main feature of music notation software should be the facility to produce high quality sheet music the easy way; enter music notes as simple as possible, using either PC-keys, mouse, or a MIDI-keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Musink Lite icon
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    Musink is a free music-composition software package that will change the way you write music. Create snippets, scores, books, and MIDI files; export your sheet-music for the Web; never worry about page layouts ever again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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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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    IE's cross-platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
     
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