127 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
94 Like TuxGuitar Good alternative? YES NO With TuxGuitar, you will be able to compose music using the following features Tablature editor Score Viewer Multitrack display Autoscroll while... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
31 Like OpenMPT Good alternative? YES NO OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great... Free Open Source Windows Support for VST plugins Add a feature
45 Like Guitar Pro Good alternative? YES NO The software to compose music, transcribe your favorite songs, or simply read the thousands of tabs available on the Internet. Commercial Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad No features added 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
19 Like Impro-Visor Good alternative? YES NO Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like ABCJ Good alternative? YES NO ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-. • ABCJ maintains a library of ABC... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web No features added Add a feature
5 Like EasyABC Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows 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
