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
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
44 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
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
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
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
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
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
6 Like Band-in-a-Box Good alternative? YES NO Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and... Commercial Mac Windows No features added Add a feature
6 Like Power Tab Editor Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Windows Ability to create and view.ptb files Add a feature
3 Like DGuitar Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature Discontinued The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.
