Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine


The best free alternative to MuseScore Studio is TuxGuitar, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MuseScore Studio and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to MuseScore Studio are Avid Sibelius, LilyPond, Dorico and Flat.io.


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


Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to:


alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from files like Guitar Pro or use the built in markup named alphaTex.
ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes.
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...

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.

iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

A simple and intuitive way to write musical notation, Crescendo allows composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. Arrange your own professional quality sheet music.




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...

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.




One Is staff based and the other isn't.