Free MuseScore Studio Alternatives

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.

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MuseScore Studio alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps, but if you're looking for Piano Trainers or Digital Audio Workstations you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Android, Free and iPad. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to MuseScore Studio.
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  1. Score-style MIDI player.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
     
  2. Anvil Studio icon
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    Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to:

    46 Anvil Studio alternatives

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    • Free
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    One Is staff based and the other isn't.

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    • Anvil Studio is Free and ProprietaryMuseScore Studio is Free and Open Source
  3. alphaTab icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. ABCEditor icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Do you have a sound card? Do you have a musical instrument? Scolily allows you to create scores while playing!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    8 Crescendo Music Notation alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  10. 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...

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    • Linux
     
  11. 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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