MuseScore Studio Alternatives

MuseScore Studio is described as 'Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing' and is a very popular music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MuseScore Studio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best MuseScore Studio alternative is TuxGuitar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MuseScore Studio are Guitar Pro, Avid Sibelius, 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. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to MuseScore Studio.
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Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing.

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MuseScore Studio alternatives page was last updated May 31, 2025
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    Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

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    Noteflight is an amazing online notation editor. On the free version you get 10+ instruments to choose from, lots of musical symbols and more. On the payed version (Cresendo) you get lots more instruments, guitar tab and sharing options. Best way to wite music on the web.

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    1.  Web-Based

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    Sonic Scores Overture is a powerful score editor and music composition software.

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    Overture Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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    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 to the music and much more.

    52 Denemo alternatives

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    1.  Support for MIDI

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    Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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    Bring musical inspirations to life with the blazingly fast and intuitive Notion™ 6 music composition and performance environment. Compose when and how you want and even enter music with your own handwriting.

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    1.  Educational

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    Graphical Notation is an app for music creation and graphical notation using Artificial Intelligence.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    CalmusNotation Features

    1.  AI-Powered

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    Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg. This software is available internationally as a user-friendly, affordable alternative to complex and expensive current music notation programs.

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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.

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    NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs. The user interface works either from the keyboard or the mouse.

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    Full featured well established score editor to create and play back sheet music.

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    • NoteWorthy Composer is Paid and ProprietaryMuseScore Studio is Free and Open Source
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    Score-style MIDI player.

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    Notation Player 3 Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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

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