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 Web-based 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, LilyPond and Dorico.

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MuseScore Studio alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps, but if you're looking for Music Recognition Apps or Piano Trainers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Android and iPad. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to MuseScore Studio.
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  1. music21 icon
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    Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology. Applications of this toolkit include computational musicology, music informations, musical example extraction and generation, music notation editing and scripting, and a wide variety of approaches to composition, bo.

    40 music21 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. TabToolkit icon
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    TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine that enables you to listen to and control the audio for all instrument tracks individually.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. QAbc icon
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    QAbc is a minimal but useful GUI for ABC music composition. This program allow to write music in the ABC syntax and play, preview and print the sheet music.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. MidiYodi icon
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    MidiYodi is a cross-platform MIDI Editor for the desktop that allows editing, examination, playback and conversion of MIDI files. MidiYodi provides a rich set of tools to examine and edit the layout, structure and content of a MIDI file.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Chordsheet Maker is the quickest and most efficient way to create a chord sheet or lead sheet directly on your iPad. Skip the paper and share it in PDF as soon as it’s done. No complex menus or navigation. All the necessary, in an ergonomic way.

    11 Chordsheet Maker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • iPad
     
  7. DGuitar icon
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    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 1.4 or later installed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. Musink Lite icon
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    Musink is a free music-composition software package that will change the way you write music. Create snippets, scores, books, and MIDI files; export your sheet-music for the Web; never worry about page layouts ever again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SongStuff icon
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    SongStuff is a software solution for song creating and recording. There are also a music notation module and a beat library in the program. This application is a very useful tool for song writers and music makers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. capella-scan icon
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    Dispatch re-typing of sheet music to a nuisance of the past! Let capella-scan transform your sheet music quickly into a ringing score that is ready for editing and printing. capella-scan has put an end to the laborious task of typing out notes.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    capella melody trainer listens while you are rehearsing! Inexact notes are a thing of the past: Somebody is listening while you are rehearsing, shows quietly but uncompromisingly where you did wrong, knows what you did well and never complains… Isn’t this the trainer you always...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. Aered icon
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    Aered is a sheet music editor specifically designed for drummers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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