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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    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...

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  2. SmartScore icon
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    Scan, edit and transpose your music in just minutes. There is simply no faster way to get printable music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning.

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    • US flagUnited States

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    • Mac
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    SmartScore Features

    1.  Support for VST Plugins
    2.  Support for MIDI
    3.  Save-as-mp3
    4.  Export to XML
    5.  Sheet music transcription
    6.  Export to PDF
    7.  Music XML Support
    8.  Export to MIDI

    SmartScore VS MuseScore Studio

     
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    DTAB is a drum tablature editor which makes it easier to compose, edit, practice and play back drum music, rather than using programs more tailored to melodic instruments. Features include MIDI playback and file export, .

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    • Windows

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  4. Tabit icon
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    TabIt is a full-featured program for creating, playing, and printing guitar, bass, or banjo tablature.

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  5. tonica fugata icon
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    Composing it for you... Automatic three and four-part composition (styles: J.S. Bach, Max Reger, Jazz, Pop plus creating your own styles), automatic harmonizing, automatic fugue and canon composition.

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    • Windows

    tonica fugata Features

    1.  Accompaniment

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  6. TabMaker icon
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    Create guitar, bass, banjo or ukulele tabs, play it and export it to the PDF for free. You can play it using built-in instruments like electric guitar or acoustic guitar and more!.

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    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    TabMaker VS MuseScore Studio

     
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    Interactive sogtware created to help students improve all the skills required by playing guitar and music in general: chords , scales , progressions , fretboard notes memorization and navigation, ear training , speed picking and rhythm.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    • Online

    FaChords Guitar VS MuseScore Studio

     
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    MEFA is a program that can be used for writing, printing and playing music. The MEFA program is very easy to use and the music can be written in a fast way. The notation is presented above the text window.

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    • FreeProprietary

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    IE's cross-platform midi map editor for arbitrary controllers.

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    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  Support for MIDI
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  No registration required
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  No Tracking

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    Learn to play any instrument! Instrument Bible is a virtual fingering chart for brass, woodwind, and string instruments.

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    • Online
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    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Kindle Fire
    • Xbox

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    1.  Educational

    Features

    1.  Virtual Instrument
    2.  Music Library

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    Comments about Instrument Bible as an Alternative to MuseScore Studio
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    Negative Aug 18, 2021
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    This piece of software isn't even notation software.

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    • Instrument Bible is Paid and ProprietaryMuseScore Studio is Free and Open Source
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