MuseScore Alternatives for iPad

There are many alternatives to MuseScore for iPad if you are looking for a replacement. The best iPad alternative is Guitar Pro. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Avid Sibelius or Flat. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MuseScore and 11 are available for iPad so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting iPad alternatives to MuseScore are DaCapo Editor, Stave'n'Tabs, TabToolkit and Chordsheet Maker.

MuseScore alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps but may also be Digital Audio Workstations. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of MuseScore.

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Guitar Pro
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
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62 Guitar Pro alternatives
Guitar Pro is first and foremost a program designed to edit tablatures for guitar, bass, and other fretted instruments from 4 to 8 strings.
- - Guitar Pro is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to MuseScore.
- - Guitar Pro is the most popular commercial alternative to MuseScore.
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MuseScore is by far more powerful and complete, for all instruments and formats, etc.
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Avid Sibelius
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Freemium • Proprietary
Music Production App
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60 Avid Sibelius alternatives
Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.
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Avid Sibelius Features
1. WYSIWYG SupportAvid Sibelius integrates a WYSIWYG editor to edit the look and content of a document, page, or file.
2. Support for VST PluginsAvid Sibelius support third-party Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plugins.
Visual timeline
Ideas Hub
Visual bookmarks
Ribbon Interface
Engraving options
Music XML Support
Opinions about Avid Sibelius as a Alternative to MuseScore
Almost everyone thinks Avid Sibelius is a great MuseScore alternative.
Flat
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Freemium • Open Source
Music Production App
Online
Android
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Android Tablet
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22 Flat alternatives
Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor.
- - Flat is the most popular Web-based alternative to MuseScore.
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Flat Features
1. Real time collaborationMultiple users can work together in Flat simultaneously.
Collaborative writing
Opinions about Flat as a Alternative to MuseScore
Most users think Flat is a great MuseScore alternative.
DaCapo Editor
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Self-Hosted
28 DaCapo Editor alternatives
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.
- - DaCapo Editor is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to MuseScore.
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DaCapo Editor Features
1. Support for MIDIDaCapo Editor includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
Stave'n'Tabs
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Freemium • Proprietary
Music Production App
Mac
iPhone
iPad
24 Stave'n'Tabs alternatives
iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.
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Stave'n'Tabs Features
1. Support for MIDIStave'n'Tabs includes MIDI hardware and software support to record and import audio.
TabToolkit
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Paid • Proprietary
iPhone
iPad
27 TabToolkit alternatives
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.
TabToolkit has no features, suggest some!
Chordsheet Maker
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
iPad
12 Chordsheet Maker alternatives
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.
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Chordsheet Maker Features
Export to PDF
Symphony Pro
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
iPad
15 Symphony Pro alternatives
Complete music notation and composition app for iPad.
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PreSonus Notion
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14 PreSonus Notion alternatives
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.
PreSonus Notion has no features, suggest some!
CalmusNotation
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Free • Proprietary
Music Production App
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iPad
51 CalmusNotation alternatives
Graphical Notation is an app for music creation and graphical notation using Artificial Intelligence.
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CalmusNotation Features
AI-Powered
Instrument Bible
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Production App
Mac
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Online
Windows Mobile
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Android Tablet
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Kindle Fire
Xbox
76 Instrument Bible alternatives
A new app for music education. Instrument Bible is a virtual fingering chart for brass, woodwind, and string instruments.
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Instrument Bible Features
1. Virtual InstrumentInstrument Bible uses mainy virtual instruments (piano, guitar, drums, bass, etc.).
Music Library
Comments about Instrument Bible as a Alternative to MuseScore
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This piece of software isn't even notation software.
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