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MuseScore Studio

 238 likes

Compose, arrange, and share music using free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux with integrated playback, fast note entry, MIDI, MusicXML, PDF support, multilingual UI, and direct connection to an online sheet music community for sharing scores.

MuseScore 4.0

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • CY flagCyprus
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • BSD  BSD port not officially supported: [http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/audio/musescore/](http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/audio/musescore/)
  • iPad
  • PortableApps.com
  • Haiku
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (18)
238likes
15comments

Features

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  1.  WYSIWYG Support
  2.  Transpose
  3.  Music XML Support
  4.  Export to PDF
  5.  Automatic positioning
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  Support for MIDI
  8.  Works Offline
  9.  Portable
  10.  SMuFL support
  11.  Support for Android Things

 Tags

  • score
  • Music Notation
  • Sheet Music
  • scorewriting
  • MIDI Composer
  • composition
  • arranging
  • score-editor
  • notation
  • music-sharing
  • print-music
  • lead-sheet
  • composing
  • leadsheet
  • music-share
  • score-to-music
  • full-score
  • share-music
  • musicxml
  • score-playing

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MuseScore Studio information

  • Developed by

    CY flagMuse Group
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (18 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovene
    • Spanish
    • Turkish

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Our users have written 15 comments and reviews about MuseScore Studio, and it has gotten 238 likes

MuseScore Studio was added to AlternativeTo by thisgabri on Apr 7, 2009 and this page was last updated May 31, 2025.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: MuseScore is widely praised for its professional level of capabilities as a composition program, offering an open-source solution that's consistently improving. While transitioning from Sibelius may require adjustment, many users find it intuitive and feature-rich, attributing its growing popularity to its user-friendly interface and robust notation support. Although there are concerns about MuseScore's ownership and data practices, it remains a favored choice among musicians for its affordability and performance.
Top Positive Comment
Stefan Rein
Jul 11, 2018
3

All I need as nonprofessional musician. Thanx!

Top Negative Comment
Ranogard
Mar 11, 2023
-1

MuseScore is owned by the same company that managed to destroy Audacity's reputation by collection user data.

Dave Land
Sep 12, 2023
1

Music score production is difficult. Tools for it are generally expensive and dreadful to use. Since the arrival of Tantacrul at MuseScore, it has become an amazing and powerful tool for reproducing scores and producing choral practice audio and MIDI files.

jakelauria1001
Jul 9, 2022
0

MuseScore is fantastic! It offers a very generous amount of features, a lot of which would be paid features in other notation programs. There's definitely a learning curve, but it's not bad at all. I use it often for SATB writing and can most assuredly recommend it to anyone who wants a free, intuitive notation editor.

BubbleTea
May 20, 2022
0

Great free software for composing music. It's simple, efficient and gets updated often. MuseScore is professional without costing a cent.

The website has plenty of community written score to learn from. Although, that part isn't entirely free.

David Eltz
May 12, 2022
0

MuseScore is a professionally-developed, open source composition program that's constantly improving. It's all but caught up to the industry standard notation programs with its 4.0 iteration.

TheTrader
May 3, 2021
1

MuseScore is capable of everything, you just need to understand how it works at the beginning. The UI is very good. If you want to write drum partitions, I suggest you to use the drumline extention.

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What is MuseScore Studio?

MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It has an integrated sequencer to allow for immediate playback of the score. MuseScore can import and export MusicXML and standard Midi files.

MuseScore is available in more than 40 languages and is rapidly becoming the leading free music notation software and often praised as a cost effective alternative for expensive software.

MuseScore features a direct connection with the sheet music sharing site MuseScore.com via the MuseScore Connect panel. This gives users direct access to thousands pieces of sheet music shared by the community.

MuseScore.com also invites users who share sheet music frequently to upgrade to MuseScore.com PRO, which features more onlinemixing tools and no ads. It also allows users to upload and share more sheet music, since the free version offers space for at most five scores stored online. It must be noted that while MuseScore.com has a paid subscription model, the actual software, MuseScore, remains completely free and open source software.

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