MuseScore Good alternative? YES NO

MuseScore is a free music notation and composition software available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It allows for fast and easy note entry on a virtual note sheet. It...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com

Sibelius Good alternative? YES NO

Sibelius is a scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and historically RISC OS.

Commercial Mac Windows

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LilyPond Good alternative? YES NO

GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving. One of LilyPonds major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Anvil Studio Good alternative? YES NO

Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to: -- record music with MIDI and Audio equipment, -- compose music for MIDI...

Free Windows

Finale Good alternative? YES NO

Finale is proprietary scorewriting software developed by MakeMusic, Inc. It displays music primarily in music notation and allows for multiple tracks and very specific...

Commercial Mac Windows

Impro-Visor Good alternative? YES NO

Impro-Visor (short for “Improvisation Advisor”) is a music notation program designed to help jazz musicians compose and hear solos similar to ones that might be...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Stave'n'Tabs Good alternative? YES NO

iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

Freemium Mac iPhone iPad

NtEd Good alternative? YES NO

NtEd is a GTK+ score editor. It intends to be really WYSIWYG: what you see on the screen is exactly what you get on printer output. It supports up to 4 voices per staff...

Free Open Source Linux

Canorus Music Score Editor Alternative?  YES NO

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

NoteWorthy Composer Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Commercial Windows

capella-scan Good alternative? YES NO

capella-scan is a software that scans your sheet music and transforms it into an editable file.

Commercial Windows

Harmony Assistant Good alternative? YES NO

Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing. Its harmonizing capabilities enable the composer to build quickly and...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

Band-in-a-Box Good alternative? YES NO

Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use! Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you'd like, and...

Commercial Mac Windows

Melody Assistant Good alternative? YES NO

Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now...

Commercial Mac Windows Linux

DGuitar Good alternative? YES NO

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

• Discontinued The last software release was published on February 20th, 2006.