The Best Avid Sibelius AlternativesTop Music Production Apps like Avid Sibelius

Avid Sibelius is described as 'Professional music notation software for Windows and macOS with intuitive tools for score creation, MIDI input, guitar tab conversion, and dynamic parts' and is a music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Avid Sibelius for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and iPhone apps. The best Avid Sibelius alternative is MuseScore Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Avid Sibelius are Guitar Pro, Dorico, LilyPond and Rosegarden.

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  1. MuseScore Studio icon

    MuseScore Studio

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    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.

    71 MuseScore Studio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • BSD
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    Very good and freeware. It allows me to write my music, export it in midi format file and upload it to Reaper DAW. It also allows me to import any midi I recorded within Reaper and instantly have a music score to share with fellow musicians.

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    Musescore is fully functional Also has lots of add-ons and import / export formats.

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    Already very good but with lots of potential as it is being rapidly developed and expanded

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    • Almost everyone thinks MuseScore Studio is a great Avid Sibelius alternative.

    • MuseScore Studio is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • MuseScore Studio is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • MuseScore Studio is Free and Open SourceAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Guitar Pro

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    Guitar Pro enables editing tablatures for guitar, bass, and more, with support for piano and drums. It features a realistic audio engine, interactive practice tools, and access to thousands of online tabs, facilitating music composition and transcription.

    69 Guitar Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
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    While it's more geared towards guitar, you can easily write scores for any instrument.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think Guitar Pro is a great Avid Sibelius alternative.

    • Guitar Pro is the most popular Android Tablet alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • Guitar Pro is the most popular commercial alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • Guitar Pro is Paid and ProprietaryAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Guitar Pro is LightweightAvid Sibelius is not according to our users
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    Dorico

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    Compose or publish music notation, produce teaching materials or learn the language of music — Dorico lets you make beautiful music, fast.

    17 Dorico alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
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    Interface very performed : an excellent 21th century application.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Dorico is a great Avid Sibelius alternative.

    • Dorico is Freemium and ProprietaryAvid Sibelius is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    Guitar Pro enables editing tablatures for guitar, bass, and more, with support for piano and drums. It features a realistic audio engine, interactive practice tools, and access to thousands of online tabs, facilitating music comp...

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    LilyPond

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    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 era when scores were engraved by hand.

    49 LilyPond alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
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    hard to use, and unpractical

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Most users think LilyPond is a great Avid Sibelius alternative.

    • LilyPond is Free and Open SourceAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
    • LilyPond is CustomizableAvid Sibelius is not according to our users
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    Rosegarden

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    Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

    107 Rosegarden alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Comments about Rosegarden as an Alternative to Avid Sibelius
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    Record and playback midi & audio easily. Scoring is a little more difficult

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Rosegarden is a great Avid Sibelius alternative.

    • Rosegarden is Free and Open SourceAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Rosegarden is CustomizableAvid Sibelius is not according to our users
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    Symphony Pro

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    Complete music notation and composition app for iPad.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
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    • iPad
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    Flat.io

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    Online music score editor enabling real-time collaboration and editing in your web browser, supporting MusicXML, MIDI, PDF, MP3, WAV, percussion notation, history tracking, Google Hangouts video, metronome tools, and cross-device access for composers and students.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    • Flat.io is the most popular Web-based alternative to Avid Sibelius.

    • Flat.io is Freemium and Open SourceAvid Sibelius is Freemium and Proprietary
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    StaffPad

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    StaffPad is a brand new class of notation app, designed to take advantage of the advanced pen and touch input found on Microsoft Surface* and other compatible Windows 8.1 devices. As you write notation using the pen, StaffPad recognises your handwritten music and converts it...

    20 StaffPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  12. PreSonus Notion icon

    PreSonus Notion

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    Denemo

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    GNU Denemo is a music notation editor that lets you rapidly enter notation for typesetting via the LilyPond music engraver. You can compose, transcribe, arrange, listen to the music and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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  14. MagicScore icon

    MagicScore

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    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students, choirs, ensembles and songwriters. Moreover, the prices of our products are really low.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
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    • Windows
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    music21

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
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