Avid Sibelius Alternatives

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 Dorico, Guitar Pro, Rosegarden and Symphony Pro.

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Avid Sibelius alternatives page was last updated May 5, 2025
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  1. Musink Lite icon
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    Musink is a free music-composition software package that will change the way you write music. Create snippets, scores, books, and MIDI files; export your sheet-music for the Web; never worry about page layouts ever again.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Musink Lite Features

    1.  Support for MIDI
    2.  WYSIWYG Support

    Musink Lite VS Avid Sibelius

     
  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.

    9 SmartScore alternatives

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    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

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  3. DGuitar icon
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    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 1.4 or later installed.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

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

    DGuitar Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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    Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities. Now used by a very active community of thousands of people, it has become a favored tool for creating music.

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    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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  5. Busker icon
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    Busker is a complete set of tools to create musical arrangements from sheet music (chords + melody staff). It uses Yamaha compatible styles (thousands can be downloaded for free) for auto-accompaniment.

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    Platforms

    • Windows

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    NoteAbilityPro is a Professional Music Notation program for Macintosh OS-X.

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    • Mac

    Noteability Pro Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

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    Score-style MIDI player.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine

    Notation Player 3 Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

    Notation Player 3 VS Avid Sibelius

     
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    Musagi is a complex music authoring and synthesizer similar to trackers.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The latest version is from 2009.

    musagi Features

    1.  Synthesizer

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  9. ABCexplorer icon
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    ABC, a text based music score manager-editor for free. You can copy, transpose or play these songs, import midi-music files, export to midi, to pdf, to web page or to any other printable format.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ABCexplorer Features

    1.  Support for MIDI

    ABCexplorer VS Avid Sibelius

     
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