Top 15 MuseScore Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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 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.

1. Musink Lite

Musink Lite 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. Musink is optimised for speed and ease of use, letting you focus on writing. Musink......

2. Stave'n'Tabs

Stave'n'Tabs iOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.......

3. capella

capella With capella you can instantly create complete scores. No other notation program will take you by the hand and gently guide you towards your first own score in the manner in which capella does it. There is no need to be fully computer literate - you just follow your musical......

4. tonica fugata

tonica fugata The first software worldwide for compositions, canons, fugues.You know what it's like: Only an hour to go until choir practice and you had intended to compose a four-part harmony for your choir to sing... You have to do composition homework or a tricky analysis? tonica fugata does this work for......

5. Symphony Pro

Symphony Pro Symphony Pro is a powerful music notation and composition app for iPad.FEATURES• 114 built-in instruments for playback, and auditioning the notes you entered.• Create scores in standard music notation or tablature• Edit with an on-screen instrument, QWERTY keyboard, or a MIDI input device• Dozens of shortcuts & gestures to......

6. LilyPond

LilyPond 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. It uses a simple text notation for music input, which LilyPond interprets and processes in a......

7. capella-scan

capella-scan Dispatch re-typing of sheet music to a nuisance of the past! Let capella-scan transform your sheet music quickly into a ringing score that is ready for editing and printing. capella-scan has put an end to the laborious task of typing out notes. At last, there is now a way of......

8. Flat

Flat Flat lets you write sheet music with your friends in real time with a nice music notation editor.Create and edit your music score documents directly with your web browser in realtime with your friends or colleagues.Flat brings the following features among many others:- Your music notation editor online in your......

9. capella melody trainer

capella melody trainer capella melody trainer listens while you are rehearsing! Inexact notes are a thing of the past: Somebody is listening while you are rehearsing, shows quietly but uncompromisingly where you did wrong, knows what you did well and never complains… Isn’t this the trainer you always dreamed of?!All musicians always fight......

10. ScoreCloud Studio

ScoreCloud Studio ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that! - “Like Google Translate for music” - * Instant Score from MIDI or Audio* Arrange and Edit your Score* Print, Export and ShareIdeal for musicians, students, teachers, choirs and bands as well as composers and......

11. Rosegarden

Rosegarden Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.......

12. Midi Sheet Music

Midi Sheet Music Midi Sheet Music is a free program that plays MIDI music files while highlighting the piano notes and sheet music notes.......

13. Tabular

Tabular Tabular is a brand new tablature editor that lets you read and write music for guitar, bass, drums and much more. It's the best way to learn new songs, write your own songs and run through practice exercises for nearly any kind of stringed instrument or drum kit.Practice tools allow......

14. NoteEdit

NoteEdit NoteEdit is a musical score editor for Linux. It can import/export MIDI and MusicXML, export Lilypond, MusiXTeX, PMX and ABC files, read and record from a MIDI keyboard, handle manually entered notation, complex multistaff layouts and lyrics. NoteEdit also features advanced functions such as score transposition, accidentals reduction, automatic bar......

15. NtEd

NtEd 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, drum notes, 5 lyrics lines, N-Tuplets, context changes, repeats with alternatives, configurable music instruments per staff,......