Top 15 Finale Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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

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. Reflow

Reflow Reflow is a music notation app that runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is a 100% Native app that supports iCloud sync and latest Mac OS X features such as Versions, Autosave and Fullscreen.You can create your own tablatures and sheet music, or read existing Guitar Pro and PowerTab......

3. 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......

4. Sibelius

Sibelius Sibelius is the world’s best-selling music notation software, trusted by top composers, publishers, and students alike. With Sibelius 7.5, you can express, accelerate, and promote your creativity in more ways than ever before, enabling you to deliver beautiful, professional scores faster and share audio and video versions of your work—with......

5. Impro-Visor

Impro-Visor 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 improvised. The objective is to improve understanding of solo construction and tune chord changes. There are other, secondary, things it can do, such as improvise......

6. Dorico

Dorico Next-generation 64-bit scoring software for OS X and Windows, designed by musicians for musicians Beautiful engraved output with unrivaled attention to detail Flexible note input and powerful editing, including ability to insert and change duration of existing notes Streamlined, single window interface puts every tool at your fingertips Powerful......

7. 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......

8. music21

music21 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, both algorithmic and directly specified.Although computers have transformed how we listen to, obtain, compose, and notate......

9. FORTE Music Notation Software

FORTE Music Notation Software Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg. This software is available internationally as a user-friendly, affordable alternative to complex and expensive current music notation programs. It is used in more than 130 countries.FORTE was created specifically to be......

10. MEFA

MEFA MEFA is a program that can be used for writing, printing and playing music. The MEFA program is very easy to use and the music can be written in a fast way. The notation is presented above the text window.The MEFA program can print music notation, play music and search......

11. ABCEditor

ABCEditor ABCEditor is a Windows program from Elizabeth Scarlett (hosted at Alf Warnock's site) which allows you to create, edit, play and organise abc files. It can transpose, reformat, adjust beaming, create cheet sheets and search for tunes. It uses abcm2ps for printing music, abc2midi for playing it, ABCTools for reformatting......

12. Pizzicato

Pizzicato Pizzicato is a music software to write and print your sheet music, but also to arrange and compose your own music or even learn music and music composition.......

13. MusiCAD

MusiCAD The main feature of music notation software should be the facility to produce high quality sheet music the easy way; enter music notes as simple as possible, using either PC-keys, mouse, or a MIDI-keyboard. Afterwards the it should enable you to print your scores in any way you feel fit.......

14. Amazing Slow Downer

Amazing Slow Downer Change the speed of the music - from 20% (one fifth speed) to 200% (double speed) without changing the pitch.Wrong key? Change the pitch in semi-tones - at full or changed speed. Out of tune? Adjust the pitch in cents (100ths of a semi-tone) to suit your instrument. Real-time processing......

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,......