MuseScore Studio Alternatives

MuseScore Studio is described as 'Create, notate, and playback music with free, open-source software for Windows, Mac, and Linux supporting MIDI, MusicXML, PDF export, and community sharing' and is a very popular music production app in the audio & music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MuseScore Studio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Web-based apps. The best MuseScore Studio alternative is TuxGuitar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MuseScore Studio are Guitar Pro, Avid Sibelius, LilyPond and Dorico.

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MuseScore Studio alternatives are mainly Music Production Apps, but if you're looking for Music Recognition Apps or Piano Trainers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Android and iPad. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to MuseScore Studio.
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  1. ScoreCloud, free software that instantly turns your songs into sheet music. As simple as that!

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    • Freemium
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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
     
  2. capella icon
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    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...

    34 capella alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. Pizzicato icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Anvil Studio icon
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    Anvil Studio is a free Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000/98 program designed for people who want to:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    • Anvil Studio is Free and ProprietaryMuseScore Studio is Free and Open Source
  5. alphaTab icon
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    alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library. You can use alphaTab within your own website or application to load music sheets from files like Guitar Pro or use the built in markup named alphaTex.

    50 alphaTab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. MagicScore icon
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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
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. ABCEditor icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. MC Musiceditor is free/open source (GPLv2) music notation software (Windows). It has been developed with only one purpose: to make life of musicians easier when making scores. This results in a userfriendly editor which makes professional scores without requiring specific...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. DaCapo Editor icon
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    DaCapo Editor is a free Open Source music sheet editor which allows to easily create nice looking partitions. It is available as a web application as well as a desktop application for Windows, MacOS and Linux.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Stave'n'Tabs icon
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    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    Do you have a sound card? Do you have a musical instrument? Scolily allows you to create scores while playing!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. TablEdit icon
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    TablEdit is a program for creating, editing, printing and listening to tablature and sheet music (standard notation) for guitar and other fretted, stringed instruments, including mandolin and bass.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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