Jalmus

Jalmus is a free, open source music education software helping the musicians, especially pianists, to improve their sight-reading. You can train to read music with both exercises on notes or rhythms.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Canorus Music Score Editor

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Noteflight

Noteflight is an amazing online notation editor. On the free version you get 10+ instruments to choose from, lots of musical symbols and more. On the payed version (Cresendo) you get lots more instruments, guitar tab and sharing options.

Freemium Web

GVOX Encore

Encore is the standard in professional music notation. Its powerful transcribing and editing capabilities help musicians of all levels get their ideas into print.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

ABCJ

ABCJ is a pure-Java editor, player and librarian for music files stored using Chris Walshaw's ABC notation. Features :-. • ABCJ maintains a library of ABC files.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

ChordPulse

ChordPulse is a handy backing band software for music practice, inspiration, improvisation, and pure fun with music. Play and sing along with ChordPulse.

Freemium Windows

MMA

“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator. It creates MIDI tracks for a soloist to perform over from a user supplied file containing chords and MMA directives. MMA is very versatile and generates excellent tracks.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Harmony Assistant

Harmony Assistant is an unbeatable software for computer-assisted music composition and editing.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

musagi

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

Free Open Source Windows

Melody Assistant

Melody Assistant is dedicated to music writing, printing and rendering. Easy to use, Melody Assistant offers a user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

TablEdit

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.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

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...

Free Mac OS X Windows iPhone

DGuitar

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

MC Musiceditor

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...

Free Open Source Windows

ABCexplorer

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...

Free Windows

TabToolkit

TabToolkit for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch is an incredibly powerful music notation viewer with multi-track audio playback. The app includes an audio synthesis engine...

Commercial iPhone iPad

Tabit

TabIt is a full-featured program for creating, playing, and printing guitar, bass, or banjo tablature.

Commercial Windows

MuseScore Sheet Music Player

The MuseScore Player opens and plays scores made with the free MuseScore notation software. The app dynamically fits the sheet music to the screen of your device. You...

Commercial Android Android Tablet

alphaTab

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...

Free Open Source Web