The Best 62 MuseScore Alternatives

  • 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

  • StaffPad

    StaffPad is a brand new class of notation app, designed to take advantage of the advanced pen and touch input found on Microsoft Surface* and other compatible Windows 8.1 devices.

    Commercial Windows Windows RT

  • 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

  • staventabs

    iOS and macOS notation and tablature editor with MIDI and MusicXML files support and chromatic scales analyze of the score.

    Freemium Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • Dorico

    Dorico redefines the gold standard in scoring software. Its musical intelligence is like having an expert assistant by your side, while its intuitive workflows help you...

    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

  • Tabit

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

    Commercial Windows

  • capella melody trainer

    capella melody trainer helps you improve your intonation and learn your choir or orchestral part.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Crescendo

    Music note writing and composing software A simple and intuitive way to write musical notation, Crescendo allows composers to write, save and print their music...

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Android

  • Gustaf

    The digital alternative to sheet music. Manage all your music with the Gustaf App. Buy interactive and 100% legal scores in the Gustaf Store. Supports PDF and...

    Freemium Web

  • 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