The Best 26 Overture Alternatives

  • Rosegarden icon

    Rosegarden

    Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • LilyPond icon

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Finale icon

    Finale

    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.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

    WYSIWYG Support Music XML Support
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    Frescobaldi

    Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Frescobaldi is Free Software, freely available under the General Public License. .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FORTE Music Notation Software icon

    FORTE Music Notation Software

    Forte is an music notation software developed by the German company Lugert Verlag Publishing House in Handorf near Hamburg.

    Commercial Windows

  • Flat icon

    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.

    Freemium Web Google Drive Facebook Chrome Web Store Hangouts Google Classroom

    Collaborative writing Real time collaboration
  • NtEd icon

    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.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • NoteWorthy Composer icon

    NoteWorthy Composer

    NoteWorthy Composer is a graphical score editor intended for the creation of sheet music, but it can also import and export MIDI and Karaoke files and can export graphical WMFs.

    Commercial Windows

  • Noteflight icon

    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 icon

    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

  • StaffPad icon

    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

  • Dorico icon

    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

    WYSIWYG Support Music XML Support
  • ScoreCloud Studio icon

    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

  • MagicScore icon

    MagicScore

    MagicScore is an easy and powerful music notation and composition software. MagicScore is the smart choice for musicians, composers, arrangers, teachers, students...

    Commercial Windows

  • MusiCAD icon

    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...

    Commercial Windows