Comparison of scorewriters This is a comparison of music notation computer programs. General information Name Guitar tablature WYSIWYG editor MIDI entry[a] Playback File formats Developer(s) Stable release; review date License Cost Operating system(s) Import Export Canorus No Yes MIDI CanorusML,[b] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] simple LilyPond[e] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] LilyPond,[e] PDF Reinhard Katzmann, Matevž Jekovec, Georg Rudolph 0.7.3; 18 June 2018 (7 years ago) (2018-06-18) Since 0.7.3: GPL-3.0-only 0.1.0 to 0.7.2: GPL-2.0-only No cost Linux Capella Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST, SoundFonts Capella,[f] CapXML,[g] MusicXML,[c] MIDI[d] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, Truevision TGA, PCX, HTML capella-software AG 10.0-05; 7 July 2025 (2 months ago) (2025-07-07) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Denemo Yes Yes Step-time MIDI Denemo,[h] limited LilyPond,[e] MusicXML[c] LilyPond,[e] MusicXML, WAV, Ogg, PDF, PNG, MIDI Jeremiah Benham, Richard Shann 2.6.0; 11 March 2022 (3 years ago) (2022-03-11) GPL-3.0-or-later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux Dorico Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST Dorico,[i] MusicXML,[c] MIDI[d] MIDI,[d] MusicXML,[c] WAV, MP3, PDF, PNG, TIFF, SVG Steinberg 6.0.20; 2 July 2025 (2 months ago) (2025-07-02) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Early Notation Typesetter No Yes No No ENT[j] ENT,[j] PDF Samuel Gossner, Daniel West, Dieter Theuns 0.9.6; 20 October 2020 (4 years ago) (2020-10-20) Proprietary No charge for single font Windows, macOS, Linux Encore Yes Yes MIDI Encore,[k] MusicTime,[l] Rhapsody,[m] Compressed MusicXML[n] MIDI,[d] Cakewalk MIDI,[o] Master Tracks Pro,[p] PDF Passport Music Software 5.0.4 (Windows); 5.0.7 (macOS); 2015 (10 years ago) (2015) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Finale Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST, AU,[q] Garritan library Finale,[r] MusicXML,[c] MIDI[d] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] WAV, MP3, AIFF, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, EPS, BMP, GIF, PICT[q] MakeMusic, Inc. 27.4.1; 12 December 2023 (20 months ago) (2023-12-12) final release Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Flat Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST, AU MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] MuseScore, TuxGuitar, Guitar Pro (versions 3–8), Power Tab MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] WAV, MP3, PDF, PNG, SVG Tutteo 37.9.0; 17 October 2024 (10 months ago) (2024-10-17) Proprietary Freemium Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS Forte Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST Forte,[s] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] CapXML[g] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] BMP, JPEG Lugert Verlag GmbH 12.1; 12 February 2021 (4 years ago) (2021-02-12) Proprietary Non-free Windows Frescobaldi No WYSIWYM No MIDI LilyPond,[e] MusicXML,[c] ABC MusicXML,[c] PDF Wilbert Berendsen 4.0.4; 8 August 2025 (34 days ago) (2025-08-08) GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux Guitar Pro Yes Yes MIDI, RSE Guitar Pro (versions 1–8),[t] MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] MIDI,[d] ASCII tab,[u] Power Tab,[v] TablEdit[w] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] ASCII tab,[u] PNG, PDF, WAV Arobas Music 8.1.4; 1 April 2025 (5 months ago) (2025-04-01) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS, Linux Impro-Visor No Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI Impro-Visor[x] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] PDF Bob Keller 10.2; 1 August 2019 (6 years ago) (2019-08-01) GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux LilyPond Yes No No MIDI LilyPond;[e] using converters: ABC,[y] ETF,[z] MIDI,[d] MusicXML[c] PDF, PNG, PS, SVG Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jan Nieuwenhuizen 2.24.4; 21 July 2024 (13 months ago) (2024-07-21) GPL-3.0-or-later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD MagicScore Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, SoundFonts SFD,[aa] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Karaoke,[ab] WAV, MP3 MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Karaoke,[ab] WAV, MP3, PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, EMF, WMF Maestro Music Software 8.280; 2017 (8 years ago) (2017) Proprietary Non-free Windows Mozart Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI Mozart,[ac] MusicXML,[c] NIFF,[ad] MIDI,[d] Karaoke,[ab] ABC[y] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] ABC,[y] BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PBM, PNG, TIFF Mozart Music Software 17.0.3; August 2025 (1 month ago) (2025-08) Proprietary Non-free Windows Mus2 No Yes MIDI Mus2[ae] MIDI,[d] AIFF, WAV, PDF, SVG, BMP, JPEG, PNG Utku Uzmen (Data-Soft Ltd.) 3.2.3; November 2022 (2 years ago) (2022-11) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS MuseScore Studio Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, SoundFonts, SFZ, VST3 MuseScore,[af] MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] MIDI,[d] Karaoke,[ab] MuseData,[ag] Bagpipe Music Writer,[ah] Band-in-a-Box,[ai] Overture,[aj] Capella,[f] CapXML,[g] Guitar Pro (versions 1–6),[t] Power Tab (experimental),[v] PDF (experimental), ABC[y] (with plugin) MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] PDF, PNG, SVG, MIDI,[d] WAV, FLAC, Ogg, MP3 The MuseScore developer community 4.5.2; 25 April 2025 (4 months ago) (2025-04-25) GPL-3.0-only for desktop tools; online and mobile tools are proprietary and freemium No cost for most tools Windows, macOS, Linux MusiCAD No Yes MIDI MusiCAD,[ak] MIDI,[d] ABC[y] MIDI,[d] ABC,[y] PDF, JPEG, PNG, BMP Musys Software 4.0; 1 May 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-05-01) Proprietary Prompt to purchase license appears when saving[2] Windows MusicEase Yes Yes MIDI MusicEase,[al] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] ABC,[y] SongWright[am] MIDI,[d] PDF MusicEase Software 10.1m; November 2024 (10 months ago) (2024-11) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Musink No WYSIWYM MIDI Musink[an] MIDI,[d] PDF, PNG, XPS Lee Reid 1.3.0.3 Proprietary No cost Windows, macOS MusiXTeX Yes No No No TeX (incl. PMX and M-Tx),[ao] MusicXML[c] (with converters) DVI,[ap] PS, PDF, MIDI[d] (for PMX input) Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell, Andreas Egler 1.39; 9 September 2025 (2 days ago) (2025-09-09) GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux Notation Composer No Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, SoundFonts Notation,[aq] MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] MIDI,[d] Karaoke[ab] MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] PDF, MIDI,[d] Karaoke,[ab] PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, WAV, FLAC, Ogg, MP3 Notation Software 5.1.2; 8 May 2025 (4 months ago) (2025-05-08) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS, Linux NoteWorthy Composer Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI NWC,[ar] MIDI,[d] Karaoke[ab] MIDI[d] NoteWorthy Software 2.75a.2; 2017 (8 years ago) (2017) Proprietary Non-free Windows Notion Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST MusicXML,[c] Compressed MusicXML,[n] MIDI,[d] Guitar Pro[t] (versions 4–5) MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] WAV PreSonus 6.8.2; 24 August 2021 (4 years ago) (2021-08-24) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS, Android, iOS Overture Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST, AU[q] Overture,[aj] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Score Writer[as] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] WAV, MP3 Sonic Scores 5.6.1.1; 2 December 2019 (5 years ago) (2019-12-02) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS Philip's Music Writer Yes No No MIDI PMW[at] MIDI,[d] PS Philip Hazel 5.32; 25 June 2025 (2 months ago) (2025-06-25) GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Linux (older versions for RISC OS) Power Tab Editor Yes Yes MIDI Power Tab,[v] MIDI[d] MIDI,[d] ASCII tab,[u] BMP, HTML Brad Larsen 2.0.22; 29 June 2025 (2 months ago) (2025-06-29) GPL-3.0-or-later for version 2.0 and later No cost Windows, macOS, Linux Rosegarden No Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI Rosegarden,[au] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Hydrogen[av] LilyPond,[e] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Csound,[aw] Mup,[ax] PDF Chris Cannam, Richard Bown, Guillaume Laurent 25.06; 4 June 2025 (3 months ago) (2025-06-04) GPL-2.0-or-later No cost Linux SCORE Yes No Step-time MIDI SCORE (.mus) EPS Leland Smith, San Andreas Press 5.01; 1 November 2013 (11 years ago) (2013-11-01) Proprietary Non-free MS-DOS, Windows ScoreCloud Studio No Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST MIDI,[d] live audio MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] WAV, PDF Doremir Music Research AB 4.9.0; August 2025 (1 month ago) (2025-08) Proprietary Free without file saving Windows, macOS, iOS Sibelius Yes Yes Step-time and real-time MIDI, VST, AU,[q] Avid library Sibelius,[ay] MusicXML,[c] MIDI[d] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] MP3, PDF, SVG, EPS, PNG Avid Technology, Inc. 2025.7; 31 July 2025 (42 days ago) (2025-07-31) Proprietary No cost up to 8 staves[3] Windows, macOS, RISC OS, Android, iOS SmartScore 64 NE Yes Yes MIDI SmartScore,[az] scanned images, MusicXML,[c] NIFF[ad] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Finale,[r] NIFF,[ad] PDF Musitek Corporation 11.6.113; 21 April 2025 (4 months ago) (2025-04-21) Proprietary Non-free Windows, macOS TuxGuitar Yes Yes MIDI TuxGuitar,[ba] MusicXML,[c] MIDI,[d] Guitar Pro (versions 1–6),[t] Power Tab,[v] TablEdit[w] MIDI,[d] Guitar Pro (versions 3–5),[t] LilyPond,[e] ASCII tab,[u] PDF Julian Gabriel Casadesus 1.6.6; 27 December 2024 (8 months ago) (2024-12-27) LGPL-2.1-only No cost Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android Name Guitar tablature WYSIWYG editor MIDI entry[a] Playback Import Export Developer(s) Stable release; review date License Cost Operating system(s) File formats File formats and extensions ^ a b When entering notes, "step-time" means one first selects the note duration then enters notes and chords one a time, while "real-time" means one plays the notes to enter with correct rhythm and the software recognizes the note durations. ^ Canorus native format, .can ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao MusicXML, open standard XML-based music notation exchange format, .xml or (version 3.1 or later) .musicxml ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax Standard MIDI file format, .mid or .midi ^ a b c d e f g h LilyPond plain text native format, .ly ^ a b Capella native format, binary file, .cap ^ a b c Capella native format, compressed ZIP containing XML, .capx ^ Denemo native format, .denemo ^ Dorico native format, .dorico ^ a b Early notation typesetter native format, .ent ^ Encore native format, .enc ^ MusicTime (by the same developer as Encore) native format, .mto, .mus (different to Finale .mus) ^ Rhapsody (by the same developer as Encore) native format, .rhp ^ a b c d e f g MusicXML version 2.0 or later, compressed as a ZIP, .mxl ^ Cakewalk MIDI file format, .mff[clarification needed] ^ Master Tracks Pro (by the same developer as Encore) native format, .mts ^ a b c d Mac version only ^ a b Finale native format, .mus (2012 and earlier) or .musx (2014 and later) ^ Forte native format, .fnf ^ a b c d e Guitar Pro native format version 1–2, .gtp; version 3, .gp3; version 4, .gp4; version 5, .gp5; version 6, .gpx; version 7, .gp ^ a b c d ASCII tablature plain text format, .txt, .tab, or .btab ^ a b c d Power Tab Editor native format, .ptb ^ a b TablEdit native format, .tef ^ Impro-Visor native format, .ls ^ a b c d e f g ABC plain text format, .abc ^ Finale Enigma Transport Format, .etf[1] ^ Maestro software family native format, .sfd ^ a b c d e f g Standard MIDI file format including standard MIDI lyrics, used for karaoke, .kar ^ Mozart native format, .mz ^ a b c Notation Interchange File Format, .nif ^ Mus2 notation and tuning file format, .mus2, .mu2 ^ MuseScore native format, .mscz; uncompressed XML-based format, .mscx; style sheet, .mss; score album, .album ^ MuseData project format, .md ^ Bagpipe Music Writer native format, .bww ^ Band-in-a-Box native format, .mgu or .sgu ^ a b Overture native format, .ove ^ MusiCAD plain text native format, .mc ^ MusicEase native format, .mez ^ SongWright native format, .sw ^ Musink native format, .musink ^ PMX, preprocessor language for MusixTeX, .pmx; M-Tx, processor for PMX, .mtx ^ TeX device independent file format, .dvi ^ NoteSoft file, Notation Software native format, .not ^ NoteWorthy Composer native format, .nwc or .nwctxt ^ Score Writer (by the same developer as Overture) native format, .scw ^ Philip's Music Writer native format, human-readable text, .pmw ^ Rosegarden native format, .rg ^ Hydrogen drum machine song XML file format, .h2song ^ Csound audio domain-specific language format, without orchestra data, .csd ^ Music Publisher Score file format, .mup ^ Sibelius (scorewriter) native format, .sib ^ SmartScore native format, .enf ^ TuxGuitar native format, .tg See also Comparison of MIDI editors and sequencers List of guitar tablature software List of music software List of scorewriters Notes ^ "An incomplete description of the Enigma Transport Format". LilyPond.org. Archived from the original on 3 May 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2017. ^ Restrictions ^ Version Comparison

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