Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to MuseScore

Product categories

Audio Audio & Music Audio Editing Audio Recording Email Marketing Media Players And Streaming Platforms Media Servers Music Music Generation Music Streaming Music Tools Musician Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to MuseScore are Finale, LilyPond, and JJazzLab. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Finale Landing Page
1

Finale

Finale, the world standard for music notation software, lets you compose, arrange, notate, and print engraver-quality sheet music.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music #Music Tools #Musician Tools 3 social mentions
LilyPond Landing Page
2

LilyPond

GNU LilyPond is a computer program for music engraving.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music Tools #Music #Musician Tools 43 social mentions
JJazzLab Landing Page
3

JJazzLab

Fed up with boring backing tracks ? Try JJazzLab!
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Audio & Music #Music Generation #Music Tools
LMMS Landing Page
4

LMMS

Make music with a free, cross-platform tool
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Music #Music Tools 96 social mentions
Frescobaldi Landing Page
5

Frescobaldi

Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music text editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music #Music Tools #Musician Tools 9 social mentions
MMA Landing Page
6

MMA

“MMA—Musical MIDI Accompaniment” is an accompaniment generator.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Music Tools #Music
music21 Landing Page
7

music21

Music21 is a Python-based toolkit for computer-aided musicology.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Music Tools #Email Marketing #Audio & Music 13 social mentions
github.com
8

Forte Music Server

Self-hosted, music streaming platform. Contribute to kaangiray26/forte development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Media Servers
alphaTab Landing Page
9

alphaTab

alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Music Tools #Email Marketing 1 social mentions
Ardour Landing Page
10

Ardour

Record, edit, and mix on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Audio #Audio Recording 110 social mentions
Audacity Landing Page
11

Audacity

Audacity is a free and open-source audio production software suite that includes a surprising array of editing tools and recording systems.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio #Audio Recording #Audio Editing 28 social mentions
Schism Tracker Landing Page
12

Schism Tracker

Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Audio & Music #Audio #Music 2 social mentions