abc Music Studio
"All in One" Musician Tools
Free · In‑App Purchases
Now supporting Markdown!
abc Music Studio — your music, in one place.
Sheet music, recordings, videos, and the tunes you write yourself — abc Music Studio puts your whole working music library in one window, with a notation editor that turns plain text into living, playable scores.
YOUR LIBRARY — EVERY MUSICIAN
• Your sheet-music PDFs, scans and abc tunebooks in one window — search, Finder tags, collections for setlists and lessons, and Favorites. Files stay in your folders; nothing is moved, copied, or uploaded
• Tunebooks with thousands of tunes open fast and stay responsive
PRACTICE WITH YOUR OWN RECORDINGS (Studio Plus)
• Read a sheet-music PDF with its recording playing underneath — a method book, its backing tracks, and its video lesson sit together
• Slow any recording or video down without changing its pitch — or change the key to match your instrument without changing the speed
• Loop the hard bars until they're yours; saved loops stay with the recording, each with its own speed
• Link a backing track, a lesson video, or a rehearsal take to the chart it belongs with — they travel together
• Pictures and scans — a handwritten tune, a chord chart — open for viewing with a recording underneath
• MIDI files play like recordings; MusicXML and MIDI convert to abc; iReal Pro chart exports open as playable lead sheets
FOR TRADITIONAL & SESSION MUSICIANS — TUNES AS TEXT
• Write jigs, reels, and airs in ABC — the plain-text notation the traditional world shares — and the engraved score draws itself as you type. Or pick a note length and tap the notes; bar lines write themselves
• Keep a whole session repertoire in one tunebook; the Incipits view shows the opening bars of every tune, so a set list fits on one screen
• Transpose to any key for whistle, fiddle, or box; guitar chord grids above the staff for accompanists
• Add swing for that hornpipe lilt; chord symbols comp the way a pianist would
• Learn by ear the traditional way — link the session recording to the tune, slow it down, loop the turn (Studio Plus)
• Share .abc — the portable, future-proof format every ABC tool and tune archive reads
WRITE AND SEE
• A real code editor for music: syntax highlighting, abc warnings, autocomplete that knows what's valid next, folding, find & replace, and ready-made templates
• Score and text stay linked — click any note to jump to its source; move the caret and the score highlights
• A symbol palette for barlines, repeats, accidentals, ornaments, chords, and dynamics
HEAR
• Built-in instruments — give each voice its own, with drums and percussion on a built-in kit
• Tap a note or a chord symbol to hear it; notes highlight in time as the tune plays
• Play in from a MIDI keyboard — Step Entry writes what you play into the tune (Studio Plus)
PRINT AND SHARE
• Print-ready PDF export, or print directly
• Studio Plus adds Bulk Convert for whole folders, advanced exports (SVG, MIDI, MusicXML, WAV, M4A), score looping while you practice, and PDF password protection
Studio is the app as it comes: the Library, collections, the PDF reader, abc writing and playback, printing and PDF export — no account needed. Studio Plus, an optional monthly or yearly subscription, adds practice with recordings and videos, the MIDI keyboard, conversions and the advanced exports above. Everything is unlocked for your first 7 days (from first download) — subscribe to keep Studio Plus.
ACCESSIBILITY
VoiceOver, Voice Control, Dark Mode, Reduced Motion, and Differentiate Without Color. English and French.
abc Music Studio is a native app — fast and private. No accounts, no analytics, no tracking.
End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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For every musician
• Markdown files (Studio Plus): write notes and lessons in Markdown with abc scores that draw and play, link recordings and pictures to them, and export them as PDF or EPUB. The Library lists them under Markdown w/abc, or Markdown for every Markdown file.
• Save a copy of a PDF: Save a Copy… in the PDF reader, or File ▸ Save As… on the Mac, keeps a copy wherever you choose, with your marks in it.
• Your Library keeps up with Finder and Files: files deleted, renamed or added elsewhere show up correctly when you come back. On the Mac, a file moved to the Trash leaves the Library at once.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.
For abc
• A clearer abc keyboard: choose its layers by their symbols, with larger Undo, Redo, Copy and Paste.
• Microtones you can hear: quarter tones and other microtones now sound in playback, Export MIDI and when you click a note, and a microtone in the key signature applies to every note of that letter.
The developer, ICM Labs LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- ICM Labs LLC
- Size
- Up to 36 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 26.4 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPad
- Languages
- English and French
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yearly $9.99
- Monthly $0.99
- Copyright
- © Copyright (c) 2026 ICM Labs LLC. All rights reserved.
