Sibelius brings professional music notation to iPad and iPhone, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. Seamlessly move between iPad, iPhone and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.
# Work on scores anywhere
Sibelius for mobile puts the #1 selling music notation program at your fingertips—literally. Work with the same tools and features used by countless composers and production houses every day on your iPad and iPhone. Whether writing down ideas, creating full-blown compositions, or reviewing scores, you have the freedom to create wherever you’re comfortable.
#Take your portfolio to go
Forget having to bring and break out your laptop when meeting with clients and collaborators. Instead, you can conveniently take the world’s most powerful notation toolset and your entire music portfolio with you wherever you go—ideal for those unexpected opportunities. And for tandemly working through last-minute revisions.
# Hear your music in stunning detail
Sibelius includes a high-quality sample library filled with a variety of musical instrumentation, so you can hear what your music will sound like when performed by real musicians. The Espressivo advanced notation interpretation even lets you adjust rhythm and swing to create a more humanistic feel.
# Speed your workflow
Sibelius for mobile is designed to take full advantage of Apple Pencil and iPad touch capabilities. Its elegant, streamlined interface provides the most intuitive and efficient workflows possible while supporting the same keyboard shortcuts you know and love from working on the desktop version, so you’ll feel right at home.
# Get innovative note entry
Experience the pen and paper workflow reimagined. Enter notes with the onscreen Keypad or a keyboard, and Sibelius takes care of all note layout. Touch a note and drag up or down to change its value, or drag left or right to add a flat or sharp. With an Apple Pencil, tap a note and tilt up or down to add a flat or sharp, or tilt left or right to choose the note value.
# Have everything you need
In addition to the Keypad, Sibelius for mobile features a Create menu that’s optimized for iOS, making it easy to add clefs, key signatures, time signatures, barlines, symbols, text styles, and more to your score from searchable galleries. You can also quickly search through all Sibelius commands using the Command Search, putting the entire app at your fingertips.
# Move tiers to meet needs
Sibelius is designed to grow with you to support your creative aspirations and project needs. From the introductory (and free) Sibelius First to the industry-standard Sibelius Ultimate, you can add more notation capabilities and instrument parts to take on more creative opportunities by simply upgrading your subscription tier.
# Have everything on one creative platform
Seamlessly move from desktop to tablet and back without ever having to import or export files. That’s because whether on mobile or desktop, you’re always in Sibelius. With files saved to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other iOS-supported cloud service, you have easy anywhere access to all your ideas and scores.
# Enable a hybrid workflow
While Sibelius for mobile is fully featured, providing many of the same tools as its desktop counterpart, there are some notation and layout features only available in the desktop version, making it an integral part of a complete workflow (compare versions). Plus, the mobile version comes free with the desktop version, enabling you to work where and how you want.
Je paye pour la version pro à chaque mois à 20,11$ sur mon ipad et quand j’arrive pour utiliser plus d’options on me dit de débloquer plus de fonctionnalités, donc on me demande de payer encore. Ce n’est pas la première fois que ça fais ça! Je paye et je suis incapable d’utiliser Sibelius pour mon besoin. Je parle uniquement en français, je n’ai aucune ressource pour régler mon problème et j’ai absolument besoin d’utiliser cet outil pour mon travail. Résultat je ressens beaucoup de frustration. J’ai eu des problèmes avec Sibelius presque à tout les mois. C’est une application pas fiable!
No option to log in on ipad
nik749
There is no unlock more features button to log in and use your desktop license on ipad like all the support documentation says! So I can’t even use what I paid for
The app is ok, but I've been lied to
Amigo_Pro
The app is ok, but not very intuitive. However my biggest issue with it is that on the website it says that triplets are available in the free version, and all other tuplets are only in the paid version. Well that's a lie. When I finally managed to find the tuplets option (which was not easy, the app is really not intuitive) when I tried adding them to the score, a window popped up telling me to upgrade. What bothers me isn't that i have to pay to get certain options, but what bothers me is that 1: the website either hasn't been updated, or there's a problem with the app itself that doesn't allow any tuplets to be used, and 2: triplets are necessary in music, most of the pieces I've played recently have triplet runsPlease add triplets to the free version, triplets are important to me having a good experience with the app. (I'm not joking)
Unstable
T’ut
Way too sensitive, it is a mess to use with an apple pen, nothing holds in place
What's new in Sibelius 2026.2
- Bar rests are now automatically hidden within cross-staff passages
- Cross-staff beaming has been significantly improved
- Two-note tremolos are now compatible with long-duration notes
Version 2026.2
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Sibelius Ultimate for iOS
Monthly subscription for iOS & iPadOS
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Sibelius Artist for iOS
Monthly subscription for iOS & iPadOS
Free Trial
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