Sibelius 4+

Music Notation and Scoring App

Avid®

    • 4.0 • 266 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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.

What’s New

Version 2024.10

New in Sibelius 2024.10

* Huge improvements in score layout when opening MusicXML files from other music applications
* New Notate Glissando commands to quickly entering diatonic and chromatic lines of music
* Connect your MIDI keyboard and use it straight away without restarting
* Long search results in Command Search and various menu items now wrap onto multiple lines if they need to
* A handful of usual bug fixes and smaller improvements across the whole app, plus some UI cleanup

Ratings and Reviews

4.0 out of 5
266 Ratings

266 Ratings

jhr7419&‘ ,

nice gadget

As an early musician I find it very disappointing that there is no way to have customized measures (3/1, 4/1) or rhythmic free notation in the app. If find it very difficult to nearly impossible to customize my score according to my needs. It‘s a nice tool for simple music and educational purposes but I cannot recommend using the app for professional purposes.

DaliChasma ,

Ohne Insert Mode für mich nicht zu gebrauchen

Wie umständlich ist das denn? Es gibt keinen Insert Mode, und man muss Copypaste machen in eine andere Stimme, damit die Noten danach nicht verschwinden. Das ist nicht das erste Notationsprogramm, mit dem ich arbeite, aber dafür, dass es sich als meist gekauftes schimpft, muss ich sagen, dass es fast lächerlich ist, dass es so eine einfache Funktion darin nicht gibt. Da ich einige Stücke nach Gehör arrangiere, muss ich sehr oft etwas dazwischen einfügen. Ich habe mir jetzt ein anderes Notationsprogramm heruntergeladen, dass einen Insert Mode anbietet.

Edwarth Jupp ,

Komplizierte Bedinung

Diese App ist außerordentlich schwer zu bedienen, da wenn man was hinein schreibt, manchmal alles verschwindet. Diese App ist nix für ungebildete Menschen.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the feedback. We're constantly improving Sibelius, so please check out the regular updates. If you need help, there are videos here that show you how to get the most out of the app: https://www.avid.com/sibelius/for-mobile

Subscriptions

Sibelius Ultimate for iOS
Sibelius Ultimate for iOS
Monthly subscription for iOS & iPadOS
Free Trial
Sibelius Artist for iOS
Sibelius Artist for iOS
Monthly subscription for iOS & iPadOS
Free Trial

App Privacy

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Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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