Sibelius 4+

Music Notation and Scoring App

Avid®

    • 4.2 • 822 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 2024.3

New in Sibelius 2024.3

* A number of tweaks to the Keypad under the hood, as well as a nice new lick of paint
* Custom articulations (created on Sibelius for desktop) now appear on the fourth Keypad layout

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
822 Ratings

822 Ratings

ianburrito ,

Subscription service glitch! And I was in the middle of a perfectly good piano concerto

So, we bought the Artist subscription for your app in August, and it just renewed on November 30. I am writing on December 6, and my subscription has just today disappeared. So when I go to the menu to restore it, it says “Your subscription has expired”. But if it renewed on the 30th and it is just now the 6th, and each billing period is a month, that is impossible. I would like some support with this. Our $6 now covers only less than a week, rather than a month. Anyway I have reached a solution for my piano concerto: to take the first movement and turn it in to a “Concert Piece”. That, at least, isn’t a worry. Also I like the new input keyboard too. It is more colorful, with the different voice color tags. Update, December 22: I have received no support or contact on this issue, and I would really like it resolved. I am almost tempted to terminate our services with you and stop using your app. I KNOW you have read this review and I would like some support by the end of the year or else I am no longer using this app. (subscription renewal EXCLUDED!) Also I noticed that all 3 subscription tiers use different sound effects for the instruments. Rather than having 3 sound sets sitting around in my storage, why not make the Ultimate sounds universal, for all tiers? But that would be too simple.

Brieasaurus ,

It’s definitely got potential

I’d like to see the ability to save as musicxml in the ultimate version. Also would like to see better quality sounds. I like the way you can write using a mouse. It’s like what you do on a desktop. Makes it so much easier since I’m used to it. Still getting used to where everything is since it’s all hidden. I’m used to having everything on screen. If you can implement an option for everything to be visible that would be awesome. Also exporting as an audio recording would be great, but only if you add better quality sounds. 900mb sounds is not very good. But I could work around that if you bring the ability to export as music xml. But this is the closest thing I’ve found to writing music in a quality program outside the computer. For when I travel I can keep writing music. Sure I could go with staffpad but it doesn’t recognize my handwriting most of the time. So, if you brought the sound quality and ability to save as music xml you would have an awesome app on your hands. It’s definitely got potential and I’d like to see pro tools come to iPad next.

BandMan1028 ,

Can’t subscribe so I don’t know if it’s useful!

I am so excited to get to use this app! I’ve been waiting years for a powerful, full featured notation app that would allow me to use my old Sibelius files on my iPad (since I don’t use a laptop any longer).

Then I try to open one of those files and try to upgrade to the Artist level subscription, only to constantly get the error message “Offline - Check your internet connection and try again”

I’m most definitely not offline. So, the promise of this app is botched by your inability to take my money. I hope to get to actually try your app in the future!

Subscriptions

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

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