MuseScore

MuseScore Studio
Original author(s)Werner Schweer
Developer(s)Muse Group
MuseScore BVBA[1]
Initial release2 September 2002; 22 years ago (2002-09-02)[2][3]
Stable release
4.4.3[4] / October 24, 2024; 32 days ago (2024-10-24)
Repositorygithub.com/musescore/MuseScore
Written inC++, Qt, QML[5]
Operating systemWindows 7 and later, Linux, macOS 10.10 and later
Platformx86-64 (Windows, Linux and macOS), IA-32 (Windows only)
Size93–163 MB
Available inFully supported in 16[1] languages[6]
List of languages
Afrikaans, Catalan, Chinese (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom and United States), Faroese, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
TypeScorewriter
LicenseMuseScore 0–3: GPL-2.0-only with font exception and proprietary (online and mobile)[7]
MuseScore 4: GPL-3.0 with font exception and proprietary (online and mobile)[8][9]
Websitemusescore.org Edit this at Wikidata

MuseScore Studio (branded as MuseScore before 2024)[10] is a free and open-source music notation program for Windows, macOS, and Linux under the Muse Group, which owns the associated online score-sharing platform MuseScore.com and a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app.

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  2. ^ Froment, Nicolas. "Release notes for MuseScore 1.0". Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Community Blog | MuseScore". Archived from the original on 5 September 2008.
  4. ^ "MuseScore 4.4.3 Release · musescore/MuseScore". GitHub. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  5. ^ Keary, Martin (16 December 2022). "How We Made MuseScore 4 - Music App Design is Challenging!". YouTube.
  6. ^ "The MuseScore translation project on Transifex". explore.transifex.com.
  7. ^ "Moving to GPL version 3". Archived from the original on 1 June 2021.
  8. ^ "LICENSE.GPL". GitHub. Archived from the original on 13 December 2022.
  9. ^ "LICENSE.txt". GitHub. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023.
  10. ^ Kunda, Bradley (30 January 2024). "MuseScore is getting a new name!". MuseScore.org. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.