Time-tested music notation software
From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music. Sibelius powers today’s professional music industry with sophisticated features like AI-powered accelerators, advanced options for markup and layout, Cloud Publishing, and the ability to work across any device.
With Sibelius, you can create and collaborate with musicians around the world and be confident that your work translates into something you can be proud of.
With Sibelius, you can create and collaborate with musicians around the world and be confident that your work translates into something you can be proud of.
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Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Ideal for… | - | Composing simple/moderate music with up to 24 staves | Composing, arranging, and publishing scores and parts of any size and complexity; creating notation worksheets and exercises for education |
| Pricing | Free with Desktop subscription or buy the mobile-only option from $4.99/mo via in-app purchase | Available as subscription or perpetual. Choose a license type above to get started. | Available as subscription, perpetual, or teams and education pricing. Choose a license type above to get started. |
| Availability | - | Included with desktop versions (via subscription or Software Updates + Support Plan), or subscribe to either tier monthly via an in-app purchase | Included with desktop versions (via subscription or Software Updates + Support Plan), or subscribe to either tier monthly via an in-app purchase |
| Notation | - | Common only | Full set |
| Tuplets | - | Up to nonuplets | Up to nonuplets |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | - | All | All |
| Text gallery | - | More | All |
| Symbols gallery | - | Some | All |
| Voices per staff | - | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Lyric verses allowed | - | 5 | 5 |
| Included sampled sounds | - | 900 MB high-quality samples | 900 MB high-quality samples |
| Keyboard shortcuts | - | Included (fixed) | Included (fixed) |
Features & functionality
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Number of staves | - | Up to 24 staves | Unlimited staves |
| Note values | - | 512th note (7 beams) to “breve” (double whole note) | 512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve) |
| Additional notation | Basic guitar tab | Limited bar numbers fixed beam/rest groupings fixed brackets and braces limited chord symbol presets basic guitar tab fixed Staff Filters | Full range of bar formats customizable beam/rest groupings customizable brackets and bracesfully customizable chord symbols full guitar tab customizable Staff Filters |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | - | All | All |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable |
| Voices per staff | - | 4 voices | 4 voices |
Collaboration & sharing
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Sibelius Cloud Sharing | - | 20 Scores | Unlimited scores with 1GB storage |
| Sibelius Cloud Publishing | - | - | - |
| Comments / Sticky Notes & Annotation | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Copy music notation as image | - | Low resolution | Full resolution |
| Import / Export options | Music XML import only | Audio file export: WAV, AIFF, MP3 Video file export Music XML and MIDI file import/export Previous version export | Audio: WAV, AIFF, MP3 Video file export Graphics file export Music XML and MIDI file import/export Previous version export import Lyrics as text |
| Publish to ScoreExchange.com | - | Yes | Yes |
ADDITIONAL FEATURES FUNCTIONALITY
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Inspector window | Full editing of objects | ||
| Keyboard shortcuts | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | All | All | |
| Note values | - | 512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve) | 512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve) |
| Voices per staff | - | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Additional notation | Basic guitar tab | Limited bar numbers fixed beam/rest groupings fixed brackets and braces limited chord symbol presets basic guitar tab | Full range of bar formats customizable beam/rest groupings customizable brackets and braces fully customizable chord symbols full guitar tab |
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION & INSTRUMENTATION
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Notate Glissando | - | Diatonic and Chromatic | Diatonic and Chromatic |
| Ideas Hub | Score Starter only (40 templates) | 300 stock library ideas
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Score Starter | 2000+ library ideas with editing
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| Page numbers | Automatic | Customizable | |
| Rhythmic note values | -
| 512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve) | 512th note (7 beams) to double breve (4 times duration of whole note) |
| Composition utilities | - | - | Part extraction Paste as cue Inspector window Instrument changes |
PLAYBACK CONTROLS
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Playpack controls - Speed | Basic playback only | Expressive playback & Loop | Loop, halfspeed, expressive playback |
| Advanced notation interpretation | - | - | Yes |
| Espressivo 2 0 humanized playback | - | Presets only | Customizable |
| Hairpins, ritardandi, accelerandi, fermatas, articulations | - | Fixed | Adjustable |
| Playback markings on specified repeats | - | Yes | Yes |
| Tap Tempo | - | On playback only | Full |
| Timeline panel | Not available | - | Yes |
| Video timecode and hit points | - | Add video, add and edit hitpoints | Add video, add and edit hitpoints, timecode |
PUBLISHING & LAYOUT
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Meta Data | Not available | Common only | Full set |
| Automatic arranging and orchestration | - | - | Yes |
| Dynamic parts | - | Limited editing | Manage dynamic parts Edit dynamic parts Split dynamic parts |
| Decondense into two players | - | Fixed Staff Filters | Automatic generation of two Dynamic Parts Full control of Staff Filters |
| Magnetic layout | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable, with full viewing options |
| Manuscript papers (templates) | Stock options only | Some more | Over 75 Create your own |
| Paper and desk textures | Not available | 40 options | 60+ options |
| Rehearsal marks | Default only | Customizable | |
| Repeat structures | - | Customizable | Customizable |
| Advanced layout options & features | Headers & footers Intelligent rests Reset position System, Page and Special page breaks | Auto layout options Manual staff spacing Fixed multiple staff sizes Headers & footers System and Page breaks Intelligent rests Limited object reset position Panorama scroll view | Auto layout options Edit staff types, sizes, spacing Edit text styles and fonts Engraving rules Headers & footers System, Page and Special page breaks Intelligent rests Set default object position Full object reset positioning Join scores together Panorama scroll view Rulers |
ADVANCED NOTATION & ENGRAVING
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Accidentals | - | Normal and double, bracketed | Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed |
| Bar numbers | Limited | Limited | Full range of formats |
| Barline types | - | Single, double, dashed, repeat, final, invisible, tick, short, between staves, thick, triple, dotted, pick up bars | Single, double, dashed, repeat, final, invisible, tick, short, between staves, thick, triple, dotted, pick up bars |
| Beam/rest groupings | - | Fixed | Customizable |
| Brackets and braces | - | Fixed | Customizable |
| Change transposition of transposing instruments | - | - | Yes |
| Chord symbols appearance and MIDI/text input | - | Customizable | |
| Cross-staff beams (keyboard music) | - | Yes | |
| Cues | - | Yes | |
| Custom lines | - | Yes | |
| Custom Noteheads | - | Yes | |
| Dotted notes: single, double, triple | - | Single, double, triple | Single, double, triple |
| Jazz articulations: falls, scoops, doits, and plops | - | Yes | Yes |
| Ossia staves | - | - | Yes |
| Slide notes and rests | - | Yes | Yes |
| Special symbols | - | Yes | |
| Split multirests in parts | - | Yes | |
| Stemlets (half-stems) and feathered beams | - | Yes | |
| Tuplets | - | Duplets to nonutuplets | Any (ex. 2,7,44:31) and nested |
ADDITIONAL UTILITIES
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Versioning | Not available | Save, view, print versions | Full versioning Compare versions Export log of changes |
| Timecode display | No | Single format | Custom formatting |
| Additional utilities | - | Quick filter for similar objects Highlight music | Sibelius Connect scripting Edit word menus Filter for all similar objects "Find" function Focus on staves Highlight music |
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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, Android and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.
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Collaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Publishing, allowing you to work without missing a beat
SIBELIUS IS FOR
Composition
Quick note entry
Enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad, a MIDI keyboard, your computer keyboard, or using an Apple Pencil or tablet stylusChord Symbol entry, assisted by AI
Allows you to quickly embellish your music, saving you time in the composition processMagnetic Layout and Auto Optimize
Avoid collisions and overlaps in your score with a layout that auto adjusts to the needs of your score so you don’t have to spend time formattingPanorama view
Allows you to write without the constraints of the score layoutSound library support
Use your preferred third-party libraries alongside 24GB of factory content with VST and AU plugin support for ultra-realistic playbackCollaborate, share, and transform
View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud SharingArranging & Engraving
Education
Sibelius for educators
The educator’s choice
We believe every student should be equipped with the best tools. That’s why Sibelius Ultimate is available at a discount to all students, teachers, and schools wishing to teach and learn Sibelius. Sibelius allows educators and administrators to license easily to multiple accounts across a network to keep the focus on learning, not installation management. Sibelius also includes easy ways to make learning fun with 1700 worksheets, 2000 snippets of music, and Classroom Control.
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