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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.

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Students and teachers get special pricing with verified academic eligibility. Perpetual licenses are also available for Sibelius Artist and Sibelius Ultimate. Prices displayed before all VAT and applicable taxes. Full price will be shown during checkout.

Discount only applies to new purchases of a Sibelius Ultimate 1-Year Paid Upfront subscription. This does not apply to renewal subscription purchases. Using this discount will start a new 1-Year subscription and will not affect any existing subscriptions you may have. Prices/discount listed are for one year only. Offer is available from December 9, 2024 – December 26, 2024.

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Sibelius Mobile
Sibelius Artist
Sibelius Ultimate
Ideal for…
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Composing simple/moderate music with up to 16 staves
Composing, arranging, and publishing scores and parts of any size and complexity; creating notation worksheets and exercises for education
Availability
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Desktop: Subscribe monthly or annually, or purchase and own a perpetual license Mobile: Included with desktop version or subscribe monthly to just the app

Desktop: Subscribe monthly or annually, purchase and own a perpetual license (educational discount available), trade-up from other notation software, get network licensing, or easily manage multiple licenses and users with Sibelius Ultimate for teams 

Mobile: Included with desktop version or subscribe monthly to just the app

Notation
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Common only
Full set
Tuplets
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Up to nonuplets
Up to nonuplets
Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.)
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All
All
Text gallery
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More
All
Symbols gallery
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Some
All
Voices per staff
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4 voices
4 voices
Lyric verses allowed
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5
5
Included sampled sounds
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900 MB high-quality samples
900 MB high-quality samples
Keyboard shortcuts
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Included (fixed)
Included (fixed)
Features & functionality
Sibelius Mobile
Sibelius Artist
Sibelius Ultimate
Number of staves
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Up to 16 staves
Unlimited staves
Note values
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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"
"Full range of bar formats customizable beam/rest groupings customizable brackets and bracesfully customizable chord symbols full guitar tab"
Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.)
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All
All
Keyboard shortcuts
Fixed
Fixed
Customizable
Voices per staff
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4 voices
4 voices
Collaboration & sharing
Sibelius Mobile
Sibelius Artist
Sibelius Ultimate
Sibelius Cloud Sharing
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20 Scores
Unlimited scores with 1GB storage
Sibelius Cloud Publishing
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-
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Comments / Sticky Notes & Annotation
Limited
Yes
Yes
Copy/paste to Word docs
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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
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Yes
Yes
ADDITIONAL FEATURES FUNCTIONALITY
Sibelius Mobile
Sibelius Artist
Sibelius Ultimate
Inspector window
Full editing of objects
Keyboard shortcuts
Fixed
Fixed
Customizable
Keypad workflow
No
Yes
Yes
Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.)
All
All
Note values
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512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve)
512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve)
Voices per staff
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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 bracesfully
customizable chord symbols
full guitar tab
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION & INSTRUMENTATION
Sibelius Mobile
Sibelius Artist
Sibelius Ultimate
Notate Glissando
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Diatonic and Chromatic
Diatonic and Chromatic
Ideas Hub
Score Starter only (40 templates)
300 stock library ideas Add your own Score Starter
2000+ library ideas with editing Add your own
Page numbers
Automatic
Customizable
Rhythmic note values
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512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve)
512th note (7 beams) to double breve (4 times duration of whole note)
Composition utilities
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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
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Yes
Espressivo 2 0 humanized playback
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Presets only
Customizable
Hairpins, ritardandi, accelerandi, fermatas, articulations
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Fixed
Adjustable
Playback markings on specified repeats
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Yes
Yes
Tap Tempo
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On playback only
Full
Timeline panel
Not available
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Yes
Video timecode and hit points
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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
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Yes
Dynamic parts
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Limited editing
Manage dynamic parts
Edit dynamic parts
Split dynamic parts
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
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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
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Normal and double, bracketed
Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed
Bar numbers
Limited
Limited
Full range of formats
Barline types
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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
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Fixed
Customizable
Brackets and braces
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Fixed
Customizable
Change transposition of transposing instruments
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Yes
Chord symbols appearance and MIDI/text input
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Customizable
Cross-staff beams (keyboard music)
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Yes
Cues
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Yes
Custom lines
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Yes
Custom Noteheads
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Yes
Dotted notes: single, double, triple
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Single, double, triple
Single, double, triple
Jazz articulations: falls, scoops, doits, and plops
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Yes
Yes
Ossia staves
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Yes
Slide notes and rests
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Yes
Yes
Special symbols
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Yes
Split multirests in parts
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Yes
Stemlets (half-stems) and feathered beams
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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
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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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Use Sibelius On Any Device

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
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With Sibelius First you can start composing music using the same tools professional composers use.

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SIBELIUS IS FOR

    • Quick note entry

      Enter notes from the onscreen notation Keypad, a MIDI keyboard, your computer keyboard, or using an Apple Pencil or tablet stylus

    • Chord Symbol entry, assisted by AI

      Allows you to quickly embellish your music, saving you time in the composition process

    • Magnetic 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 formatting

    • Panorama view

      Allows you to write without the constraints of the score layout

    • Sound library support

      Use your preferred third-party libraries alongside 24GB of factory content with VST and AU plugin support for ultra-realistic playback

    • Collaborate, share, and transform

      View, share, publish, and collaborate around the world or across the room with Cloud Sharing

    • Intelligent MIDI Import

      As MIDI tracks are added to your score template, Sibelius will automatically assign instruments in your score

    • Mark up your score

      Add chord symbols, guitar tab, guitar chord diagrams, expression text, articulations, lyrics, titles, graphics, and more to give your music the detail, depth, and dynamism it deserves

    • Dynamic Parts

      Gives you individual parts for players and updates automatically with changes you make in the score, so you don’t have to extract parts individually or search through scores

    • Built for scale

      Unlimited staves and deep customization options allow for arrangements and ensembles of any size with Sibelius Ultimate

    • Score Subsets

      Helps you make custom arrangements from sketch staves and create rehearsal scores quickly

    • With Cloud Publishing

      You can share drafts for feedback and collaboration, then publish your final arrangements

    • Flexible licensing

      Choose a Network licensing for on-prem computers, and a Team licensing to allow licenses to be distributed to your teachers and students to use Sibelius on their own devices

    • Sibelius across devices

      Use Sibelius across all your devices: mobile, tablet, Chromebook, and Desktop (Mac and Windows)

    • Curriculum: Conquered

      The Worksheet Creator provides over 1,700 worksheets, projects, exercises, songs, and other teaching resources

    • Kickstart ideas

      The ideas panel with 2,000 snippets of music to help students search for something to kickstart their creative process

    • Create online interactive content

      With Cloud Sharing, where you can embed worksheets and assignments in your lesson plans and students can submit their work

    • Command the classroom

      Manage the classroom from your own workstation with Classroom Control. Access files on networked devices, send or retrieve materials from your students, and even “freeze” Sibelius on your students’ devices. (Requires network multi-seat license. Learn more)

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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