Sibelius

Avid Technology Inc

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About this app

Sibelius brings professional music notation to Android phones, tablets, and Chromebooks, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. From concert halls to classrooms, more composers, arrangers, and educators rely on Sibelius to write, share, and publish music.

# Work on scores anywhere

Work with the same tools and features used by countless composers and production houses every day on your phone and tablet. 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 a 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 anywhere.

# 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. With Espressivo advanced notation interpretation you can adjust rhythm and swing to create a more humanistic feel.

# Stylus or touch workflows

Sibelius for mobile is designed to take full advantage of stylus touch capabilities. Its elegant, streamlined interface provides the most intuitive workflows possible and will auto-adjust layouts and support the same familiar keyboard shortcuts from the desktop version.

# It's all here

In addition to the Keypad, Sibelius for mobile features a Create menu that’s optimized for mobile, 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.

# Connect your projects

With files saved to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, or other Android-supported cloud service, you have easy anywhere access to all your ideas and scores without any need to import or export.

# Move tiers and work hybrid

Sibelius is designed to grow with you to support your needs, from the introductory (and free) Sibelius First to the industry-standard Sibelius Ultimate. Get the mobile app free with the desktop version, enabling you to work where and how you want.

Ratings and reviews

As a previous reviewer stated, just keeps taking you to your files, no way to open a score. See the previous review was over a year ago and the developer responded to say they're working on making this clearer. They obviously decided they couldn't be bothered. Still, signed up for the annual contract on the basis of mobile functionality. They won't be holding me to that contract if they can't provide what they advertised.

my desktop got fried so I gave the app a try. Took a couple days to get used of not having my shortcuts I was accustomed to,but it worked fairly well. My biggest gripe is the playback and inputting for percussion. I write mainly for marching ensembles and every percussion stave playback as if it were a drum set. And inputting notes for a bass line or tenors is a nightmare! I would have to assume a large chunk of the community using the app is on a field and would need these to work properly.

Downloaded the app and was prompted to the Bach piece. Went to back out of it and it took me to my phone's recent files. I made sure the permissions were not given to access these via setting and permissions but it still cycled to the recent files page regardless. I was excited when I discovered that there was an Android mobile version, but it seems to be unusable. Very disappointed.

What's new

What's new in Sibelius 2025.12
# Notehead names now appear within Command Search
# Support for customized "score subset and part" lists
# Stylus tap-and-press now quickly enters note input
# Improved Staff Filter text directive support