Sibelius2026.9 - App Store

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.

Version History What's new in Sibelius 2026.9
- A whole new level of customizability for ties and tremolos
- Improved cross-staff voice positioning
- Support for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 2026.9 Sep 29 What's new in Sibelius for mobile 2026.8:
-Improvements for cross-staff ties
-Better vertical spacing for cross-staff notation
-Support for line continuation text
-Critical bug fixes 2026.8 Aug 20 What's new in Sibelius for mobile 2026.6:
- An option to auto-save your work after every change
- Accessible navigation gestures for VoiceOver users
- New scores now open with a proper zoom setting
- Cross-staff accidental improvements, improved banjo tab, concert pitch wildcards, and more! 2026.6 Jun 25 What's new in Sibelius for mobile 2026.5:

-Objects that go off the printed page are now fully selectable, allowing them to be dragged back onto the score
-Bar rests that have been globally hidden can now be individually shown
-Bar rests in empty bars can be hidden via a single “hide” operation
-Copying notes to a TAB staff no longer leaves out certain notes
-Our most frequent crash reports have all been fixed 2026.5 May 7 What's new in Sibelius 2026.2
- Bar rests are now automatically hidden within cross-staff passages
- Cross-staff beaming has been significantly improved
- Two-note tremolos are now compatible with long-duration notes 2026.2 Feb 25 What's new in Sibelius 2025.12 and 2025.12.1
# Notehead names now appear within Command Search
# Support for customized "score subset and part" lists
# Apple Pencil/Stylus tap-and-press now quickly enters note input
# Improved staff filter text directive support 2025.12.1 12/17/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.12
# Notehead names now appear within Command Search
# Support for customized "score subset and part" lists
# Apple Pencil/Stylus tap-and-press now quickly enters note input
# Improved staff filter text directive support 2025.12 12/04/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.10
# Entering staff lines is now easier as they no longer go beyond your selection
# Fixes for tuplet bracket direction, rootless slash chords and other notation improvements
# This update also supports the new Courtesy Time Signatures in scores created within Sibelius for desktop 2025.10 10/15/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.8

# Scores created on desktop using the Crimson Pro font will now display it correctly on mobile
# We've updated the app to reflect that Sibelius First now supports up to 8 staves, and Sibelius Artist supports up to 24 2025.8 08/21/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.7

# Sibelius First now supports up to 8 staves, and includes Alto and Tenor clefs
# Sibelius Artist now supports up to 24 staves
# New command: Toggle Auto-Respace for advanced music engraving 2025.7 07/31/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.4
- Staff text is now assigned into all voices when entered using a passage or system selection
- Dotted eighth note tuplet tremolos now playback properly
- Beams are no longer broken when changing the voice of a passage of music
- Overall stability improvements 2025.4.1 04/17/2025 What's new in Sibelius 2025.4
- Staff text is now assigned into all voices when entered using a passage or system selection
- Dotted eighth note tuplet tremolos now playback properly
- Beams are no longer broken when changing the voice of a passage of music
- Overall stability improvements 2025.4 04/10/2025 New in Sibelius 2025.3

Sibelius 2025.3 brings the following new features and improvements to Sibelius for mobile:

* Pitch Correction Tool on the Keypad now works on all selected notes
* Lines, articulations, text and lyrics are retained when changing the voice of a tuplet
* Hidden or filtered-out notes now transpose
* Improvements to Notate Glissando
* Over 40+ bug fixes and more! 2025.3 03/13/2025 New in Sibelius 2025.2

Sibelius 2025.2 brings the following new features and improvements to Sibelius for mobile:

* Create individual Dynamic Parts for combined staves using the new Decondense into Parts for Two Players feature
* This is all possible with brand new Staff Filters. Simply add them and resize by dragging them around
* The full score and the individual parts now stay up to date as you continue to make changes
* We’ve also added Magnetic Layout controls to Command Search, for On, Off and Use Default.
* We recommend you update Sibelius on all your devices so files created in this new version will open everywhere.
* Also, the UI in the … More menu has been tightened up 2025.2 02/06/2025 New in Sibelius 2024.10

* Huge improvements in score layout when opening MusicXML files from other music applications
* New Notate Glissando commands to quickly entering diatonic and chromatic lines of music
* Connect your MIDI keyboard and use it straight away without restarting
* Long search results in Command Search and various menu items now wrap onto multiple lines if they need to
* A handful of usual bug fixes and smaller improvements across the whole app, plus some UI cleanup 2024.10 10/24/2024 New in Sibelius 2024.8

* Record music using a MIDI keyboard in real-time using Flexi-time
* Loop playback
* Toggle a metronome click during playback
* Control and scale the tempo
* Enjoy a handful of other useful small improvements and bug fixes 2024.8 08/20/2024 New in Sibelius 2024.6

* Bringing Sibelius up to date with the latest round of improvements across the Sibelius codebase 2024.6 07/04/2024 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 2024.3 03/07/2024 New in Sibelius 2023.11

* Introducing new AI-powered Chord Symbols!
* New UI comes to the Keypad
* Control System Object Positions with new commands
* Sibelius for mobile is now in Italian. Ciao!
* Several bug fixes and smaller improvements across the app
* Read more at https://www.avid.com/resource-center/whats-new-in-sibelius 2023.11 11/30/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.8

* Introducing new Enhanced Redo, making it really simple and quick to repeat the last command
* We've also included several smaller improvements across the app. Enjoy!
* Read more at https://www.avid.com/resource-center/whats-new-in-sibelius 2023.8 08/28/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.6.2

* Fixed an issue when saving scores that were imported via MusicXML 2023.6.2 07/06/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.6

* Further improvements to note spacing and navigating the in-app menus 2023.6.0 06/22/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.5.1

* General improvements to note spacing and respacing, especially when hidden notes are present 2023.5.1 06/08/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.5

* Supercharge your Dynamic Parts!
* Hide notes, text, and other objects easily using special “Player” filters
* Easily create individual parts for each player while retaining the dynamic link between the full score and parts 2023.5.0 05/04/2023 New in Sibelius 2023.2

* Work with large scores more easily with independent layout marks and note spacing within each Score Subset
* Move objects on one stave without affecting the other when using Dynamic Guitar Staves
* And take advantage of many enhancements, improvements, and fixes across the app 2023.2.0 02/28/2023