iWriteMusic
iWriteMusic is a notation app for creating sheet music, lesson materials, lead sheets, scores, and instrumental parts.
What iWriteMusic is
iWriteMusic is a notation app for creating sheet music, lesson materials, lead sheets, scores, and instrumental parts. It serves musicians, teachers, students, composers, songwriters, arrangers, singers, and instrumentalists. Note entry can use OneFlick Entry, which selects value and placement together, or Traditional Entry, which handles them separately. The app supports multiple tracks and voices, percussion, lyrics, chord symbols, musical changes, grace notes, articulations, dynamics, and transposition. Users can adjust page layouts, create and manage parts, print through AirPrint, and play arrangements with a mixer, solo, mute, voice selection, loops, and swing. Exports include PDF, JPG, and Standard MIDI, while the app also handles its own data files. It runs on Android, iOS, and macOS, with a free SE edition carrying storage and export limits.
Good
- Supports multiple tracks, voices, and percussion
- Creates and manages separate parts
- Exports PDF, JPG, and Standard MIDI
- Provides playback mixer, loops, and swing
- Free SE version is available
Watch out
- MusicXML support is unavailable
- Free SE saves only five files
- Free SE adds a watermark
- Free SE cannot export Standard MIDI
Who it suits
It suits people writing, teaching, studying, arranging, or performing music who need notation and parts. Standard MIDI users should note that MusicXML is not supported.
Verdict
iWriteMusic covers detailed notation, playback, layout, parts, and common exports across Apple and Android platforms. The free edition is useful for trying the workflow, but its file, watermark, and MIDI restrictions matter for regular use.
Plans and prices
From iWriteMusic's own pricing page, checked 19 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| iWriteMusic | — | iPhone music notation app · Standard MIDI export · PDF and JPG export |
| iWriteMusic Pro | — | iPad music notation app · Automatically generated parts · Standard MIDI export |
| iWriteMusic Free / SE | Free | Free version with feature limitations · Limited song storage · No Standard MIDI export |
| iWriteMusic (free version / SE) | Free | Watermark on page view and printouts · maximum 5 files · cannot import iWriteMusic data files or export Standard MIDI · no access to in-app purchases on iOS |
| iWriteMusic Pro (US App Store) | $12.99, paid once | Designed for iPad · includes in-app purchases |
The facts
Each one read from iWriteMusic's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Android availability
- The maker’s version history links to an Android version on Google Play and describes purchasing Full Version from Upgrade & Extensions.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Apple platforms
- The maker’s version history says iWriteMusic runs on Mac computers with Apple Silicon; the App Store listing specifies iPadOS 16 or later and Mac with Apple M1 or later.checked 9 Oct 2026
What it does
- Deployment
- desktopchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Export and sharing
- The app exports and imports its own data files and exports PDF, JPG, and Standard MIDI files.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker says Standard MIDI exports can be imported by other apps such as GarageBand.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes it as a fit for musicians, music teachers and students, composers, songwriters and arrangers, singers, and instrumentalists.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Layout and parts
- The maker lists page layout adjustment, parts creation and score/parts management, plus direct printing via AirPrint.checked 9 Oct 2026
- MIDI support
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- MusicXML support
- Nochecked 19 Sep 2026
- Notation features
- The app supports multiple tracks and voices, percussion notation, chord symbols, lyrics, time, key, clef and tempo changes, grace notes, articulations, dynamics, and transposition.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Note entry
- OneFlick Entry lets users choose a note value and its location at once, while Traditional Entry selects a value and location separately.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Parts extraction
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Playback
- Playback features include a mixer with solo, mute, and voice selection, plus loop and swing options.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- iWriteMusic is a music notation app for creating sheet music, lesson materials, lead sheets, scores, and parts.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security and privacy
- The App Store listing reports the developer indicated that the app collects no data; Apple says this information has not been verified by Apple.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support and learning
- The maker provides online help and short masterclass videos covering features such as note entry, layout, playback, transposition, and multi-voice writing.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Upcoming purchase model
- The maker says version 3.7.0 is planned to make the current paid Apple versions free to download, with feature-based in-app purchases; it lists MusicXML Export and Audio Export as new separate purchases.checked 9 Oct 2026
Money
- Free edition limits
- The FAQ says the free SE version adds a watermark to page view and printouts, limits saving to five files, does not import iWriteMusic data files or export Standard MIDI, and cannot access in-app purchases on iOS.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Hackensack, New Jersey, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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