Musescore 4.7 is out

[odod]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKX-cBEEmM
MuseScore Studio
Free
MuseScore Studio

The world's most popular notation app.
Developer
Platforms
Release Date
2026
Version
4.7.0
Install Size
212.94 MB

MuseScore Studio is the world’s most popular editor for creating, editing and playing back sheet music. The software features incredible engraving, bringing beautiful scores by default, with the power and flexibility to customize every part of the score layout to your liking.

Hear your scores played back with unprecedented realism and quality with Muse Sounds: a collection of sound packs made for MuseScore Studio and available exclusively on Muse Hub.

You can print, export or share your music directly with musescore.com, or share your playback audio with our free audio hosting service audio.com. You can also save your work directly to musescore.com, with full versioning, sharing and commenting support.

From the home-study or classroom to the rehearsal room or stage, MuseScore Studio has you covered.
What MuseScore Studio offers
Professional music notation software
Completely free, with no limitations
Easy to use, yet powerful
Realistic MuseSounds playback
Intuitive note input
Save and share to musescore.com
What’s new

MuseScore Studio 4.7 is now available!
This release introduces new engraving tools, significant guitar updates, helpful workflow improvements, and important upgrades to the audio engine. It also includes critical bug fixes to improve app stability, particularly during start-up.
Engraving features
Arrowheads on text lines can be found in the Lines palette, as well as via new Properties options for existing text line objects.
Chord brackets can be added from the Lines and Keyboards palettes for showing left/right-hand distribution in keyboard music, barré positions in guitar music, as well as bracketing sections of music.
Chords can now be parenthesised using the existing parenthesis controls in Properties
Lyric extension and dashed lines can now be selected for refined positioning
Curly quotation marks are now used automatically. Use undo after input to revert to straight quotation marks.
System dividers include new scale and position options in Styles. They can also be selected and edited in the score.
Text formatting properties have been exposed for all text lines, allowing individual text formatting for staff and system text lines, volta brackets, gradual tempo changes, etc.
Text justification and alignment have been separated into distinct properties, providing more flexibility for positioning columns of text.
Options and properties for scaling musical symbols within text have been improved.
Guitar features
Major new system for displaying guitar dives, both on and above the tablature stave, as well as on the standard stave. Includes playback support.
New capo transposition modes let you view sounding vs. played pitches on the standard stave. There's also a non-transposing option on the tablature stave for when the capo is used to simplify the fingering.
Fretboard diagrams and chord symbols are now included in score transposition
Workflow improvements
Double-click a single note in a chord to select the entire chord. Use shortcut 'R' to copy/paste it to the next beat.
Search field in mixer facilitates quick location of sounds and effects
Initial letter navigation in some long dropdown menus
New controls for enharmonic spelling in the Tools menu
Note input via MIDI keyboard: choose an accidental in the note input toolbar to spell inputed notes/chords with that accidental
'Q' and 'W' now halve/double the durations of a selected note or range of notes
'Find/Go to' can now be used to select a range of measures
New option in Preferences > Appearance to set invert score mode automatically when app is in dark mode
Playback enhancements
Refactored audio engine for improved performance and reduced lag on all operating systems
ASIO support on Windows, plus the option for lower latency with a new 256 sample buffer size
New 'Tuning and Temperaments' plugin, replacing the three previous plugins
Improved playback of MS Basic SoundFont, thanks to the re-addition of a low pass filter
New 16- and 24-bit .WAV export options
Ability to start playback from the last selected note (using Shift+Spacebar)
Video
The's now the option to export an MP4 video of the scrolling score view (including audio playback). Go to Publish > Export.
MIDI machine control can allow compatible VST plugins to control the in-score playhead position
Online sounds
Refinements have been made to determine rendering chunks in order to improve efficiency of online audio processing
Notable fixes and technical updates
Fixed numerous crashes on app startup
Fixed numerous issues with multiple-monitor setups
Qt updated to version 6.10.2

Today
4.7.0