# battuta: Score Editor — Music notation in MEI

> Music notation in MEI (iPhone/iPad app by Vibetuned.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/battuta-score-editor/id6828373781 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vibetuned](https://appshunter.io/developer/6807116235)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 14 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-31
- Data updated: 2026-11-03

## What is battuta?

battuta is a music notation editor that works the way a text editor does: a caret that walks through the notes, a selection, copy and paste, and undo that always lands. Your score is an MEI file, the open format of the Music Encoding Initiative, and it stays yours.

• Write music by touch with the on-screen keyboard, from a hardware keyboard, or by playing a MIDI instrument connected by USB or Bluetooth. Accidentals follow the key signature, and what you enter always adds up to a full measure.
• Arrange in blocks: select measures and staves, copy them, paste them into another staff or another score, transpose them.
• Ties, slurs, articulations, ornaments, dynamics, hairpins, pedal and fingering; tuplets and grace notes; lyrics, chord symbols and Roman numerals.
• Repeats, voltas, segno and coda, and playback that takes the jumps you wrote, on the built-in piano or on your own MIDI instrument or app.
• Transcribe with a PDF of the original beside the score, or with a recording's pitch traced over it.
• Open MusicXML, ABC, Humdrum and Plaine & Easie; export SVG pages, MIDI, Humdrum and Plaine & Easie. Page view shows the score engraved as printed pages.
• Your scores live in battuta's own folder in the Files app, or in any folder you pick, iCloud Drive included; the share sheet sends a score or an export anywhere.

battuta is made in the open by Vibetuned, a non-profit for music and arts education. It is free software (GNU AGPL v3): no account, no ads, no tracking, and it never connects to the internet — nothing you write leaves your device. The source is at github.com/vibetuned/battuta.

Music notation is engraved by Verovio (verovio.org), © RISM Digital Center, used under the GNU LGPL v3. Piano samples from the Salamander Grand Piano (Alexander Holm; CC BY 3.0). PDF display by pdf.js (Mozilla; Apache License 2.0).

## Is battuta safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess battuta.

## Is battuta legit?

battuta: Score Editor appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for battuta is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-31

No release notes.

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