# Sibelius — user reviews > 586 indexed App Store user reviews of Sibelius by Avid®, rated 4.20/5 from 1,760 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sibelius/id1503221259/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sibelius/id1503221259.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,195 · 4★ 179 · 3★ 92 · 2★ 58 · 1★ 236 ## What do users think of Sibelius? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive - 🚀 Useful for composing on the go - 💡 Good for making quick edits to existing scores - 🎨 Stylish and professional-looking app **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes frequently - 🔒 Difficulty unlocking full version and accessing features - 💰 Subscription service is very expensive - 🔇 Limited sound library and poor playback quality - 📁 Unreliable saving and file management **Commonly reported bugs** - Scores disappearing or not saving properly - Subscription issues and inability to log in - Crashes when performing basic actions - Compatibility problems with newer iPad OS versions **Most requested features** - Ability to enlarge chord symbols - More time signature options - Support for MIDI input - Better Apple Pencil integration - Autosave and improved file management - Export options like MusicXML and PDF - Customizable shortcuts and toolbars ## Newest reviews (15 of 586) ### 4/5 — It’s good *2026-08-28, version 2026.8* Now. I’m really interested in ragtime(I’ve working on my own ragtime piece) but when I’m doing Scott Joplin pieces sometimes it has cross beaming and I can only run on the free version and sometimes it crashes and the bit I had done at that time goes away and sometimes if I did a lot I get really upset and also please make cross beaming and tuplets free and also! A quick idea! You could add anacrusis’s for time signatures(so in the app ♭ you can have an anacrusis for the time signatures that I don’t fully understand) ### 2/5 — J’ai perdu toute ma progression *2026-08-16, version 2026.6* Je composais tranquillement une valse au piano solo et après 3-4h à composer j’ai simplement fermé mon cellulaire pour aller faire quelque chose 5 min et au moment de revenir j’ai perdu l’entièreté de ma progression… je n’aurais sûrement pas la motivation de recommencer sachant que j’ai déjà gaspillé plusieurs heures sur cette app. Par pitié mettez la sauvegarde auto comme paramètre de base. ### 4/5 — Pas assez intuitif, mais l’application semble de qualité *2026-08-14* Bonjour, merci d’avoir crée cette application de qualité. :) Je ne la trouve cependant pas intuitive du tout, très dure à utiliser, et très limitée dans le placement des notes, comparée à d’autres logiciels. S’il-vous-plaît, faites que l’application ne soit pas dure à utiliser… Impossible de placer les notes à un endroit précis. ;-; Merci de votre attention, j’espère que les développeurs feront le nécessaire pour qu’un clic censé placer une notes ne fasse pas apparaître d’autres onglets que l’on a pas choisis. Merci beaucoup, très belle journée/soirée, Dieu vous bénisse. :D ### 4/5 — Sibelius *2026-07-03, version 2026.6* Working well so far. I’m doing amazing! ### 3/5 — Chorister *2026-06-01, version 2026.5* Sibelius First ### 3/5 — まあまあ *2026-05-01, version 2026.2* 譜面用紙のピアノソロだけどうしても開けません ### 3/5 — Bravo *2026-05-01, version 2026.2* This app is helping me a lot for making music… Thank you… ### 2/5 — 課金しても同じでした。 *2026-04-25, version 2026.2* 新規作成時にテンプレートを選択すると画面が真っ暗になり、強制終了以外何もできなくなります。また時々音が出なくなる時があり、これも保存後に強制終了、立ち上げ直して対処しています。課金プランでも同じ頻度と内容でした。改善を求めます。 ### 2/5 — se cierra sola! *2026-04-18, version 2026.2* se me cierra mientras trabajo y pierdo todo lo que escribí, muy bueno chicos! ### 1/5 — Müll *2026-04-10* 5 minuten weggegangen, app offengelassen und als ich wiederkam waren alle Änderungen nicht mehr da ### 1/5 — DO NOT INSTALL, DELETED EVERYTHING *2026-03-29, version 2026.2* I used this app for a bit and I had a crazy good song idea, I spent 2 HOURS working on it. I hit save and close only to close the app and come back to NOTHING, 1 star. ### 1/5 — Difícil *2026-03-27, version 2026.2* No es muy intuitiva. Es muy tedioso escribir música. Si no pagas es imposible, muchas funciones están bloqueadas. ### 1/5 — Absolute dogs**t *2026-03-25, version 2026.2* Can’t log in without going through an insane rigmarole. Can’t remove instruments from score. While trying to find out how to do this in another app it just deleting everything I’d spent an hour working on. Honestly baffling how bad it is. Please do not believe the positive reviews, you will be tearing your hair out with this one. ### 4/5 — Needed more pro user input *2026-03-23* Creating a fully functional app on a tablet was, and still is difficult. The functionality is there, but packed into so few visual images, that a constant “hunting and pecking” is necessary to find them. There was plenty of room to add a small selection bar, but the designers thought that a few millimeters would make a difference, and ignored a little plain human help. Four stars—maybe ADD a user defined bar where we can place our favorite functions. ### 1/5 — Problème avec iPad *2026-03-18* Je ne comprends pas ce qui se passe mais l’application de charge pas avec mon iPad Pro 2023. Avec plusieurs essais rien ne marche, même désinstaller et télécharger. Ça reste avec l’écran en noir… ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 莫名其妙闪退 *2026-07-13* 我真服了，打了3分钟闪退两次，马上打完疯狂闪退，我真服了什么破软件我气的直接卸了 ### 1/5 — Deleted hours of work *2026-06-17, version 2026.5* Having spent ages putting in a score, when I revisited the file it was completely blank. The file was still there, and I had previously closed and re-opened the file so it was definitely saved. ### 1/5 — Crashes a lot *2026-05-23, version 2026.5* Crashes a lot with significant loss of work. ### 1/5 — Complicated and difficult to install and manage *2026-05-19, version 2026.5* This program is complicated and difficult to install and manage. It lacks the features of the desktop version and is overall a very frustrating experience. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-05-05, version 2026.2* I tried to give it a chance but it sucks ### 1/5 — Crashs and doesn’t autosave *2026-05-04* I wanted to use the ultimate version of the app for Ipad since it’s handier to use it while playing the piano but unfortunately and unlike the MacOs version, the app often crashes and it doesn’t even autosave when it happens so I will no longer use it. ### 1/5 — Auto-save failure *2026-05-02, version 2026.2* Definitely attractive and I was thinking about getting the full license. But then when I returned to my first piece from 10 hours ago and took the app out of Split Screen, it crashed, and my piece was nowhere to be found. It forgot to auto-save. Obviously that needs to be air-tight before someone starts a real composition. ### 1/5 — Crashes way too much *2026-04-18, version 2026.2* Running on iPad Pro m4, and it’s crashed 3 times in the ten minutes I’ve tried working in it. Work keeps getting lost. I can’t trust this tool. ### 1/5 — 音符入力以外できない *2026-04-18, version 2026.2* Ultimateユーザーです。スラーやタイなどの基本的な機能も、タブレットやスマホでは使い物になりません。 機能検索や文字打ち込みで日本語が入力できません。 ### 1/5 — Horrível *2026-04-17* Horrível. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 不是我这乐器咋没声音？ *2026-08-12* 我的那个打击乐器除了线，其他的二线三线四线打击乐器都没有声音，连个声音都没有 ### 5/5 — Great app definitely recommend it *2026-07-12, version 2026.6* Amazing didn't know how to use at first but now make great songs ### 5/5 — Angelina ballerina *2026-06-26, version 2026.6* FRANZ Liszt ### 5/5 — Great App *2026-05-28* Last year I was using another app for notating music because I was so impressed that the cloud updated across all my ipads and iphone and computer the moment I notated something on one platform. I decided to give Sibeluis one more chance before I moved on to one of the many apps available. Happy I stayed because as long as I have a bluetooth (typewriter) keyboard for my ipad, notating is a breeze. All of the shortcuts on the keyboard are the same on ipad as they are on my Macbook Pro. From the ipad, I just email the file and pick it up on my macbook pro and tweak the score. And the app is improving daily. Nice work!! ### 5/5 — amazing notation program now made better to use *2026-03-20, version 2026.2* the keypad entry is just like with computer- if your keyboard for iPad has numpad. Great! ### 5/5 — Good *2026-02-13, version 2025.12.1* Good ### 5/5 — I love it *2026-02-09, version 2025.12.1* Good ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-01-08, version 2025.12.1* I have been looking for a app to use for music notation for ages and all the other apps I tried didn’t actually allow me to write music. This app is really good, even in the free version which allows you to write music for so many instruments and voices (with a limit of 8? instruments per score). Of course you can upgrade and get access to heaps more parts and other techniques. THIS APP IS AWESOME!!!! ### 5/5 — Professional del Clarinete *2025-12-05, version 2025.12* Fantastico ### 5/5 — 神アプリ *2025-11-01, version 2025.10* 楽譜制作アプリの中で多分一番やりやすく無料でできる。 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*