iWriteMusic SE vs Anyone Composer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iWriteMusic SE
Create professional-quality sheet music efficiently, even on small screens. This app offers intuitive interfaces and powerful tools for musicians of all levels, from beginners to professionals. Easily compose, edit, and share your musical ideas.
- Intuitive and simple user interface
- Highly efficient input systems (One-Flick & Traditional)
- Professional quality sheet music creation
- Supports major notation elements
- Useful playback options for practice
- Data and sheet music sharing (PDF, JPG, MIDI)
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Music Writing is easy and fun when you use iWriteMusic! Ever wished you could quickly create sheet music in your small free time? Ever thought smartphones were too small to create sheet music? iWriteMusic enables efficient sheet music creation even on small smartphone screens. Unlike other cramped and cumbersome apps, it is designed meticulously for small screens,comprehensive suite of essential tools for concerts, lessons, and music classes! Best fit for professional musicians, music teachers and students. For songwriters, composers and arrangers. For both singers and instrumentalists (piano, violin, cello, guitar, flute, saxophone, trumpet, drums, etc.). Great for writing down ideas, creating lesson materials, creating lead sheets, or creating scores and parts for chorus groups, choirs, chamber orchestras, jazz bands, Latin bands, orchestras, and more. For daily practice, rehearsals, concerts, iWriteMusic will help you enrich your musical life! Check out 8 reasons to choose iWriteMusic SE (Special Edition) 1. You can understand this app almost instantly! Because of Truly Intuitive and Extremely Simple user interface, you barely need to read pages of manuals nor watching numbers of instruction videos. Unlike Finale, Sibelius and other similar apps, you just have a few things to learn to be able to use this app pretty well. 2.Double your productivity with our Highly Efficient Input System. If you’re already familiar with notation apps and looking for faster & more efficient entry system, try our innovative One-Flick Entry System along with Traditional Entry System to get your job done in no time! What is Traditional Entry System? - The choices will appear with ToolBox. - Select a value and the location separately. - Recommended to those who are not yet familiar with any music notation apps. What is OneFlick Entry System? - The choices will appear when you touch the screen. - Select a location and the value at once. - The selection will change as you slide your finger to left/right. - Recommended to those who are familiar with music notation apps and looking for faster and more efficient entry system. 3. Creates beautiful sheet music - absolutely professional quality! - rich options for page layout adjustment - easy parts creation - easy score/parts management - direct print-out via AirPrint 4. Supports most of major notation elements - multi-track writing - multi-voice writing - percussion/drums notation - chord symbols and lyrics - multi-bar rest - time change - key change - clef change - tempo change - grace note - articulations and dynamics marks - easy song transpose - partial transpose and many more! 5. Useful playback options for practice - mixer with solo, mute and voice select - loop and swing options 6. Data & sheet music sharing - exports/Imports iWriteMusic data file - exports PDF or JPG - exports Standard MIDI file which can be imported by other apps such as GarageBand 7. Extremely Compact Size (15 MB) You can save your device storage space for photos and other apps. 8. Best of all, it's Free! Yes, it's Free and Over 1.4 Million people all over the world has created music with this app family. Let's get started now! Note: This is for iPhone (iPad version sold separately) ATTENTION: Latency during playback and drawing may occur by device capacity or number of tracks and background applications. Limitations on SE (Special Edition): 1. Water mark appears on page views and printouts. 2. Can’t save more than 5 songs. 3. Can't play more than 30 seconds at a time. 4. Can't import iWriteMusic data file. (export only) 5. Can't export Standard MIDI file.
Anyone Composer
Easily create and play original music with simple tapping. This app allows anyone, from children to adults, to compose songs, record them, and even add voiceovers. Explore playing samples to learn basic patterns and customize your musical creations.
- Easy tapping composition
- Automatic music playback
- Note code customization
- Tempo and stroke control
- Metronome function
- Music recording
- Voice recording
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Anyone can play and compose music by only easy tapping by this music app! From grown up to children can play so easy. - Playing You can play music automatically. And you can change playing notes of code by tapping buttons. So anyone who has never played music can play original music. Sound by buttons are all matching. So you can play good music even selecting button randomly. You can change way of stroke and tempo. And you can change code set for all note patterns. You can use metronome. - Recording You can record the music just played. And you can play them anytime. If you could create good music, save it. And you car record voice on it. Save your song immediately! - Playing Sample Playing Sample page is added. If you don't know how to play, you can see playing samples. Try them first to learn basic patterns. You also can listen to them. - Customzie You can create customized codes and play with it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anyone Composer at 5.0 against iWriteMusic SE's 4.4. Anyone Composer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). iWriteMusic SE's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (148 vs 1). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Anyone Composer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iWriteMusic SE has 148 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of iWriteMusic SE's written reviews are positive against 36% of Anyone Composer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iWriteMusic SE ships an update every 2 months, Anyone Composer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iWriteMusic SE | Anyone Composer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (148 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.8% of reviews — better | 36.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 148 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iWriteMusicProject | Shoichi Namba |
Customer experience
iWriteMusic SE
Anyone Composer
Bugs and requests
iWriteMusic SE
Reported bugs
20 issues- App crashes when adding rests at beginning of measure
- App crashes when adding/removing notation
- App freezes when entering notes on certain pitches
- App randomly quits during composition
- Note placement inaccuracy on iPhone with retina display
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- Notes appear in wrong location despite correct placement
- Playback cuts off after 30 seconds
- Playback audio not working despite phone not being muted
- Incorrect note playback (different octave than entered)
- Lyric input not functioning
- Crashes after large file operations
- Data loss when closing without saving
- Crashes when using multiple staves
- Crashes during save operation
- Crashes when reinstalling after purchase
- Watermark reappears after reinstall
- App becomes laggy over time
- Staccatos, crescendos, and accents not played back
- Ritards and accelerandos ignored in playback
- Trill notation not functioning properly
Requested features
20 requests- Auto-save functionality
- MusicXML file transfer support
- Guitar tablature (TAB) notation
- Ability to change time signature mid-composition
- Better grace note controls
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- Slur and tie playback support
- Crescendo and diminuendo playback
- More instrument templates (duets, trios)
- Audio sharing/export capability
- Arpeggio playback support
- Individual grace note value assignment
- Pianissimo (ppp) dynamic marking
- Bracket notation for grouped instruments
- More percussion instruments (Baritone, Euphonium, Mellophone)
- Text formatting (bold, italic)
- Customizable bottom navigation bar
- iPad-native version
- MIDI export to Logic Pro and Sibelius
- Searchable help guide with index
- Ability to extend bar lines across measures
Anyone Composer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
iWriteMusic SE
No in-app purchases
Anyone Composer
No in-app purchases







