Comparison

iWriteMusic vs Composer Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iWriteMusic

Create professional music notation efficiently with intuitive tools. Quickly enter notes, arrange pages, and export your compositions in various formats. Ideal for composers, teachers, and musicians of all levels.

Highlights
  • Easy to master notation interface
  • Fast note entry with OneFlick or traditional methods
  • Flexible page layout tools
  • Support for multi-track, multi-voice scores
  • Integrated playback and mixer
  • Export to PDF, MIDI, MusicXML, and audio
Features
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Less learning. More music. Professional notation without the lengthly learning process. Whether you are capturing a musical idea, preparing lesson material or a lead sheet, or completing a large score, iWriteMusic helps you turn inspiration into finished notation efficiently. 7 reasons to choose iWriteMusic. 1. Easy to master. Essential controls are organized clearly, so even if notation apps are new to you, you can get started without relying on a thick manual or a long series of tutorial videos. 2. Enter notes faster, your way. With OneFlick, you can combine choices such as pitch and note value into a single gesture. Traditional Entry lets you choose the notation item and its position separately. Use either method to match the task and the way you prefer to work. 3. Create polished, professional scores. Flexible page-layout tools help you prepare music for practice, lessons, rehearsals, performance, and distribution. Create individual parts from a score and print directly with AirPrint. 4. Use the notation your music requires. Create multi-track, multi-voice scores with lyrics, chord symbols, percussion, drum notation, and multi-bar rests. Add key, time, clef, and tempo changes within a piece, along with grace notes, articulations, dynamics, and full or partial transposition. 5. Keep scores and parts organized. Manage scores and their individual parts together, and use folders to organize a growing collection of compositions and teaching materials. 6. Listen, check, and practice. Play your score while you work. Use the mixer, solo, mute, instrument selection, loop playback, and swing playback to check your music or support daily practice. 7. Export and share for any purpose. Export PDF, image, Standard MIDI, MusicXML, and audio files (WAV). Share editable iWriteMusic files and continue working on another device. For composers, arrangers, songwriters, music teachers, students, singers, and instrumentalists. Use iWriteMusic for musical sketches, lead sheets, chord charts, lesson materials, choral and ensemble scores, chamber music, band music, orchestral scores, and individual parts. iWriteMusic is free to download. Some features require one-time in-app purchases.

About

Composer Pro

Compose music scores with ease using a familiar keyboard layout. This app supports multiple parts, a wide range of instruments, and various musical symbols, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced musicians.

Highlights
  • Keyboard-style note input
  • Support for up to 8 parts
  • Over 100 instruments
  • Variety of music symbols
  • Configurable parts and settings
  • Instrument transposition
  • Export without watermark
Features
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A handy sheet music writer app, make writing sheet music feels like typing notes. Tap on the keys with notation in a familiar keyboard layout. Provide a very easy way to compose music score. Support up to 8 parts, over 100 instruments, variety of music symbols and notations. It is very friendly for rookies while professional enough for experts. --------------------------------- UNLIMITED ACCESS SUBSCRIPTION - Support up to 8 parts - Config parts(add, delete, reorder) - Change key for each part - Change beat type and tempo - Config clef for each staff - Config sound for each part - No watermark image export - No Ads - Support 2nd voice part - Transpose instruments - Change keyboard size - Import data file - Unlock all 100+ instruments - The subscriptions are $9.99 monthly and $49.99 yearly with free trial - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that service, where applicable - Terms of use: https://service.notationpad.com/terms_service.html

Screenshots

iWriteMusic4 screens
Composer Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: iWriteMusic at free with in-app purchases against Composer Pro's subscription. iWriteMusic also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Composer Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (697 vs 181). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. iWriteMusic sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Composer Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for iWriteMusic against 4.5 for Composer Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 181 and 697 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of iWriteMusic's written reviews are positive against 72% of Composer Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iWriteMusic ships an update every 2 weeks, Composer Pro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iWriteMusic versus Composer Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWriteMusicComposer Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (181 ratings) — better4.5 (697 ratings)
Positive reviews73.5% of reviews — better71.5% of reviews
Number of ratings181697 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiWriteMusicProject嵩 张

Customer experience

iWriteMusic

All ratings181 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral4.4%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive73.5%
Neutral7.9%
Negative18.5%

Composer Pro

All ratings685 ratings
Positive86.4%
Neutral5.5%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews260 reviews
Positive71.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative20.8%

Bugs and requests

iWriteMusic

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Composer Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Notes sometimes placed incorrectly
  • Measures and compositions randomly deleted
  • Inability to restore deleted content

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more instruments beyond piano
  • Allow changing time signatures and key signatures without subscription
  • Improve note editing and placement
  • Add export options to save/share compositions
  • Provide more music notation tools and dynamics

In-app purchases

5 purchases

iWriteMusic

One-time5
  • Advanced File Management$0.99
  • Audio Export$0.99
  • MIDI Export$0.99
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  • MusicXML Export$0.99
  • Basic Features$9.99
4 purchases

Composer Pro

Subscriptions4
  • Unlimited Access$6.997 Days
  • Pro Access$9.991 Month
  • Pro Access$49.991 Year
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  • Pro Access7 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is iWriteMusic free?
iWriteMusic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Composer Pro free?
Composer Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iWriteMusic or Composer Pro?
iWriteMusic is rated higher. iWriteMusic averages 4.5 out of 5 from 181 ratings, while Composer Pro averages 4.5 from 697 ratings.
Do iWriteMusic or Composer Pro have ads?
Neither iWriteMusic nor Composer Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iWriteMusic or Composer Pro?
iWriteMusic ships an update every 2 weeks, and Composer Pro every 2 months. Most recently, iWriteMusic was updated on November 10, 2026 and Composer Pro on November 7, 2026.

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