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Sibelius brings professional music notation to iPad and iPhone, putting the workflows used by countless composers, orchestrators, and arrangers at your fingertips. Seamlessly move between iPad, iPhone, Android and desktop, and from studio to coffeeshop to scoring stage, and write anywhere inspiration strikes.
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Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Ideal for… | – | Composing simple/moderate music with up to 16 staves | Composing, arranging, and publishing scores and parts of any size and complexity; creating notation worksheets and exercises for education |
| Availability | – | Desktop: Subscribe monthly or annually, or purchase and own a perpetual license Mobile: Included with desktop version or subscribe monthly to just the app | Desktop: Subscribe monthly or annually, purchase and own a perpetual license (educational discount available), trade-up from other notation software, get network licensing, or easily manage multiple licenses and users with Sibelius Ultimate for teams Mobile: Included with desktop version or subscribe monthly to just the app |
| Notation | – | Common only | Full set |
| Tuplets | – | Up to nonuplets | Up to nonuplets |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | – | All | All |
| Text gallery | – | More | All |
| Symbols gallery | – | Some | All |
| Voices per staff | – | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Lyric verses allowed | – | 5 | 5 |
| Included sampled sounds | – | 900 MB high-quality samples | 900 MB high-quality samples |
| Keyboard shortcuts | – | Included (fixed) | Included (fixed) |
Features & functionality
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Number of staves | – | Up to 16 staves | Unlimited staves |
| Note values | – | 512th note (7 beams) to “breve” (double whole note) | 512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve) |
| Additional notation | Basic guitar tab | “Limited bar numbers fixed beam/rest groupings fixed brackets and braces limited chord symbol presets basic guitar tab” | “Full range of bar formats customizable beam/rest groupings customizable brackets and bracesfully customizable chord symbols full guitar tab” |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | – | All | All |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable |
| Voices per staff | – | 4 voices | 4 voices |
Collaboration & sharing
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Sibelius Cloud Sharing | – | 20 Scores | Unlimited scores with 1GB storage |
| Sibelius Cloud Publishing | – | – | – |
| Comments / Sticky Notes & Annotation | Limited | Yes | Yes |
| Copy/paste to Word docs | – | Low resolution | Full resolution |
| Import / Export options | Music XML import only | Audio file export: WAV, AIFF, MP3 Video file export Music XML and MIDI file import/export Previous version export | Audio: WAV, AIFF, MP3 Video file export Graphics file export Music XML and MIDI file import/export Previous version export import Lyrics as text |
| Publish to ScoreExchange.com | – | Yes | Yes |
ADDITIONAL FEATURES FUNCTIONALITY
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Inspector window | Full editing of objects | ||
| Keyboard shortcuts | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable |
| Keypad workflow | No | Yes | Yes |
| Lines gallery (trills, slurs, hairpins, etc.) | All | All | |
| Note values | – | 512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve) | 512th note (7 beams) to “long” (double breve) |
| Voices per staff | – | 4 voices | 4 voices |
| Additional notation | Basic guitar tab | Limited bar numbers fixed beam/rest groupings fixed brackets and braces limited chord symbol presets basic guitar tab | Full range of bar formats customizable beam/rest groupings customizable brackets and bracesfully customizable chord symbols full guitar tab |
ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION & INSTRUMENTATION
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Notate Glissando | – | Diatonic and Chromatic | Diatonic and Chromatic |
| Ideas Hub | Score Starter only (40 templates) | 300 stock library ideas Add your own Score Starter | 2000+ library ideas with editing Add your own |
| Page numbers | Automatic | Customizable | |
| Rhythmic note values | – | 512th note (7 beams) to Double whole note (breve) | 512th note (7 beams) to double breve (4 times duration of whole note) |
| Composition utilities | – | – | Part extraction Paste as cue Inspector window Instrument changes |
PLAYBACK CONTROLS
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Playpack controls – Speed | Basic playback only | Expressive playback & Loop | Loop, halfspeed, expressive playback |
| Advanced notation interpretation | – | – | Yes |
| Espressivo 2 0 humanized playback | – | Presets only | Customizable |
| Hairpins, ritardandi, accelerandi, fermatas, articulations | – | Fixed | Adjustable |
| Playback markings on specified repeats | – | Yes | Yes |
| Tap Tempo | – | On playback only | Full |
| Timeline panel | Not available | – | Yes |
| Video timecode and hit points | – | Add video, add and edit hitpoints | Add video, add and edit hitpoints, timecode |
PUBLISHING & LAYOUT
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Meta Data | Not available | Common only | Full set |
| Automatic arranging and orchestration | – | – | Yes |
| Dynamic parts | – | Limited editing | Manage dynamic parts Edit dynamic parts Split dynamic parts |
| Magnetic layout | Fixed | Fixed | Customizable, with full viewing options |
| Manuscript papers (templates) | Stock options only | Some more | Over 75 Create your own |
| Paper and desk textures | Not available | 40 options | 60+ options |
| Rehearsal marks | Default only | Customizable | |
| Repeat structures | – | Customizable | Customizable |
| Advanced layout options & features | Headers & footers Intelligent rests Reset position System, Page and Special page breaks | Auto layout options Manual staff spacing Fixed multiple staff sizes Headers & footers System and Page breaks Intelligent rests Limited object reset position Panorama scroll view | Auto layout options Edit staff types, sizes, spacing Edit text styles and fonts Engraving rules Headers & footers System, Page and Special page breaks Intelligent rests Set default object position Full object reset positioning Join scores together Panorama scroll view Rulers |
ADVANCED NOTATION & ENGRAVING
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Accidentals | – | Normal and double, bracketed | Normal, double, quarter-tones, bracketed |
| Bar numbers | Limited | Limited | Full range of formats |
| Barline types | – | Single, double, dashed, repeat, final, invisible, tick, short, between staves, thick, triple, dotted, pick up bars | Single, double, dashed, repeat, final, invisible, tick, short, between staves, thick, triple, dotted, pick up bars |
| Beam/rest groupings | – | Fixed | Customizable |
| Brackets and braces | – | Fixed | Customizable |
| Change transposition of transposing instruments | – | – | Yes |
| Chord symbols appearance and MIDI/text input | – | Customizable | |
| Cross-staff beams (keyboard music) | – | Yes | |
| Cues | – | Yes | |
| Custom lines | – | Yes | |
| Custom Noteheads | – | Yes | |
| Dotted notes: single, double, triple | – | Single, double, triple | Single, double, triple |
| Jazz articulations: falls, scoops, doits, and plops | – | Yes | Yes |
| Ossia staves | – | – | Yes |
| Slide notes and rests | – | Yes | Yes |
| Special symbols | – | Yes | |
| Split multirests in parts | – | Yes | |
| Stemlets (half-stems) and feathered beams | – | Yes | |
| Tuplets | Duplets to nonutuplets | Any (ex. 2,7,44:31) and nested |
ADDITIONAL UTILITIES
Sibelius Mobile | Sibelius Artist | Sibelius Ultimate | |
| Versioning | Not available | Save, view, print versions | Full versioning Compare versions Export log of changes |
| Timecode display | No | Single format | Custom formatting |
| Additional utilities | – | Quick filter for similar objects Highlight music | Sibelius Connect scripting Edit word menus Filter for all similar objects “Find” function Focus on staves Highlight music |
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