# Sibelius

> Music Notation and Scoring App

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1503221259](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1503221259)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1503221259`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Avid®
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.20 / 5 (1,792 ratings)
- **Version:** 2026.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-20
- **First published:** 2021-07-29
- **Size:** 1.37 GB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sibelius/id1503221259)
- **Website:** [https://www.avid.com/sibelius/for-mobile](https://www.avid.com/sibelius/for-mobile)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.avid.com/legal/privacy-policy-statement](https://www.avid.com/legal/privacy-policy-statement)

## Description

Sibelius Mobile brings the world's leading music notation tools to iPad and iPhone, enabling composers and arrangers to write, edit, and review scores anywhere. Seamlessly move between mobile and desktop, with scores saved to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, and other iOS-supported clouds for instant access.

From Apple Pencil note entry and an optimized Create menu to the Command Search and playback with a high-quality sample library, Sibelius Mobile supports a hybrid workflow—from casual ideas to professional productions. Upgrade paths from Sibelius First to Sibelius Ultimate grow with you as your projects expand.

## Rankings

- #44,467 — Overall
- #19 — Essential Music Apps

## Review summary

Reviewers highlight Sibelius as a feature-rich notation tool with potential for composers, and some praise its attractive UI. However, reliability dominates the feedback: frequent crashes, missing autosave, and occasional data corruption that loses work. Subscription and billing issues, unhelpful or hard-to-reach support, and a non-intuitive, difficult-to-navigate interface further frustrate users. While some users still see value and updates (e.g., more staves), the core takeaway across multiple reviews is that stability and reliable access to features must improve.

### Pros

- Offers a broad set of notation features for composers/editors and arrangers.
- Helpful for music creation according to some users.
- Attractive UI/design.
- Mobile/tablet presence enabling notation work on iPad.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes and instability causing loss of work; autosave is unreliable.
- Data corruption and inability to recover work; reliability concerns.
- Subscription and billing issues; features not unlocking; poor or no customer support.
- Difficult, non-intuitive UI; hard to navigate; 'hunt and peck' to find features.
- Limited export/playback options on mobile; no mobile export and compatibility issues.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1503221259)