A score editor for iPad

Write lead sheets — notes, lyrics and chords — with the Apple Pencil and the keyboard. Free, and it works fully offline.

Install Noteland

Designed for iPad.

An iPad running Noteland with a four-part score open, a hand entering notes with the Apple Pencil

What it is

Touch the page with the Pencil and a ghost note follows it along the staff, naming the pitch it will become; lift, and the note is written. Lyrics and chord symbols are typed at the note they belong to, on the on-screen keyboard or a hardware one.

Scores open from and save to MusicXML — the format MuseScore, Sibelius and Dorico read and write — so nothing you write is locked in. A finished score exports as a PDF.

Everything works offline. Your scores live on your iPad and never leave it.

Close-up of the Apple Pencil over the staff, with the blue ghost note labelled A3 under its tip