Feels like Finale
Simple Entry and Speedy Entry, the Main Tool Palette, Page View and Scroll View: years of habits still work.
Maestro
Write, hear and print your music
Maestro is a music notation editor for the Mac, designed for people coming from Finale: enter notes quickly with the keyboard or MIDI, listen, and print score and parts.
betaFree... forever!
Opens your files
Finale scores (.musx), MusicXML and MIDI become Maestro documents, ready to edit.
Hear it as you write
Playback with General MIDI sounds, mixer, swing and metronome; export to M4A or WAV, including backing tracks without your part.
Score and parts
Automatic layout, parts with cue notes, guitar and bass tablature, print-ready PDFs.
Made for gigging
Setlists as a single PDF or audio, tuner, tap tempo and a visual metronome.
Helps you arrange
Analyze chords, harmonize a melody for a horn section, check instrument ranges.
What’s new · Version 0.9
Released on 29 September 2026
- Maestro now runs on Intel Macs too: universal app, macOS 14 or later
- Setlist audio: one file per song or the whole gig in one file, also as a backing track without your own instrument
- Setlist PDF: several songs in a single PDF with a table of contents and continuous page numbers
- Harmonize for section: voicings for 2–5 horns from the melody and the chord symbols
- Tuner using the Mac's microphone, tap tempo and a visual metronome in the playback bar