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Frescobaldi

Frescobaldi is a music notation program, available on Windows and Linux: syntax highlighting and MIDI support.

Completely free
Windows and Linux
Open source
No account

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
License: GPL-2.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms), Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Account required: Noconfirmed by Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub, Winget (Windows Package Manager)
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: Windows and LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub · Windows: Winget
Publisher: Frescobaldi project
Latest version: 4.0.7 (29 May 2026)
Latest activity: 24 July 2026
Source code: github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi

Overview

Frescobaldi is a music notation program, available on Windows and Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: syntax highlighting and MIDI support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Frescobaldi is a LilyPond sheet music editor” — official website, 10 November 2026
“Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting, automatic completion, auto-indent, and code formatting” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Frescobaldi is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

About

Frescobaldi is an advanced text editor to edit LilyPond sheet music files. It aims to be powerful, yet lightweight and easy to use. Features: Powerful text editor with syntax highlighting and automatic completion Music view with advanced Point & Click Midi player to proof-listen LilyPond-generated MIDI files Midi capturing to enter music Powerful Score Wizard to quickly setup a music score Snippet Manager to store and apply text snippets, templates or scripts Use multiple versions of LilyPond, automatically selects the correct version Built-in LilyPond documentation browser and built-in User Guide Smart layout-control functions like coloring specific objects in the PDF MusicXML, Midi and ABC import Modern user interface with configurable colors, fonts and keyboard shortcuts Translated into the following languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Czech, Russian, Spanish, Galician, Turkish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese and Ukrainian. Frescobaldi is designed to run on all major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows). It is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 7 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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