Plans and prices
Every plan gives you the whole application, with the standard instrument sounds. What you pay for is where your tunes are kept, what that makes possible, and instruments recorded for real.
Local Free
Free
For one device, if you export your tunes often.
AbcMusicStudio Cloud
€6 / month · €16 / 3 months · €60 / year
For every device you play on, and for a band or a class.
No commitment. Cancel any time.
Supporter
€12 / month · €120 / year
Everything in Cloud, plus early access to new features, a vote on priorities and a direct line to the developer. For those who want to fund the project. Limited places.
No commitment. Cancel any time.
Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep Cloud until the period you paid for ends, then your tunes and attachments move to your browser.
| Feature | Local Free | Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Where your tunes are kept | In this browser, on this device. We keep no copy | On our servers, backed up. The same repertoire on every device and browser |
| If the browser is cleared or the device is lost | Your tunes are gone, unless you exported them | Your tunes stay on our servers. Sign in from any device |
| Write, play and practise ABC editor, playback with the standard instrument sounds, backing tracks, Learning Mode with tablature and note names, metronome, tuner, attached audio, PDF and images, search | Yes, all of it | Yes, all of it |
| Instruments: sounds and look Recorded today: mandolin, mandola and bouzouki, tenor and five-string banjos, steel and nylon guitars, two Anglo concertinas, the melodeon. Drawn when you edit a tab: mandolin, fiddle, banjos, guitar, more instruments as they are added. Hear each one below | Every instrument, with the standard General MIDI sounds and a plain diagram of the instrument | Studio sounds recorded on real instruments, as they are added, and the instrument drawn like the real one |
0:00 / 0:00 Drowsy Maggie, a reel | ||
| Print and export Print a tune or a whole folder, save it as PDF, or as MusicXML to open in Sibelius, Finale, Dorico or MuseScore | Yes | Yes |
| Open your files from other programs MusicXML (.musicxml, .mxl), MuseScore (.mscz, .mscx), TablEdit (.tef) and Guitar Pro (.gp, .gpx) become ABC scores, tablature and voices kept | Yes, as many as you like | Yes, as many as you like |
| Read printed music into ABC A sheet-music PDF or a photo of a page becomes an editable score, read in your browser | 10 pages, ever | Unlimited |
| Back up your repertoire to a file Your whole repertoire in one file you keep, to restore it on this device or another | Yes, by hand. It is the only copy outside this browser | Not needed: we back up our servers for you. You can still export any folder to a file |
| History of every tune and recording Restore, compare, named versions, start an arrangement from an old version | No | Yes |
| Share a repertoire with your band or pupils They open it with one shared name and password: no account, nothing to pay | No | Yes |
| Public musician page At your own address | No | Yes |
| Composer New tunes in the tradition you choose | 1 tune, ever, then bags of 50 to buy | 5 a month, then bags of 50 to buy |
| Turn a recording into a score | 3 recordings, ever | Unlimited |
| Without a connection | Your whole repertoire, read-only | The tunes you pin, read-only |
Choose Local Free or Cloud in the form. You can move to Cloud later, from inside the app.