Maestro Pro

Sheet music that plays along.

Notes light up as they sound, the page turns itself, and you play along with a backing track, a song from Apple Music, the built-in instrument or just a metronome. For iPad or Mac.

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Maestro Pro playing Ode to Joy: the current bar glows amber, the notes light as they sound, and the transport bar shows bar 3, beat 4.

The page keeps up with you.

Press play and the music follows itself. The notes glow as they sound, a soft wash marks the bar, and the page scrolls or curls over like a real book exactly when you need it. Tap any note to start from there.

Slow a hard passage right down without changing the pitch. Transpose for your clarinet, trumpet or saxophone, and the score is typeset again in the new key rather than just labelled. Count yourself in, loop a bar, switch on a metronome.

The inspector open beside the score, with tempo, practice speed, loop, key and transposition controls.
The inspector: tempo, practice speed, loop, key and backing tracks.

Everything a player needs on the stand.

See it in use.

On iPad

Maestro Pro playing Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 with the current notes lit on the page.
The Maestro Pro library with a list of scores and the Import, Search, Scales and Tuner tiles.
Lyrics on iPad with the current line in focus and a transport bar.
Practising Gymnopédie No. 1 at a slower tempo.
The score editor with the notes toolbar open.
Search Scores, with Classical, Jazz and Internet tabs.

On Mac

Maestro Pro on a Mac playing Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2.
The Maestro Pro library on a Mac.
Lyrics on a Mac with the current line in focus.
Practising Gymnopédie No. 1 on a Mac.

Write it. Change it. Put it right.

The score editor with the notes toolbar open at the bottom of the page.
The editor: notes, rests, marks, dynamics and bars.

Fix a wrong note, add a harmony, or write something new. Touch a note and slide it up or down, scribble over it to rub it out, tap a length to change it. The editor works out beams, ties and bar lengths for you.

Every save is a version you can come back to. Try an idea on a branch, merge it back bar by bar, spin a version off as a new score, and push the whole history to your own GitHub repository.

How history and GitHub work

Teaching music?

Maestro Pro gives students a patient practice partner and tutors a quicker way to prepare parts and run an ensemble. The free version can be rolled out to a whole school through Apple's volume purchasing.

For Education

Start free. Pay when you need more.

Free£0
Open and read sheet music and lyrics files, and play along with your own audio files. You can also connect your own GitHub repositories and add tracks from them, make scales and arpeggios in any key, and set your own tempo.
  • The built-in synth instruments are included. They play the score, but nothing follows along on the page: no note highlighting, bar highlighting or moving line until Performer.
  • Nothing that needs the internet: no searching for scores, no finding lyrics or singers.
  • No equaliser or other tools. It opens your music and plays it at the tempo you choose, and that is all.
Performer£10 a month
Everything except the score editor. Notes, bars and a moving line that follow the music, Search Scores and lyrics online, key changes and the equaliser, backing tracks and Apple Music, Play Together, the tuner, Wait for Me, recording and review, annotation, export and print.
Professional£15 a month
Everything, including the score editor. Write and change music, build medleys, and keep version history with branches, merges and GitHub sync.
Yearly
Pay for a year and get two months free: £100 a year for Performer, £150 a year for Professional.
Free week
Both paid plans start with a one-week free trial.

Prices are UK prices. Prices in other countries are set by the App Store. Subscriptions renew until you cancel in your Apple Account settings.

What you need.

Devices
iPad or Mac. There is no iPhone version.
iPad
iPadOS 17 or later. That covers these iPads:
  • iPad Pro: 12.9-inch (2nd generation) and later, 11-inch (all), 10.5-inch
  • iPad Air: 3rd generation and later
  • iPad: 6th generation and later
  • iPad mini: 5th generation and later
Any iPad that can run iPadOS 17 can run Maestro Pro. Newer iPads will turn pages, engrave and edit a long score more smoothly.
Mac
macOS 14 Sonoma or later. You get the keyboard shortcuts, multiple windows and trackpad or mouse drawing.
Apple Pencil
Optional. You do not need a Pencil to read, play, transpose or edit.
  • Annotating on iPad uses Apple Pencil, so your finger still scrolls and taps. On a Mac you draw with the trackpad or mouse.
  • Editing works with a finger or a Pencil. A setting, Edit with Apple Pencil Only, stops a resting hand changing notes.
  • Any Apple Pencil that works with your iPad will do: Apple Pencil (1st generation), (2nd generation), (USB-C) or Pro. Which one your iPad takes is listed on Apple’s Pencil compatibility page.
Optional extras
  • Microphone for the tuner, Wait for Me and recording.
  • Camera for scanning printed music, which is coming in a future update.
  • Apple Music subscription to play along with a song and see its lyrics.
  • iCloud Drive to keep your library on all your devices.
  • Local network permission for Play Together. Devices find each other over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with no account.
  • Internet to search for scores, lyrics and singers, and for GitHub.
Files it opens
PDF, MusicXML (.musicxml, .xml, .mxl), MIDI and karaoke (.mid, .kar), lyrics (.lrc, .txt), CD+Graphics (.cdg) and Maestro Pro scores (.maestropro).

Device lists follow Apple’s own for iPadOS 17 and macOS 14. Maestro Pro has not been released yet, so details may change before it is.

Coming to TestFlight.

Maestro Pro will be available to test on TestFlight soon. It is not on the App Store yet.

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Created by Toby Jones in England, UK