And just like that, Sibelius has their own iPad app. This comes after yesterday’s news that Dorico has released a desktop-class iPad app. If you want to learn more about that, click that link. I have some early first impressions, a video, and a podcast interview with Product Marketing Manager Daniel Spreadbury.
I don’t have much to say about Sibelius coming to iPad because I didn’t have any access to it before today, and because it hasn’t been my primary notation editor for years. But from 30 minutes of playing with it, it is pretty powerful and will certainly offer competition in this space, which is good! I want pro iPad apps to get better. The thing that is most impressive about it is how well adapted to the iPad it appears. It has multitasking, Files app integration, and some really intuitive touch/Apple Pencil touch gestures for note input that offer a new kind of ease and accuracy I wasn’t quite expecting.
You can watch a First Look video from Scoring Notes below and read their review here. You can download Sibelius for iPad here.