[15] The MuseScore company uses income from their commercial sheet music-sharing service to support the free notation software's development.

[16] In 2017, the MuseScore company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team.

It includes a mixer to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of individual parts, and chorus, reverb and other effects are supported during playback.

[27] MuseScore Studio can import and export to many formats, though some are export-only (visual representations and audio) and some are import-only (native files from some other music notation programs).

[28] MuseScore Studio also can import and export compressed (.mxl) and uncompressed (.xml) MusicXML files, which allows a score to be edited in other music notation programs (including Sibelius and Finale).

[72] MuseScore has accumulated generally favorable reviews since its release from critics, scholars, and educators, who praise its relative ease of use and free availability.

It praised the precise control over the size and spacing of every object, and the abilities to define keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop modifiers, but criticized its mouse methodology as occasionally unintuitive for not fully exploring the potential of drag-and-drop menus.

[77] Reviewing MuseScore 4.0, British magazine Music Teacher welcomed the version's improved engraving, new cloud storage, and focus on accessibility, such as allowing users to export their compositions in braille, an expanded colour scheme, and keyboard navigation.

It also noted its support for VSTs, including the application's own Muse Sounds, which the magazine considered a boon to teachers seeking easier ways to export their scores to audio.

[81] In 2011, MuseScore launched a Kickstarter campaign to create high-quality, freely available digital score and audio versions of the Goldberg Variations.

The process influenced the development of MuseScore 2, with notation improvements needed in order to create a high-quality engraving of the variations.

[82] With the fundraising goal met, MuseScore developers, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, and crowd-sourced reviewers collaborated to create an engraved score and also record a new album, both of which were released under a Creative Commons Zero license (without copyright), meaning they can be downloaded and shared freely.

[82] In 2012, at the end of the online public review process, the final engraved score was released for free on MuseScore.com,[83] and printed and bound by GRIN in Germany.

[92] OpenScore wants to digitise and liberate all public domain sheet music, including the great classics of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.

Our community aims to transfer history’s most influential pieces from paper into interactive scores which you can listen to, edit and share.

For free, for any purpose, for evermore.As of December 2020[update], a number of scores had been completed, including Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Holst's The Planets and around 900 songs in the OpenScore Lieder Corpus.

[98] In July 2019, following complaints from some copyright holders, MuseScore.com changed its policies so that only paying subscribers could download music sheets.

[99] In August and September 2019, features were added to allow works to be marked as public domain or original, so they could be made available for free download.