Standard Page Layout
View your music exactly as it would appear on printed manuscript paper. The standard layout shows clean, paginated notation that's perfect for reading at a music stand or printing to PDF.
Compose, arrange, and perfect your music.
View your music exactly as it would appear on printed manuscript paper. The standard layout shows clean, paginated notation that's perfect for reading at a music stand or printing to PDF.
Browse the full catalogue of bagpipe embellishments — doublings, grips, taorluaths, birls, throws, and more. Select any note and pick the embellishment you need from a visual guide. Grace notes render reactively, adapting to the melodic context.
Tap any bar to access powerful editing tools. Copy, paste, delete, or rearrange bars with ease. Add 1st and 2nd time endings, change time signatures mid-tune, and validate bar durations to catch errors before they reach the practice room.
Change time signatures with an intuitive circular picker. Spin the outer ring to set beats and the inner ring for note values — from common time to complex asymmetric metres. Time signatures can be set per bar, so mixed-metre tunes are fully supported.
Select a range of notes across bars and act on them as one. Shift pitch up or down, lengthen or shorten durations, or copy, cut, and delete an entire phrase in a single move. The selection action bar puts every operation a tap away — no more editing note by note.
Group notes into a triplet without fuss. Switch to triplet mode and tap the three notes you want to bind — they snap into a properly bracketed, beamed triplet, correctly spaced and ready to play. Change your mind? Break it apart again just as easily.
Build repeats with proper 1st and 2nd time endings. Mark the start and end notes of a section and Ultimate Piper draws the volta brackets for you — then plays the right ending on each pass through the repeat, exactly as written.
Tap the staff to place notes, drag vertically to change pitch, and long-press to open a visual duration picker. Every duration from semibreve to demisemiquaver is supported, including dotted variants. Swipe a note down to delete it.
Toggle ties between consecutive notes, draw a zigzag glissando line between adjacent pitches, and add natural or flat symbols. Dedicated buttons appear on the selected note for quick access to every option.
Add one or more harmony parts to any staff. Each line has independent note editing, and all parts play back together with adjustable volume and stereo panning.
Add or remove staves, insert single lines or full parts, and label sections with custom headings — perfect for piobaireachd ground and variations.
Add colour-coded text notes below the staff to mark tricky passages and jot down performance reminders.
Every edit is tracked in a 50-step history. Cmd+Z on Mac or the toolbar buttons step backwards through any change — from a single note placement to deleting an entire staff.
On Mac and iPad with external keyboard, arrow keys adjust pitch and duration, Delete removes notes, and standard shortcuts handle undo and redo.
Pinch to resize the score on iPhone and iPad, or use Cmd+/Cmd− on Mac. Zoom in to work on fine details or zoom out for an overview of the whole piece.
Group tunes into ordered sets, drag to reorder, and edit each tune individually. Ideal for competition medleys and concert programmes.
All your tunes, folders, practice sessions, and settings sync seamlessly via iCloud.
Requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, or watchOS 26.