Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Swedish Website Finale is the flagship program of a series of developed and released by MakeMusic for the and operating systems. First released in 1988, version 26 was released in 2018. Finale has been regarded as one of the industry standards for music notation software. Finale is one of a number of types of used by, and for creating, including the score for an entire ensemble (e.g.,,,, etc.) and parts for the individual musicians. A scorewriter is to what a is to text, in that they both allow fast corrections (via the ' button), flexible editing, easy sharing of content (via the Internet or compact ), and production of a clean, uniform layout.
In addition, most scorewriters, including Finale, are able to use software-based to 'play' the sounds of the notated music and record the music—an especially useful feature for novice, when no are readily available, or if a composer cannot afford to hire musicians. MakeMusic also offers several less expensive versions of Finale (currently available for Microsoft Windows only), which do not contain all of the main program's features. These include PrintMusic and a program, Finale Notepad, which allows only rudimentary editing. Discontinued versions include Finale Guitar, Notepad Plus, Allegro, SongWriter, and the free Finale Reader.