LilyPond – Music notation for everyone: Download

# Download

## Downloads for LilyPond 2.15.0

Note: Links for the stable version of LilyPond can be found at lilypond.org

Note: LilyPond is a text-based music engraver; it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program. Before downloading LilyPond, please read about our Text input.

### For users

- Unix (Linux and FreeBSD)
- MacOS X
- Microsoft Windows

### For developers

- Source: for packagers
- Old downloads: old versions
- Development: latest unstable version

### Software License

LilyPond is published under the GNU General Public License.

### Sponsors

Many thanks to Virginia Tech and linuxaudio.org for sponsoring our bandwidth.

### Legalese

All logos and product images are copyright and trademark acknowledged.

Tux the Linux Penguin was created by lewing@isc.tamu.edu with the Gnu Image Manipulation Program.

The FreeBSD logo is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.

The “X image” is not a registered trademark. It was created by Nihonjoe and CyberSkull, and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 or later. We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page.

The “four colored rectangles image” is not a registered trademark. It was created by Rohitbd and placed under the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2. We found the image on this Wikimedia Commons page.

Other languages: česky, deutsch, español, français, magyar, italiano, 日本語, nederlands, 中文.

### Validation

Thanks to webdev.nl for hosting `lilypond.org`.