7-day free trial, then £3.50 a month
If you can draw, you can write music.
Make scores with lines, shapes, colour and words, right in your browser.
Draw what you want to hear, set it against time, and share it with your performers as a printed score, separate parts or a play-along video.
Nothing to install. Works on a laptop, desktop computer or iPad.
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Timeline
Choose how many seconds each page lasts and HUBBUB draws the timeline for you. Add a lane for each performer, snap marks to the grid and add as many pages as the piece needs. Writing for one performer? Solo mode reads each page line by line, like staves.
Pens
Smooth ink, pencil, spray and chalk, in twelve colours or any colour you like. With an Apple Pencil or another stylus, press harder for bolder, denser marks. A stabiliser irons out shaky lines, and you can drag the end of any stroke to carry it on.
Timing
Press Play and a playhead moves through your score in real time, turning the pages as it goes. Loop a page, add a count-in or play a recording or film alongside. When it's ready, make a play-along video for your performers.
Export the full score as a PDF, with a separate part for each lane. Your performance notes and legend print with it. You can also save a PNG or an editable SVG.
My scores
Keep as many scores on the go as you like. Every change saves automatically. Share any score with a link, or download a .hubbub file to back it up.
Share and collaborate
Share a view-only link: anyone can open the score, play along and print their part, no account needed. Or invite up to five people to edit with you, one at a time, so nobody's work is overwritten.
Pull the side of a shape, a line or a pen stroke into a curve.
Drop in photos, scans or symbols, and set text in four typefaces.
Explain your symbols once. The key prints with the score.
Rub out only the part of a mark you pass over.
Performers open your link or score file in the free viewer to play along and print their part.
Undo, zoom, layers and keyboard shortcuts.
Pricing
Try everything free for 7 days. We ask for card details at the start and remind you before the trial ends. Cancel any time in a couple of clicks.
10+people
For conservatoires, universities, schools, ensembles and music groups. One annual invoice.
Ask about a licenceMonthly and annual plans are for individuals. Organisations can choose a group licence, with members joining through their work email or a private link. Schools can license HUBBUB for teachers now, and pupils can use the free viewer. Child‑safe pupil accounts are on the way: ask us if your school is interested.
Questions
No. In HUBBUB you compose with lines, shapes, colour and words, set against a timeline. If you can draw, you can write music. Trained composers use it too, for sounds that standard notation can't capture.
A laptop, desktop computer or iPad with an up-to-date web browser, such as Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox. There's nothing to install. Phones are fine for viewing scores, but small for drawing them.
No. Send them a view-only link, or a .hubbub file to open in the free viewer. They can watch the score play, follow along and print their own part, without an account.
We ask for card details when you start your trial and remind you before it ends. If you don't cancel, your plan starts at £3.50 a month or £35 a year.
Yes, any time, in a couple of clicks under Account, then Plan and billing. If you cancel within 14 days of your first payment or an annual renewal, you can ask for a full refund of that payment. Your scores become read-only, so you can still open, export and download them. Cancellation and refunds
You do. Everything you make in HUBBUB is yours, and you can download any score as a .hubbub file at any time.
HUBBUB's database is hosted in the European Union. There are no ads and no tracking, and your data is never sold or used to train AI. Privacy
Yes. Organisations of ten or more can have a group licence on one annual invoice. Schools can license HUBBUB for teachers now. HUBBUB for schools
No. Switch on solo mode in the Lanes panel and each page becomes two to six lines, read one after another like staves. The playhead follows them down the page, so a solo piece fits on far fewer pages.
Yes. Add a reference recording or film and it plays in time with the playhead. It stays on your computer and isn't uploaded.
Who makes HUBBUB
“I couldn’t properly notate a complex piece I’d written for choral speech. The workflow was getting in the way of the creative process, so I built a graphic score editor.”
I'm Emma Clarke, a broadcaster, voice actor, composer, writer and visual artist based in Manchester, UK, and a part-time PhD candidate at the Royal Northern College of Music. I make graphic scores as compositions and as art prints.