The person behind the notes

Built with a musician's frustration

ScoreInk exists because the tools that existed weren't good enough. So Bonnie built something better.

Bonnie J Barisa
Creator & Founder, ScoreInk

ScoreInk is Bonnie's creation — built from the ground up to solve a real problem she knew firsthand: the gap between hearing music in your head and getting it onto the page.

As a musician, the friction of existing notation tools was too high. They were either too complex, too expensive, or too disconnected from the actual experience of writing music. ScoreInk is the answer she wished existed.

Every feature — from the canvas-based note editor to the multi-instrument playback to the one-click PDF export — was designed around one question: does this actually help a songwriter write?

The mission
Close the gap between the music in your head and the sheet in your hands.

Why ScoreInk exists

Music notation software has been dominated by tools that weren't built for the songwriter sitting at a piano at 2am trying to capture an idea. They were built for orchestral composers with music degrees.

ScoreInk flips that. It runs entirely in your browser — no download, no install, no manual. You click on a staff, notes appear, instruments play back in real time, and when you're done you hit export. That's it.

The idea, the product, the vision — all Bonnie's. This is her tool for musicians who hear things that haven't been written down yet.

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