Sheet Music Scanner App Reviews

Great for helping with transposing lead sheets.. Singers are forever changing keys which renders lead sheets useless unless you are gifted with the ability to transpose in your head. I had used a $400 software on Mac called Smart Score c2 Pro but that stoped working when I upgraded to Catalina. I had exported. PDF out of ForeScore on iPad, emailed it to myself. The went to Mac and downloaded and the imported it to Smart Score and edited and emailed it back for import back to iPad app. With this app I just export pdf from foreScore to Music Scanner and the to Notion for transpose and then back to foreScore. No need for Mac and I save time.

Game. Changer!. I’m not a sight reader. I can’t hear it in my head and predict intervals to save my life. But if I hear it once, I can memorize it. This was recommended to me by a high school choir director because I needed to learn a few pieces quickly. I am very impressed with how this app can isolate the base line in complicated choral scores. If only I could make it stop playing the baritone part at the same time, but I guess we can’t have everything just handed to us. No seriously, this has totally changed how I will learn my music moving forward. And I love that I can download the isolated part as an MP3 and follow along while it plays off the pictures.

Pretty great but needs improvement. This app was definitely worth the money and it helps me hear the music that I have to play so I can get a good sense of it. The only thing really missing in the key signature. I wish there was a function where you could put in the right key because the scanner does not pick up on the key signature at all and it sounds terrible. There also needs to be improvement on the scanner sensing wether there are two lines being played together, as when I’m listening to my piano pieces I want to be able to hear the left and right hands together, same with a duet piece. I have just read some other reviews and it seems like there is a way to change the key signature, does anybody know how to do that?

This app is a waste of money!. I hadn’t been able to listen to my pieces for a while, as my piano was broken, and I couldn’t fix it. So I thought, why don’t I try to use this app to scan my handwritten sheet music to hear what it sounds like? Well, upon using this application, I was very disappointed to find that this app does not recognize PERFECTLY CLEAR to read sheet music written in pencil. It only recognized some notes, and in the wrong clef. I figured this app would be more convenient than any composing softwares that require “premium,” and that I could just pay and get it over with. I paid money for an app that doesn’t recognize clefs, time signatures and so on. If I ever use this app again, I will use it once it’s recognition software works better, and it has an actual editing software you can use if it gets it wrong. I tried multiple times for it to work, but the only thing it recognizes is computer generated sheet music. I will give it 3 stars, only because it did KIND OF work, but not at all the way I intended it to.

Works well for me to learn my part. I use this app to learn my voice part for solos and choir because I do not play any instrument. As a soprano I am fortunate to have the melody most of the time but I use Sheet Music Scanner when I have descants or harmonizing non-melody. I often photograph and crop to only my staff then add each line as additional pages to have it play continuously. Some of the music today, especially choral music, changes what voice/instrument is the top line so that will confuse the app when you tell it to only play line 1. I crop out anything that is not my line in the photo before I input it for practice. There are times when the soprano and alto lines are impossible to separate, but at least I can follow my music score and still have the notes that I need. Overall, I am very happy with the app and it works for the way our use it. I have it on my iPad Air and iPhone 8+. My only suggestion would be to have an option to Not have the whole page faded out to highlight the notes being played with another color perhaps, but to keep the page normal contrast. With the way I use it I would like to be able to see the words so I can sing along with the music. That is difficult on my iPhone8+ & not great on my iPad Air.

Absolutely incredible!. Saw this as part of Apple’s music promotion. It looked good and had some good reviews so I decided to give it a try. I am absolutely blown away at how seamless it works! I saw that different instruments can be selected. I thought this was just for book keeping. I didn’t expect that playback uses different synthesized sound for these. I tested flute and clarinet and it sounds surprisingly realistic. A few suggestions for improvement: if I add several sheets that are part of a bigger piece, it would be nice if tempo could be set separately for each segment. It would be nice, if in addition to bpm, the there were support for common tempi such as largo, andante, allegretto, presto, etc. When importing from a photo, it would be nice if the app would allow me to crop prior to import. This is not a big problem, I just take photo first, crop it, and then import.

Such A Lifesaver, And Super Affordable. I had a score for an old original piece of mine that I wanted to convert back to Finale for edits. If you know anything about pdf to music notation conversion software, you know your options are pretty expensive, ranging from $65 to $400. I don’t have that right now lol. I tried this app out, and was able to get my pdf converted into an xml! Playback with the xml file was pretty finicky and there were some formatting issues, but I made fixes, copied and pasted the entire score into a fresh new Finale doc, and it was perfect. The fixes took me about 20 minutes, and for paying $5 instead of $200, that extra 20 minutes is a paltry fee.

not worth it.. The problem is not that it did not recognize notes, but it plays and exports the wrong notes that can’t be corrected by Finale. I.e., it failed to recognize the key signature, but when I added the key signature, some measures still play in the wrong key. There was something in the XML export that could not be corrected. Aside from that, inside the application, it recognized the right placement of the notes on the staff but without applying the key signature, it was all wrong. Basically it was no help at all ***update. Developer was helpful and responsive and offered to refund money, although the process is unclear. I wrote this review before being contacted by developer. the scan was high resolution but of a printout that was done on an older printer. Revised to 3 stars however would not work for my needs of older sheet music.

Fantastic app! Where have you been all my musical life?!. I never do reviews but this app impressed me so much that I had to give my two sense! This app is worth EVERY penny. You can buy music scanning apps for 10 times the price and won’t get near the quality product that this is. This app is going to save me tons of time! I still can’t believe how accurate it is and with multiple voicing too! I’m not saying that it is perfect but it is really good! The only thing I have noticed is that It has an issue recognizing triplets and it missed a treble clef inserted halfway through the page but for just a scanning app it is fantastic! Understand, you are not getting a music editing app. I use Finale to do that but you can export what you scan on the app to finale as an xlm file. Get the app... you won’t regret it.

Beats Photo Scan!. I use Sibelius 7 for editing piano scores. Photo Scan is included to input sheet music (PDFs) into Sibelius...which is tedious and time-consuming to use. This app creates an XML file (using the camera) which is opened directly by Sibelius. All scanning app will have errors (reading triplets, etc.) but this app is much more accurate than PS and, being easily exported into Sibelius, it is much more efficient and effective. I’ve used it on about a dozen scores, and love it! You can also use this app to organize music on your iPad for gigs. I won’t use it for that because I use ForScore.

Great!! but help!!. I just downloaded this app and it’s amazing I would really appreciate it if you added a feature where it only reads the bass clef. I also would love it if you added an option where we can edit the parts where the program reads the sheet music incorrectly. And if you could add a feature where it reads only the top note of the treble clef and only the bottom note of the treble clef to find the soprano and alto voice I’m sure so many choirs would benefit from this option and make your app more wanted. If you could also do the same for the bass clef for bass and tenor voice. Thank you so much

Good music scanner app. This is good music scanning app! It really helps me practice my parts for orchestra. It’s not perfect and can occasionally miss notes, inaccurately interpret rests as notes, and can miss repeats, but it works well enough for me for most part (problematic parts occur more often with fainter ink on the paper scanned though). One thing I think would be really great to have is an optional metronome tick sound and count in to help me keep time with the music and start with a count in to selected locations on the music. I also think it would be nice to have additional text box area to write composer and the arranger since arrangements can vary.

Outstanding Job on Complex Classical Guitar PDF. I used Sheet Music Scanner (SMS) on a purchased complex Classical Guitar tune on PDF. I then exported the XML to the Guitar Pro App which I use for editing and guitar practice. SMS did a fantastic job. I only needed to do small edits to about 10 out of the 140 bars. Most of the edits were required because the software missed slap symbols. The music contained numerous tied notes which SMS handled perfectly. SMS did a significantly better job than the better known PlayScore 2 which necessitated me editing 95% of the bars. In fact most of the bars had so many errors that I would have had to manually input all of the notes. SMS is now my go-to music scanner software. It did an outstanding job. It is also sold at a bargain price.

Horrible reading and instruments sound bad. It’s not at all worth the price and doesn’t even read the music correct I submitted one of my pieces and it was skipping and making up it’s own beats and notes as well as there being no rhythm, dynamics, or accidentals which the app completely ignores. It also skips over rests and will make 8th notes half notes and stuff like that which make it sound horrible and most of the instruments don’t even sound anywhere near the real instrument I was using the trumpet feature and it sounds NOTHING like a real trumpet and u would know since I LITERALLY PLAY IT All in all not worth it but could be saved if developers tried a little harder Maybe try adding an area where you can input what style the music is in or something so it actually sounds how it’s supposed to

Amazing Resource for the Vintage Book Collector. I collect older books. Mostly children’s books. There was an era where the author would include a song to go with their book. Of course, I can’t find these songs and my sight reading isn’t that great. This app has been perfect for scanning in songs I find in books so I can learn them and enjoy a piece of history! There are a few times it will glitch and play a note too fast or something won’t sound right (who knows, it may be a typo from the book…). Most songs come through perfectly though and if you are dealing with typed or cleanly handwritten songs (a few vintage books were hand written) this app will work for you.

Great for hearing how a piece should sound (more or less). This is a great app for beginners who are trying to learn to play music and would like to be able to hear how a particular arrangement sounds. I have noticed that the app skips over repeat signs so if you are scanning an entire piece and playing it back, it’ll just play from beginning to end without any repeats. I haven’t noticed the app being able to adjust tempo based on tempo markings either. Actually, it doesn’t seem to pick up any of the markings; tempo, dynamics, or pedaling. Still a great app in my opinion and one I feel was worth the cost. Maybe these missing features will be added someday.

Great tool, decent accuracy. Worth the price, and a big help to me in practicing choral music at home (no piano in my apartment). * Better accuracy than other scanner apps I’ve tried so far. * Works best, naturally, when you import or scan ‘clean’ music, without markings – but it also does a pretty good job ignoring extraneous markings. * New version can isolate and play one or more lines (when the sheet music clearly separates them)...awesome! ISSUES: Sometimes gets confused by single accidentals (not part of the staff), failing to realize that they should end after one measure. Does not recognize the ‘breve’ (double whole note) – these notes are just skipped and not played at all.

Use to be good. The app is good and very useful to use BUT it use to be a 1 time purchase when I bought it and had everything unlocked! Now they got greedy and make you pay a subscription fee to use all the features. Wish I never updated the app and held on to an older version where everything was unlocked! Recommend to find other apps! I use to be able after I paid for the app to listen to 2 voices playback of the same staff now I can’t, even though the developer contacted me and told me I can still access everything that was available when I purchased the app but It’s NOT true at all. A few features I had when I paid for the app is not available anymore! Don’t trust them whatever they try to tell you, they figures the only way to make money is subscription nowadays!

Very good, but could be better. So far this is the best app for what it does. I haven’t found another app that recognizes sheet music and plays it as well as this one and without intrusive ads. Options to change speed at different parts should be added. Many times it doesn’t recognize crowded notation. It commonly misses sharps or flats within the notation. Multi-instrument should be added, music with a top vocal staff is confused with a treble and bass, so it ignores the bass and plays it like a separate staff. Hopefully the creators of this app keeps improving it because it could be a great app with added function and recognition improvements.

Works well with some limitations. This app is actually pretty darn good with two major/minor caveats. First, you need to take a really clear photo. I’ve gotten my best results from taking a photo of a single unbound page in good lighting with my camera’s flash on. Second, this app is not comprehensive so certain symbols go unread and the developer(s) explain as much in their description so this point is only a minor gripe. Unfortunately, bound sheet music is harder to get a clear photo of because one side of the page typically curves towards the spine of the book and a flat page is necessary for this to really be effective. All things considered, this is a good affordable option for giving one a pretty solid idea of how the music should sound (provided you tale really good photos); it may take a few tries before you get a scan that is acceptable but hang in there!

Trouble with 1/8 note with curved flags. First, I would like to congratulate you on a wonderful program. I was surprised at how well the software works with modern printed scores. I am in the process of learning to read sheet music and find the software similar to sitting in with a band. I am starting to make the connection between the written notes and the sounds and rhythms. My issue is with older, printed scores. I was trying to listen to some very old Dixieland scores written over 100 years ago, but the software was having trouble recognizing 1/8 notes with curved flags within the score. These are very clearly printed, but I think this written note is not in it’s database. Some times these notes would be treated like a 1/4, other times it was just ignored. I get enough information out of the analysis to figure out the song.

Does what it does very well. This app has saved me so much time. Getting PDF charts into Finale has been a stumbling block for me, and this app solves the problem. I haven't tried snapping a picture yet. I've just imported PDFs from Dropbox or Google Drive, so I can't speak to that functionality. I do have some trouble with the playback but that's because I work with scores that have staves that transpose. The app doesn't seem to be able to understand multiple key signatures on the same chart. It assumes concert key so the notes play wrong. The app does have the ability to play one line at a time if you want to isolate a part, in which case you can manipulate the key signature. But that's OK. I didn't get it to play scores. I have other apps that do that or I could have paid a whole lot more money for functionality I didn't need in a different app. This app is clean, straightforward, and it works. I imagine it will grow in its own complexity in future iterations, but for now, I am happy to support an app that does a few things well.

Exceptional! Don’t hesitate to buy.. I used the app with no instructions and took photos of a free Bach piano score. Using it was quite intuitive to add all 5 pages into one document. To my surprise it played the whole piece including repeats. The reason I bought this app was to transfer musicxml files to my desktop score writing programs. Using the export feature I found that I couldn’t email the file because the on-screen keypad became huge and the characters I pushed were coming out different. So I wasn’t able to email. Plan B. I have Onedrive on my phone, so I was able to send the translation to that without any issues. On the PC I imported the file into Guitar Pro and it came in perfectly putting the treble and bass clefs on separate tracks - perfect. It played the whole piece. Was everything perfect? No. The issue was that the music had been separated into different voices and there were also some missing rests. The app created 4 voices from the scan and some notes ended up on the wrong voice, so it means doing a little clean up. There were also a few dotted notes where the scanner had missed the dots. Sheet music is hard to interpret and the result is better than I had expected. I’m really pleased with the results and this has to be the best apps I have installed on my phone this year. Except for the weird email experience everything went smoothly. There are other features I need to explore, but I’m very happy with just the featured I used so far. Thank your effort to make this app!

Amazing and really helpful. This app works great! I play piano but don’t sight read well so this app really helps me figure out what the songs sound like from the sheet music before I start to play. It’s really easy to use and can export the files to midi and other formats that’s your thing. It doesn’t always get every note correct - probably depends on the quality of the image - but it does a great job. It’s even very good when you take a picture of a bowed page from a book and the staffs aren’t straight (which blows me away). There are a lot of instrument sounds you can choose from for the playback but they’re a little lackluster - but that’s not really why you buy this program. I’m amazed at what this app can do and really appreciate the creators hard work.

Accurate reading. I need an app to help on my new practice. I tried those “major“ apps in computer and on iPhone . I identified those major by review websites and ad in App Store. I used the same pictures I took by my phone to test. This is the only one that recognize all of them. I did this one last because it doesn’t have a test version, I am afraid I may purchase a bad app. After no satisfaction on other apps. I purchased this one for its high rating. And I satisfied immediately after it reads the least recognized picture and play it correctly. It’s a good app that doesn’t ask you to “subscribe “

Amazing!. It is hard to believe that this App works as well as it does. After quickly taking a picture of a passage in a book, or importing a picture from the web, it will often do a beautiful job of playing the music, even with three part sheet music. Unfortunately, there is more work to be done, as things like triplets and grace notes are ignored, and there is no way to edit they timing errors that slip though. I'm giving it five stars to encourage the author to continue embellishing the App. If you buy it now, you won't have to pay again when the bugs get worked out, or have to keep checking for new versions.

Great app—useful improvements could be made!. Fantastic app!!! Very helpful. A few things that I noticed could be improved: If there was a way to set tempos for different sections, that would be amazing. Also, if you could play multiple voices but not the vocal line (so everything the piano plays instead of just bass or treble). There’s a bit of a glitch with slurs—notes that are marked flat in one measure and “slurred” to the next, are played as natural in the next measure. I’m not positive, but I also think it doesn’t recognize repeats. Finally, if there was a way to set that the play-through would make certain cuts (so it could skip over measures or pick up at a later section), this app would be perfect!

Amazingly Accurate!. I took a chance and bought this app hoping it would work as advertised. To my surprise and relief, it worked like a charm. For best results use the built-in scanner in daylight conditions or brightly lit indoor settings to get a clear scan of your sheet music. I scanned in some classical piano sheets, and the app was able to render a flawless rendition. As of this writing in 2017 it does not yet recognize Coda signs and repeats, but it does provide a way to hear the piece before you tackle it on your instrument. The app also has the option of adjusting the tempo during playback. Highly recommended!

Amazing. This app is perfect, it is so simple and easy to use you just take a picture of the sheet music and you can choose from a variety of voices. But two things I would recommend for this app is one. The main piano voice could be improved, it sounds a little like a harpsichord. And secondly, when you have multiple pages it would be helpful to be able to move the pages in what ever order you would like and not only in the order you scanned them in. But amazing app, and definitely worth its price.

Magic Program!. I have just discovered this wonderful program which almost makes up for all the times I have said “I hate computers”. What it claims to do seems improbable, yet it lives up to the advertalk. It will read sheet music - - and then play it! My iPad computer with Sheet Music Scanner can sight read music as well as I can, only faster. That is an impressive feat. Now when I pick up a new piece I can hear it before I try to sight read it. How cool is that! I discovered a problem when importing pdf’s so wrote to the developer, who quickly responded. We exchanged a few emails and within a few hours had a solution. His customer service is as good as his program. If you are looking at this app and wondering - don’t hesitate, buy it now. Well worth the price.

Overall very good. Overall this is very good. So far I used it on classical guitar pdfs. It is very close but can use some improvements. I'm noticing some notes being skipped ... some notes from a chord or a bass note ignored. I'm also noticing some timing issues within measures, so notes not being held for the correct duration. But I am trying this on some advanced classical guitar sheet music. It would probably be far more accurate on more basic or intermediate sheet music. This software appears to be excellent for beginners and players of all levels. So far I just started trying it out and I am impressed. I will be challenging this further, as I have some music with some very difficult timing. I am hoping this can help me. I am willing to share with you any inconsistencies or bugs I discover, to help you improve this app. For the price and capability, I don't know of anything better. Excellent job on this. Thank you!

Just amazing. I picked up my trombone after a 40 year break. I joined our community band and enjoyed playing for a year and a half now. I realized it was taking me much longer than I needed to get my part down so I started searching for an app that would help me. This app is absolutely amazing. Not only is it accelerating my ability to get my part down but it’s also like having an on-call partner to practice with. I putting my headphones on and playing my part and having the app in my ear really has improved my playing

A helpful aid for lousy sight readers ;-). This app allows you to input music either by taking photos of it (easy, but the least reliable transcription method), using your own scanner (better), or downloading a PDF (best)…and, crucially, you can separate multiple staffs from each other, in order to—for instance—separate out the alto part. Note that if two parts are on one staff (soprano and alto, for instance), this app cannot separate them…but I can usually figure it out when there are only two parts to decide between. You can also play all the parts together, so you can get used to how your part blends with the others. You can change instruments for the playback, and a setting under the instrument panel allows you to adjust the pitch by semitones in case you need to transpose. You can also change the tempo as needed. There are extra features available if you upgrade, but for my purposes, this inexpensive pay-once app suits me fine! To improve transcription: if you’re taking a photo, try to do so with even lighting. If you’re scanning, try to use pages that have NOT had holes punched in them; problems will occur if, for instance, the hole excised a flat in the key signature. If you notice a lot of grayed-out notes (meaning the app couldn’t read them), ask your choir director if they have a clean PDF they can email you, and when you download it to your device, tell it to open the music in the Sheet Music Scanner app

Super Helpful for Beginner Sight Readers. I’m taking piano lessons and I struggle a little with sight reading new songs. When we were doing lessons in person my teacher would play new songs for me and I would record it on my phone. But since COVID we switched permanently to remote lessons and we do it on FaceTime, which doesn’t allow you to record. This app is amazing because I just take a picture of the sheet music and it “plays” it for me on my phone. It highlights each measure as it’s played so you can follow along. It’s very easy to scan, name, and play back songs. You can also adjust the tempo and change instruments. Love this app! Highly recommend.

Improvements for voiceover users. As someone who primarily with music broil and listen to music but yeah, it is very helpful for me to understand how something sounds when I come out look at the picture, also having an app that will allow someone who completely blind to read print music is a good tool. There are some things that are not perfect, but technology is never perfect. I would like to subtract a form of camera guidance similar to what is found in the Microsoft’s seeing AI app and KNFB Reader app. For example, when you hold the phone in the position to take a picture, it would be helpful to know whether or not the page is filling the screen. When voiceover tells you something Mark, left bottom corner not visible, you know you have to either raise the phone a little bit or move the phone slightly in the direction it in the cakes. Of course, one could just take a picture using Seeing AI and then export those photos into the app HealthTap but, ideally this would be a lot of problems with that having this place would be very useful.

Good but needs work. Overall, I love the app. It is extremely easy to use and gives great results. However, there are a couple things that would be great if added. First of all, unless a high quality pdf is used, there are bound to be notes missed. I have found that it can miss bass clefs very frequently as well. It would be great if there were a way for us to add missing notes. Additionally, this is a small thing, but it would be nice if the temp could be adjusted via keyboard instead of slider as the slider is a pain to use. Yet, if you are looking for a relatively cheap app to scan music with, this app is definitely for you!

Great start! Could use some improvement. Updated use to the app....... The updates have continuously increased the accuracy of the reading and now it totally rocks! I love the new features and the new layout! This is one app that every musician or singer should have. No question! Hands down the best app! Previous review....... This is an immensely helpful tool for those of us that need help in sight reading. I would hope that some features in the future could develop into a tool that allows you to make corrections in the app reading extra notes or missing reading notes. Instead of relying on only the app to be a perfect reader, the developer could allow the users to make corrections as well. Kind of integrating the users into the whole experience. I would also like to see the interface a bit cleaned up or refined to make navigating the app a bit more intuitive. Like a button to see your saved projects instead of just the back button. Otherwise a fantastic app.

Phenomenal app. I don’t know what I was expecting, but this app definitely surpassed any expectations. It’s pretty crazy how accurately it manages to interpret notes — be it through .PDF files or photos of printed music. It’s not 100% correct, but it is impressively close. I’m not really sure what kind of use-case would require flawless accuracy from something such as this, regardless. It’s not going to be able to run flawlessly through Schönberg, but it makes a valiant effort nonetheless. It can nail simpler music pretty consistently, with minor hiccups here and there. Repeats seem to throw it off occasionally; it doesn’t always know whether it’s the start or the end sign for the measures to-be-repeated. If you ask me, the price is well worth it for such a neat little tool.

Fantastic app. I am no expert at playing piano, but I love learning songs that I enjoy listening to. I have several songbooks that have multiple songs I don’t recognize by title or sheet music alone but would probably recognize if I heard them. Other songs I might recognize but not totally understand how that particular arrangement sounds. This app solves both issues, and speeds my learning time by giving me an easy way to hear what my fingers aspire to create. Just take a few pictures, let the app process it, and my sheet music plays out loud while tracking the place on the pages. The one gripe I have is that not all imports are perfect. They are usually spot on, even catching codas by going back to the correct measure. However, sometimes an error occurs that splits the parts. For example, it will play only the treble clef for a line, then repeat the same measures again with only the the bass clef. I’ve fixed it by taking a new picture and reimporting, but that does waste a couple minutes. Overall, though, the accuracy is so high that it seems magical. Fantastic app, highly recommend.

Amazing!. I’m a public school music teacher and I teach guitar and piano classes. I’ve recommended this app to my students. It’s simple to use and it works very well. I’ve taken guitar ensemble scores and scanned them and it played back perfectly. The score was four 4 parts. I’ve also used it to have students listen to classical guitar music which was quite complex. It played them back perfectly too. I like being able to export the scans in multiple formats. I’ve exported music as xml files and imported them into Sibelius to write my own arrangements. It saved a lot of time entering notes manually. It’s not 100 percent perfect, but it works perfectly about 95 percent of time. The only issue is it can’t playback drum set music yet. For my purposes it gets 5 stars.

Not capable of what I need it to do. I’m a music teacher who is constantly coming into possession of old/obscure sheet music, many of which have no online records of their existence. The only way for me to hear how they’re supposed to sound is by tediously transcribing them into a music notation software. I was hoping that this app would be able to reduce that time and let me hear it straight away, and to say I was disappointed was an understatement. Let’s get one thing out of the way. All the music I inputted was scanned beforehand, so legibility issues were not the problem. The problem is that the app doesn’t know how to read what it’s given. Timing was god-awful, notes were completely passed on, and it can’t distinguish between separate lines and voices to save its life. When I tried to put in a clarinet/piano duet, it sounded awful. Because there’s no way to tell the app that it was not looking at a piano piece with three staves, and therefore no way to transpose the clarinet properly. And even if it COULD distinguish, transposing only affects the whole piece, not the individual instruments, so don’t even try imputing an orchestra/concert band piece into here. If you’re an instrumentalist who just wants to hear what your own part sounds like, maybe this app will work better for you. But even still, I’m not so sure if the price makes it worth it. Definitely not an app I would recommend. Guess that’s 5 dollars down the drain…and on a teacher’s salary no less!

Almost perfect. Wanted something to scan and play my Elizabethan recorder music. Exactly what I was looking for, simple and accurate. Had a few bumps at first but didn't take long to figure it out. Hints were very helpful. Plus the playback was very pleasant. Will be completely perfect once repeats and codas are added. For the price you have nothing to lose. Very happy with this app. UPDATE: Latest upgrade includes repeat recognition which works very well. Had a couple of problems with a few scans but was able to solve them with a little creative cutting and pasting. Even more happy now!

Very Good App, Great Support. I’m a choral singer but haven’t learned how to sight read yet, so I need something affordable to help me rehearse new music on my own. I keep ALL my data files on OneDrive for home or remote iPhone access, so I had already scanned all my scores on my PC into PDFs. This app did a very good job finding those PDFs where I had saved them on OneDrive, scanned them, played them with surprisingly great sound, and easily exported them back onto OneDrive in XML, MIDI, and MP3 formats. You can then send the MIDI files to equipped instruments, or load the MP3 into iTunes playlists. Lo As a singer I now open the XML files in MuseScore to add the lyrics (so I didn’t need the original score PDF anymore), changed instruments from default piano to flute for that staff and choir voice for SA and TB staves, and boosted the volume for the TB staff for rehearsing my part. Throughout the process David provided excellent support, so overall this app gets a well-deserved 5 stars.

Good app!. It’s got some tiny glitches now and then, but every other app that reads and plays sheet music makes you pay to get even the most basic features. The rhythm isn’t always perfect (particularly when there are 6-8 busy staves), and sometimes it misses a flat/sharp if the music isn’t very clearly printed/copied… but overall, it gets the job done, and for FREE. I’m a choral singer who’s piano skills don’t match the difficulty of music I’m singing, so having a software that can play my part for me to learn is invaluable. I always double check things on the piano if they sound off, but this saves me so many hours of fumbling on the piano to learn it. Thank you!!

Really useful, just some minor adjustments might be necessary. This app has helped me a lot with rhythm, as that’s always been my weak point. On that portion of music, this app helps so much. Other than that, there are a few things that would be cool if they were fixed. You either need a screenshot, a file, or PERFECT lighting to get every note scanned (and even on some screenshots it misses some notes). A lot of the time, slurs, ties, sharps and flats are not scanned. Sometimes it would randomly play a note that doesn’t exist in the piece, as it scanned a portion of the staff as a note somehow. It’s just simple stuff like that that might need to be looked at.

Amazing app that I hope will continue to improve. This app really stands out to me compared to a lot of the other ones in the App Store. The fact I can use it to practice my part accurately and adjust the tempo or instrument as needed is a great feature, though I hope we will eventually be able to select which parts we want to play versus the one or all approach you currently get. Not a deal breaker by any means, just something for the future. If there were two areas I think could use some improvement then first it’s the ability of the app to recognize multiple staves/staffs in a group. Sometimes it does this really well and I have no issues, and sometimes it will seemingly ignore the bottom stave in a group and treat it as an additional line instead of part of the entire ensemble. This is especially apparent in instances where a song might have just two staves in the ensemble and expand to three or four later on, though I have seen this in music that is consistent as well. The only other feature would be for the app to recognize Coda’s, it I recognize that’s a complex ask you don’t see too often and so I won’t complain that much. Other than these two issues the app suites my needs at a very affordable price.

Absolutely Amazed. I’m not going to lie. I’m tough to impress, and especially jaded about programs the claim that they can work with sheet music. Nonetheless, I ponied up the four dollars for this and could not be happier. It reads off of bad photocopies, it reads off of my laptop screen, and of course it reads on well printed sheet music. It reads images, it uses the camera, and the only thing I wish I could do that it doesn’t is read straight out of a PDF and do multiple pages. Bravo to the author. Add PDF support and multipage support and you can have another $10 of my money!

Brilliant Learning Tool. Sheet Music Scanner is an indispensable tool for learning how to play musical pieces. After importing sheet music into the app, Sheet Music Scanner will analyze the sheet music, find musical notes from it, and then show you your sheet music in the app. And here’s where things get interesting: you can play the imported sheet music— this is extremely helpful when trying to learn a new song, as you can get a general idea of how the song is supposed to sound while you are learning to play the song yourself. You can adjust the song’s pitch and tempo to make it match what the music artist originally intended for the song, and the sheet music playback will adjust how it plays the sheet music accordingly. Any imported sheet music can be saved for future use, which can be super helpful for relearning previously learned music. Overall, a fantastic app for those wanting to learn how to play their favorite songs on a variety of instruments.

Needs the ability to manually place in notes. Fairly good app, and it’s super convenient to have something like this. However when you can’t get a good enough image quality it is unusable, since some of the notes are missing. If we had the feature to put in certain notes that would be great. Most of the time a lot of the notes are placed in, but some of them aren’t so it would fix this problem if we could put these notes in manually. In addition, the rhythms for some types of notes (i.e. triplets, sextuplets, etc.) seem to be off, and are played slower than they should be. Overall decent app, with some improvements it could be amazing.

Very Impressed. Updated review: Now that I have been using this for a while, I see an improvement that it could use. Please add iCloud storage and syncing of your imported sheet music. I have the app on my phone and iPad and it’s a pain to have to re-import something because it was originally on the other device. This would be a great help! This is the app I was searching for! I have recently joined a chorus and was without the ability to play the score (I’m “hunt & peck” on a keyboard at best). This app has been great at reading the sheet music and playing it. But the best part is being able to export a MIDI file to GarageBand so I can turn off the tenors or the baritones to hear my track. For $4 this is the best music app in the App Store!

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Amazing App. I love this app and everything about it, especially after the new look... except one thing. I know this is a lot to ask, but please, please add in different instruments for different lines, so they can play together simultaneously. Perhaps you could add it into an advanced edit, or settings. Please take the time to consider this, and it would completely make my day! Thank you.

Music scanner, very good. I really like the scanner and works like a charm. I'm not sure how it repeats with multiple verses, maybe that could be looked at. It has a repeat symbol at the end of the score.

A bad cup of coffee. Well, I just blew $5.99. Bought it, took a photo of one page of piano score, played it. Oh dear! Can’t read accidentals. Got the triplets right in the first bar, pity about all the other bars. Keeps missing notes - who knows why. Tried another piece - photographed under a different light - virtually identical problems. I’m logged on from Australia but the lousy crooks at Apple charged me in US$ so it’s actually cost me about AU$8.55 . That’s two large cups of coffee. Two bad cups of coffee. Too bad.

BRILLIANT. Amazing!! Reads music perfectly!!! Only thing it could work on is looking at the handwritten parts too. That would help ALOT. Otherwise, this is an amazing app with heaps of different instruments to choose from and I would defined recommend this to anyone starting out with music. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Does very basic job with issues. If this app was free it would be the type of app I would delete in like 2 weeks- but it’s not and its $7.99. It can’t scan some basic sheet music, it can’t register double accidentals (which is listed in the limitations so im less fussed about that), you can’t mix the sound levels or transpose (the score, it can transpose the audio) but what really ticks me off is that when I convert the sheet music to XML, it has no lyrics or chords, and for PDF, the quality is abysmal. As a music student, having to transcribe the chords and lyrics again in my music notation software is a complete waste of time. It’s also advertised as a scanner, but has no options for scanning the sheet music taken from a photo such as cropping, greyscale, etc. For this price, at least a few of these features should be guaranteed and also perform at a medium-high standard. Currently looking at other options, and hopefully they issue refunds.

It’s good but…. It’s fine. As a music student who uses this app to learn music (I learn more effectively by ear) it does the job. However it is in desperate need of an update. It sometimes plays the accidentals in the key signature, almost never plays slurs, and more often than not misses rests. This is quite disappointing for such an expensive app. However, it does do the job, it just takes a little longer. Please, developers, if you read this, let me know when you fix these issues, it will save me so much bother.

Very bad. The app doesn’t read the music correctly at all. Don’t waste your money and this app is not refundable.

One day, but not yet.. I bought this app hoping to be able to listen to some flute music I have been trying to learn. Unfortunately the app doesn't recognise slurs or joined quavers very well. Also, it was playing all semi-quavers (if at all) as semibreves. It also treated sharps as semibreves and a single flute piece was supposedly playing harmonies at randomly selected times throughout the piece. EDIT: having used it again with some other music, I believe this could one day be more useful. It helped me with one simple piece, but doesn't recognise key signatures very well and doesn't understand staccato/legato notation.

Great App. This is great - It read my PDF sheet music great and wow it’s a life saver it’s almost perfect. The only thing is instead of a on/off switch for the Multiple voices, I wish that it was more customisable, I’m in a choir and I would like to adjust it so you can turn off/turn down some of the other voices and instrumentals. i.e. on a slider for each line: Line 1 (sopranos), Line 3(tenor) and Line 4(base) at half volume, Line 2 (alto) at full volume and Lines 5 & 6 instrumentals at about 1/3. If you get what I mean, it makes it easier to learn against other lines while still hearing your part the most until you have it 100% and then you can turn everything up to 100%. Anyway great app, well worth the money!

Great app. Fair price. I am tempted to rate this app a 5, but then I would have nowhere to go when the promised improvements are made. All sheet music scanned to date have lived up to the promises made. And I love that I can export it as a midi, and make minor changes through musescore. And I don’t mind paying for something this good, with improvements on their way (I have steered clear of music involving notation the author says is not there yet, I.e. triplets). Thanks for the app.

How can you be adding a subscription to an already paid app??!. I cannot begin to fathom how or why or who thought it could possibly be a good idea to paywall features that were once included in this already PAID app for a subscription. This is utterly ridiculous and developers should be ashamed.

Doesn’t do what I want. Claims to transpose the scanned score but it just plays at a different pitch. I wanted an app that will output a pdf of a score transposed. The playback is pretty useless because it doesn’t read the key signature. Later .... Now I realise I misunderstood what the app does. The term ‘transpose’ has different meanings when referring to written or sounding music. And It the playback accuracy is determined not by the software but more by the resolution of the image. Other people love this for what it does.

Excellent. I use this for school and it saves me a lot of time when I export it into notion. One of the best apps I have used.

Instantly helpful!!. Like other reviewers have mentioned, money well spent! Scan scores and be able to read straight away if that is the version that user wants to learn from. Or find an obscure music sheet and figure out immediately which melody it belongs to. Score can be saved, shared and/or uploaded to various formats including MIDI to allow for mixing and further tweaking to compositions. Still learning its features at the moment, and am sure it will have even more amazing attributes.

Very addictive. After a few unsuccessful scanning attempts I decided to read the helpful help. No problems after that. I found it to be able to recognise sharps, flats etc but it trips up at a return symbol, playing this as a massive chord. I then went haywire scanning my music books. Would be useful to be able to create folders in the library to make this easier to search. Being able to create midi files and PDFs makes this app very useful.

Love this app!. I’m relatively new to piano, so it’s nice to hear how the music should sound before I attempt to play it. Also I think it helps train my brain to read the sounds 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Really really amazing. I'm really loving this app. Makes learning music really easy and great! This has been some of the best money I've ever spent. Ever since PDF support has been added, the quality of the recognition has gone WAY up. I'm really impressed. That being said, sometimes it gets a few little things wrong and it would be great if we could perform minor manual edits and tweaks. I REALLY would LOVE to be able to export the audio of single voice from a multi-voice piece of music. (Or maybe export all into individual audio files). Other than that, it might be advantageous if we could report and submit music that is not auto-detecting nicely directly from the app... But of course that that is up to the Devs. All in all - Excellent work Devs. I'm looking forward to seeing what updates you've got planned for the future. Thank You!!

Just one thing. I love the app I am just sad that you can’t convert music Into letters

Best $5 I’ve spent in my entire life!. Thank you so much to whoever developed this App - it works exactly as you advertise it to and it has brought so much joy to me in the past day since I purchased it! 💗💗Your App has inspired me to return to my love of learning to play the harp, many years after I had to stop lessons. Listening to songs I used to play (but can no longer) brought tears to my eyes. I can only imagine how helpful this will be to so many people learning their favourite instrument(s) too. Thank you for pretty much what I think is the best invention since the harp! 🎵❤️❤️

Very good start. This is a very good app. I use it to scan music then export it as an xml file into a composition program. It’s a good start but as the developers note, it is missing some key things like the ability to read repeats and triplets. I will add my fifth star when those things are delivered.

Better than I dared hope. I am giving this app 5 stars because even with the limitations that are yet to be addressed it does a fantastic job and the export capabilities are super useful. A really powerful musical app that is so reasonably priced that to give it less than 5 stars would be a crime.

Amazing. Recognises notes from sheet music and plays very quickly after scanning. Overlays detected notes over actual scan. Highly recommended. Can also export in to many different formats including .mp3 and .xml

Not as good as I thought. Misses notes and repeats and also tricky to capture sheet music. It wasn’t made clear that you cannot screenshot from a computer screen. Only screenshot from hard copies. Disappointed.

Great app...But. This does a fantastic job. However, during play back it does not recognise sharps, flats or accidentals -this is not a deal-breaker as most people would probably do some post editing in Sibelius, or similar. The other (minor) issue is that it does not recognise repeats of Codas etc, again, not a deal-breaker but it would be a good feature. My main reason for the 4-star rating is because you cannot select multiple files for download to Dropbox etc. I cannot see a way to automatically get files to upload to Dropbox and the files are not available in iTunes file sharing. If above items are addressed, this would make this app one of the best in this field.

Recognition is no good. Only recognize like 80% correctly

A Music teachers dream. When you don’t have a midi file , scan your score and upload to this app . You can take a picture but a scan will provide a more accurate result . Seriously impressed by this app , well done to developers

Score player. Decent app. Can't recognize ties and can't play both hands of sheet music. Wait for new update before purchasing. To be honest, I demand a refund.

Not for drummers. Also not free. While this says free in the App Store, only the first six days are free. After that it’s paid and quite expensive. As far as the app itself is concerned, if you’re a percussionist/drummer, forget it. It can’t playback more than one drum at a time, doesn’t recognise hi hat, cymbals, rolls, accents, ghost notes, flams or drags. And probably a lot more.

Wow!!. This has totally changed our music practice. We love it. Can scan the music and know how it should sound before trying to play it.

Very impressed. I wrote a negative review of this app a year or two ago, but since then, it seems to have improved its accuracy substantially. I can’t comment on how effective it would be if poor resolution sheet music is used, but it worked perfectly when I used it this time around. It was very helpful with the functionality of being able to play full SATB, or split off and only play a single part. I am extremely satisfied!

Fabulous for learning new pieces. This is my favourite, most useful music app. I am an adult violin beginner playing in an ensemble and I don't always know how the piece is meant to sound. When I look on YouTube the music isn't the exact piece I have in front of me, but this app plays me my piece, and can also play the other parts so I can hear how it all clicks together. Occasionally it still skips a note especially if it's part of a slur but apart from that it's perfect for my needs. I love how I can adjust the bpm to suit my learning stage but I would really like if it had some sort of count in feature as I would like to play along with it. I can't start it up and get my bow on the strings so I have to jump in after a couple of bars.

Fantastic Singers' Note Bash Tool!. This app is amazing. For someone with not-amazing sight-reading skills and limited access to a piano, this app has made it possible for me to "note bash" twelve pages of music for an audition tomorrow that I otherwise would have embarassed myself at. Thank you Thank you.

Folders. Top of my wish list - FOLDERS. Sorting alphabetically is ok but cumbersome when your music library climbs past 100 pieces.

No brainer. Great app, often produces better results than the super expensive ones.

Really good!!!. This is so easy to use. It's very accurate, and once scanned, I can easily export the music - I use Notion, where I can transpose, or do whatever I need to.

Disappointing. Paid for the product thinking it seemed legit going by the reviews and the cost. Want a refund please.

Why?. Works OK but suffers if lighting isn't perfect. Works better from a scanned pdf file. Why can't I save a document as multiple file types??? Also why can't I attach it as an email? Pretty useless to me if I can't use it in editing on musescore.

Really good. It’s amazing and really helps me learn songs but it needs to be able to recognise coda

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Love it. Very useful and does a great job!

Amazing.. This app is a must have for people who are technical and learn music by ear. Super useful and love the midi export! I use it to create practice tracks!

Excellent app. Works like a charm - i have a bit of difficulty scanning (although that works fine - probably me or my sheets) but importing photos that I can edit first is working very well. Kudos for providing multiple paths for input. I’m exporting to forScore and that works flawlessly Good app - well worth the small cost

Excellent app. Super easy to use, does exactly what it is supposed to do, without unnecessary frills.

Use without having to pay?. How do I use this app without paying a subscription? I just need to use it and it keeps bringing me to the subscription page thing. Man, this kinda sucks

Thank you. Really enjoying the app. The app works as expected. A very quick way to get a snapshot of what the music sounds like. The choir voices are very helpful in understanding the voices within the musical piece that you are practicing. An indispensable tool. Very important, OCR is always difficult, better the scan, better the result. Like the idea you can import pictures and pdfs and then export in various music xml formats is magic. When exporting, using midi or xml expect to do some some editing to make your work look perfect.

Useful tool for students. Being able to select specific bars for section practice is the best reason to use this app. Perfect for learning new songs quickly. It’s not perfect, with a bit of a fiddly camera recognition and other flaws but it does a damn good job nonetheless.

No free version. It sounded great in paper which would be enough to guess it costs money. It’s a subscription and if you use the free trial of no more than six days! You pay extra after all deals wear off.

Coolest app!. Super cleanly built, and has allowed me to mesh learning by ear with sheet music. Highly recommend, worth the price!

I couldn’t help my kid work on her music at home without this app!. My kid has to learn many songs for choir. I don’t play an instrument and would have no way of helping her at home without this tool. We scan all the songs she is learning and work on them this way. The single voice option is incredibly helpful with this. I wish I was able to add many pictures from the photo album at once. I also wish I had the option of selecting a single note to hear, without the app resuming “play” automatically.

Excellent App. This app is perfect for me as a beginner fiddle player. The notes are pitch perfect and I can adjust the speed as I progress in my learning of the song. It was important to get a good photo of the music and edit the photo to make it as crisp and bright so the app could scan it correctly and playing it back accurately. I also use it for choir practice and love that I can play my part as a solo or listen to all the parts together. Indispensable!

Amazing app. This app is the only one that I’ve found that recognizes repeats and other musical symbols. Support is also excellent. Very prompt response! Love the app!

Terrible reader. Useless.. Looking at the chart American patrol by Meacham and Lavender - The app ignores rests and misattributes notes and can’t tell when notes are tied together. Sadly this app is useless. I couldn’t recommend it to anyone. I hope an update comes out and corrects these senseless errors since I’ve already paid for this.

Got Baited by Images. I got this app so that I could write the note names on my sheets. In the preview images of the app it labeled the note names which is what I needed. When I got the app it didn’t do that. False advertising.

Not impressed. The instruments sound like autotune, certainly doesn’t sound like a trumpet, the scanner skips 1/2 notes for some reason and doesn’t recognize the rests. I love the idea but it needs more work. More real sounds and reads every thing on the page. I was trying to save $5 so I skipped the free trial. Pay the extra $5 and see if it suits your needs.

Has trouble with alto clef. It seems to struggle to read also clef and reads it as treble. I wish I could input the clef because I spend a lot of time trying to scan until it is able to input alto clef and even then it is not always the whole song

A ruby in a gravel pit. This app is one of those rare apps that does what it says and nothing else. The developer gives a fully featured trial and doesn’t even try to pull off all kinds of tricks to get you to subscribe, it’s just how it is. I don’t think I have to elaborate on how rare that is nowadays.

Needs improvement. It can’t seem to recognize time signatures and there seems to be a delay when it moves from bar to bar. Could definitely use a little more innovation… especially when they’re charging for the app.

Works great. Works great for me for Alto Saxophone

Scanning music. So far so good it does a great job of playing the notes from my papers I hope it will keep up.. so glad I found it I would definitely recommend this app to any one who is struggling with either notes or timing for you’re music

Works quite well. While not perfect at music recognition, this app works as well as the $100 Musitek dedicated app for conversion from pdf to musxml. But it doesn’t seem to recognize time signatures.

Awesome app. This is truly a wonderful app

Not so good.. Must need a super camera for prog to work correctly. Does not recognize rests

Main issue. The main issue I have is that a delayed start would be good so that I could start with the app instead of a bar or two in.

Super outil sauf que. J’ai acheté cette application il y quelques année… on me redemande de payer, je suis excessivement déçu.

It ok i guess. It works fine, but since i have old sheet music it doesn’t scan right so i would only recommend if you uploaded music. Otherwise really good and user friendly.

Inconsistently recognizes notes. I love the app but taking numerous pictures with no changes in location or lighting produces different results — some notes are picked up and others are missed even when using portrait and landscape modes. I have even tried scanning songs line by line to produce higher quality images yet a simple quarter note confuses it. Please give an option to force recognition of notes using manual selection instead of having to re-take the picture, maybe even an option to tell the app what the note should be.

Great app however…. Love the reason for this app however would be essential to add an option on editing music directly on the app….with ipencil for instance. Every musician of any instrument writes notes on their music sheet, I don’t understand why this app has everything needed except for editing. Hoping to hear from provider if we can expect to see this improvement soon in the future.

Works great!. This app does exactly what I need! It scans a sheet of piano music and then plays it for me. It helps me learn to play a piece of music when I can hear it a few times.

Can you please add in the ability for the app to read and play repeat signs?. Can you please add in the ability for the app to read and play repeat signs? Thanks.

Needs improvement. Key features like rest, slurs & ties, cresc & dim, and volume levels aren’t even recognized. Just plays the notes like a robot.

Amazing. Scans and plays sheet music amazingly well.

Good start. The bugs are NOT generally caused by bad pictures since it as bad with perfect pdf files. Usable only for short passes that are difficult to learn as a singer. Even when the play is perfect, it is full of mistakes when exporting to mp3. Exporting to musicxml is worse that makes a complete mess. Still using it on a regular basis that explains the generous 3 stars. There is a real need for this and I hope You will continue to improve it.

I’ll give you 5 stars. The other app I was using: PlayScore become a subscription, so bye. I Did some comparison tests- and got pretty good and comparable results with this app. It is a bit slower, but that’s fine. So please keep on it, I am big fan and thanks for making it one time purchase.

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No ties. Overall this is a very good app, however it does not recognize ties, so I re-articulates notes when playing.

Useless. Even getting very good pictures it misses many notes. Nice “concept” but useless.

Priceless !. Invaluable when you see a little bit of notation in an article on blues guitar say but you need to audibly hear it as well as see notation for it all to sink in. I scan it in and the Sheet Music Scanner instruments internally are good enough to get the feel for the passage....

Missing basic functionality for the $. If you are going to charge people $7 and not have a proper transpose function makes this reader completely useless!’ Pitch shifting by Hz on a small range is not effective at all. I shouldn’t have to export the audio to an external app in order to playback the track in a different key! It’s basic functions that a $7 app lacks

Quite good with some flaws. Very good. However, I had to import each key signature change separately or it wouldn’t account for them. Further, it recognized the one flat of F Major as an accidental as opposed to a key signature. I’m impressed with this app nonetheless, especially at its price. Competitors that cost much more don’t work as well as this does lol.

Isn’t a very good app. I payed for this app and it’s asking me to pay again for it. I’m not impressed with this

Worth it. Works exactly as advertised. Not gna lie wasnt expecting much - music apps are usually a let down. But they understood the assignment. I few more features like a tic beat to start or - mid song tempo change would be nice. But hey still good and worth the money

Useless free trial. The majority of people who download this, just want to review one piece and get it over with. I almost guarantee that there is no people who will use this on a regular basis, so why is there an unnecessary free trial that will waste everyone’s time trying to set it up and cancel it, just so that they could use the app. I deleted it right after it tried to make me do that.

makes key mistakes. the other popular free app worked fine when I scanned my sheet music, excpet I couldn't access pdfs, which is why I bought this one. Reading a psf sheet this app made mistakes with the key the piece is in. Ridiculous

Super. Fonctionne très bien

A very useful app for me. Thankful for this app, as a person who doesn’t sight read well it’s been very useful when I need to learn a new hymn. It gets updates to make it work better from time to time. Kudos to the developer!

Works for my concert band. Impressed with the capabilities of this app. So far so good.

Music Scanner. This app is truly amazing. Great for teachers and students.

Really Helpful App!. Great program!! Needs to recognize repeats, trills and other ornaments.

Simple to use and (mostlyy) does what it says on the label. Love this app which has helped me discern my choir parts in practice sessions as I’m a poor sight reader. My one big wish is that one day it will single out individual SATB parts when the AI gets good enough. The best it can do presently is play single staves. So as a tenor, I always get the bass line played as well. Generally I can discriminate tenor from the bass. The same would be the case for soprano and alto on the treble clef. Altos especially might find it difficult to hear their part clearly against a strong soprano melody. Ideally you would like it to be able to turn down the volume on everything except your own part in order to hear that in context with the other voices (and perhaps piano, for example). But I guess this is the current state-of-the-art, which is much better than having nothing. Update: Two years on and you still can’t separately control the volume of parts. The new paid version lets you do so in the same stave which is next to useless for a tenor. I want to choose the counter part, usually the sopranos. I’ve dropped a star.

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Okay, I guess. It’s unfortunate because even perfect sheet music that was digitally produced cannot be read by this app super well. I mean it can be read, but the music is off by a bit. I normally wouldn’t be annoyed, but this apps like $4 and there’s no way that I see you can edit notes that are messed up. There’re also a lot of problems with reading sharps and eighth notes/sixteenth notes. What I do like about this app is how there are several different instruments that the music can be played back as, and you can export the music as several different types of sound files.

Amazing. This app literally changed my life. Learning music is so much easier and it’s nice to have one place to store all of my music. I would love if Tenor Clef would be transposed into the actual octave instead of using it in the same octave as treble clef, and more responsive scanning is always wanted as sometimes my high quality pictures turn out not scanned well. I love this app so much and I would recommend it for literally anyone.

The best that I have found on the App store. Highly Recommended!. I have tried several apps like this, and this one is hands-down the best of them all. Scanning with the built-in camera on my iPad Pro gave me about 95% recognition, but scanning with my desktop printer/scanner to a 600 dpi png file was 100% accurate. Haven't tried the XML export, but if it is as good as the rest of the app then this is a home run! Edit - Even more accurate since last update. Multi-page PDF works very well, and XML export works well with Notion, and others that accept xml.

Love the app but 1 issue. For starters, I really love this app! When I need to edit a piece, I simply scan and it’s ready to export. My one issue is that if I have a score with multiple instruments in different keys, it plays them all as if they are in concert pitch or 1 type of instrument. Of course that sounds like a disaster. Then, when I export it to MuseScore, I have a heck of a time trying to get the instrumentation transposed. Is there something I can do to have each instrument read in it’s own key?

I Like This App. Well written and performs as promised. I really like it and it works well for my purposes. A few suggestions: - My phone turns off during playback; please make app force the iPhone to stay open during playback as it is inconvenient to wake the phone every 30 seconds (this alone would push my rating to 5) - I have to do some funky things to import a MDI file to GarageBand on my iPhone; it would be nice to have a direct import into GarageBand option. - To split parts on the bass or treble staff I use GarageBand and it works well.

Perfect for my student with blindness!. I’ve been transcribing music into Finale for the longest time, so that my student can read music in their own way. It was tedious and took up so much time that I didn’t have. This app works so well and is so user friendly. I’m showing his parents how to use it and they’re going to be so happy! This will make a huge difference for the kid and I am overjoyed. Thank you!!

Updating my previous review. I originally gave this app a very critical review (comparing it to high end scanners) but have since used it a number of times with excellent results, hence changing to 5 stars. I do a lot of music scanning and this app has saved me hundreds of hours. Very easy to use and extremely helpful with pdf scores. I don’t even try very complicated modern music scores as it’s not intended for highly complex notation. That’s what expensive laptop programs are for. This app is a great, inexpensive way to get basic scores digitized quickly and accurately.

Terrible sounding playback. This app addresses an important need for musicians: the ability to import sheet music, and then listen to and practice playing a song. However, the playback audio is generally of poor quality, and the app has some glitches in creating the audio/tempo syncing. Other apps have much better playback quality for sound and tempo but generally don’t offer the option to import your own sheet music.

Great Music Scanner. If you need a good sheet music scanner this is the way to go. This app is great! So far it has worked flawlessly compared to my free scanner. The accuracy is amazing and the possibilities are endless, you are able to have more than one page on your music. You are able to transpose, you are able to listen to it with accurate sounds for your own instrument. As a Tenor Sax player this app is very important to me, from musician to musician, I can tell you that there’s no better app than this one.

Perfect for Psalter Hymnal. So simple. This app allows me to scan our new psalter hymnal. Many of the psalms and hymns are new to me and this allows me to hear the music and even sing along at home. I’m impressed with how flawlessly this works even in less than optimal light and with the phone casting a shadow, and even when there is a slight curve of the page at the side of the binding of the book. Delighted to have this new ability. A true blessing for those of us who can’t play music.

Not Repeating. I’ve had this app for about two years now. I like the interface and other features. However, it doesn’t recognize some tied notes, can’t recognize complex music. It needs a feature to be able to search the songs instead of scrolling back and forth to get to a sing, especially if the song is in the lower alphabets. I have over 50 songs and adding but it’s not easy to search.

Omg the best app!!!!!!!. I have tried so many apps and none work as good as this one! I could not figure out how to play this song until finding this app! It allows you to hear the rhythm in whatever song before playing it, and is super easy to use. All you do is take a picture of your sheet music or find one off the internet, and it will play it for you. You can adjust the tempo, and instrument. Definitely worth $5!

Absolutely incredible for the price. For five bucks, this app is hard to beat. It’s more accurate than software that costs ten times as much, and it’s super user friendly. Is too bad you can’t edit the music (move any improperly detected notes, add ones that were missed due to print quality) but at this price I can’t complain. Great for assisting with learning music.

PLEASE READ!!!!. This is for all wanting to download users and developer! Ok, so, I found this music sheet in my book I was reading and I wanted to hear it on piano myself, and I thought this was the “PERFECT” app for it, well, it’s not! I can’t even use it because of some subscription I need! And it’s also not fair for some kids parents who won’t buy this stuff for them! I was looking forward to hearing it until I couldn’t use it. Would not recommend for new comers. If this don’t get a response if not fix the game,I shall never download it again. Also, stop doing this kind of stuff for money and trying to trick little kids! I swear all over App Store is the same reason!

Almost perfect. I used it to create a piano sound track of sheet music so people could practice their vocals with the accompaniment. The app made a few mistakes but I transferred the midi file to GarageBand and in 20 minutes I easily corrected the mistakes and I had a great audio sample of the sheet music. Way faster than learning the piece myself and recording it. Thanks to the developers for this time saver!

Does what it does very well. If you're looking for an app that holds your hand and plays your instrument for you, this isn't it. If you want a way to save untold hours transferring notes from paper to the computer, this is it! I had a song that would have taken me hours to type out. This program had it whipped in about 5 seconds. Export it as music xml to guitar pro 7, or any other program, and you're done. Treble and bass clef! In one word- Awesome!

Great App but Needs Improvement. I’m using this app to learn a new opera, which has been VERY helpful as my piano skills aren’t the best, and the shared recording created through sibelius doesn’t offer singers the option of changing the tempo for practice purposes. There are a few hitches however, that do get in the way sometimes. First is that when in individual voice mode, the program sometimes switches vocal parts. For example, I am learning the alto part of the chorus, but sometimes the app will switch to the tenor or soprano line, in which case I have to stop and fix the error. It always happens in the same places, if that’s helpful for fixing the problem. The second issue is one mentioned in other reviews, which is that certain note values are occasionally off, which can not only lead to problems in rehearsal, but can make learning choreography in particular kind of tricky. As I said, it happens only occasionally and the cost in time spent is far outweighed by the overall benefits of the app, but especially for choreography in a contemporary piece, it can get in the way. The third issue is that sometimes the tempi are off. There is one piece I’m learning that the app always plays in half time. Its an easy fix to just set it to double time, so just a heads up. The fourth issue is that the sheet music list organizes itself alphabetically but not numerically. This is fine if you’re learning a bunch of individual songs, but if you’re learning classical music or a score, a numbered list is important. Fifth issue, and this is not urgent because I can write my notes in forScore, but I would like to be able to write in the app in order to streamline practice sessions. The last thing is that it would be great to be able to offer feedback through the app. The “send feedback” option leads to a message that reads “unable to email.” There wasn’t an option in my settings to turn on email in this app, so I assume it’s a bug in the app itself. Thank you for reading this, and thank you for creating a life changing app!

excellent. All music recognition apps are not perfect, but this is incredibly convenient and accurate for what it does. I especially appreciate being able to export midi and XML to be able to open up in Sibelius or Musescore for further editing. Beat some of the best desktop music scanning apps out there including Smartscore and Photoscore. Keep up the good work.

Great app!. I love this app and it is extremely helpful. It allows me to offer part support for rehearsals without being stuck behind the piano all the time. The only issues I have found are the occasional misread of rhythm( it will play two notes in succession instead of together) when two parts are a second apart (interval) and it does not seem to recognize triplets correctly from photos. If the triplet issue could be resolved, it would be five stars from me!

Great when it works. This is great for when you have a pdf of your music you can import. But it’s terrible at scanning from photos. Doesn’t catch all the notes not matter how clear a photo you take. I wish it was better at scanning, because the things it can do are very useful when practicing! I love that you can control tempo during playback. Really helps iron out those tricky bits and gradually build them up to speed. I also like that you can choose your playback sound.

WASTE OF MONEY!. I first thought this app was too good to be true, and it was. I’m trying to prepare for my audition, so I uploaded my PDF and right away the app did not “recognize” some notes so whole chunks of runs were omitted. But the worst thing was that this app does not seem to be able to recognize what key the music is written in!!! My piece is in G, and the app missed every F#, even when the symbol was written right next to the note. The chromatic runs were a disaster— the app just played the same pitches! Thank God I already knew what the piece was “supposed” to sound like— if I were a beginner, I would have been so mislead! Does the app have promise? Totally. But right now I wouldn’t take the plunge.

Phone camera scan and play. Exactly what I expected it to do- it did. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I am worship leader at my church and my pianist wanted to perform a piece with me that she wrote. Needless to say it’s not anywhere online for me to learn by ear and I’m more of a poke with two fingers « chopsticks » kinda piano player. This let me scan in her sheet music and listen to it. Both piano by itself, vocal line by itself and both lines together. Thank you!

Almost There. This app is a life saver (and time saver)! It occasionally, though, has a hard time reading certain things because it grays out anything it thinks are notes for the reader. This means it doesn’t detect tempo markings, occasionally though rarely thinks the three for a triplet is just notes for the reader, and multi-bar rests are played as about one second of silence, which isn’t ideal if you need to export the MIDI audio (though you can export as MIDI and edit in a DAW if desired). My only three complaints are: 1.) Shouldn’t have glitches like above (a given) 2.) Should detect tempo markings 3.) Should turn your scan to a built-in editable score, rather than using an image of your picture or PDF upload (though you can export as MusicXML and edit in any other compatible composition software of your choosing) Definitely 100% worth the $5 though. Overall a very versatile app.

Great app. I stumbled upon this app while searching for something to help me learn music for theatre auditions. It has helped so much because I can hear my part as well as what the piano will be playing in real life. I am not as nervous as I used to be going into auditions. Thank you. My only issue, and I know it’s probably being worked on, is the timing in that some notes like triplets aren’t being recognized. Other than that it is amazing and I love it! Thank you

Pretty good app. All in all this is a really good app. I am a percussionist and the percussion instruments need some work. First off the app doesn’t recognize rolls or flams. This is a big part in the high school band and this app doesn’t recognize it, so I cannot get an accurate sound. Second off the app does not know how to read repeat signs. And can you please add quints/tenors to the percussion part. But other than that this is an amazing app and I would recommend it for any band student.

I never write reviews. This is seriously such a game changing app. I’m in an a cappella group and am not so well versed in playing the piano. This app has been so helpful in plucking out my part! If you are hesitating to spend the $5, please just buy it, it’s worth it. My sister also has the premium version where you can have more features but I haven’t needed it.

Perfect as an Alto Saxophone Musician.. The App functions without internet (if you don’t know that, yes it does). The notes are scanned perfectly and play flawlessly. I’ve attempted to use other applications on the App Store; well it turns out that they are bull crap - they only convey the fact that they are to get your money, in return for nothing. I’ve been scammed. This app however, gives you not only the ability to scan music, but also plays the music perfectly. Other Music Scan apps confuse with the treble clef on the staff, and counts the note as a D. This one is smart. No In-App Purchases, because those $4 will give you everything that you want when you searched for ‘Music Scanner’ on the AppStore. I love the app, and I am glad that more and more updates are coming. The app is clearly improving, and on its way to clear success. A well deserved 5 Stars.

Help your kid learn a new piece of music.. It’s been a thousand years since I’ve played piano, or any instrument for that matter, and my kid has progressed farther than I ever did. So when she asked for help on a new piece, I thought “I wonder if there is an app for that?” Well guess what? After trying a few different “free” ones, I decided to pull the trigger on this one, and it’s worth 10x what we paid. Such a help, and she was so excited! You won’t be sorry for paying this dev for their app.

Cool app, but 👎🏻 for subscription pricing. I don’t really like the new subscription pricing. It’s a shame because this app is pretty cool and has been effective at helping with some sheet music I have. I see the developer fixed it so that people who have made previous purchases are not required to subscribe and don’t lose functionality. This is fine, and I appreciate that, but have to deduct stars on the premise of the pricing for anyone who didn’t already own it. Some apps make sense for a subscription, but not this one.

Pretty good. Overall, it reads and plays music pretty well. The only problem I’ve noticed so far, it has a habit of skipping over notes or measures as if they aren’t even there. That’s a pretty big problem, but it seems simple to fix. Other that that, that app works great. And, if that problem didn’t exist, I wouldn’t hesitate to give it a 5 star rating. **EDIT I haven’t had this problem anymore. But, one thing that would be great is to have an option to set the tempo to change mid- song.🙂🙂

Not perfect but certainly useful!. I tested this with a one-page sheet that was printed from Finale years ago. I would say it was about 90% accurate. For some reason it skipped over random notes that were just as clear as any other note on the page, but I think if I were trying to learn the vocal part for something or had a single line of sheet music it would be perfect. I’m not sure how well it would handle something of more complexity.

Does the trick and more!. I’m a terrible sight reader, and can barely get my way through a Mel Bay book. This app is perfect for me, as I can snap a photo and get a “flight plan” as I work through a piece. I haven’t tested this app with a complicated piece, or handwritten notation, but for printed music and .pdf it’s great. I love being able to share a file right from the playback. Thanks for this useful tool!

Much better than expected. Hello, I’ll be honest. I wasn’t expecting a whole lot out of this app based on other ones I’ve tried before. After using for a bit, it was pretty impressed with what it can do. It’s not perfect, and there’s some other features would be cool. I was going to send a note suggesting some new features but I discovered they are already there. Really like the metronome and the count in. Good job guys!

Incredible Practice Tool. The optical recognition is superb. The ability to change instruments is great; what a wonderful tool to use to be able to hear a piece and then practice along with it. My only recommendation is to add a “loop” feature so that we can select sections and loop them instead of having to stop and restart. I’m sure it will be added at some point, and my wanting it just underlines what a wonderful tool this is. Thank you!!!

Amazing. I have seen software costing much more than this that does the same thing. Occasionally it is good to upload the midi file I have created from this app into a scoring program to adjust a few things. But all in all, this app is phenomenal and well worth the money if you are a musician. It’s also great if you are a mediocre keyboardist and wish you could play the music as printed. You can now.

It works foe me. It works pretty much the way I thought it worked. One of the scores that I scan ended up sounding separate on the right hand then the left-hand. In other words, it played the right hand for about four measures and then it played the left hand after that but that was only for for the first line. All the rest of the score got played with the right hand in the left-hand sounding at the same time. I think that might’ve been the way that it was scanned so I should try to re-scan it and try it out.

Great bridge to Finale. I provide the Finale support for an ensemble of twenty musicians. There are always transposing and part generation tasks. I love music scanner! It is replacing an expensive desktop program that no longer works at all because the developer couldn’t meet the deadline for a major desktop operating system change (Catalina). I will use music scanner always, linking music XML to my desktop with iCloud Drive. Finale opens the XML file directly from iCloud Drive.

Pretty good but there’s a catch. I’m using this before my marching band audition and it’s helping a lot; however, it doesn’t seem to recognize any symbols or notation. It doesn’t read the tempo, articulations, dynamics, or other notes such as “swing” and “straight.” I imported the music as a PDF so it has the full resolution available, but it still can’t read those. This is particularly troublesome since there are a lot of tempo changes. It would be nice if I could go in and select information for it to recognize

Sheet Music Scanner is very useful.. Pros: While not perfect, this is a very useful app for music students. I often use this app for a first run through of new sheet music. I also use it to woodshed phrases in practice. You can alter speed and pitch independently. Quite remarkable. Impressive app. It’s also good when shopping for sheet music as it gives a better preview of a piano score with both hands simultaneously than ones imagination might give - at least in my case. Cons: There are various refinements needed, for example, the app doesn’t count triplets as yet (March 9, 2020), but hopefully that will be added. It also doesn’t correctly interpret accordion Stradella bass notation. So, one gets used to the bass clef being read in piano fashion, rather than bass / chord interpretation for the accordion. It would be nice to have, but I don’t think the author even knows about this standard convention.

Best of its kind but not perfect. This app needs a quality sheet music print to scan from and it still misses the occasional note. It frequently plays two notes that are next to each other in a measure even when it doesn’t make sense musically (such as a tenor and a bass note). Some sheet music pages have slightly different note shapes and this app has difficulty detecting them. Also it can miss the occasional note below the bass clef. Those are my criticisms, however all in all this a fabulous app and really speeds up my vocal learning. I’ve tried other apps but none of them are in the same league as this one. I can learn much faster with this app than without it. Even with the occasional mistake in the musical output. One suggestion that I have is to add some kind of correction button that would enable the user to fix an error in the downloaded music.

Works!. I have been evaluating apps that scan and play scores on the Mac and haven’t been able to get anything close to a satisfactory result. This app worked first try, and was fairly intuitive as to saving and exporting. Playing without editing may not be perfect, but it is remarkably good. This is about to become one of my most used apps. I should add that the Mac apps I tried were quite a bit more expensive. This is an all around winner.

Great for learning vocal score. I am using this to learn my part in a choral group. I love the app, it's very easy and user-friendly. It would be an improvement if it could learn what park to play. For instance in this score the upper voices and lower voices are separate for a while and then at some point they merge and then separate again. I have to stop the app and tell it to play the merged line instead of the accompaniment. When I replay it has not learned what I told the last time. All in all, a great app for the money. Thank you

More like 3.5 stars. The pro: it’s impressive to see this software work. Grab a piano sheets, snap a picture, and set the tempo. That is amazing. Plus, there are over voices to pick from. For a page of music(16 bars), it’s a solid performer The con: the sheet music needs to lay flat and can not be too busy. Complex music is hit and miss. In most cases, I end up importing the music into a midi editor to repair the error. My recommendations for new features. Guitar tab, selectable voices per track, and ability to adjust the highlighted tracks.

Great deal for one-time $5 purchase. No it isn't perfect, but if you need a quick listen through music before you sing your part at mass this does the job. More complicated work can be exported to MusicXML format, allowing for more detailed tweaking in a different program without having to manually rewrite every note. EDIT: Was a great one-time purchase deal, but they have switched over to subscription-only now. I do not use this program often enough to justify paying a subscription.

Do Not Recommend. I’ve downloaded this app to help me learn rhythms and with the description I thought it would help me, well I thought wrong… It was already interesting when I was met with a required subscription to use this app even though it’s free on the App Store 🤨. Once I got past that imagine my surprise once I use it and it can’t even play the rhythm correctly, it plays it unevenly and disconnected. I don’t know if it’s my internet or what, but it just won’t play it correctly. Overall I will be canceling my subscription and deleting the app, but I hope this review helps those who are still on the fence about spending money on this app.

Completely nonfunctional!. Transcript of rhythmic values has absolutely no relationship to the original. Some of the original pitches are retained, many are missed. An intermediate representation superimposes This hodgepodge over the grayed our PDF it was transcribed from (this original was crystal clear and high resolution). Oddly, playback at this point can produce accurate results, but any resemblance to the original is lost in the output— and the “edit” link at upper right of the working display is totally nonfunctional. Compared to the described function the app claims, this is a fraud. The purchase price should be refunded, and Apple should pull it from the App Store so as not to be complicit.

Amazing music sheet reader. I am so happy with this app. I no longer have to spend tens of minutes to decipher songs each week. I just load it and I have the melody. It has enough instruments and settings to play many different types of songs. I can also save the songs in the app for a quick review later on. I don’t even know all the features but so far this app is a life saver. 👍

So helpful. I got this app mainly as a guide for music I was sight reading for the first time to help me get a basic understanding of how it went, and it totally delivered. I can only think of two or three things wrong with it. It doesn’t read dynamics, or at least I can’t hear the difference, and it doesn’t always catch accidentals and sometimes doesn’t get the key signature. I’ve found it helps a lot to make sure it’s out of any plastic sheeting before you take a pic of the music to eliminate any glare.

Amazing App!. Now I’m not no not that they made to get people to buy this app, it is actually amazing - all I have to do is scan my sheet music and it works like that! This is so helpful for people who are making sure they are counting right and playing the right notes, I have a jazz piano audition coming up soon and this app has been the most help ever! Please get it if you want! 😎😎😎

Useful app. Be aware that it won’t work on hand-written or “Fake Books”.. I bought this in my excitement of seeing that this kind of app was now available. Sadly, I didn’t stop to think that it was unlikely to work with fake books, which are usually printed from hand-written scores. I can’t blame the developer for this, as I can see that this would be a tough thing to do with OCR. For this reason, I won’t be asking for a refund or anything like that. I may be able to use it occasionally. I’ll look at it as a contribution for the developer’s efforts. :-)