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✓ Turn paper scores into music!I couldn’t afford an expensive app like the full versions of Smartscore or PhotoScore so began by looking at the cut-down midi version of SmartScore. The demo worked well but still wasn’t ready for Mac OS Catalina. I went looking for IOS apps that might do the same job as the SmartScore Midi and found this! Wow. I’ve thrown scans of old music and PDFs at it and Music Scanner has performed so brilliantly I’m not going to bother with desktop apps. I haven’t tried taking a photo of a score in the app yet. I have a scanner so it’s easy enough to create PDFs. Really old music produces inaccurate results - but the same happened in SmartScore. Music Scanner allows me to save what it interprets into a variety of formats including music XML ready to import into my notation app. Perfect. Yes - it doesn’t import the lyrics but for an app that is only about a tenth of the cost of SmartScore Midi... Well - I’m happy. Lyrics are easy enough to type in later. I’m the music librarian in a small community choir which specialises in old music. Sometimes we can’t find notation files for our repertoire. Up until now, I’ve had to enter the notes manually into a notation app. Not anymore!.Version: 4.11.1
✓ Amazing for the priceI loaded an old pdf I had of a music magazine article that contained some text and some notation. Aside from the tied notes, it nailed the scan/transcription! It also played it right away for some serious Wow-factor. Export to MusicXML worked great when I saved to Files/Notion, then opened in Notion. One thing, when I export to PDF, I would prefer the option to export the scanned/renotated notation instead of the original source. Amazing, can’t wait for the upgrades!.Version: 3.10
✓ 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..Version: 2.7
✓ Great app...ButThis 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..Version: 3.10
✓ Worked first time; a great teaching aidMy children are having violin lessons and this app helped us when we needed input on a particular piece. It played it exactly, first time. It recognises all the Suzuki Method pieces we tried, too..Version: 3.0.0
✓ 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!!.Version: 4.20
✓ Works very wellGreat app! addition: Some harmony songs start SAT and then a fourth stave is added to the system for SATB. Can you please add this capability?.Version: 3.13
✓ Works well for me to learn my partI 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..Version: 3.7
✓ 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.Version: 3.15
✓ Thank You for a great app!This is the best music recognition app I could find in the AppStore. Regularly updated and getting better every time. Kudos to developer, keep it up!.Version: 3.8
✓ Amazing appThis 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!.Version: 4.2.1
✓ 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.....Version: 3.15
✓ AmazingRecognises 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.Version: 3.0.0
✓ Really Helpful App!Great program!! Needs to recognize repeats, trills and other ornaments..Version: 3.16
✓ Simplement: wow !(English will follow) Beaucoup de travail dans ce petit bijou! Je n'ai pris que quelques minutes avant de recommander cette application à tous les musiciens de ma famille. Quel bel outil de pratique et d'apprentissage! Je l'utilise même comme karaoke car je peux adapter le ton à ma voix. Bravo! Seul petit manque (surtout pour les débutants) que j'ai signalé aux développeurs : si on modifie le ton ou rythme pour se pratiquer, la modification sera automatiquement sauvegardée et on ne peut pas retourner à la partition originale à moins de l'importer à nouveau. ------- A lot of work in this little jewel! I took only a few minutes to recommend the app to every musician in my family. What a great tool to learn and practice songs! I even use it as a karaoke because it can play a song in the tone of my choice. Bravo! The only little thing it lacks (mostly for beginners) is an option to save or ignore changes, because for practice purpose, you might slow the tempo and/or lower the tone and your changes are automatically saved. You have to re-import the song to have it back to original if you did not notice your settings. I already emailed the suggestion to the developers along with my appreciation of the app.! A strong five stars anyway !.Version: 3.8.1
✓ Great, some difficultiesOverall fantastic app and does most of what I expect One problem I’m facing is that when a key signature change occurs with both naturals in place for the previous key and then the key signature in place in the same bar, the audio does not register the new key. I would appreciate if this was fixed and perhaps if it’s possible to tweak the music in case any inaccuracies occur or we want to make edits to the sheet. There is also something strange happening with pauses at the end of certain bars sometimes. I also would like the option to adjust the volumes of the voices involved instead of just having 2 options of everything playing or only one part playing. I really like how the notes are highlighted as audio plays and that we can change the tempo at any time whilst playing. Thanks for this great tool.Version: 4.12
✓ Phenomenal appI 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..Version: 4.12
✓ Thank youReally 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..Version: 4.19
✓ SuperFonctionne très bien.Version: 3.16
✓ AmazingI first thought that this app, for £3.99 would be awful. Boy was I wrong. I used sheet music I had previously stored in the cloud and it scanned the whole song and played it back with, i’d say, 95% accuracy. And it was a hard song. As I read music I noticed a couple of flats that were made naturals, but as an overall impression of the piece it was terrific and certainly useable..Version: 3.10
✓ Works really wellI’m using it to play back the accompaniments in my guitar practice. I’m still not completely fluent at sight reading music and this app helps enormously. Great value.Version: 3.22
✓ AmazingScans and plays sheet music amazingly well..Version: 3.27
✓ Amazing appAs someone just learning music who can’t read it this is a lifesaver. Thank you!!! Would be cool if there was an option to see the note names, ie B C etc also under the notation. An amazing app ❤️.Version: 4.6
✓ Accurate readingI 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 “.Version: 4.6
✓ Very good startThis 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..Version: 3.13
✓ A great start, fun but limitedI tried a few sheet musics. Needless to say, the better the document quality, the better the results. I wish the user can choose instrument for each voice in a multiple voice piece. And control volume for each instrument. I tried to export in musicxml format and read it in with some notation software, the results are not good. I wish it would allow some editing. Anyway, a good start. Hope it gets better over time..Version: 3.8.1
✓ It’s greatI was transposing some musical notation to discover the melody from an ancient book and it’s enjoyable - but I’m not good at it, but it’s worth persevering to hear these almost lost songs. This app easily did the work in 112 and I am enjoying the music now!.Version: 3.11
✓ 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..Version: 4.11.1
✓ 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..Version: 3.17
✓ Like Magic!This is a fantastic app for learning those tricky passages. It has a no nonsense clean interface that is refreshing in this day of busy apps trying to do too many things. The only thing stopping me from rating this 5 stars is the inability to read triplets (which the designer clearly lists in the app description as not being covered). The developer is still developing this app so once they add triplet support I will come back and change my review to 5!.Version: 3.10
✓ Astonishingly good.Having tried a lot of these apps over the years, as well as desktop software, this is frankly astonishing. I’ve only used it with directly imported PDFs, rather than scans / pictures taken with the camera, but it’s just amaaaaazingly accurate. It just does what you want. No tedious corrections or errors or uncertainties. It just plays the music back to you and allows you to export it in any number of useful formats. I can’t believe my phone can do something like this! So great..Version: 3.22
✓ A very useful app for meThankful 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!.Version: 4.5.1
✓ An amazing appThis is a fabulous app with loads of great features. Not perfect, but really, really good. I highly recommend it. We are a choir of over 50s to 80s with the majority of us unable to read printed music so we learn it by ear. This app has been a pearl to discover and far better than PlayScore that we tried recently. Thanks to the developer for giving us an app that allows us to learn our music and enjoy singing together. Jill.Version: 3.10
✓ Great learning toolI am a chorister and I find music scanner very useful for learning new pieces. Doesn’t always work that well with my phones camera but is excellent if you have pdfs of your music. Well worth the money..Version: 3.18.1
✓ Works quite wellWhile 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..Version: 4.11.1
✓ I’ll give you 5 starsThe 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..Version: 3.14.1
✓ Sheet scanner is absolutely amazingAs a family of computer scientists we are gob smacked. This sort of processing could not have been done in the nineties on our university super computer. Trying to understand a really difficult piece of Messiaen has become much easier (2/4 3/8) in the same bar and then changing in other bars to other indigestible times etc. Minor ommission, it does not appear to recognise a change to tenor clef. Thank you so much and I’m recommending your app to all my friends with I-phones. Does it work on Androids? Regards kathy.Version: 3.6
✓ Absolutely AmazedI’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!.Version: 3.0.0
✓ 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..Version: 2.7
✓ A practical aid to singingMy keyboard playing is not good enough to provide my singing with a quick and accurate reference for rehearsing a part in SATB harmony. This app does it. I love the easy conversion from a photo of the sheet to an audible sequence of either multiple or single lines. A wide choice of instruments is available. Be aware that your Apple devices will not share your saved list..Version: 3.14.1
✓ Fantastic!The only things I would like to see improved over time, is the triplets/tuplets, better identification of key signature changes (also flats and sharps throughout the music), and possibly more fluctuations with the dynamics. But overall, a very useful app when it comes to sight reading. I learn music better when I have some sort of recording to listen to when learning a piece of music. When I’m given original pieces, I go to this app to listen to it as a reference. Thank you and amazing work!.Version: 3.13
✓ Amazing app that I hope will continue to improveThis 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..Version: 4.16
✓ Useful tool for studentsBeing 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..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Excellent appWorks 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.Version: 3.15
✓ Very ImpressedUpdated 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!.Version: 3.14
✓ Amazing Resource for the Vintage Book CollectorI 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..Version: 4.13
✓ Just the job, works wellWhen not sure of rhythm I capture page with camera and it plays the music for me. Very accurate. Brilliant. Even gets the dynamic marking and accents accurate. Amazing for such a small app. Well done. More please..Version: 2.7
✓ Amazing AppI 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..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Such A Lifesaver, And Super AffordableI 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..Version: 4.11.2
✓ 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..Version: 3.15
✓ Best one on the App Store!Just downloaded this today and took a photo of Chopin’s Waltz in A min from a laptop screen and played it back without issues! Tried others and all had their little hiccups but so far this one stands it’s ground. Will put it through its paces over the next few weeks/months and report further on any positives/negatives. To the developer, great app and keep it up!.Version: 3.3
✓ Great app. Fair priceI 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..Version: 2.7.1
✓ Good but needs workOverall, 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!.Version: 3.8.1
✓ Worth the moneyEasily reads my grade 1 & 2 piano and cello pieces. Misses a few accidentals with grade 3 and above, but these are easily added by exporting to a MIDI editing app. Fantastic for someone like me who is bad at sight reading, so I can get an idea of what a piece should sound like before you I to learn it..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Almost perfectWanted 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!.Version: 4.2
✓ Love itVery useful and does a great job!.Version: 3.22
✓ Best of its kind but not perfectThis 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..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Excellent appSuper easy to use, does exactly what it is supposed to do, without unnecessary frills..Version: 3.27
✓ Good, with room for improvementThe app works well. It’s very useful as a beginner who can’t easily understand how certain measures are going to sound. There are a lot of small inaccuracies, as is to be expected, but my biggest gripe is that there’s no functionality to manually edit the score to correct these small mistakes. However, as the dev has pointed out to me, notation apps with such functionality sell for $10+, so I think this is fair enough..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Amazing and really helpfulThis 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..Version: 3.16
✓ Super Helpful for Beginner Sight ReadersI’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..Version: 4.13.1
✓ Great AppThis 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!.Version: 4.8
✓ Really worksOnly used a couple of times so far to figure out how some more complicated notes should sound. Had to use in landscape mode, half a page at a time, but then app had no problems deciphering the music. Quick and easy and very useful..Version: 4.4.1
✓ 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..Version: 4.11.2
✓ 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..Version: 3.23
✓ Simple but effectiveQuick simple way for beginners to check rhythms and melody lines when starting out reading notation. Copes well with few errors when reading melodies, can struggle with complicated rhythms. But then it exceeds its stated design aims. *****.Version: 3.12
✓ 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 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.Version: 3.26
✓ Great Music ScannerIf 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..Version: 3.22
✓ TransfertBravo, 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌.Version: 3.10.1
✓ Very helpful appThis app is really helpful for those awkward rhythms that your brain refuses to read but it’s not quite perfect as it does miss notes, ties and rests on occasion. That being said as it gives me 98% it enables me to work out the tiny glitches for myself..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Improvements for voiceover usersAs 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..Version: 3.4
✓ Brilliant for amateur musiciansPhoto my music & play it back to get the tune. Developer helpful when I had a query. Brilliant. A must have for any musician..Version: 4.5.1
✓ Quite good with some flawsVery 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..Version: 4.3
✓ Excellent!I love this app - it has helped both with my teaching and own practice. My only peeve at the moment is that it does not deal very well with triplets (and adds extra beats to compensate) which can get in the way of using it as a teaching device. Other than that, it’s really brilliant and worth the money!.Version: 3.8.1
✓ Coolest app!Super cleanly built, and has allowed me to mesh learning by ear with sheet music. Highly recommend, worth the price!.Version: 3.22
✓ 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..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Almost ThereThis 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..Version: 4.17
✓ Better than I dared hopeI 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..Version: 3.2
✓ ExcellentI 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..Version: 2.7.1
✓ Useful AppThis is a useful app, particularly if you’re learning an instrument and you want to hear what those exercises and small pieces you’re practicing sound like. Not all apps are perfect and there are couple of things that would make this a 5 star app. Firstly when the score you’re following has chords not all of the notes are played (even in two note chords). Secondly it would be a nice feature to add a count-in before playback for those like me who want to play along. I learn so much playing along than just listening and trying to play after hearing it. A tip for those people who have a problem taking a photo through the app of a score: scan the score rather than photograph, and save it as a pdf, then import it into the app and save it there. Yep, pretty good app and would be better with the added count-in and fixing the chords..Version: 4.13.1
✓ Simple to use and (mostly) does what it says on the labelLove 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..Version: 4.20
✓ 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..Version: 2.4.1
✓ Main issueThe 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..Version: 4.4.1
✓ A first class app!This app works remarkably well - in fact I have found it more reliable than my somewhat old version of Photoscore Ultimate on my Mac. It is very tolerant of less-than-perfect photos, and in spite of the warning not to do so I have even had limited success with photos of the Mac’s screen! There are a few things it seems not to do, but these are easily rectified once the music is transferred to a notation app - again a reliable and accurate process. Firstly, it seems to ignore time signatures - that is it rarely if ever writes one into the score - but the format of the .xml file appears to correctly set the measure length. It rather seems that the time signature may be inferred from the notes in each measure, because when a measure is not full the (hidden) time signature reflects what is actually present. Secondly, it is not perfect in interpreting complex rhythm structures. It makes a valiant attempt, but often struggles with tied triplets and the like, though it does highlight a measure if the notes don’t add to more than the correct time value. Overall an excellent product that I’m certain will improve with maturity!.Version: 3.0.0
✓ WonderfulThis app is absolutely wonderful. It’s really helped me practice piano with my daughter. Her book comes with no accompaniment and so it’s hard to know how the song should sound (I don’t really play piano myself). This has really helped us..Version: 4.7
✓ So brilliantThis app is incredible. I use it to scan all my trumpet music. I can then export it as a music XML to a PC music editing application. My only gripe is that you can’t set up a file structure. Perhaps this will appear in future revision?.Version: 3.11
✓ Trouble with 1/8 note with curved flagsFirst, 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..Version: 3.21
✓ Great app!This works really well for a music photo scanner. The XML export option produces a good workable and editable version as a base to work from in a dedicated notation program or app (I use Notion IOS). The developers support and communication is second to none..Version: 2.7
✓ Very impressedI 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!.Version: 3.24
✓ Brillaint AppEasy to use Take picture and save, that simple Never let me down yet 100% recommend.Version: 4.21
✓ Subscription based now?- EDITI could have sworn I brought this and now they’re making customers pay? Desperate attempt to make money… EDIT: I have spoken with David and he’s a really genuine person, he had apparently tried to make it so that old paid users could continue to use the app but it didn’t work for everyone, he seems to have fixed the issue with the app receipt hence forth I’m changing this review to four stars..Version: 4.21
✓ Great when it worksThis 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..Version: 4.7
✓ Pas mal du toutPetits problèmes de reconnaissance des tempo, des triolets, mais ça va s’améliorer. Du bon travail. Très utile quand même pour le prix..Version: 3.10.1
✓ Great for learning!I am using this to scan music scores from lessons and use to play back and can adjust the tempo. Good to play along to.Version: 4.4.2
✓ Scanning musicSo 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.Version: 3.22
✓ Updating my previous reviewI 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..Version: 3.9
✓ Wow!I’m so impressed by this. I was so sceptical but the reviews convinced me and I figured there was only one way to find out! I’ve just taken a photo (in poor light with a shadow) of a cello duet, selected cello and it played it straight back to me on two cellos. This is just exactly what I needed to help me to learn and be confident I’m reading music correctly..Version: 4.9
✓ Works well with some limitationsThis 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!.Version: 3.16
✓ A Music teachers dreamWhen 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.Version: 4.5.1
✓ Quite amazing!I download a lot of apps out of curiosity and this was one of them, this is probably my only comment in 6+ months. I’m very impressed, I read music and play (piano & guitar), I was really amazed how well this worked. I photographed a page of Einaudi and about 10 seconds later it was playing it almost perfectly. This could go a long way, I really hope the team behind this get some investment to develop it further. Excellent app, I look forward to future versions..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Very good, but could be betterSo 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..Version: 4.22
✓ AmazingThis 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..Version: 3.13
✓ Works greatWorks great for me for Alto Saxophone.Version: 4.14
✓ FoldersTop of my wish list - FOLDERS. Sorting alphabetically is ok but cumbersome when your music library climbs past 100 pieces..Version: 3.19
✓ 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..Version: 3.23
✓ Great app! Only annoyed that I did not find it earlier. Brilliant for tiresome note bashing!!!This app won’t disappoint you! A must have for any chorister who can’t read music but learns by following it..Version: 4.3
✓ Un moment tournant en technologie...Je savais que la technologie allait nous permettre de faire çà un jour et j'attendais ce jour avec impatience! Alléluia!.Version: 3.5
✓ It ok i guessIt 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..Version: 3.26
✓ Really goodIt’s amazing and really helps me learn songs but it needs to be able to recognise coda.Version: 3.10.1
✓ Very Good App, Great SupportI’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..Version: 3.4
✓ Amazing AppI play traditional folk tunes on the Mandolin learning mainly by ear. I can’t read a note of music so did a search to see if there was such a thing as an app which converts music notation to sound as I have quite a few tune books. I’ve tried the app on tunes I know, and they are instantly recognisable..Version: 3.12
✓ Does what it does very wellThis 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..Version: 2.7
✓ 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!.Version: 3.23
✓ Music ScannerThis app is truly amazing. Great for teachers and students..Version: 3.19
✓ 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! 🎵❤️❤️.Version: 3.19
✓ 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..Version: 3.22
✓ Great start! Could use some improvementUpdated 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..Version: 3.0.0
✓ ExcellentFor the price, this is an excellent app. I have not used the photo function but loaded pdf files into it. It easily manages multiple scales. It might not be totally accurate, occasionally giving too many beats in certain bars but that is forgivable given the complexities of the task. Perfect for learning audition songs and the like. Highly recommended. I had downloaded 3 trials of desktop versions of industry leading pdf sheet music player. Yes they are good but complicated and very expensive. Just get it..Version: 4.4.1
✓ Great appI have over 600 hundred pieces of sheet music that I have played of the years. They are catalogued and I use some of them regularly I am 82 so my selection of music goes back from the 1950’s to present day. I must admit some of the latest styles of music is not always to my taste. What I like about the app is obviously you have favourites that you like to play so searching through my collection of sheet music some songs are in different folders. So being able to scan favourites onto my iPad makes life easier. The only thing that could improve this app is page turning you scroll the pages up but if you do it to fast the page you want can skip a page. It would be nice to have a proper page turner. This is a wonderful app and would recommend installing this app..Version: 4.14
✓ Outstanding Job on Complex Classical Guitar PDFI 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..Version: 4.10
✓ 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..Version: 3.5
✓ 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!.Version: 3.16
✓ Music scannerThis software is absolutely fantastic can’t rate it highly enough.Version: 4.18
✓ It works foe meIt 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..Version: 3.9
✓ 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..Version: 3.15
✓ Must Buy!I never leave reviews but I am enthusiastic about this app. If you’re learning to read music, and especially if doing so without a teacher, then you have to pay the £5 for this app. It really is as good as paying, opening it, taking a picture of sheet music and then letting it scan the music for you. It then plays it with the instrument you choose, at the pitch and tempo. Amazing work from the devs for such an intuitive app!.Version: 4.15
✓ Learning to playI find this app so useful while learning a song from a book if I am not sure how a piece of music goes..Version: 4.7
✓ Works for my concert bandImpressed with the capabilities of this app. So far so good..Version: 4.3
✓ 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..Version: 4.13.1
✓ 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..Version: 3.17
✓ Very addictiveAfter 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..Version: 3.12
✓ Fantastic!I have always had trouble sight reading and find it much easier if I can hear the tune, like most people. This app is FANTASTIC just plays me the tune, 1st time and lets me slow it down to really hear it. Well worth £4!!!!.Version: 2.7
✓ Amazing and so useful!I suddenly had the idea to see if this app existed, assuming I was hoping for too much, but it does exist! I just scanned the second violin part of a violin duet my daughter is working on, exported it to symphony pro, corrected a couple of minor errors (a note here or there sharpened when it should have inherited the natural from a previous note, the odd note that had been read too long or too short); I had to manually bar the quarter notes but I guess that’s a symphony pro import issue. Then I was easily able to transpose it down for cello and print it out - the whole thing took about 30 minutes (the vast majority being tweaking things in the scoring app) and I’m sure I’ll get quicker with practise. I don’t usually write reviews but this app deserves one. Amazing!.Version: 3.0.0
✓ Overall very goodOverall 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!.Version: 2.7
✓ Music scanner, very goodI 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..Version: 2.7
✓ Sci-fiNo flying cars but we have this app. It’s a game changer for me . I’m digging out old music books that I was intimidated by and getting stuck into them . Yes it’s absolutely fantastic and it’s only day two of using the app but I couldn’t imagine getting a better app for a long long time.Version: 3.8.1
✓ Just one thingI love the app I am just sad that you can’t convert music Into letters.Version: 4.12
✓ Awesome for choir practiceI was surprised to see how well this works for quite complex score involving multiple voices eg SATB with sometimes T1 and T2. This app is considerably less costly than some alternatives out there. Highly recommended..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Super outil!Depuis que Avid ne supporte plus Photoscore sur mon Mac, cette application fait le travail pour une miette du prix et même si elle ne scan pas parfaitement, je ne m’en passe plus en classe avec les élèves..Version: 3.17
✓ 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..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Fabulous for learning new piecesThis 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..Version: 2.6.1
✓ Really really amazingI'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!!.Version: 2.3
✓ 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..Version: 3.8.1
✓ Is this magic?I thought OCR was a clever technological advance but this is just unbelievably ingenious. Thanks. It does virtually all that I could need but it stalls on recognising and playing triplets. There are probably other shortcomings but, for the money, heck! I’m not complaining..Version: 3.12
✓ Great tool, decent accuracyWorth 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..Version: 3.0.0
✓ Awesome appThis is truly a wonderful app.Version: 3.19
✓ DisappointingPaid for the product thinking it seemed legit going by the reviews and the cost. Want a refund please..Version: 4.8
✓ 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!.Version: 3.1
✓ 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..Version: 4.5.1
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