Lectern: Sheet Music Reader

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About this app

Lectern is a sheet music reader for Android tablets and phones. Import your PDF sheet music, annotate it like paper, build setlists, and turn pages hands-free with a Bluetooth page turner. It's a digital music stand for musicians who care about their craft, and their tools.

Most Android sheet music apps feel like an afterthought. Lectern was built from the ground up to give Android musicians a polished, fast, distraction-free way to read scores in practice, rehearsal, and performance.

YOUR SHEET MUSIC LIBRARY, ORGANIZED YOUR WAY
- Import PDF sheet music from your device, Google Drive, or Dropbox
- Use both folders and tags: folders by composer, ensemble, or genre; tags by difficulty, key, or instrumentation
- Search, sort, and filter your whole library in seconds, whether you have 10 scores or 10,000

BUILT FOR REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE
- Clean, full-screen score reading that gets out of your way on stage
- Hands-free page turns with Bluetooth page turners [and foot pedals]
- Setlists for concerts, gigs, lessons, and practice, so your next piece is always one tap away
- Page links to jump between repeats, D.S., and codas without flipping

ANNOTATE YOUR SCORES LIKE PAPER, AND MORE
- Mark up your sheet music with [stylus or finger]
- Musical stamps, including bowings, plus draggable crescendo and decrescendo hairpins
- Annotation tools powerful enough for professionals and simple enough to never get in the way

PRACTICE TOOLS BUILT IN
- Metronome
- Tuner

BACKUP AND SYNC
- Back up your scores and annotations to Google Drive or Dropbox
- Keep your library in sync across your Android devices

FOR EVERY MUSICIAN
Orchestra and chamber musicians, choir singers, pianists, band members, church musicians, music teachers, and students all use Lectern as their digital sheet music stand. Available in [8] languages.

FREE TO TRY, PAY ONCE
Read and annotate up to 10 scores and 3 folders for free. Lectern Pro unlocks unlimited scores and folders with a one-time purchase. No subscription.

BUILT BY A MUSICIAN, FOR MUSICIANS
Lectern is made by a cellist and software engineer who uses it in rehearsal every week. If you've ever wished Android had a sheet music reader worth using, this is it.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this for a while and found the learning curve a bit steeper than the 5 minute claim suggests. However, once I had got my head around it, I realsed just how powerful the app is. It does exactly what I need it to do in a very streamlined flow. Dev response is great; I found one annoying feature, contacted the dev and my request had been implemented with 48 hours. I strongly recommend you try this app out.

I found this app by accident this weekend. The look of the app is clean and not clunky. I learned to use it in under 5 minutes and had my digital library transferred & organized the way I like it in less than 1 hour. You can bookmark larger pdf documents, annotate music, and page turning & navigation in the app is very smooth. There were some initial problems with backing up to Dropbox and a couple of other issues but the developers were so responsive and the issues are now resolved.

Finally a good alternative on android. Before I bought an ipad, because the sheetmusic software on android was very poor, but this app I really like. It looks good, it works very well, and it does almost everything I need. Now I can get rid of my ipad.

What’s new

• Sync your library across devices with Google Drive or Dropbox: scores, markings, setlists and folders
• Each sync uploads only what changed on this device and downloads only what is missing
• Restore from a backup file is under Local backup; Merge from file adds a backup without replacing anything
• Annotate and zoom in half-page mode without leaving it
• Clearer sync messages, and buttons that are easier to see in light and dark themes