PlayScore2 needs hi-end camera

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3.8
3.62K reviews
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

NB Budget phones do not have good enough cameras for this app

Free trials, please see below.
Reimagine Education Bronze Award winner 2021
Play all kinds of music direct from photos, images and PDF scores. Snap music with your camera or import images and PDFs. The PlayScore 2 sheet music reader will play it right back to you, scrolling through the song, following measure by measure.

Free Trials

We cannot offer free trials for technical reasons right now. But we refund without question up to a week after subscription if you email us at support@organumconsulting.com

PlayScore 2 requires a high-end camera and/or high quality images. Try on your device free on pages of 1 or 2-staff music (NB if you are asked to subscribe, try again with better light and focus)

* Adjust volume, instrument and transposition for each staff
* Create Playable Score Documents that anyone can play back using our free player (built into PlayScore 2)
* Export Full Notation MusicXML to score editors like Finale, Sibelius, MuseScore and Dorico

Supports dynamics, articulation, trills, turns, repeats, slurs etc, even tremolo (full spec below)

PlayScore 2 sheet music player reads and plays all kinds of music straight off the page such as:
* Songs
* Piano, organ, guitar
* Hymns
* Solos and Sonatas
* Chamber and orchestral
(please see online help for exclusions)

Choirs and ensembles - Learning a new piece? Create a Playable Score, so each member can listen to their part on its own or standing out from the others.

Orchestrate your score with 18 high quality instruments per staff to choose from

Interact with the music:
• Change tempo (even while playing)
• Tap anywhere to play, or drag with a finger to create a loop
• Mute and adjust volume, and change instrument for each staff individually
• Transpose the whole song or by instrument (transposing instruments)
• Or select Auto-transpose and let PlayScore do it for you!
• Adjust dynamic range
• Playback in swing style

PlayScore 2 is the ideal app for reading sheet music, and makes it easy to create multi-page Playable Scores:

• Rearrange recapture or delete pages
• Select a page range in a long PDF
• Clip and mask to remove unwanted material (e.g. where one song ends and another begins on the same page)
• Adjust recognition system to optimise quality
Organise your Playable Score Documents - The PlayScore 2 Documents screen shows all your playable scores, sorted and searchable by Title or Composer.

PlayScore 2 uses the latest Optical Music Recognition (OMR) techniques to take sheet music scanning to a new level.

Subscriptions

Without a subscription you can
• Play and interact with any PlayScore playable Score
• Play single pages of music in 1 or 2 staves per system from a photo
• Create and share single-page playable documents

PlayScore 2 Productivity subscription
• Create and play multi-staff, multi-page scores captured with the camera or imported as images
• Export your documents for anyone to play and interact with using our free player
• Interact with scores, cater for transposing instruments, export MIDI files

PlayScore 2 Professional subscription
Create Playable Score documents from PDF scores that anyone can play (using the free version of PlayScore 2)
Export any score as MIDI and MusicXML containing full notation

Available as 1-month or 12-month auto-renewing subscriptions.

Important: Sharing copyrighted music without the copyright holder's permission is illegal

PlayScore 2 sheet music app recognises most music notation.

Terms of use: https://playscore.co/terms-of-use
Updated on
Jul 17, 2024

Data safety

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Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

3.8
3.44K reviews
Katelyn Candanoza
July 23, 2024
Kinda sucks, I take a picture of the music perfectly and it still plays the rhythms wrong... Also have you tried maybe adding more instrument sounds?? Like drums? That would make this app better, but still it won't read the music right. And don't try to blame my phone because I checked the picture and it looked perfectly readable, it's just your app not being able to read the music.
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Organum
July 24, 2024
Your phone is fine PlayScore rates average 4.5 on.pixel. If the playback is not accurate the reason is (1) photo not straight, poor light or poor focus (2) music is in handwriting font or tab. If not improve photo and it will suddenly come right. Drum clef supported on iOS coming to Android soon. Help availabile at support@organumconsulting.com
Miranda Flores
July 20, 2024
This is my first an unfortunately not my last time using this app Cons: 1.cannot change tempo/ does not read tempo on the sheet 2. Does not factor in dynamics or articulation/ their was not shape to it Pro: 1. It does show you what it sounds like rythmicly even if it has a slow tempo so it is semi helpful but not really Altogether, you just not the help I was really looking for.
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Organum
July 21, 2024
Your device camera is not good enough for PlayScore. Good results not possible with your phone. You need a modern hi-end device. Please see app title. The tempo control is along the bottom of the play screen. Support@organumconsulting.com
Dwight Bird
June 3, 2024
I just canceled my subscription. This application works okay. I use it to scan and create MusicXML files. Most printed scores create many errors. Time-consuming to fix. My phone's camera is one of the best on the market. Subscription price is not a good value. It can't be put in family subscriptions. $40 a year is more than it's worth to us. $40 a year is almost a Disney+ subscription. This is a tiny little app that gets used once every other month. Response: Some music is small. I can read it.
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Organum
June 4, 2024
You sent us your PlayScore document. We advise take the picture in good focus and use more of the screen area. Previously: Sorry you had trouble. Your camera is fine but your music is very small and the photos you sent in covered only a quarter of the page. The images were just not in focus. Happy to help anytime. Support@organumconsulting.com

What's new

Camera now uses it's full resolution for devices with slower capture rates