PlayScore2 needs hi-end camera

PlayScore

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About this app

NB most budget phones don’t have good enough cameras for PlayScore.

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 [e-mail]
PlayScore is free to play pages of music from the camera without ads. Subscriptions available for PDF scores and MusicXML.

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

• Adjust volume, instrument and transposition for each staff
• Accompany yourself while you sing or play your instrument - PlayScore 2 will even count you in!
• Playback with smart metronome that understands time signatures
• Create Playable Score Documents that anyone can play back on any device
• Export Full Notation MusicXML to score editors like Sibelius, MuseScore and Dorico, with lyrics, chord symbols and text, dynamics, articulation and more
      
PlayScore 2 reads and plays all kinds of music straight off the page† such as:

• Songs
• Piano, organ, guitar
• Hymns
• Solos and Sonatas
• Chamber, band and orchestral

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.

• 23 high quality instruments per staff to choose from
• Change tempo (even while playing)
• Tap anywhere to play, or drag with a finger to create a loop
• Set a different instrument for each staff
• Mute and adjust volume for each staff, or part if there are 2 parts per staff
• Play song in any key
• Adjustable multi-measure count-in and metronome
* Swing playback
• Adjustable dynamic range
• Add bar numbers

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 PDF
• Crop and mask
• Search and sort by title or composer

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

Subscriptions

Even without a subscription you can
• Play and interact with any PlayScore playable Score
• Play single pages of music 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 - they won't need a subscription just to playback.
• 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 ans text

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.
† please see online help for exclusions

Terms of use: https://playscore.co/terms-of-use

Ratings and reviews

I had a great experience with this app. I did not run into issues with my camera because I would take a photo and convert it into a pdf with the "Tiny Scanner" app. The scanner app makes it so that, if your picture is at a skewed angle, you can essentially make the image appear flat. Play score, you might consider adding a similar feature so that people can adjust the angles of their photos.

Overall it's a really solid app and it's a lot more user friendly than other softwares that scan sheet music. I love that on the android version you can adjust settings to make the scan play better, however I do wish there was an option to fix individual bars when they don't play correctly, as opposed to re-scanning and adjusting the entire piece of music. There's usually a problem with initial scans but this is a very useful app and I would love to see future improvements!

This has been a life saver! it's been 20 years since I've sight sung and I can't keep up with my choir! This has helped me practice on my own time. It's not perfect, but you can control the speed, you can repeat one measure over and over and over, you can silence other staffs to hear your own. it's great! I have a Samsung 10, with a great amount of light it captures the music almost perfectly!

What’s new

Big accuracy and coverage upgrade
Metronome and count-in
MusicXML export with lyrics, chord symbols and text
New instruments and drums (needs drum clef)