Sheet Music Scanner & Reader

David Zemsky

About this app

Sheet Music Reader & ScannerExperience the top rated powerful sheet music scanner, note reader & note player app. Instantly scan, learn to read music notes & scores in sheets.

Scan printed music sheet using your built-in camera & play music sheet from anywhere in the song. The music note reader app supports more than 30 instruments, provides a great way to learn piano, violin, trumpet, flute & more!

Ever wondered how that interesting-looking piece of music sheet actually sounds? It's easy with a sheet music scanner, note finder & music score reader app.

Sheet Music Scanner, Note Reader & Player!
1) Just point your smartphone or tablet at the music sheet. Or upload a PDF or an image file.

2) Choose the instrument, pick the speed & let the Sheet Music Scanner play the music note for you.

Features List
• Scan the whole music sheet instantly using your built-in camera
• Music note reader helps you learn piano, guitar, saxophone, trombone, violin, trumpet, flute & more!
• Reads & plays piano sheet music & over 30 other instruments
• Playback from any image in your Photo library or from a PDF*: just tap a button & our optical recognition technology (OMR/OCR) will do the rest
• Playback from anywhere in the song - simply tap the measure, the music notes & symbols are highlighted as they're played—a great way to learn, practice & read music sheet
• Export as MIDI, MusicXML, audio (M4A / AAC, MP3, WAV), PDF to cloud storage* or directly to other apps
*Note on Export / Import: All major cloud storages supported: Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, etc. Note the appropriate cloud storage client app has to be installed for this to work.

• Reads & recognizes the following symbols of music notation pertaining to melody, harmony & rhythm: treble, bass & alto (viola) clefs, music notes, duration dots, rests, accidentals, note ties, triplets/tuplets, repeat signs*
• Support for voices played in tandem, e.g. both piano hands at the same time, or all the choir voices
• Support for playing individual staffs separately, e.g. right or left piano hand
• Support for multiple music sheet pages
• Accommodates speeds between 50 & 330 beats per minute
*Some limitations apply - please see at the bottom of the page

Scan the whole music sheet instantly using your built-in camera to use the music reader & play music sheet for over 30 other instruments!

Learn Piano, Guitar, Saxophone & 30 other instruments• Supports Accordion, Acoustic Bass, Alto Saxophone, Bagpipes, Banjo, Bass Guitar, Celeste, Cello, Choir, Clarinet, Double Bass, Flute, French Horn, Guitar - Classical, Clean, Distortion, Glockenspiel, Harp, Mandolin, Marimba, Oboe, Organ (Percussive, Pipe, Reed, Rock, Tonewheel), Piano, Recorder, Tenor Saxophone, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Vibraphone, Viola, Violin, Xylophone
• Supports actual instrument pitch for the transposing instruments
• Supports pitch shift / sound transposition by semitones up to 2 octaves up or down
• Change your pitch standard based on instrument, from standard 440Hz to 380-480 Hz

Perfect for those who love MuseScore, forScore, flowkey, OnSong, PlayScore 2, Appcompanist & more.

Requirements:
Use high-quality printed sheet music & take photos under good enough light, when scanning from your camera, for optimal results. For scanning from a file, the recommended resolution is 300 DPI in greyscale or 8-12 MPx per page.

Limitations:
• Reads printed sheet music, not handwritten or mimicking handwriting, tablatures, etc.
• Reads standard oval note heads only, no special symbols like shape notes.
• The following symbols are not currently supported: codas, percussion notation, dynamics, double sharps, double flats & grace notes. These are planned to come in the future.
• Some older prints & unusual fonts may not be recognizable.

If you experience any problems, please contact us at [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

A good app, reads sheet music well (sometimes) as long as it's a good picture. Will sometimes skip rests, and well as not read grace notes. Doesn't consider key signature, so if you are looking for correct notes int he key signature and rhythms it might be an issue. I wish you could make the sound bass clarinet, but does have most of the more common instruments.

I saw a few negative reviews so I wanted to chime in. I love the app. Sure, occasionally it doesn't scan perfectly but more than 90% of my sheet music scanned just fine. I think it's an awesome tool to help you figure out what a particular sheet music section should sound like. Definitely helps me learn new songs. Also, I had a lot of sheet music with songs that I really wasn't too familiar with....and help me decide if they sounded like something I wanted to play.

The lower reviews aren't wrong. Occasionally notes are missed or rhythms are incorrect. But it's about 90% accurate and may still be helpful depending on how you're using it. I use this to check that I'm reading the music correctly when I first start playing it which, for me, has been EXTREMELY helpful. But I'm an experienced musician and know when the app has goofed. If you're hoping to use this to learn to read/play without the help of an experienced tutor, you may have some issues.

What's new

Fixed a bug in export to audio and MIDI.
Updated the exported XML file extension from .xml to .musicxml