Sheet Music Scanner & Reader

David Zemsky

About this app

Sheet Music Scanner & Reader → Instantly Scan & Listen to Music Score & Notes.

Experience the top-rated powerful sheet music scanner, note finder, reader & player app. Learn how to easily read music sheets & play music notes & score for any musical instrument!

Scan printed music sheets using your built-in camera and have the app read the music score and play it for you. The sheet music note reader & finder app supports more than 30 musical instruments and provides a great way to learn piano, violin, trombone, tuba, clarinet, trumpet, flute & more!

Ever wondered how that interesting-looking piece of sheet music actually sounds? It's easy with Sheet Music Scanner & Reader. Read & recognize music notation and play music notes.

🎵 How it Works → Scan Music Sheets & Play Score
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, and let the Music Scanner play the music notes for you.

🎵 Features List → Sheet Music Scanner, Reader & Player
• Scan the whole music sheet instantly using your built-in camera
• Music note finder & reader helps you learn piano, guitar, saxophone, trombone, violin, trumpet & more!
• Piano sheet music reader with 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 - With note finder, simply tap the measure, the music notes and 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
• Reads and recognizes the following symbols of music notation pertaining to melody, harmony, and rhythm: treble, bass, and alto (viola) clefs, 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

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

🎵 Learn Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, 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.

🎵 Sheet Music Player & Note Reader Requirements
Use high-quality printed music note and take photos under good 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 music sheet, 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 support at [e-mail]

Ratings and reviews

I use this to capture tunes from the 1912 Psalter, and it reads them very accurately, especially for the quality of my old music. Worth every penny. I export the file to .musicxml and open it with Musescore3. Sometimes the app plays it all correctly, but the file is not quite right. Still, I have no serious complaints. My suggestion for an update would be to include support for lyrics.

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.

Very effective app. I can sit down at my cello to practice, and when I get to a tough bit I can simply open this app, take a photo of the page of music, press 'scan' and the notes are ready to play. The really good bit is that the scanned page is visible, so I can start the playback at the right spot by simply tapping it. I can select speed of playback too, slow for practice and then up to full speed (or beyond) when I'm ready. All within the app. Scanned pages can be saved and retrieved.

What's new

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