Free notation app with handwritten music recognition & PhotoScore music scanning
Total ratings
2.91
(Rating count:
1,227)
Review summary
Pros
- Works well for transcribing music
- Recognizes music input with patience
- Useful with integrated stylus on newer devices
Cons
- Frequent crashes when editing scores
- Limited functionality without paying for additional features
- Poor recognition of scanned music and staves
Most mentioned
- App crashes
- Limited features without additional purchases
- Difficulty in recognizing notes and symbols
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
1.90
All time rating average:
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Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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2024-10-05 | Helen Jones | I was hoping it would open a midi file into sheet music | |
2023-11-17 | Mervyn Jackson | Out of date. I used this with some success in the past but since I have upgraded my Android tech it doesn't work. Last update to this software is stated as 2017 and things have moved on. | |
2021-12-20 | Ankit Vinay Kachchap | I wanted to make drum sheet, but I this app doesn't have the ability to make a drum sheet. | |
2021-11-28 | Brian Reilly | This seems to work well for transcribing music, but what's the point in upgrading if the one function it's good for - importing an image of the sheet music you need to transcribe - isn't automatically included in the upgrade and you have to pay an extra $30, almost doubling the price, to add on that feature? That's BS. | |
2021-03-16 | Tamara Allen | app worked great at the beginning of the school year, I would have to redo some notes, but nothing major. Now it will not let me send my work to my email or my Google drive. So I can't save my work. | |
2020-03-08 | A Google user | I tried this last year but couldn't make it work. Now that I have a phone with an integrated styIus, I thought I'd try it again. And it does recognize your input, if you're patient and let it adapt to your style. But it turns out you can't enter chord symbols, or text of any kind, unless you pay for it. So although it recognizes music, you can't use it to jot down some simple chord/melody ideas because it won't let you draw a few text characters on the screen? Can you spell "tease"? | |
2019-12-28 | A Google user | Yah improvement Vy | |
2019-11-24 | A Google user | Useless. Only supports one staff, no multiples. And when taking photo, it hardly detects any of the notes anyway. | |
2019-11-22 | A Google user | I really love this app. I came back to it after a few years because it was too frustrating to use. Now it's great EXCEPT it's recently started crashing every time I try to edit a score. I have a time line to get these arrangements done and I emailed the developers weeks ago, but still have yet to hear back. It would be 5 stars if the app would stop crashing. Why did I pay for this? | |
2019-05-27 | A Google user | When writing a note and making it very obvious what note it was over and over again (with a stylist and fingers) it would register the note as a different one. |
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