Sheet Music Scanner App Reviews

Very cool: this app would have made my piano lessons so much easier. Just snap a picture of the sheet music, and after a brief analysis, its played for you.

This is not as bad as I thought a non-rated $4 music scanner would be. It does to the basic recognition but not stuff you would also count as basic. For example, it doesnt recognize ties. It would just play it as if there were no ties. Also, it has trouble recognizing accidentals and cant recognize accents (the accents I understand why it doesnt recognize it yet). Also, I think there should be a way of some sort to edit what it recognized. Maybe like bring up a staff and allow us to enter the note and/or accidental if it got it wrong. For example, on mine, it recognized every note except for 2 half notes (even though they were as clear as the others). I would have like to edit it and manually enter those notes. If that feature along with adding some other things such as ties, I would show this to my schools band (over 130 people). But overall, its pretty good so far.

The pages I tried to scan didnt produce anything

This latest version plays multiple staffs beautifully. Of course you need to start with a nice clear photo. Improvements needed: Still doesnt recognize ties and some other symbols. Photo capture could be more full featured ( cropping, contrast, etc).

stalls out at photo $ wasted :(

I was hoping to use this for learning my part of a musical score, but the app gets confused when there is both an accompaniment and a voice part on the same page. I wish there was a way to point the reader to the correct line of music I want instead of just letting it pick at (seemingly) random. At one point it actually tried to play the bass line from the system above with the treble line from the next system down...made for some super wierd music

I have been using (with above average success) the player to play music from simple sheet music and find if the iPhone picture taken is clear, the music is rendered close to the score. David (the author of the product) has been quick to acknowledge my questions and offer suggestions. I hope he stays on task to enhance and improve on this great idea.

So-so ability to translate the sheet music and absolutely terrible sounding tones. Cello sounds nothing like cello, etc. Dont waste your money.

Its not recognizing objects, which wouldnt be a problem if I had the ability to correct it. Like "no, App, thats actually a bass clef, not a whole note."

While sitting in music rehearsal tonight, I realized I needed a way to play my notes and learn my part at home - without a piano, or an accompanist. A few other folks had piano apps, or the recorders open and proceeded to tell me how those were only adequate for at home rehearsal. I decided on a whim to search for this app, and surprisingly found exactly what I needed. This app does what it says. You take a photo of sheet music, and it plunks out the notes. The speed is adjustable and I especially liked that I could isolate the treble and bass clef parts. It seems like the issues of Ties and other recognition challenges mentioned in comments were addressed in this version- because I havent experienced those issues. I can tell you that the four pages of music that I scanned tonight, worked exactly as intended. If youre thinking about downloading an app to help you learn your musical part, this is it.

Not all scores can be scanned and made to work, but when it does it is impressive. I dont think the tempo setting (quarter notes per minute) is accurate.

The first time I used it I scanned a simple classical guitar music and it worked for a few measures but then started playing two measure at the same time. The second attempt crashed the app right after I took the picture of the page. Third time the camera wouldnt work, just blackness. Now the camera is working but the app crashes after I take the picture, every time. Still has some bugs I guess.

This is a really cool and useful app to help understand what type music sounds like. Thanks, I found it very useful and definitely worth buying.

This is an absolutely amazing app. I wish that sometimes the app was better able to account for sharps and flats. Otherwise, this has been an incredibly useful tool.

This app it not working for me and I want me money back!!!

App does not work properly it is not able to analyze all notes on the staff correctly. Please fix, it has potential to be a great app. If you cannot fix I would like my money back too.

This would be such a helpful app it it worked correctly. :(

This app does not work! I tried all types of light when I took the photos of my simple one sheet psalm music with no usable results! I then used my high resolution scanner and downloaded the image to my camera roll - still not accurate in interpreting the notes. Then I even photoshopped all the notes out except the melody and it still couldnt play them. I want my money back!!

This app would be better if they just allowed us to upload our full sheet music, rather than having us take a photo or a screen shot of each page. Having to listen to one sheet then exiting to the menu and selecting the second sheet and third, fourth, and so on, becomes pretty irritating after a while. Would be much better if the whole composition could play through rather than having to listen to bits and pieces.

The app does not work! When it played my music the timing was wrong, it skipped notes and different parts! Overall a horrific experience.