PlayScore2 needs hi-end camera

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very good

It gets the job done well, but not easily. I'm not a musician, and this app helps me know the melody of my choir music. I love how much it's already helped me improve. All of my music is multi-page, so I paid for the $4/mo subscription and I definitely feel it's reasonable and worth-it. But, some pages of music required me to retake the picture up to 10 times before it read correctly, even in good light--and yes--with a good camera. It would be great if the app worked more consistently.

good

I'm not getting any output sound from this app lately!

dose not see half the music I'm supposed to play and start the song in the mille

اشتباه میخونه نت ها رو😠

good

it's so perfect

The app sometimes makes mistakes during playback—whether it's notes, rhythm, or beat. Unfortunately there's no way to report these errors back to the developers, so they just stay wrong every time. Adding an in-app error-reporting feature would make this a 5-star app.

You need a subscription to upload files. Also the quality and design of the app are pretty bad.

didn't play the correct tempo of the music.

won't read my sheet music or recognize any scans/images. waste of money. I do not have a "budget phone" as implied by response of app owner.

This app rarely works and constantly misses notes. I thought that maybe my camera wasn't right but thats not true either, because after borrowing a 4k professional camera just to prove myself, I was proven right. Even after the super good quality camera, it still constantly misses notes. It often misplays notes, thinking a note is being played in staccato when in reality its just musical notation underneath or just a tie. It doesnt mention that not all sheets are printed with high quality!

still waiting

app lwk sucks at reading actual music

doesn't play music right anytime I take a picture, not counting 80% of the time it doesn't even play

great

🖤🖤🖤

I want to love it, but there's so many bugs and bad reads no matter how clear the image that it's very frustrating to use. Locking PDFs behind a higher-teir pay wall is goofy too, in the age of AI. I'm using it for my church choir, certainly not making any money.

very convenient

This app died not work. I scanned a page of simple melody notes, and it read about every five notes. It's useless

the picture has to be 200% good. otherwise the result is mediocre

perfect

new

Great app, scans pdfs or photos with pretty accurate playback. Speeds up learning

perfect

Very inconsistent. Randomly skips and stops. Not worth the money. Note to developer: photos of music were not taken with a budget phone.

"a subscription is required to import image files" ...F.U.

Piss poor performance and options. Not easy to navigate, wants you to upgrade.

¡its note reader is just not playing well, maybe upgrade it??, For future update, so everyone can understand the music🎶🎵!

👍

Subscription required to do ANYTHING. Immediately deleted. :/

good

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it's certainly a great app

it skipped a lot of notes and didn't really work.

Make it read cymbals, im doing marching band with very limited equipment and a beginner.

simple and I can use it on any device I want.

Great for practice!!

This is an incredibly useful and amazing app. Thank you to the entire team behind it. Wishing you all the best and continued success!

i just got a dev response and, ik abt the pdf paywall thing, but y doesnt my image import thing work huh?

it's just website times 2, I can't access it use anything. all I can do is look at page after page of wordy over explanations and demanding to join the mailing list

good

it's not free

so good

you need a subscription :(

I am greatly confused. This App is just a Web-Wrapper and the "documents" tab is nowhere to be found. So the App is just a add platform for itself whoch is confusing me to no end

good 👍

it's a perfect app

Horrible. It simply moves across the bars at a uniform speed, not reading the actual note length. So if there are quarter notes not spaced perfectly even or consistent from bar to bar it will not play them all the same.

very wonderful! thanks

doesn't work very well. tried the same printed music 10 times, still only picks up a few notes here and there.

it is best

Nice

good

This is a very limited, weak, poorly made app. Unless you're willing to pay exorbitant amounts of money for what doesn't really seem to be much better functionality, you get to listen to an imperfectly rendered single page of sheet music. No matter how clear the photo is, the app makes small mistakes which basically defeats the purpose of the entire exercise. While I appreciate the idea of OCR for music, it has not been executed well here.

Nice

goooooood

Fantastic app for studying sheet music!

I am extremely frustrated by this app. I have now paid TWICE for the subscription but every time i try to use the paid service of importing a pdf the app tells me to "get a subscription before accessing the feature" . I have checked my bank account which has been charged so, try for yourself i guess if you want to be stolen from.

good

it's the worst app ever

👍🏻👍🏻

Honestly horrible. It doesn't work on digital pictures of sheets, only printed sheets. And I'm picturing it very clearly and still it's not working, honestly disappointing

I've been using this app for a while and I love it! As a Soprano, it really helps me follow score sheets. The only thing is that, lately, the app has been closing on its own after saving (when you select the pages), giving an error message saying that there is a "bug".... But besides that, this is a very good app.

best

I took a picture of my music and it sounded nothing like its supposed to sound. I really needed an app to let me hear what a piece of music is supposed to sound like and I thought this app would. help but it really didn't.

so I love the idea of this app and for the most part it's fine. It is still very flawed. It will get notes and rhythms wrong constantly. It doesn't recognize repeat signs despite having a toggle for them. It won't let you properly adjust the tempo so it will always be quarter note equals whatever. It will try to read the time signature and base the tempo off that but I would rather set it myself. Overall if you are struggling and need help quick then this will work otherwise stay away.

واقعا خییلی خوبه برنامه ی فوقالعاده ای هست

good

App didn't work for me which is not the one star. The issue is that I had difficulty cancelling. Finally received a response and received one month's refund. The subscription continued.

subbscription price

quite good

The app is GREATTTT I'm crying 😭

The app couldn't detect my sheet music clearly and gave me wrong notes. Not worth paying 70 dollars for the professional subscription.

Holy microtransactions. I need to pay YOU GUYS money to scan music with pdfs, etc. but like... THATS LITERALLY WHAT THE APP IS FOR... LIKE AT THIS POINT JUST MAKE THE ENTIRE APP PAID OR SOMETHING BC I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOMETHING THAT SHOULD LITTERALLY COME INCLUDED WITH APP...

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Takes a little bit of getting used to but absolutely brilliant once you've got the hang of it. You can set the volume for each stave, so it's perfect for learning my part for choir. I'm really impressed.

best thing to download, it helps you listen to the music you put and available for any kind of instrument.

SO CONFUSING

an absolute catastrophy

perfect

sometimes it works. other times it doesn't

Doesn't matter how good the picture I take is, it's playing nonsense note salad

fake trial

I opened this app for the first time. I was instantly greeted with multiple essays to read from to understand how to use this app. I don't have all the time in the world to figure out how to use an app. then I was searching for minutes to figure out how to even get off of the essay page I was on. when I finally found it I looked up how to make music on the app. then it told me that I needed a subscription to do anything. thanks a lot for the wast of my time. I wanted to put 0/5 but I couldnt.

Rather useless. Plays incorrectly.

Bad, glitchy, or bugged. Anyway, it wouldn't play the notes right(and I know because I'm a professional pianist), either because the system couldn't track the notes/got in in the wrong order, or would just do stupid stuff. I hate to see an app like this be recommended on the inernet, and it doesn't work. That's why I'm leaving a one-star review. I would appriciate if the devs would fix it, though.

works well for simple scores, but fails when staffs aren't consistent, like when bass and tenor parts are silent for a while and their lines vanish on the score.

so far it's okay. I just recently downloaded it and used it for studying at home. I just wish we can also type the tempo and not just the sliding option for better efficiency.

help not available I paid for subscription but app was deleted somehow? I reinstalled it but there is no way to log in, no search results for "login" or "log in" and no way to get help for this?? I loved it until this happened

You gotta pay for a subscription, and even with the subscription you have to spend hours aligning your sheet music and recapturing for it to accurately read the music

it's bs. can't read scores correctly

superb...made my musical experience interesting

Really impressed. I've had the app for about 4 weeks and getting excellent results from taking photos as well as uploading PDFs. The accuracy is high, though less so with older style scores, and it's really helping me learn the notes for some complex music. A couple of things to add to the wish list. 1. The ability to change tempo part way through a piece. 2. The ability to make a manual correction if the OMR has misread a note. But a game changer for me, so thank you!

So far, I have not yet run into big issues. I'm looking at various difficulty levels before I buy the subscription.

the app is greate....and unlike other apps....it can still work perfectly without data😁

Glad I found this...really quite a nice job!

I just canceled my subscription. This application works okay. I use it to scan and create MusicXML files. Most printed scores create many errors. Time-consuming to fix. My phone's camera is one of the best on the market. Subscription price is not a good value. It can't be put in family subscriptions. $40 a year is more than it's worth to us. $40 a year is almost a Disney+ subscription. This is a tiny little app that gets used once every other month. Response: Some music is small. I can read it.

This app is just frustrating, every time I take a picture of some sheet music it can't read it, I swear it's the clearest photo of some simple sheet music, but it still can't read. Edit: I tried out the app again after about a year and it works just fine. Sorry for the drama

Exactly what I hoped for I wanted to know what song was on a piece of artwork without getting out my violin and it not only allowed me to take a picture of it and just hear the music, it had so many features to make it better that i fell in love with it! (Song was the harmony piece for the Elton John version of "Can You Feel the Love Tonight".

I could not believe this works. I saw someone reviewing on YouTube and thought no way an app could do what they were saying. I began scanning all types of music, none were ideal at all. A second after taking the picture, you could play the music, and I was stunned with the accuracy. This was the free version. If multiple staves, 1 for voice, and 2 others for accompaniment, it struggeles. The guitar worked for 3 a few measures then sounded like a piano. Paid may work better with better scans

Amazing software but still immature. Exported Midi files don't play repeats, however when exported as XML to Sibelius then exported from there it's ok. but you may have to manually edit the 1st/2nd endings notation. Plug exported midi to my piano -BRILLIANT! You need to manually disable screen lock or it will go to sleep on you half way through a piece. Transposing often doesn't work as it's supposed to. Want to give it 5 because nothing else like it. I even subscribed to Pro I like it so much.

Works on some music, I tried to scan a music and it the image was super sharp I'm using an s22 btw, and the image had no shadows and was perfectly clear and yet the app detected that there was no sheet music when there clearly was in the picture tried many times from different distances tables and locations and would not work.

Great way to hear the rhythms that are difficult. I play trombone and once in a while it will analyze a chart and not play anything past F5, but you can have the app rerun the analysis to catch things like that. The only improvement I could suggest is that for jazz charts, tied eighth notes on the offbeat are played short, not long.

I downloaded it but every time I try to use the camera photo option, it always says processing failed. In order to upload a PDF, you have to pay for the storage/feature - they give you different options on pricing for whatever works for you.

I love this app, but I cant give it five stars. I really wish there was a way to change which note vaule is counted for per minute. In its current form I have to guess how many quarter notes it would be for half notes, dotted half notes, and eight notes. For pieces with quarter notes for the beats per minute its great though.

While this app is not perfect, it does exactly what I need it to do. It has played simple scores from pdf files without errors, unlike another similar app I have tested. Interface is easy to use with several good options. And their support is prompt and helpful.

Generally, good. If this is used for piano and with a good camera, this app is great. With other instruments such as mine (the French horn) it is good for rhythm and does the sound, but you need to pay to transpose it into the right key. For rhythm, this is quite good. If you have an instrument that's not in c and you want the right notes, choose another app. Oh - one other thing is it can't read whole bar rests when there are more than one. It doesn't read the number above them. Still, good app

This app does not read music well enough to be usable. It almost always seems to skip some notes for no apparent reason. The manufacturers claim this is because my phone's camera isn't good enough. This is untrue and the pictures have been clear and sharp. Due to the arrogant dismissal by the manufacturer, I am reducing my rating from two stars to one. When I edited my review to point this out, they then edited their response, accusing me again of having a "budget phone" (I don't.)

This is an actual good app but what sucks is that they don't have a music reader for drums or any drum player for any kinds of drums....I wanted to figure out a piece for a cadence but I am not very good at reading music so I installed it with hope but it kinda disappointed. But it is good for piano I guess. (I play Snare) I hope you guys will add a snare on the instrument list!!

Bought a subscription on Android not realising I wouldn't then be able to see my scores on iPad. Got in contact with the developer who gave me a code for a year's subscription on iPad. Excellent service by the development team and I'm really liking the app! I like being able to 'play along' with my scores as it keeps me honest!

I am beginning piano student and after using Playscore2 for a few months now the app has been working very well for me. Since I also use Musescore, Playscore2 has been a tremendous tool for importing into Musescore via xml. Not always perfect but works well for me overall. Also note that if you email the developer you will get a response within a reasonable time; thanks for that! Note for usage: good camera and lighting makes a difference for the OCR. UPDATE 1 YEAR LATER...Very pleased to renew!

I LOVE this app! It is very easy to use and allows me to hear passages before I try to play them on my flute. I have had no problem using pdf sheet music or by using my camera to take a photo of music I'm practicing.

Professional musician here. Purchased a subscription, shouldn't have - didn't work well at all for me. Don't bother if you've anything more complicated than Mozart to put through it as it couldn't handle a simple Rachmaninoff piece.

Good and very handy app. There are occasional misreadings even with perfect pdfs. When there are more than 3 voices the bottom voice occasionally is out of the sceen, especially when I flip the phone sideways. Also, wish I could enter the tempo manually instead of using a slider. I have incidentally broken my screen, can I transfer my subscription to my new smartphone?

This app is so good it doesn't seem like it should be possible! Such a good price for software that can do what far more expensive products don't do as well! I can't wait to use it with my students! KUDOS!!

I have installed this to help my daughter hear the rhythm/melody her parts in her school band. I have taken successful photos of some pieces of music, but I would appreciate some sort of setting to adjust how many staves are on a page. It can be tricky to fit them in when the printed number is different to the app. I often have to switch to landscape on a portrait piece as the staves fit in this way. Today I found I couldn't adjust the tempo. The app wanted to play very slowly at 10bpm.

Photo is clear and lighting is good, yet this app is skipping notes, almost entire measures sometimes, and adding trills where there aren't any. A nice idea, but needs some work.

I have pro version on Android (I'm not changing to iOS for your app). Unfortunately without a count in or looping over multiple pages ( 2 half pages = 1 page) I now use online utilities for practice. Until these two issues are addressed playscore is no use to me.

Brilliant app. Can sometimes be tricky to get a good read on the piece of music but as long as the print is good and you are take a photo straight on, it's fantastic. Really helps to learn new pieces you're unfamiliar with.

I tried the demo, but it would only seem to pick up the music from the bottom half of the page. Also the licence fee is extortionate with recurring subscription only and no one time purchase. As far as I can as a new user there doesn't seem to be any reason for it to need a subscription to use, other than greed, which stands up when you look at the subscription prices. This may not be correct, but as an inexperienced 1st time user this the impression it gives.

Generally very good, but with a fatal flaw. If this had the ability to set/correct repeats it would be nearly perfect. Again, you really need a good photo of a FLAT original or things get weird, but that's not the developer's fault. The inability to correct repeats is a HUGE drawback. I bought this to use in my voice lessons, since we have to do them over Skype, and it just falls apart with anything other than a basic repeat. DS Al coda? Nope.

Would give 0 if possible. Requires a subscription to scan more than 2 lines. Does not do as advertised and played my sheets completely and totally wrong, skipping over most notes. Do not recommend.

I find this app great for my choir. Can scan the music, download to this app and its turned into an XML file that can be used to create mp3 files. I but a professional monthly subscription as needed. Has cut down my work load to 1/4 of the time.

I am so happy to have found this app, it let's me take vintage sheet music and bring the songs to life without having to learn the whole song first. It doesn't always repeat perfectly to the right part, but that's probably more on the sheet music.

Amazing. I did try neurathon photoscore many years ago and did not find it worked well enough to be useful. It may be better now. However playscore 2 works well so that I can import musicxml into Dorico and do the edits I need to help me play and learn a piano work. Very affordable too, and I learned today no problem changing phone - the licence is still there.

Well it doesn't always get a perfect scan and if you need to export to music XML its a bit expensive. But it is a heck of a time saver. When you need to transpose a part, scanning it with this and dropping it into a music editing software it's a lot faster to tweak the export from this than to manually do all of the work yourself

I used incredibly good lighting, I have a Galaxy S10+ level camera, and it was one page with a solo line of music and no matter what I did it would not recognize all of the notes and also missed almost all of the key signature accidentals required. Unfortunate because I was really hoping it would work.

I bought the first version, but my Galaxy S8 couldn't take good enough pictures so I finally just stopped trying. Now I have a better phone with a better camera, but of course the first version is just gone. So now trying this version. Same skips and jumps and random note lengths and missing notes and random bits of silence as the first version with the standard camera, can't try the ultra-res mode without buying the software. Well, Leasing it anyway. Not a "purchase" I care to be sucked into. Demo mode is no better than the first version, and no desire to give away more money just to find out this camera isn't good enough to use either. That explains why "needs good camera" is baked into the app name lol! Still a nice concept though, just needs to have a list of known working phones. 2 stars just because they put so much work into making the interface user-friendly. Hopefully playscore3 will be the one!

A fast change from pdf sheet music, to a playable score you can accompany. Simple to use, fast results. Photos, taken by camera on my tablet, gave a warning, "image not good enough", but processed them no problem. Using pdf files, excellent results. All in all a BRILLIANT APP. Thank you to the developers, saves me having to manually imput notation, which I have done for years, it now happens in seconds.

Doesn't seem useful for choral work. I tested using a soprano & alto line using the mask feature to block the parts of the SATB double choir staves that would have caused it to fall over the pay wall. Could only play 1 line...I really needed to hear the interplay of both to learn my part. Pitches were accurate. Edit: developer's suggestions were behind pay wall. Had small Google play balance so I'm trying it. Should be a full choral example in the trial pack.

First look it's excellent. coping well with piano and brass band scores. does need GOOD lighting when you photo the page, and a score without lots of pencil annotations!

I used PlayScore2 to convert a PDF of a large old score for chorus and orchestra printed in the 19th century, it did a great job. Once it was exported as an XML, it dropped into Cubase as MIDI with all the parts on separate tracks. Quite amazing!

Fiddler here. I love how simple this is to use and helpful. i love that it 'tries' to convert multiple source formats, JPG and PDF. It correctly intreped 80% of my PDF files but only 40% of my JPG (i have a cheap camera so i am hopeful still). (IMO - if this app internally would 1st preprocess a jpg down to a BW pallet of exactly 2 colors' then it might succeed more often.) Eazy to set playback speed and loop size. EZ! Just now subscribed to get the PDF import feature. Having fun.

Great app! But please include some option to select what parts needed to play. Maybe such selection, Treble Staff: Soprano Part only, Alto Part Only, Bass Staff: Tenor Part Only, or Bass Part Only and then SATB. That would be a great help. Thanks and God bless 😇

This is a very good/unique app. The only, ONLY, thing I'd say is that there aren't multiple sounds for notes. I use this for my flute music, and it would be nice to have flute sounds. But regardless, an amazing app. 👍 Keep it up 👍

Update: I subscribed for the ability to import multiple pages from pdf. Really nice feature and the score files are smaller which my crowded phone is happy with! What I wrote earlier: I'm using the free version and have had great success snapping photos of sheet music and playing it back. I'm using it to help me learn new piano pieces by isolating one hand or the other to listen as I read the music. Will probably subscribe to full version.

Should at least have a trial version of import and export so you can see how well it works before purchasing. I have zero problems buying something but lack of a trial just seems cheap and risky. At least just one import, one export. Perhaps they dont know how to set that up. I think its really holding you back from sales.

Really good. I imported a PDF Score for piano and euphonium. A few minutes later, my Yamaha Clavinova was playing the midi file while I blew the euphonium. It dealt effortlessly with the euphonium transposition. I had a query and contacted their support staff. Very accurate response in minutes. I'm a retired Silicon Valley Software Engineer (Adobe). Very impressed with this software and the support. Looking forward to exploring more of this product.

I really appreciate this app. I especially like the speed adjustment option, and the ability to transpose anything! Takes a minute to get the hang of though.

Trash! This app cant even take pictures right on an android, I took the picture of a score in the center using the in built camera then it suddenly became cropped cutting almost 50% of the score. Even though the score only have 2 staffs it still wanting me to subscribe into a subscription!

So far so good. I know that on one pdf score, the rhythm played was incorrect. I deleted it, and took another picture of it. This corrected the problem. Really nice free app, and no complaints.

I used this app to help prep for vocal auditions by having it play my accompaniment. It was very easy to scan the sheet music, and the ability to adjust the tempo and even which parts/ instruments play was extremely useful. My only complaint is that I would have liked to try it out and see how it worked before committing to paying, but it worked out just fine in the end.

I needed an app like this, I didn't know something like this existed, until I searched the web. Great app. The only thing I don't like is that the rythm is not always correct, hard to follow, even while changing the speed settings.

Aw man this thing is so fun. I cant read or play music & i only downloaded it to translate some i found in a comic. Anyway. I had so much fun being able to not only listen to the sheet music, but tap anywhere on it, and it would play from where i tapped, and ive just been sitting for an hour making songs up like the sheet music was a keyboard. Or like a launchpad pro. Even tho thats not what its for, it was so fun to do, just sitting "remixing" sheet music. That would be a cool app actually

The most simple thing you can't do simply import a pdf of sheet music ( Which is the most logical way to use it if you have existing sheetmusic) , When you try, It says you need a 12 months subscription to do it. For anyone out there that wants to do that Smartscore 64 is the way to go. With it you can watch the music, play along; or export to a player midi file for your favorite player or or composition software. Playscore for any sort of real use like that is... useless. Then their answer cheap to subscribe...misses the point on purpose to rip people off potentially. I am simply saying give a REAL trial mode with all import features just no save ones.

Works pretty okay for imported sheet music (only available in pro) and pretty poor by using the camera (even though I have a good one during well-lit conditions). My major complaint is that it's not clear that the payment for the pro version is recurring. I wanted to try pro for a month but the next month I got a PayPal notice. If you want to try pro for a month: be sure to cancel your subscription right away.

Terrible. I gave it a page containing a simple one-bar eighth note pattern, in C major, repeated chromatically in ascending order, starting on C. The picture looked great. But every bar after the first bar had mistakes in it.

Better then expected does exactly what it claims and only asks users to pay to export, I'm a piano beginner and have a few sheet music books to start off with, this app gives me the chance to hear the music, giving me a reference to how it's supposed to sound before I can play it, and it's easy to use

App was completely overwhelmed by hand written music. No option to see its rendition of the page within the app, and with no free/evaluation options to export to anything else. The only thing the app managed to do was find the staves, and even multiple successive bars of crotchets were too much for it.

I enjoy the app although there are many ways it could be better. it would be nice if you could select a type of instument, i feel like the dynamics arent stong in the app, and a way to zoom into the music sheet. small things like that would make it better quality

I downloaded this app in hopes of using it to practice for choir. But, as another person stated, I was stopped from hearing a playback without a subscription. I too will not subscribe to something I can't try out first.

Such clever technology. Occasionally a note or a stave is missed but I just do a recapture of that page and it generally sorts it. I can now learn my parts for the choir instantly. Keying in notes to another piece of software was my previous method and took forever.

Need to be able to try before I buy. Can't give a good review when I can't use the app. I have a pretty simple set of piano sheet music I wanted to try this app out on, but they restrict you from even processing your photo if your music is over 4 staves. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pay for a subscription when I can't even tell how accurate the program is going to be. I should at least be able to process a single page, listen to the result, but not be able to save it. I've immediately started looking elsewhere for something similar.

I have only started using this app, and I can say that the features forbits functionality are super. You also have a support team to deal with your queries. Within the first two days of using it, I had some queries, and my email was responded to in less than 24hrs and my queries were resolved. What more can. I say... A big thank you to all who were involved in developing this app as I believe it would revolutionise the ability to learn music.

Its a little hard to try to line up the photo but OMG THIS IS PERFECT!! I'm trying to relearn how to read music, in school band, and practicing by myself at home. So this app is LITERALLY A LIFE SAVER THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!💖💕💞💞💓💘💝

I cannot read sheet music but this app is like hearing the voices of people long past. Music is in our souls and I love to be able to hear someone else's expressions in song. Even if that person died 80 years ago, it's like I can hear their voice again.

The accuracy is at best 45%, the fixed grids when taking a photo need to be movable because it won't properly separate grand staves. Personally the time it takes to get it to recognize half a page then haveing to correct almost all of it, is about the same amount of time it'd take to transcribe it yourself on musescore or another program.

This has been a help to me as a vocalist who does not play piano beyond hunt-and-plunk. I look forward to future updates in hopes that the software will recognize music more easily. Thanks for the good app.

I tried it yesterday for the first time, with my very small iPhone. It was perfect after taking the first picture! It is easy to make rehearsal tracks, change the tempo, transpose, etc. I will definitely recommend this app.

High resolution PDF doesn't have accurate reading. Try the camera to see if photographs work better, after getting a comment back from the developer about high resolution photos still being needed after posting my review about my experience uploading the PDF. I use a Cannon camera and set up proper lighting, centered my music AND still an inaccurate reading.

Absolutely super. As the description says, you must have a reasonable quality camera but even on a mid-range phone (realme 6) I'm getting excellent results. The free version has everything I need and is ad free. Thanks to the developer; this is a fantastic tool with an easy interface.

sadly I've used this a few times with some fairly simple PDF scores of piano music and there are too many errors to have to sift through when converting to MIDI for it to be worth the monthly cost. One time payment maybe but it still needs a lot of fixes and improvements.

I was very interested in this app at first, but it doesn't even offer a trial period. It immediately wants to make you purchase a subscription without even knowing if it does what it claims. I wanted to see what it would do when I imported my own PDF sheet music. Not allowed. What a waste of time. Response: Sending off a PDF is not the same as testing it myself. I OWN PlayScore Pro and have been mostly pleased with that app, but would have loved the added PDF option. Considering this is not a purchase app but only subscription makes it not worth the change.

I never review apps but this one is absolutely incredible. I have always had a habit of playing by ear and I'm horrible at sight reading. Being able to hear any piece of sheet music is a game changer for me and has made practicing infinitely more enjoyable (as now I know I'm not practicing something incorrectly between lessons, only to have to re-learn the correct way later)

Don't pay for this, wasted $4 finding out that it is not worth it. Read half of my music somewhat, and then it combined the remaining lines into a horrible jumble. The midi they use to demonstrate the music isn't even good. Just learn to read your music

I cannot get this app to read and play the lower and middle voices in my classical guitar scores. It only plays the top line, even then it skips over notes. I've tried scanned scores, imported good quality PDFs and tried the camera in the app. All give the same results of playing back only the top voice. I made the subscription expecting to play back scores I'm working on but it doesn't work properly.

Fantastic app. Does not scan music perfectly, but does a good 90% of the work for you. Any mistakes can be fixed by exporting as MusicXML, importing into MuseScore, and editing the score. It would be great if the app allowed the user help the algorithm along - perhaps by letting us tweak the settings on a bar by bar basis. Ideally we would be able to see Playscore's interpretation of each bar underneath the bar in the original photo. A desktop app might be more suitable for this!

I'm extremely impressed with the app. Of course even after taking a bright evenly lit photo, it still makes mistakes. Some notable ones, playing four quarter notes in one bar as a triplet and skipping the fourth note. Missing notes in runs, adding unnecessary swing, and some other general issues. However for being a free service, this is great for grasping a hold of what you're trying to read.

Impressive optical music recognition software, can handle most modern typeset sheet music very well. It seems to struggle a bit more with some hand written sheet music as can only be expected.

Absolutely a waste of space. Dont download if you have an LG phone. I tried it on some complex music and it crashed the second I tried to convert it, but I just thought it was too much for my phone to handle. I printed out Mary Had A Little Lamb and, surpirsingly, it still kept crashing. It doesnt even remotely work.

Great app, wonderful. But seems to be it plays everything in C major, it does not detect the key signature at the beginning of the music. It can only detect accidentals before a note.

Free version is not enough to see if I want to pay for the full version. I tried several music sheets and none were played correctly. I tried to import an image and asked me to pay for it. I will not pay for an app Im not sure it works correctly. So it has been a waste of time. It might work but I couldnt make it work....

I tried everything to make the recreation sound remotely like the original. The piano sound was distorted (on multiple different devices), and the error correction caused more problems than it solved. I tried the camera, and importing a high-quality scan. Both sounded like piss. I can't recommend this to anyone.

Eh, it reads the music OK I guess, but it makes many mistakes I. E. Wrong notes, or when there's a chord, it will play 2 out of 3/4 notes. Editing review post-dev response: As expected, the dev likes to dish out generic comments to defend themselves, rather than take the criticism on board. My phone is perfectly fine, and I took the photos with enough lighting to give myself skin cancer. The app still failed to play every note correctly. So unfortunately, I'm reducing my rating to 1 star.

The music recognition didn't work at all for me: I have hundreds of scores from the seventies that I want to look at. But this app only recognizes a third of the notes. I ended up buying smartscore for desktop--it comes a lot closer.

In purchasing the professional version of this app, I have been impressed with the imported PDF file renderings. I have yet to try it with tak8ng a high-resolution image. One suggestuon I would offer is a higher-quality audio sampling for the piano: perhaps something akin to the quality of PerfectEar add on, which can accompany the paid versions to support its & relayed development. Even with the distortion, though, to my ears, I am quite satisfied with the purchase & look forward to using it

Terrible for the consumer. You can't do anything substantial without a subscription. This should be a one time purchase app, and that's it. Yeah, it's free to download the app, but be warned, you can not do anything without purchasing a subscription...

>Read other 1 ☆ review, and Dont waste your time and $ for this Crash-Often-App Blame my phone Note 9 which (1TB storrage) While my other Apps are fine: Sent 2 Screen Shots shows the Crashes; Still blame my phone? Sent Crash Report; Still blame my phone? Ask me for Receipt to get a refund?Ask Google play and wait for refund. PLEASE, Read 1 star feedback from others and think careful before make decision to subcribe to this App. -Crashing App! and Bad Customer Service! -Avoid at all cost!

Best music reader anywhere. Affordable and effective. Have it on both Android and Ipad and there are distinct advantages to each, although they work equally well. (Only wish I could get both on one subscription.) I use it with my voice students so I can spend more time focusing on coaching and less time being an accompanist.

I scanned and had it try to play the Life on Mars piano arrangement by Benedict Westenra. The scanning can be a bit tricky, but when it works it's amazing.That said, the app missed most of the sharps and even some flats and skipped the repeat, even though play repeats was enabled. It also ignored the D.S. al Coda and it can't scan multiple pages as a set to play. Overall, I'm really amazed by the tech and encourage the developer to continue to improve it. It'll be worth buying once improved.

We have been looking for something to help our community choir members practice whilst we meet virtually because of the Covid-19 pandemic. PlayScore2 is ideal for generating practice tracks and it will be a useful resource for when we can physically sing together again. We understand that the app is continually evolving and we look forward to further enhancements to make what is already something simple to use even better.

I originally gave this app 5 stars and then I lowered it because I had an issue that turned out to be related to my phone. This app was a life saver for helping me teach vocals for a musical. Great job!

Wow! I use this to scan printed music, save as xml, and open in Dorico. For the price it is pretty impressive, and there aren't many things it trips up on. It doesn't (I think) yet capture lyrics. And Tempo marks are missing for me (that might be Dorico's XML limitations). That aside, everything else important seems to come across, including slurs and articulations. I have some editing to do in Dorico, but not nearly as much as the free version of Musitek that used to come bundled with Finale.

Clear as the sun that shines down into my corneas when I look up at it everyday. It's even more clear this app has some problem with its software. I import or Screenshot high resolution photos of sheet music and its all played back atrociously. Won't be using this app ever again.

You NEED to be able to get good quality pictures of your music for this to work, but if you do this app is wonderful! It rarely ever messes up notes, and while things like slurs, etc don't always come out, you should be able to get those on your own 😂. Great for being able to hear a piece you've just picked up - would definitely recommend!

It works well, bit expensive though. Not a fan of monthly sub when I only learn a few pieces. Would only need it for a day or two. Haven't tried exporting to XML yet because of this. Waiting so I can bulk export to get my money worth.

Best sheet music reader. I made an annual subscription and so happy for the decision. Just would like to suggest a full screen vjew for panoramic screen rotation and automatic adjustment of speed. Thanks a lot.

I wanted to use this app to play a song I need for an audition, but it wouldn't even read key signatures. It messed up notes no matter how hard I tried to get the picture clearer. Not great. At least it played though.