# Henle Library — The Urtext score reader

> Digital Urtext classical music scores for musicians with interactive features. (iPhone/iPad app by Guenter Henle Verlag.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/henle-library/id1021283948 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Guenter Henle Verlag](https://appshunter.io/developer/1416460395)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 2.90/5 from 91 App Store ratings · 187 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 13.0 · 54 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2016-02-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/henle-library/id1021283948/reviews.md

## What is Henle Library?

“With the Henle Library app a new era begins for classical musicians.” Daniel Hope

An indispensable app for professional musicians, amateurs, students and teachers. 

The Henle Library app delivers G. Henle Publishers’ reliable Urtext editions straight to your tablet. You can practise, rehearse and make music – whenever and wherever you like. And you can enjoy the many unique features of Henle’s digital scores. 

Features:

- Filter Henle Urtext according to your individual needs and purchase as required (individual part, single movement, bundles etc.) 
- Free version available for music students (licences for music colleges)
- Print, export PDFs, share
- Modify the score to suit your needs
- Superimpose alternative professional fingerings (or choose “No fingerings”)
- Unlimited possibilities for your own annotations  
- Easily switch between the part and the score at exactly the same measure
- Open explanatory notes (footnotes, Critical Report etc.) at the appropriate place in the score
- Record and play back your own recordings 
- Use the integrated metronome
- Navigate extremely rapidly
- Create and use playlists 

Do you like our app? Please consider writing a review. Thank you!

## Key features

- Digital Urtext editions
- Customizable score purchases
- Print and export PDFs
- Score modification and annotations
- Metronome and recording
- Part and score switching
- Explanatory notes access

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 100 Credits | $9.99 | one-time |
| 200 Credits | $19.99 | one-time |
| 10 Credits | $0.99 | one-time |
| 100 Credits | $9.99 | one-time |
| 500 Credits | $49.99 | one-time |
| 1000 Credits | $79.99 | one-time |
| 200 Credits | $19.99 | one-time |
| 300 Credits | $29.99 | one-time |
| 22 Credits | $1.99 | one-time |
| 55 Credits | $5.99 | one-time |
| 55 Credits | $5.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Henle Library?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 📚 High-quality Henle urtext editions
- ✏️ Annotation and marking capabilities
- 🎵 Beautiful score formatting and rendering
- 🎚️ Customizable spacing and sizing options
- 🎹 Multiple fingering/bowing variants available
- 💰 Cheaper than physical printed editions
- 📱 Portable score library on iPad
- 🎭 Performance/concert mode features
- 🔖 Bookmarking and navigation tools
- ⏱️ Built-in metronome functionality
- 🎧 Recording playback features
- 📄 PDF export capability

**Cons**

- 🐛 Annotations frequently disappear or get lost
- ✏️ Eraser function unreliable and non-intuitive
- 🖊️ Apple Pencil annotation tools difficult to use
- 📖 Multi-movement scores split into individual pieces
- 🖨️ Poor print quality with severe aliasing
- 💳 Credit system confusing and non-transparent
- 🔄 App crashes and freezes frequently
- 📚 Library organization and search function poor
- ⚠️ Scores disappear from library after app restart
- 🔌 Slow app startup and loading times
- 📄 Cannot export to other apps easily
- 🎯 Annotation tools block top/bottom of pages
- 🔐 No customer support or slow response times
- 📊 Limited zoom functionality
- 🎨 Annotation symbols and tools limited
- 🔄 Settings don't persist between sessions
- 🚫 Blank pages appear randomly while playing
- 📱 Compatibility issues with some iPad models

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Annotations deleted after app updates or restarts
- Eraser function fails to remove marks consistently
- Marks don't record when crossing between staff lines
- App crashes when opening purchased scores
- Purchased scores disappear from library
- Blank pages appear when turning pages
- App freezes during export to PDF
- Infinite loading screen in online store
- Confirmation emails for credit purchases don't arrive
- App takes 40+ seconds to start
- Scores don't load immediately after purchase
- Annotation dots appear randomly when lifting pen
- Fingering annotations shrink in upper ledger lines
- Score skips to random pages during performance
- Export PDF quality is low resolution and fuzzy
- Annotation layer prevents writing in certain areas
- Zoom function jumps back to start of page
- Eraser requires tapping far from annotation to delete
- Palm rejection fails with Apple Pencil
- Print layout produces single-line pages for multi-movement pieces

**Most requested features**

- Undo/redo functionality for annotations
- Ability to print entire multi-movement pieces together
- Half-page turning option for performers
- Playlist or collection grouping system
- Individual score parts (not just full scores)
- Better annotation layer management
- Improved Apple Pencil support and sensitivity
- Customizable eraser behavior
- Page turn animation or visual cues
- Ability to hide specific staves or parts
- Microphone-activated page turning commands
- Difficulty ratings visible before purchase
- Digital-physical score bundling/discounts
- Better search and filtering in store
- Support for foot pedal page turners
- Ability to import scores from other sources
- Multiple annotation layers with visibility toggle
- Customizable metronome settings
- Landscape orientation improvements
- Persistent user settings and preferences

## Recent user reviews (10 of 187)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/henle-library/id1021283948/reviews.md

### 1/5 — 프린트 작동오류

*2026-05-10*

프린트해서 쓰려고 구입했는데 먹통이네요 어떻게 해결해야할지… 
되던 인쇄가 안되니 답답해요 
계속 안되면 환불해주세요

**Developer response:** Dear User,

we hope you understand we have to answer in English!

You are likely using an iPhone! Unfortunately, a bug crept into our latest update that is blocking several functions (menu items are overlapping with the musical notation; however, some functions remain available if you rotate your iPhone to landscape mode). We are already working on a solution and hope to release a new update very soon!
For more information please contact us directly at app-user-support@henle.de

### 3/5 — Needs work

*2026-04-11*

The formatting is pretty, undeniable. The concert/performance mode is nice as well, and the customizations to spacing and sizing are nice. The issue is compatibility with writing and generally marking the scores. If you begin marking near one line and veer into the margin of another line, the mark will not record in the adjacent line. The eraser function is also extremely bad. Unless it’s just very unintuitive and I’m using it wrong, it feels so bad to try and erase marks. You’d expect to be able to scribble over marks with the eraser and make things disappear but 9/10 times that doesn’t happen. For an ecosystem that charges nearly as much for digital scores as they do for their very high quality physical copies, the software needs to be top tier. This software is not top-tier.

**Developer response:** Dear User,

thank you very much for your detailed review of our app! Some of the problems you mentioned stem from the unique graphical requirements that differentiate the Henle Library app from other comparable apps. Our app doesn't use entire pages of sheet music, but rather individual staves (otherwise the flexible layout wouldn't be possible), which is why annotations are currently limited to the staves. Additionally, the app uses a special graphic format, which is why writing and deleting work slightly differently. Especially when deleting, simply tapping directly on the symbol usually helps. However, we hope to release a major update for the iOS app this summer, which will include new features and an improved version of the annotation mode.

### 5/5 — ㅊㅊ

*2026-03-27*

결제 오류 가끔 있는데, 메일 보내면 깔끔하게 처리해주십니다. 의견 수용도 적극적으로 해주시는 편이고요. 무엇보다 책으로 사는 것보다 저렴하고, 믿을 수 있으니까요. 근데 손해 안보려면 10크레딧씩 사야해서 그게 좀 불편해요. 왜 그렇게 돼 있는지 모르겠네요.

**Developer response:** Dear Giselle,

we hope you understand we have to answer in english! Thank you very much for your kind words and excellent rating (both on IOS and Android)!!

The entire credit system is admittedly somewhat cumbersome, and it would be simpler if each score could be paid for directly. Unfortunately, in the App we are dependent on the requirements and conditions of Apple and Google. We therefore ask for your understanding!

If our editions differ from those of other publishers, this is usually because G. Henle Verlag and the Henle Library app aim to offer an exact original text of the music ("Urtext"), without any additions or alterations. Since all our editions are meticulously researched and published, we can unfortunately only offer a limited number of new releases each year. We hope for your understanding in this matter as well!

### 3/5 — Great Quality but Troublesome Print Layout

*2026-03-01*

I’m a professional classical musician. The quality of the score is as always among the highest in the industry. The app is in general smooth to use despite the paying-for-credits thing is not as intuitive. However, there’s a major issue for me that’s almost a deal breaker: the multi-movement scores only produce single movements within a collection, and while it might be easier to locate, this approach completely ruin the printing layout. I dig everywhere and didn’t seem to find an option for “printing the whole piece”; instead, I was only able to print through individual movement. So, for instance, for Schumann’s kinderszenen, I’d have some pages with only one line of music. I seriously hope the developer can add that feature.

**Developer response:** Dear Lilian,

thank you so much for your detailed review and positive rating! 

The credit system is somewhat cumbersome, but unfortunately absolutely necessary. In the app, we want to offer our sheet music in the smallest possible units, so users only have to buy what they actually want. However, due to Apple's fixed price tiers, we couldn't offer very short pieces of music at a low price. The credit system makes this possible (our prices start at 2 credits)! 

The Henle Library app was primarily developed to allow musicians to play our sheet music directly from a digital device (PDF exports and printouts for this reason have to be of secondary importance). Therefore, for example, in "Kinderszenen", the individual pieces flow seamlessly together, allowing them to be played consecutively even though they are separate pieces. Unfortunately, transferring this functionality to print is very complex. We hope you understand that we cannot offer this feature for the time being!

For more information please contct us directly at app-user-support@henle.de

### 1/5 — Several inconveniences

*2026-02-04*

There are several inconveniences when checking sheet music on an iPad. The top and bottom are completely unusable due to other lists, and please fix the weird spaces that keep appearing between measures and lines. It's so inconvenient.

**Developer response:** Dear User,

we are sorry for the inconviences!

The issues you mentioned are neither malfunctions nor bugs – it seems you're not familiar with the features and functions of our app! To learn more about the Henle Library app, please use this link
https://henle-library.com/en/features/

For more specific information please contact us directly at app-user-support@henle.de

### 2/5 — Wie lange noch ?

*2026-02-04*

Wie lange noch dauert es bis die Umblätter-Funktion mal gefixed wird. Bei jedem zweiten Blättern bleiben die Seiten auf halber Strecke hängen, so dass 2 halbe Seiten sichtbar sind. Völlig unbrauchbar in diesem Zustand. Das Problem haben viele Nutzer und ist bei mir auch Geräte-übergreifend. Alle Geräte sind auf dem neuesten Stand und andere Apps bekommen das auch hin

**Developer response:** Sehr geehrter Klavier-Klimperer,

wir bitten die Verzögerung bei der Lösung dieses Problems zu entschuldigen! Weil die Henle Library App technisch völlig anders funktioniert als PDF-basierte Apps zum Lesen und Bearbeiten von Noten, ist die Korrektur dieses Bugs leider nicht so einfach, wie wir es uns wünschen. Selbstverständlich arbeiten unsere Entwickler mit Hochdruck an einer Lösung!

Bitte beachten Sie, dass die Fehlfunktion durch Hin-und-her-Wischen für einen Score sehr einfach behoben werden kann! Es handelt sich nicht um das von einem anderen Rezensenten beschriebene (und vermutlich auf einem Hardware-Fehler des Geräts basierende) Problem eines generellen "Steckenbleibens" beim Blättern.

Für weitere Informationen sowie Unterstützung kontaktieren Sie uns bitte unter app-support@henle.de

### 1/5 — Schwach und unbrauchbar

*2026-01-30*

Ich habe mich bemüht , diese App für mein Musikstudium zu verwenden , es ist Zeitverschwendung. Ich bestelle wieder Notenblätter im Original. Diese App ist extrem enttäuschend- ich werde den Verdacht nicht los, Europäer haben einfach keine IT Experten. Vor 20 Jahren hätte so etwas als Fortschritt verkauft werden können- jetzt ist es komplett desolat! Ständig im Hänge Modus, eine gute Suchfunktion gibt es gar nicht - immer nur - keine Information . Das Geld ist hier verschwendet .

**Developer response:** Sehr geehrter Herr Becker,

bitte schreiben Sie uns direkt an app-user-support@henle.de!

Leider äußern Sie sich sehr unkonkret, aber vermutlich haben Sie lediglich Schwierigkeiten mit der Nutzung unserer App. Wir können Ihnen sicher weiterhelfen!

### 1/5 — Was ist nur los?

*2026-01-22*

Leider schafft es der Support nicht, ein Problem meiner App zu lösen: dass sie beim Blättern (Wischen)  auf der halben Seite stehen bleibt. Während eines Konzertes ist das der Supergau. Pech gehabt, man könne es halt nicht reproduzieren, niemand anderes hätte das Problem. Basta. Danke dafür. Bin derzeit als Konterpianist wirklich zutiefst erschüttert darüber, weil ich so viel Geld da reingesteckt habe. UPDATE: Ich habe mittlerweile von Apple ein neues Ersatz-iPad bekommen. Dieses hat die Software-Version 18.7.2. Seitdem läuft die App wieder ganz normal. Leider traue ich mich nicht mehr auf 26 upzugraden, weil ich die Befürchtung habe, dass die Software dann wieder nicht funktioniert. Da der Entwickler ja nicht helfen kann (wie kann das sein?) , ist dass extrem unbefriedigend für mich mit einer Software, die ich eigentlich liebe und für die ich schon hunderte Euro ausgab. :(

**Developer response:** Sehr geehrter Tarause,

unser Support hat sich intensiv bemüht, Ihr Problem zu lösen! Wenn es jedoch nicht den geringsten Anhaltspunkt für einen Bug oder eine Fehlfunktion der App gibt, können wir eben leider auch keine Lösung anbieten. Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis!

### 1/5 — Deleted all my annotations

*2026-01-09*

This app is absolutely horrible. I had marked fingerings on one of my scores over weeks, but when I reopened the app today almost all of the annotations were gone.
Do not use this app if you need to annotate anything.

**Developer response:** Dear Isaac981,

annotaion layers can be overwritten when you open the same score on different devices or when they are not correctly uploaded to our servers (for example, due to an interruption in the internet connection)! This is of course very annoying, but unfortunately beyond our control. We hope for your understanding!
 Please contct us directly at app-user-support@henle.de our technicians will try to recover the missing annotations for you!

### 3/5 — 질문드립니다

*2025-12-15*

혹시 악보 표지는 없을까요ㅠㅠ 표지랑 인쇄를 같이해야하는데 … 표지 없이 인쇄하려니 좀 그렇네요ㅜㅜ

**Developer response:** Dear User,
we hope you understand we have to answer in English! The Henle Library app was developed to make playing sheet music from the screen as easy and high-quality as possible. Therefore, we ask for your understanding if printouts from the app do not look like our printed products.

## Frequently asked questions about Henle Library

### What is the Henle Library app?

The Henle Library app provides digital Urtext editions of classical music scores from G. Henle Publishers directly to your tablet. It's designed for musicians to practice, rehearse, and perform with enhanced digital score features.

### What are the key features of the Henle Library app?

Key features include access to reliable Urtext editions, the ability to purchase individual parts or movements, print and export scores as PDFs, modify scores with annotations, superimpose fingerings, switch between parts and scores, access explanatory notes, record playback, and use an integrated metronome.

### How much does the Henle Library app cost?

The app itself is free, and there is a free version available for music students. However, individual Urtext editions are available for purchase within the app.

### What devices is the Henle Library app compatible with?

The app is designed for tablets, allowing musicians to practice, rehearse, and make music wherever they are. Specific operating system compatibility is not detailed in the provided description.

### Who would benefit from using the Henle Library app?

The app is an indispensable tool for professional musicians, amateur players, music students, and teachers who require high-quality, reliable Urtext editions for their practice and performance needs.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.20.1 — 2026-05-18

Thanks for updating to version 1.20.1. In this version, we’ve made some minor bug fixes and improvements behind the scenes.

If you’re enjoying using Henle Library, please feel free to leave a review, it really helps!

### 1.20.0 — 2026-04-22

Thanks for updating to version 1.20.0. In this version:
- We have improve the performance of the app viewing PDF scores
- Users can now crop PDF scores
- PDF scores can now be added to playlists
- Fixed an issue with page turns not completing on Henle scores
- Numerous small bug fixes and improvements

### 1.19.1 — 2025-01-23

Thanks for updating to version 1.19.1. In this version, we’ve made some minor bug fixes and improvements behind the scenes.

If you’re enjoying using Henle Library, please feel free to leave a review, it really helps!

### 1.19.0 — 2024-09-26

Thanks for updating to version 1.19.0. You can now import PDF scores into Henle Library so that you can view all of your music in one place. We’re still working on improving this feature but send any feedback to app-user-support@henle.de.

### 1.18.4 — 2024-01-23

Thanks for updating to version 1.18.4. In this version we’ve fixed a bug that affected scores containing variations.

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