# Piascore - Smart Music Score — user reviews

> 525 indexed App Store user reviews of Piascore by Piascore, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 1,682 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piascore-smart-music-score/id406141702/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piascore-smart-music-score/id406141702.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,351 · 4★ 204 · 3★ 42 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 61

## What do users think of Piascore?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Convenient digital sheet music management
- 💡 Useful features like annotation, metronome, and tuner
- 👍 Seamless integration with cloud storage
- 👍 Affordable paid version with additional functionality

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
- 🔒 Concerns about syncing and backup capabilities
- 👎 Limitations in editing and organizing sheet music

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Unreliable facial gesture page turning
- Issues with downloading and importing files
- Inconsistent behavior when making edits

**Most requested features**

- Ability to add/insert pages to existing scores
- More customization options for annotations and page turning
- Improved syncing across devices
- Better support for guitar tablature and chord charts

## Newest reviews (16 of 525)

### 4/5 — Glitches sometimes

*2026-08-18, version 6.16.20*

Very good app, but can glitch sometimes and add extra pages to setlists.

### 3/5 — Fantastic until you need a new device

*2026-07-23*

I’ve used Piascore for years and love all its cool features, especially creating notes and changes on .pdf files and books.  It’s great until you need a new device and need to migrate the app or download it from the cloud to your new iPad, then prepare yourself for a shock. Many of the larger .pdf music books and files will not be in the app, and the ones that are will have lost ALL your notes.  It doesn’t fully transfer through the cloud or in Dropbox. Piascore doesn’t offer phone support (as far as I can tell) and the online support does not address this issue. Now I have to recreate notes in 13 books and hundreds of files. Not happy. 🤬

### 4/5 — Will it ever be Android friendly?

*2026-07-20, version 6.16.20*

I’ve been using this app for years and I love everything except, when some of my musicians have Android devices. It’s such a pain to be to sharing a link with the songs to some and to others I have to download the songs as a pdf. Please make it Android friendly!

### 4/5 — Duplicate scores

*2026-07-14*

Use app for four years, I love it. I found one problem though: I created few folders with music scores in the Piascore folder on my iPad. But after opening any sheet in these scores via Piascore I find out a duplicate in the main Piascore folder. Why so and how to fix?

### 4/5 — 改善してほしい点があります。

*2026-07-02, version 6.16.20*

五線紙をアプリ内で複製した時に譜面の周りが1cm程度欠けるのでセクションマークなどが切れてしまいます。
特に人に譜面を渡す時にも同じことが起こるので困ります。

### 3/5 — Good Free Music Score App, but beware professionals

*2026-07-01*

I've used Piascore for a year now and it's been great, gotten the job done. Sometimes it can be a bit klunky to get things uploaded, but otherwise no problem. EXCEPT recently I experienced a really bad problem where after I uploaded over 34 scores, any time a new score was uploaded a previously uploaded score would randomly disappear. Very glad I noticed because otherwise an entire song would've been missing from my set list during an upcoming performance.
It doesn't really seem like the app is still updated because problems like these are persistent.

### 4/5 — Great app, but need folders

*2026-06-29*

I’ve been using Piascore for years now, and it’s very easy to use and functional. However, as I have collected more and more sheet music, the amount of music I have is a bit overwhelming. I would love to be able to sort music into folders, so I hope that feature will be added. The setlist is ok, but it’s hard to find the beginning of each piece.

### 2/5 — Download limitations

*2026-06-28, version 6.16.20*

I have a folder I created, and it’s not letting me upload any of the songs except 2, without a reason. I’m assuming the file may be too big, but I would like to know why it’s not letting me upload my file for my gig. Over all pretty well put together, and a good app!

### 4/5 — iCloud sync

*2026-06-18*

Could you please add iCloud sync, as I use the app across multiple platforms? A dedicated Mac app would also be amazing

### 2/5 — No synchronization, no folders

*2026-06-06*

No synchronization between devices and no folders for scores.

### 4/5 — Google Drive archives

*2026-04-04, version 6.16.20*

Yes. This should be addressed. I love when music directors send me one giant PDF, but when Google Drive is involved, whether individual files, archive, or folder…. It’s darn near impossible to quickly manage it. Do we have unzip functionality yet?

### 4/5 — A great sheet music reader for classical music

*2026-03-03, version 6.16.20*

I’ve tried five different apps including virtual sheet music, music reader 4, museScore, etc. This is my favorite. It is easy, the only problem I have found with that is that if I make a playlist and I change the music in the playlist, it goes back and changes it in “all scores” which means I’d have to download it again to get back the original.

### 5/5 — Solid choice

*2026-02-25, version 6.16.20*

Pro musician here - been using PiaScore for years. Solid choice, excellent tools for annotation, setlist management. Runs well on older iPads as well - extending their useful life. HIGHLY recommend!

### 3/5 — Есть потенциал

*2026-02-23*

Приложение неплохое, но! 
1. нет папок, из-за чего просто свалка нот получается, 
2. низкое разрешение pdf файлов, при увеличении все ноты размытые 
3. Древний интерфейс

### 5/5 — Alles was in den 5-Sterne-Bewertungen steht

*2026-02-14*

Ich verstehe nicht, warum hier manche schlechte Bewertungen stehen. Naja - ist halt alles subjektiv.
Ich kann jede positive Bewertung nur bestätigen.
Toll, was man sogar in der Free-Version bekommt. Hoffentlich bleibt das so und die App wird vom Entwickler nicht verkauft an ein Unternehmen, das Piascore als Konkurrenz sieht und sie dann runterwirtschaftet.
Großen Dank an den oder die aktuellen Entwickler (Stand 2022).

### 4/5 — Facial Recognition Not Great

*2026-02-01, version 6.16.20*

I love the app and ease of use for scanning, downloading, and cataloging music. But, I’ve had some uneven experiences with the page turning function. Maybe I use facial expressions more than I think, but the app sometimes turn the when I’m not expecting it.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — DATA STEALERS

*2026-05-10, version 6.16.20*

pretty good app for sheet music but they STEAL YOUR FILES, IF U HOLD DOWN ON THE APP U CAN SEE THE FILES THEY STOLE, THESE GUYS TOOK LIKE ME CHEMISTRY ASSIGNMENT!!!!! use with caution if u have important docs in ur files

### 1/5 — Unusable with Google Drive

*2026-03-26, version 6.16.20*

I store all my music in Google Drive. The link to the drive from Piascore is very unstable. It works occasionally, mostly not. 

If your primary storage is Google Drive this app is not for you.

### 1/5 — No longer works?

*2026-03-13, version 6.16.20*

This was a great program for marking music but it suddenly stopped working. This makes me hesitant to purchase anything from Piascore.

### 1/5 — It would be great if it worked…

*2026-02-17, version 6.16.20*

If I can’t figure out how to use an app in 5. Hours…I will go on to the next one.

### 1/5 — "Free” yeah right

*2026-01-15, version 6.16.20*

I decided to get this app., reviews were pretty good. The only problem is, in order to use it, or any of its features, you have to upgrade for $5.99 (I think that’s how much it was) Just charge me up front. This makes it feel like a rip off.

### 1/5 — 화면 ui 글자가 너무 지나치게 작아서 불편하다

*2025-12-02, version 6.16.20*

화면 ui 글자가 너무 지나치게 작아서 불편하다

### 1/5 — Can’t cancel subscription

*2025-10-15, version 6.16.20*

Yes, its features work. But the app is built so weirdly that I can’t find a way to cancel my existing subscription through its app nor website. When I contacted their support team, they told me “sorry we don’t know, please contact apple support”.

### 1/5 — Best ever app for serious musicians

*2025-08-07, version 6.16.19*

Best of best

### 1/5 — Busca não funciona Setlist

*2025-02-19*

Dentro de um setlist, digito na busca o nome da partitura e, ao clicar, não abre a partitura correspondente.

### 1/5 — Gesture doesn’t work

*2024-12-13, version 6.16.13*

Facial gestures for turning pages doesn’t work. The manual is worthless and examples on YouTube are worthless. I bought a iPad Pro just for this feature on Piascore

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Pro app for Pro Musicians!

*2026-08-12, version 6.16.20*

Just my opinion - but it’s not glitchy - does the trick and spares me the drama of rummaging through the archives x John Edward Croker, BMus (Hons), PGCE Music, QTS.

### 5/5 — Such a good free app

*2026-07-30*

Used Piascore for a good few years as I didn’t want to buy ForScore and it served me very well. Just splurged on ForScore and honestly Piascore has all the same core features for free and with an easier user interface. I’m refunding ForScore and sticking with Piascore. 

Only slight annoyance is no cloud syncing, but otherwise it’s great. For a free app with no ads this is so so good. It does the job, opens my sheet music, easy to turn pages on screen, using a page turner pedal, or face gestures, easy to use and responsive markup with my apple pencil

### 5/5 — I’ve used many years, works great!

*2026-07-19, version 6.16.20*

I think I started using this in 2022 and I’ve played out a lot since then. I import my pdf charts through iCloud and copy them into the Piascore folder, super easy. I love that the background can be inverted to black with white text, very easy on the eyes.  Plus you don’t want a light shining from your iPad. I really like Piascore!

### 5/5 — works great for uploading my paper music!

*2026-07-14*

I love the portability of putting my music books on the ipad.

### 5/5 — Great app!

*2026-07-01, version 6.16.20*

I love the winking function! Please keep it! However it would be nice if it stayed on if you go to another app.

### 5/5 — Sepia would be immensely helpful

*2026-06-19*

I've been using Piascore pro version for many years now. Now that I have turned 50, my eyes hurt a lot when viewing scores with white pages. It would be great if Piascore could implement Sepia tone conversion in-app the way forScore has done it...even if the iPad has Night tone built into it.

### 5/5 — все замечательно

*2026-05-30*

невероятно удобное приложение для музыканта!пользуюсь, не нарадуюсь!удобно,что можно перенести даже свои бумажные ноты с пометками,удобно переворачивать страницы.ноты аккуратные,работает без интернета

### 5/5 — No sharing button

*2026-05-27, version 6.16.20*

Please add sharing button , so I can share with my students. 

I give you 2 stars, cause no sharing button, so inconvenience!

### 5/5 — Extremely affordable

*2026-05-08, version 6.16.20*

Why spend 25 bucks?? This does everything the other guys do for a third of the price! Just sayin’!

### 5/5 — perfect app

*2026-04-16*

use it daily for years never failed me.  Does everything I need it todo to keep all my music sheets annotated. Only change is like to see is that it syncs across devices so I can use it with my iPhone or other iPad I have.

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