Sheet Music Scanner User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience61.4% of reviews
Neutral8.7% of reviews
Negative experience29.8% of reviews

~ Based on 526 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Sheet Music Scanner Safe?

Sheet Music Scanner appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Sheet Music Scanner is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 6,365 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
7.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,365 App Store ratings for Sheet Music Scanner.

Is Sheet Music Scanner Legit?

Sheet Music Scanner appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sheet Music Scanner is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Greedy for what it does

Been a user since the beginning, suddenly they want yearly or monthly ridiculous subscriptions. For the price ForeScore is way better, what is odd is it won’t restore my subscription that I have had for years, how greedy is that!
Been a good run, but will be deleting the app.

Works great now

The scanner now works in normal light which it didn’t do previously and yes I have the same phone. Great if you are learning an instrument so you can play the track so you can see how it sounds. Oboe sounds pretty good as well

Extremely helpful

It is very impressive, it cleaned up my music sheet that was full of old comments

Pretty good but I wish a few things

Read through this all if you’re looking for an honest review :) I've been using this app for a little over a month now and it’s honestly almost perfect! I’m a 17 year old high schooler in the school band (I play percussion) and the marching season is coming up so I’ve been using this to help me learn how to play my songs and as a way to follow along as I play. The only major downside is how it can't read notations/etc. If there was away to manually input these factors I think that would be very useful. For example: since the app can't read if a note is if a sharp or flat you could just manually put it into the app so that it would know. Or something that I really wish was a thing would be changing the tempo throughout the music piece so when it would play it, it would automatically change it. Something similar to this is how it’s always one time signature. Almost all of my music changes tempo and time signatures throughout the peice so if I want to do just a full run through I really can’t. Also sometimes a tied note plays as two separate notes instead of one, so if there was a way to make a note muted, that would be helpful. What I’ve been doing is doing a screen recording of the song and just piecing it together in CapCut or another editing app which works fine. I’ve searched through many apps and this is so far the closest to what I was looking for and I think this is what I’ll be sticking with unless i find something else.
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Brilliant app

Brilliant app
Never had trouble importing.Notation with guitar tab tells me what it should sound like.Should state only app which is hands free.The repeat feature is brilliant, no foot pedal,no screen touch,winking, mouth movement required just sort the Coda.Still going to give it 5 stars.

Good but omg stop asking for $$

I just got this and it works great minus the fact that im just trying to practice and every 3 seconds it asks me to do a subscription but like bro i dont have $ im a kid and it takes like 12 steps just to get off if that screen and continue practicing.

Purchased App Started Asking for a Subscription

I purchased the app from the App Store in 2021 and have used it for years. Today when starting it up, it's no longer allowing me to access my music and is asking for a paid subscription. Is there any way to turn this off? If not, I'd like to request a full refund of the app that I paid for in 2021 if that no longer functions to scan music. Thanks very much.
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Kicked Off Account

If your sheet music is at anything less than 4K resolution, don’t bother, because this app won’t be able to read it. It’s handy for some basic work, but expect a lot of mistakes. I bought the app years ago, and now they’ve kicked me off my account so they can bill me monthly. I guess there’s no support from them for the people who helped them launch their original service. Now they just want to reach back into our pockets. Despicable.
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Sharps and flats

This app never scans sharps or flaps!

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Although this app was very helpful in identifying rhythms, I have found it lacking in many places-such as the fact that it cannot detect flats, sharps, slurring, and even appoggiaturas. Could the designers please improve these areas for a better experience for everyone.

Works well for the most part

Takes a little time to learn how to get the most accurate scans. The app decodes some sheet music and ignores complete lines of notes. Now the in app purchases has increased to 9 different payment options for annual but with no description. Also, last update has made the app say it’s sorry to see me go every week I open it.. Please explain why. Only I’m on annual payments already and I’m not leaving. So explain the 9 payment option not just pick one out of all the same description.
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Another app ruined by greed

Why ruin a good thing. I’m a long time user and after this last update, this app has become painful to use. I used to open music PDFs from my email directly from the share sheet but now it does not do that. Probably I have to buy a subscription for that feature to work now?

Hit or miss

When it works, it’s impressive. However, sometimes with perfectly legible sheet music, it is not able to scan the different parts correctly, which can be very frustrating

I can’t get past the subscription screen

I downloaded this app for one reason and one reason only, and it can’t even do what I downloaded it for. I’ve tried so many different apps to read my sheet music. I was hoping this one would work. NOPE. Right when I downloaded it, a free subscription deal got shoved into my face. The only two buttons on there were “accept offer” and “restore”. I didn’t want a subscription, so I did what anyone else would do and I clicked the only other option, but when I did, it said “no subscription found”. I just wanted to see what my music sounded like. You almost had another player until that stupid subscription screen popped up.
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Not free to use

Free to download, but not free to use. Need a subscription to use this app.

Sync Issues really cripple things

All in all a decent app. But sync issues between devices really is problematic. Has been for a while - just look around on forums and such. To think there is a premium version pushed before basic functionality reasonably works is disheartening - but par for the course with apps now.

Pretty good but makes mistakes often

I use this app to learn choir music and while it’s pretty good, it makes mistakes on notes and rhythms fairly often. For example, I am working on a piece right now and it keeps reading obvious Eb’s as E naturals, which is huge problem. Because of this my practicing is way less efficient and I’m having to stop and play stuff by hand. I feel like I can’t fully trust it. It would be great to have a feature that allowed me to manually correct mistakes.
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Helps a lot

Hi! This app reads for you and gives the sounds which helps to improve the reading
But sone tones it gives wrong tuning of the note on the scale. And sometimes it does not make the midi sound on what you are reading and that is a mistake that we dont want while playing

Sheet music scanner

Love this app…needs a few tweaks but, overall, it’s great for my needs…and pretty user friendly.

Good, but needs a fix

When I open the app, sometimes the subscription ad will not have an X button, basically forcing a subscription. Very good, though