SuperScore Music vs Blackbinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SuperScore Music
This app allows musicians to view, manage, and interact with their digital sheet music library. It features a unique display technology that reformats scores to any size and offers playback with customizable instrument sounds and tempo control. Annotate scores, create playlists, and turn pages hands-free with various input methods.
- Liquid Music Display technology
- Adjustable notation sizes
- Score playback with MIDI
- Part muting and instrument selection
- Markup and annotation tools
- Collection creation for setlists
- Multiple page-turn options
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SuperScore is the premiere app for viewing, managing, and interacting with your library of musical scores. SuperScore provides virtually unlimited notation sizes with Liquid Music Display™ technology. Simply use the standard pinch and spread gestures to find the size and layout that is right for you. SuperScore provides a unique bundle of features including: • Liquid Music Display technology that reformats the music notation to accommodate your chosen viewing size • Option to show/hide musical parts • Playback of scores that contain embedded MIDI performances with the option to mute selected parts • Outstanding virtual instruments for playback and “MIDI Thru” • Optional playback directed to an external MIDI instrument • Additional playback features including looping, tempo control, and metronome • Special playback features for acoustic pianos with player systems • Full/partial page-turns by swipe, wireless Bluetooth pedal, MIDI signal, or intelligent score-following • Intelligent and interactive play-along features when you play a MIDI instrument connected to your iPad • Support for wireless Bluetooth LE MIDI devices • Markup mode for adding musical symbols or your own free-hand drawings to the score • Option to create Collections (e.g. “playlists” or “set lists”) that enable you to switch quickly from score to score during a lesson or gig • PDF Import (optional, in-app purchase feature) SuperScore works with specially-formatted SuperScore files provided by publishers, composers, and arrangers. SuperScore comes with sample files, and you may acquire additional scores as in-app purchases. You can also import and use PDF scores (if you add this optional feature). Although Liquid Music Display technology and MIDI playback do not extend to PDF files, you can enjoy other SuperScore features when using PDFs, such as the various methods of page-turning, markups, and Collections. Import PDFs using the “Share/Open In…” feature of Dropbox, Files, Mail, and similar apps. SuperScore’s unique features start with a completely flexible Liquid Music Display, available instantly in virtually any size or layout. In both landscape and portrait orientations, SuperScore reformats the music immediately, maintaining the integrity of the score regardless of the size you choose. And if your score has multiple parts, you can show and hide parts at will. An extensive set of annotation tools enables you to mark up your scores for practice or performance. You can even show or hide your markups with a simple tap on the screen. Page-turning couldn’t be easier. SuperScore offers multiple page-turn options, including full and partial page-turns. You can set a playback tempo and follow a moving cursor while enjoying automatic page-turning or use any Bluetooth pedal accessory for hands-free page turns. You can even use a MIDI foot switch pedal to turn pages. SuperScore files are often available with backing tracks that provide an immersive, real-world performance experience for students, hobbyists, and professionals alike! These performance-type files can be played at ANY tempo, with the flexibility to mute any backing track. SuperScore includes a beautiful, concert grand virtual piano with incremental pedal and sympathetic string resonance and an amazingly realistic set of GM instruments. MIDI connectivity adds a whole other dimension to SuperScore. With any MIDI-enabled digital, hybrid, or even acoustic instrument, SuperScore can actually follow your playing. SuperScore responds to your tempo and dynamics, adjusting the speed and expression of the accompaniment parts, and turns your pages automatically. There is even a learning mode in which the program will wait for you to play each note. Once you have purchased add-on support for PDF files, all of your scores can be stored, viewed, and annotated in SuperScore. You can even create set lists (called Collections) to keep yourself organized during lessons or at your next gig!
Blackbinder
This app offers a unique scrolling sheet music experience for brass musicians. It features a free library of popular pieces, allows importing and converting your own scores, and provides tools for annotation, editing, and organization. Focus on your performance with automatic page scrolling.
- Continuous scrolling sheet music
- Free library of brass music
- Import PDF and MusicXML scores
- Manage and edit repetitions
- Annotate and share scores
- Organize scores into playlists
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Download the only scrolling sheet music reader specialized in Brass, and enjoy the continuous scroll of your sheet music flowing in front of you. Start with our brass-specific FREE library of most popular pieces, including the TOP instructional methods for trumpet to practice. Import your own MusicXML files (Sibelius, Finale..) or convert them to Blackbinder from your PDF files and carry all your sheet music on your iPad, ready for you to annotate and edit at will. Enjoy the automatic scroll and forget about manually turning pages and page-turning devices today! BlackBinder has developed a new technology and algorithm that converts pages into a continuous flow that adapts to the music score, scrolling as you play your instrument. Yes, it is very much like a teleprompter, but with a whole set of additional features. BlackBinder really is going to blow your mind: 1) CONTINUOUS SCROLL - Never worry about turning pages again - Focus only on what matters: your performance and the pleasure of playing - Experience the freedom in your study, rehearsals, exams, master classes, recitals and concerts 2) FREE LIBRARY - Editor’s picks: Trumpet Concerts Hummel - Trumpet concerto in E-flat major, S. 49. Haydn - Trumpet concerto in E-flat major, Hob. VIIe:1. Böhme - Trumpet concerto in E minor, op. 18. Neruda - Trumpet concerto. Studies Arban - Characteristic Studies. Charlier - 36 Études transcendantes (1st to 14th). Pieces Brandt - Concertpiece no. 2, op. 12. Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee. Böhme - Ballet scene, op. 31. 3) IMPORT YOUR OWN PDF & MUSICXML SHEET MUSIC - Import and convert scores from your own PDF or MusicXML (exported from any notation software like Sibelius, Finale...) files. 4) MANAGE REPETITIONS - No more PDF editing for repetitions. Choose which ones you want to perform and they will appear concatenated where they should be. In Blackbinder you don’t need to save paper ;-) 5) EDIT AND SHARE YOUR SCORES - Add modify or delete notes, ligatures, lines, texts, metronome marks, etc - Share all of the aforementioned with any other user - Customize the visualization: set the distance between staves, margins.. 6) ANNOTATE AND SHARE - Choose from a palette of colors to make all annotations you need - Organize your annotations in different layers - Share your annotations in real time with your colleagues, students or classmates 7) ORGANIZE YOUR SCORES - Organize "My Scores" creating, ordering and grouping your pieces in multiple playlists. You will have them ready for your exams or concerts Subscriptions information: - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of use: http://www.blackbinder.net/policies Privacy policy: http://www.blackbinder.net/policies
Verdict
SuperScore Music and Blackbinder both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of SuperScore Music's written reviews are positive against 55% of Blackbinder's. Blackbinder's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (79 vs 17). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SuperScore Music sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Blackbinder sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for SuperScore Music against 4.5 for Blackbinder. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 79 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of SuperScore Music's written reviews are positive against 55% of Blackbinder's.
SuperScore Music ships an update every 4 months, Blackbinder fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | SuperScore Music | Blackbinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 4.5 (79 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 79 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.8 GB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TimeWarp Technologies | Rolling Scores S.L. |
Customer experience
SuperScore Music
Blackbinder
In-app purchases
SuperScore Music
- Creative Musicianship SamplesFree
- Dolphin Dance - Carol MatzFree
- The Easy Winners - Joplin-MatzFree
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- The Birthday Song - Hill-MatzFree
- Prelude in C Major, BWV 924 - J. S. BachFree
- Common Baroque EmbellishmentsFree
- Fantasie in C (excerpt) HWV 490 - G.F. HandelFree
- Allegretto by Anton DiabelliFree
- Skeleton Bones by Bernard ShaaFree
- Norton Connections SamplerFree
- Pianokids SamplerFree
- Jingle Bells by Bradley SowashFree
- Go, Tell it on the Mountain by Leila VissFree
- Sunrise from Merry and Mellow by Paul SheftelFree
- Children’s Album, Op. 39, No. 01-Morning Prayer - Pyotr Tchaikovsky$0.99
- Import PDF Scores$4.99
Blackbinder
- MONTHLY Premium$9.491 Month
- HALF-YEARLY Premium$47.996 Months
- ANNUAL Premium$96.991 Year
- MONTHLY Premium$8.99
- ANNUAL Premium$89.99
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