Henle Library vs enScore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Henle Library
Access high-quality digital Urtext editions of classical music scores on your tablet. Practice, rehearse, and perform with a range of interactive features designed for musicians of all levels. Enjoy annotations, metronome, playback, and more.
- Digital Urtext editions
- Customizable score purchases
- Print and export PDFs
- Score modification and annotations
- Metronome and recording
- Part and score switching
- Explanatory notes access
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“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!
enScore
This app is a digital sheet music viewer and organizer for musicians. It allows users to import, annotate, and display scores on Apple devices, with features for page turning, bookmarking, and a built-in metronome. Optional pro features and cloud sync are available.
- Import unlimited PDFs
- Annotate with Apple Pencil or finger
- Full-screen, side-by-side, single-page layouts
- Customizable page turns
- Built-in metronome
- Bookmark scores
- Annotation layers
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Every score you own. Every marking you've ever made. On the iPad in your bag, the iPhone in your pocket and the Mac on your desk, all in sync. The sheet music reader that runs on everything you play from. Free to download. SCORES THAT NAME THEMSELVES "scan_0417.pdf" becomes "Clair de Lune, Debussy" by itself. Import a folder of a hundred files and watch the titles and composers fill in. NO MORE BAD PAGE TURNS Half-page turns show you the next line before you need it. Turn with a tap, a swipe or a foot pedal. Put a concert in a setlist and one piece flows into the next, with the screen awake until the applause. THE PRACTICE ROOM Mark a fingering. Highlight the entry you keep missing. White out the editor's bowing and write your own. Apple Pencil, any stylus or a fingertip; the line follows your pressure. Highlighters blend like real ones. The eraser takes back one stroke or one pixel. Every marking sits on a layer you can hide for the concert. PLAY ALONG, HANDS FREE Attach a recording to any score. Turn the pages once while it plays and enScore remembers every turn, half pages included. Loop a passage, slow it down, or start it the moment the score opens. TALKS TO YOUR KEYBOARD Turn pages from any MIDI pedal or controller. Give a score its sounds so your keyboard is on the right patch the moment it opens: program changes, bank select and Song Select. YOUR PRACTICE, ON RECORD enScore logs minutes a day, streaks, and which pieces you practised and when. Set a daily goal, jot a note from inside the score, and share a report as a PDF. SHARE A SETLIST Send a whole setlist as one file: the PDFs, the order, page ranges and your markings. Open it on any device running enScore, ready to play. BRING IN YOUR MUSIC Share a PDF from any app or import a whole folder. Search IMSLP without leaving enScore. Point your camera at a photocopy and it lands straightened, cropped and clean, or use a flatbed or feeder scanner over Wi-Fi. COMING FROM FORSCORE? One .4sc file and your scores, ink, stamps and layers land exactly as you left them. Nothing to redo. EVERY DEVICE YOU OWN enScore runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision, and it is the same app on all of them — and on every other device you play from. Mark up a part on the train and it's on the stand when you arrive. One library, in sync in seconds. NO ACCOUNT? NO PROBLEM Reading, ink, setlists and scanning work with no account and no network. An account is only for Sync and the online title and composer detection. Your scores live on your device; the cloud only ever holds a copy. ALSO IN THE BOX - Two-page, single-page and full-screen layouts - Light, dark, sepia and inverted filters - Folders, composer, tags and key, all searchable - Reorder, rotate, hide or delete pages - Bookmarks - Metronome with tap tempo, subdivisions and nine sounds - Tuner - Two scores side by side on Mac and iPad - Print, or export with ink and layers included - Recently Deleted, so nothing vanishes by accident - Twelve languages - Blank manuscript paper: single staves, grand staff or tab, any page size - Find any word in any score: search the text inside your PDFs and practice notes - Crop and straighten a scan without touching the file Free to download. Pro unlocks the tools below with a single purchase. Sync is a separate optional subscription. Everything new in 3.5 is free. ENSCORE PRO - Lists: setlists with a page range and tempo per entry - Annotation Layers: show or hide each set of markings on its own - Score Snips: paste the bars after a turn before it - Score Shortcuts: tap a repeat or a Coda and the page jumps - IMSLP Search inside the app SYNC (optional, monthly or yearly) Every score, marking, list and bookmark on every device you sign into. Delete your account and your scores leave our servers while staying safe on your devices. Built by a musician in Sydney. Fill my inbox with your questions and ideas: support@thejonathanv.com Terms: https://thejonathanv.com/legal/terms-of-service.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: enScore at 5.0 against Henle Library's 2.9. enScore also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Henle Library's advantage is ratings volume (91 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Henle Library sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and enScore sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
enScore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Henle Library has 91 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Henle Library ships an update every 2 months, enScore every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Henle Library | enScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (91 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guenter Henle Verlag | Jonathan Vardouniotis |
Customer experience
Henle Library
enScore
Bugs and requests
Henle Library
Reported bugs
20 issues- 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
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- 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
Requested features
20 requests- 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)
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- 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
enScore
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Henle Library
- 10 Credits$0.99
- 22 Credits$1.99
- 55 Credits2 variants$5.99
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- 100 Credits2 variants$9.99
- 200 Credits2 variants$19.99
- 300 Credits$29.99
- 500 Credits$49.99
- 1000 Credits$79.99
enScore
- enScore Sync (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- enScore Sync (Yearly)$14.991 Year
- enScore Pro$9.99









