Comparison

What’s My Note? vs capella score reader

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

What’s My Note?

Hear the pitches in your sheet music by touching notes in an image. Ideal for vocalists who struggle with reading music, this app allows you to learn and repeat individual notes and intervals from scanned or imported sheet music. It's designed specifically for vocal parts in choral and vocal ensembles.

Highlights
  • Scan sheet music with camera
  • Import JPG, PNG, or PDF
  • Touch notes to hear pitch
  • Repeat single notes and intervals
  • OCR feature for any device
Features
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An app for choral singers who don't read music well. Snap a photo or import JPG, PNG or PDF. Touch notes in the image to hear the pitch. Not for instrumental parts - see details below. Whether you sing in a choir, or a barbershop quartet, or other vocal group, What's My Note lets you hear and learn the pitches in your sheet music. You can repeat single notes or intervals as many times as you like. Use What's My Note? to read published choral music - the kind used by high school choruses, church choirs, musical theater, and barbershop quartets. If you are not sure that What's My Note? will read your music, e-mail us a photo, and we'll let you know. For a demo, please view the video on our website. (What's My Note DOES NOT play scores from start to finish, does not play more than one voice at a time, does not interpret rhythms, does not recognize or play piano or instrumental parts. Hand-written manuscripts and most forms of popular music probably won't work.) You can import PDFs and JPEGs, and use What's My Note's OCR feature on any device. To photograph music, What's My Note? requires an 8 megapixel camera, available on these models (or later): iPhone 4s, iPod Touch 6th Generation, iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4.

About

capella score reader

This app allows musicians to read, listen to, and practice music scores on their mobile devices. It offers features like solo voice playback, voice muting, and tempo control for efficient practice and study.

Highlights
  • Read and listen to music scores
  • Practice individual parts
  • Mute specific voices
  • Extract single voices
  • Two-finger zoom for scores
  • One-finger page turning
  • Adjustable tempo control
Features
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capella score reader Read and listen to music scores anywhere at any time Open your scores and read, listen, practice, study, perform when and where you like. Practice your part for choir or orchestra. As choir director or conductor study scores. Use capella score reader as digital music stand. capella score reader is the most recent offshoot of the capella family. With many practicing musicians, capella is known to be THE notation software which has been around for more than 25 years. capella is available for Windows and for Mac. Several additional programs, for example for scanning sheet music, complement the capella family – and now it’s capella score reader. Solo - tutti Select the Solo button to listen to one single voice. Solo on/off – this can be done during playback at any position in the piece. This way you learn your part efficiently. Voice filter When you’re almost there: Mute one or several voices to sing or play along yourself. Voice extraction Select a voice extraction for one or several voices – all others are hidden. Two-finger zoom With two-finger scroll zoom single spots or get an overview of the entire page. Page turning with one finger Slide across the screen as if you would turn pages – the notes will follow. Change tempo Control the tempo according to your needs for rehearsal: Slower at the beginning, next time faster. Navigation Open your own files. The last used files will be displayed. Exchange of scores Receive scores from other musicians, for example via WhatsApp or eMail. Share your scores with other musicians as capella file or PDF. capella score reader reads these score formats: - capXML (capella format) - cap (older capella format) - MusicXML - MIDI Video introduction A short video introduction shows the most important features. It’s really simple! We are looking forward to your feedback. Please use the feedback button in the help menu for questions about the app or error reports.

Screenshots

What’s My Note?1 screens
capella score reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: capella score reader at Free against What’s My Note?'s $4.99. What’s My Note?'s advantage is review sentiment (45% vs 0%) and rating (4.3 vs 2.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

capella score reader is free to download; What’s My Note? costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What’s My Note? holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What’s My Note? has 222 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of What’s My Note?'s written reviews are positive against 0% of capella score reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What’s My Note? ships an update every 4 months, capella score reader every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
What’s My Note? versus capella score reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat’s My Note?capella score reader
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (222 ratings) — better2.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews44.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings222 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhat's My Note, Inc.capella-software AG

Customer experience

What’s My Note?

All ratings218 ratings
Positive83.0%
Neutral1.8%
Negative15.1%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive44.9%
Neutral4.1%
Negative51.0%

capella score reader

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral66.7%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

What’s My Note?

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Scores disappear after reloading
  • Scanning sheet music not working correctly
  • New update introduced bugs
  • Notes not being read accurately
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  • Scores being erased randomly
  • Camera not having enough pixels
  • App not playing notes automatically
  • Issues with notes not playing on new pages after turning

Requested features

9 requests
  • Import digital sheet music
  • Import PDF files
  • Easier and less time-consuming import process
  • Show note details (e.g., F, C, B flat) when holding a note
  • Ability to import PDFs from Dropbox/email
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  • Upload PDFs or images of sheet music
  • Annotate pages
  • Sync music across devices
  • Upload option for .pdf and .mus files

capella score reader

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

What’s My Note?

No in-app purchases

None

capella score reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What’s My Note? free?
What’s My Note? costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is capella score reader free?
capella score reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What’s My Note? or capella score reader?
What’s My Note? is rated higher. What’s My Note? averages 4.3 out of 5 from 222 ratings, while capella score reader averages 2.0 from 6 ratings.
Do What’s My Note? or capella score reader have ads?
Neither What’s My Note? nor capella score reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What’s My Note? or capella score reader?
What’s My Note? ships an update every 4 months, and capella score reader every 18 months. Most recently, What’s My Note? was updated on October 26, 2026 and capella score reader on October 24, 2026.

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