Notation Pad Pro vs NumScore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notation Pad Pro
Compose, edit, and playback musical scores with lyrics. This app allows users to create music compositions using touch gestures and supports a wide range of notation elements. It's suitable for both beginners learning music theory and experienced musicians for songbooks or complex scores.
- Compose and edit sheet music
- Write and integrate lyrics
- Playback scores with high-quality sound
- Export to MusicXML, MIDI, PNG, and PDF
- Support for up to 8 staves
- Over 100 musical instruments
- Multi-voice support
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A great sheet music notation app on iOS. For any music lover, Notation Pad gives you the ability to read, compose, edit, playback scores and write lyrics. With it you can be a talented composer and great musician anywhere. As long as you have a little knowledge of sheet music, you can write music composition simply by touch and move. You could use it as your songbook or scoresheet. It is also designed for a beginner who wants to learn music score, music notes and tablature. It can handle ensemble, choir or symphony score, also it supports for a single track piano score. With the help of it you could easily record the flashes of inspiration wherever they strike. Are you ready to compose music in a simple way? ----------------------- Features: -Export/Import the industry-popular MusicXML file format, allowing for exchanging sheet music with other software (Finale, Sibelius, Encore, MuseScore, etc). -Export MIDI file. -Export PNG image and PDF document. -High quality sound for playback. -Support editing up to 8 staff at the same time. -Support over 100 kinds of musical instrument. Piano, organ, guitar, violin, sax, flute, brass, bass, etc. -Support multi-voice. -A great lyric app. ----------------------- Supported notation: *A variety of music note types, from whole note to 128th note and dotted note *Chord, staff, track *Treble, alto and bass clef *Edit lyrics *A variety of time signatures *All standard key signatures *Adjustable tempo *All accidentals (sharps, flats, double sharps, double flats, and naturals) *Tie, slur, and tuplet *Many types of ornament *A wide range of dynamics -------------------------- - Terms of use: https://service.notationpad.com/terms_service.html
NumScore
Create professional, neat, and beautiful numbered musical scores using handwriting or a virtual keyboard. Supports a vast array of musical notation elements and specific performance signs for instruments like the Guzheng. Offers automatic layout adjustments and multiple export formats.
- Handwriting and virtual keyboard input
- Extensive musical notation elements
- Guzheng performance sign support
- Automatic and adjustable layout
- Customizable sound fonts
- Multiple export formats (PDF, MIDI, PNG, Audio)
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NumScore is a professional and efficient tool for making numbered musical score. you can quickly produce professional, neat and beautiful numbered musical score with the app. It use the simplest and most direct input method - handwriting. and also support virtual keyboard input. It supports almost all numbered sheet music elements: basic notes,dotted notes, accidentals, grace notes, tuplets, tied notes, chords, arpeggios, vibrato, staccato, tremolo, trills, mordent, turn,dynamics,alternating tempo signs, alternating key signs, multiple time signs, repeat signs, jump signs, chord signs, multi line lyrics, slurs, ties ... Perfectly support all kinds of performance signs of Guzheng: up slide, down slide, back slide, vibrato, shaking finger, flower finger, gliss, strum... Professional automatic layout function, adjustable layout parameters, adjustable bar density, font, font size, line spacing and other layout details can be adjusted according to user preferences. In addition to the 88 instruments built in App, you can also use your own sound font file (.sf2) , by coping the SF2 file to the SoundFonts directory to invoke the User SoundFonts in the application. Support exporting multiple file formats: PDF, MIDI, PNG, m4a compressed audio, wav lossless audio.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NumScore at $19.99 against Notation Pad Pro's $149.00. NumScore also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 61%). Notation Pad Pro's advantage is ratings volume (159 vs 9) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On rating, update cadence, 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
Notation Pad Pro costs $149.00 and NumScore $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Notation Pad Pro against 4.3 for NumScore. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Notation Pad Pro has 159 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Notation Pad Pro's written reviews are positive against 89% of NumScore's.
Notation Pad Pro ships an update every 3 weeks, NumScore every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Notation Pad Pro | NumScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $149.00 | $19.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (159 ratings) | 4.3 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 159 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 321 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | 嵩 张 | Supertintin Co., Ltd |
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Notation Pad Pro
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In-app purchases
Notation Pad Pro
No in-app purchases
NumScore
No in-app purchases
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