Comparison

Read It vs SeeScore 2

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

Head to head
About

Read It

This app provides recordings of French poems read by a language coach for singers. It helps users practice pronunciation, liaisons, and elisions for singing French melodies. Recordings are available offline and can be paused for repetition.

Highlights
  • Slow and clear poem readings
  • Focus on liaisons and elisions
  • Offline access to recordings
  • Pause and repeat functionality
  • Regularly updated content
  • 57 poems available
Features
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Read it ELM is a unique phone application to help your singers sing in French A portal to recordings of French poems used in mélodies read by Elise Lefay, language coach for singers. • Poems are read slowly and clearly with singing in mind • Includes liaisons, elisions and follows the way composers set words to music. • 57 poems are now available, requests for new material are accepted, new texts are added regularly. • Recordings can be accessible off-line to practice anywhere • Tracks can be paused to allow time to repeat words. Elise Lefay, French soprano, currently teaches languages and phonetics for singers at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and coached ensembles such as the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and opera companies (Nevill Holt, Meantime, Goldopera). What singers say: ''Elise's recordings are so clear, having the app is a bit like having a language coach in my pocket!'' ''This app has changed the way I learn French songs. It helps memorise words, and saved me a lot of time'' ''I can now practice my French on the tube or plane, that's amazing''

About

SeeScore 2

This music score viewer allows musicians to display and interact with MusicXML files on their devices. It offers flexible layout, playback with customizable instruments, and transposition features, making practice and performance more convenient.

Highlights
  • Display MusicXML scores
  • Flexible pinch-to-zoom layout
  • Playback with customizable instruments
  • Mute parts for practice
  • Instantaneous score transposition
  • Built-in metronome
  • Page turning with playback
Features
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** SeeScore 2 lets you view and play MusicXML files ** SeeScore 2 is a music score display app intended for musicians to practice or perform instrumental or vocal music from the iPad instead of using conventional paper scores. Unlike PDF score display apps which show a tiny score in the middle of the screen with large empty margins, SeeScore 2 uses flexible MusicXML layout so that when you pinch zoom the score reflows to the screen size, right up to the edge, making best use of your valuable screen pixels. Also you can choose any parts to view from multi-part music and change the size of the music to suit your distance from the iPad. Play SeeScore 2 will play with you. You can setup an instrument for each part in the score, and adjust the volumes. You can mute the part you play so it will accompany you, and it will turn the pages while it plays. You can hide all the parts except your own so you don't need to see the other parts while you play. Any tempi and time signatures defined in the score are read while playing and the metronome and auto-scroll automatically follow. Tranpose You can instantaneously transpose the score. Notes and key signatures are all correctly updated and it will play at the new pitch. Metronome SeeScore 2 can play a metronome tick with a pattern which automatically adjusts to the current time signature. Fast. You will notice that SeeScore 2 is extremely fast and responsive. You will never have to wait for a progress bar. The screen will instantly fill with music when you scroll, pinch zoom or transpose. PlayScore 2 You can convert your PDF files to MusicXML using PlayScore 2 (available in the App Store), then open them in SeeScore 2, or most score writing programs can output MusicXML directly. Free SeeScore 2 can: • Display any MusicXML score • Pinch zoom to change the staff height • Play any MusicXML score (auto selected instruments only) • Search your library by title, composer, instruments By upgrading you can: • Display selected parts • Set instruments • Set individual part volumes • Transpose • Use the metronome tick • Use count-in to start playing • Export MIDI and PDF • Add a metronome marking at the start of the score • Count-in • Play loop, for practising those few difficult bars • Use your Airturn pedal • Set title, composer etc. If you have any problem with SeeScore 2 or encounter any files which cause problems please contact us at www.seescore.co.uk/contact/ . If something doesn't work for you please contact us before writing a review. It may be a misunderstanding or we can fix your problem.

Screenshots

Read It4 screens
SeeScore 22 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Read It at none against SeeScore 2's 1. Read It also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

Both are free to download. SeeScore 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Read It asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Read It versus SeeScore 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRead ItSeeScore 2
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB68 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperELM PerformanceDolphin Computing

Customer experience

Read It

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SeeScore 2

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

Read It

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

SeeScore 2

One-time1
  • Upgrade SeeScore 2$9.99

Questions

Is Read It free?
Read It is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SeeScore 2 free?
SeeScore 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Read It or SeeScore 2 have ads?
Neither Read It nor SeeScore 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Read It or SeeScore 2?
Read It ships an update every 2 months, and SeeScore 2 every 2 months. Most recently, Read It was updated on October 2, 2026 and SeeScore 2 on October 3, 2026.

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