Score Wizard vs Guitar Note Recognizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Score Wizard
This app is a PDF reader designed for musicians that automatically turns pages by listening to your performance. It also offers tools to clean up scanned sheet music, convert photos to PDF, and organize your music library.
- Intelligent score following listens to playing
- Automatic page turning
- Clean, crop, and straighten scanned music
- Import from IMSLP
- Convert photos to PDF
- Bluetooth pedal and gesture controls
- Music-optimized video conferencing
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Focus entirely on your performance while Score Wizard handles the rest. Designed by a pianist for professional musicians, this intelligent PDF reader listens to your playing and turns pages automatically – no pedals, no distractions, just your music. HANDS-FREE PAGE TURNING: No more Bluetooth pedals. The app follows your performance in real-time with reliable, concert-tested score following. Just play – Score Wizard keeps up. PRISTINE DIGITAL SCORES: Instantly clean, crop, and straighten scans. Import from IMSLP with a single tap or convert photos to PDF. TOTAL ORGANIZATION: Manage your library via the iPadOS Files interface with seamless iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive sync. Build setlists for gigs, bookmark key pages, rearrange pages with drag-and-drop. ANNOTATE WITH PURPOSE: Mark up your scores with music symbols, highlights, and notes. Your annotations travel with your PDFs. VERSATILE CONTROLS: Prefer a pedal? Bluetooth page turners are fully supported – and so are regular hand gestures and even eye blinks. Use whatever works for your setup. THE VIRTUAL STUDIO: Enjoy unlimited, music-optimized video conferencing with best-in-class audio for lessons. Write assignments on score-attached text notes. Also available on Mac. Import, annotate, and organize your library at your desk – then perform from your iPad on stage. Score Wizard – Your Library, Your Way.
Guitar Note Recognizer
This tool helps identify guitar fretboard notes using your device's microphone. It offers high-quality sounds and supports various tuning systems, assisting in music learning and instrument tuning.
- Fretboard note identification
- Real-time audio analysis
- Multiple tuning systems
- Pitch detection and tuning fork
- Works in noisy environments
- Automatic note detection
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Guitar Note Recognizer is the simplest and the best tool for the fretboard note identification of the guitar. It has the high-quality sounds of the tuned acoustic guitar. Standard, drop D, drop A, open C, half step down, and many more. The application captures audio signal using the microphone and performs Fast Fourier Transform in order to analyser the signal and determine its frequency, which in turn determines the note being played. Guitar Note Recognizer that Assists Music Learning by Detecting and Processing Musical Characteristics from Microphone in Real-Time. Guitar Note Recognizer to help you quickly and easily tune your musical instrument. As a pitch detector the tuner app is capable of working in noisy environment. This tuning app also works as a pitch pipe and can sound a reference note to tune your instrument. Pitched Tuner displays a traditional tuner needle and dial. Guitar Note Recognizer designed in collaboration with The Great And professional singing teacher. User can choose from different strings naming systems such as - Standard Tuning (E-A-D-G-B-E)", - Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E) - Open D Tuning (D-A-D-F#-A-D) - Open C Tuning (C-G-C-G-C-E) - Open A Tuning (E-A-C#-E-A-E) - Open B Tuning (B-F#-B-F#-B-D#) - Open E Tuning (E-B-E-G#-B-E) - Open F Tuning (F-A-C-F-C-F) - Open G Tuning (D-G-D-G-B-D) - Half step (D#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#) - One step down (D-G-C-F-A-D) - F-A-D-G-B-E - D-A-D-G-A-D - D-A-D-D-A-D - C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D# Easy to use and innovative must have features are all included. - The most acoustic, electric or bass guitar tuning app - Super fast and simple user interface! - Automatic note detection - Analog like needle - Exact frequency display. - Wide Detection Range - Clean bright and simple analog like UI - High precision tuner - Tuning fork, pitched pipe - An Alternative tunings app for other musical instrument - Works in noisy surroundings - Input microphone volume control to control microphone gain. - No advertisements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Score Wizard at 83% against Guitar Note Recognizer's 0%. Score Wizard also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Guitar Note Recognizer's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $7.99) and update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). 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
Score Wizard costs $7.99 and Guitar Note Recognizer $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Score Wizard holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Score Wizard has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Score Wizard's written reviews are positive against 0% of Guitar Note Recognizer's.
Score Wizard ships an update monthly, Guitar Note Recognizer every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Score Wizard | Guitar Note Recognizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (12 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ron Regev | Suresh Verma |
Customer experience
Score Wizard
Guitar Note Recognizer
In-app purchases
Score Wizard
No in-app purchases
Guitar Note Recognizer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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