SM Music Reader vs Smartleggio

SM Music Reader is a free and fully accessible app for everyone to read scores written in MusicXML format. It supports drawing the score, playing and reading with screen reader like Voiceover, so both sighted and blind users can exchange the same score at the same time. The app is connected to Sao Mai online music library with thousands of MusicXML scores. SM Music Reader currently provides the following features: • Read music files written in MusicXML format, • Draw sheet music for exchanging scores among both sighted people and people with visual impairment at the same time, • Play MIDI files: o Play all, by part, staff, current measure and by highlighted passage, o Forward, rewind and loop playback, o Adjust tempo, customize metronome options, volume and select instruments’ voices for each part. • Support reading with screen readers: o View the whole part or selected staff, o Speak note by note and bar by bar, o Speak in order of by voice (horizontal) and by timestamp (vertically), o Speak most details of the score like directions, chords, nuances, slurs/ties, ornaments, fingerings/strings, lyrics, etc. • Braille music translation • Navigate to a certain bar or line, • Set bookmarks, • Manage your favorite lists and view the file’s details, • Access Sao Mai music sharing library, As a non-profit organization, Sao Mai Center for the Blind relies entirely on our sponsored projects and financial aids from donors. Therefore, your contributions, in any manner, will more or less help us maintain and develop this app, as well as other useful tools for the blind.

Smartleggio is a sheet music reader application which tries to improve the process of reading and performing from sheet music. It supports popular MusicXML and PDF file formats and is able to perform automatic page turning while you are playing the score. Main features of Smartleggio: - Support for sheet music in widespread MusicXML and PDF file formats; - Own file format designed for optimal experience of reading sheet music on tablets and other mobile devices; - Automatic page turning using microphone data or data from a MIDI connection; - Manual context-aware page turning using Bluetooth page turner or swipe up/down gestures; - Experimental OMR (optical music recognition) functionality for PDF scores to facilitate playback and automatic page turning for scores in this format; - Basic score library management features (playlists, search etc.); - Basic editing and annotation features (handwriting notes, repeats structure editing, for MusicXML a limited music content editing is available); - Access to a free online library of piano scores. The application is currently focused on piano experience but can be useful for other pitched instrument players as well. Smartleggio is being actively developed, and the team plans to expand and improve the application in future. If you have any suggestions, feedback or face any issues with the app, please write us an e-mail at support@smartleggio.com.