Comparison

Piascore vs Quantz Tuner Free

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

Head to head
About

Piascore

This app digitizes sheet music for musicians, eliminating the need for physical scores. It offers free access to over 130,000 classical pieces and tools for annotation, organization, and playback.

Highlights
  • Digital sheet music reader
  • Free classical score library
  • Annotation tools
  • Smart browsing and page turns
  • Automatic scrolling
  • Metronome and tuner
  • PDF import
Features
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** More than 7,000,000 musicians around the world use Piascore! ** ** Fully optimized for iPad Pro and iPhone 18! ** Piascore is a digital sheet music reader for iPad and iPhone, made for pianists, guitarists and every other musician who plays from a score. The idea behind it is simple: all the world's sheet music, right there in your hands. It takes on the everyday problems every performer knows too well. No more hauling a bag of heavy binders to rehearsal, and no more digging through piles of paper for the one piece you need. ** Features ** : Annotate freely Six pens, each with its own color, thickness and nib, let you mark up a score exactly as you would on paper. Stamps for dynamics and other symbols, plus text boxes, make annotating quick. : Smart browsing Our own rendering engine gives you page turns among the fastest anywhere. Jump straight to the first or last page, preview a page before you turn to it, and crop pages to enlarge the staves for easier reading. Password-protected PDFs are supported. : Automatic vertical scrolling and half-page turns Let the score scroll by itself and forget about turning pages altogether. The scrolling speed is yours to set. : Over 130,000 classical scores to download for free Piascore connects to IMSLP (the International Music Score Library Project) / Petrucci Music Library, so you can download 131,000 public domain works by 16,200 composers, free of charge. : Plenty of ways to bring in your own scores Piascore reads PDF files. Transfer your own scores over iTunes File Sharing, import them from Dropbox, photograph printed music with the camera, or download a score you found in Safari. : Easy library management Tags and setlists keep even a large library in order, with powerful sorting and keyword search. : Metronome A metronome with a natural, realistic sound to keep your daily practice on track. : Piascore music tools Everything a musician needs beside the score: a keyboard, a chromatic tuner, a music player (iTunes) and a voice recorder. : Custom covers Use a photo or any image you like to give each score its own cover. : Editable table of contents Build your own table of contents, or import one from the PDF. : Reorder pages, jump between them Put the pages in whatever order suits you. For repeats, D.S. and the like, place a jump button on the page and go straight where the music takes you. : Export your scores Print an annotated score over AirPrint, or send it by email. : The Piascore Store Classical works, folk songs and easy arrangements, all in one store. Search by genre or by artist and find that piece you have been looking for. : Air Page Turning (iPhone required) Pair an iPhone running the companion app "Piascore Air" and turn pages more easily than ever, without touching the screen at all. : AirTurn Bluetooth pedal support Connect an AirTurn pedal and turn pages with your foot. ** Praise ** "This is a sheet music viewer that is genuinely worth having" - GRAMOPHONE "Very easy to use, a beautiful sound library" - appPicker "The most wonderful and convenient music sheet viewer you can't miss!" - Best10Apps.com "Impressed with the outstanding visibility!" - AppBank ** Award ** : 2011 International Business Awards - Consumer Entertainment / Information (Distinguished Honoree) : 2012 4th SF NewTech Japan Night Winner ** FAQ ** : https://help.piascore.com/ ** Contact ** : https://piascore.com/ : support@piascore.com

About

Quantz Tuner Free

Visualize your musical pitch and vibrato with real-time detection and five unique tools. Record and review your performance to perfect your intonation and rhythm. Ideal for musicians of all levels seeking a new way to understand their sound.

Highlights
  • Real-time pitch detection
  • 5 unique visualization tools
  • Pitch and vibrato recording
  • Tuning Circle for in-tune feedback
  • Pitch Line for vibrato analysis
  • Color Fifths for tonal relationships
  • Pitch Tendencies for accuracy
Features
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This is the free version of Quantz Tuner which contains ads. See the "Quantz Tuner" app for an identical app without ads. See Your Sound! Quantz Tuner is a music visualization tuning app. It combines real-time pitch detection with 5 unique visualization tools, creating a completely new way to see sound. Its powerful pitch detection algorithm is sensitive enough to record minute fluctuations in vibrato and pitch. Quantz tuner even records your pitch visualizations, allowing you to review your pitch and vibrato information. www.quantztuner.com TUNING CIRCLE shows your pitch in real-time as a responsive circle. When the circle is perfectly round, your pitch is in tune. It is very easy to use with young players. This tool is also sensitive enough to show the speed and pitch fluctuations of your vibrato. PITCH LINE is sensitive enough to detect your vibrato’s speed, depth, and regularity throughout your instrument or vocal range. It records your pitch in real time on a graph so that you can look back at your pitch and vibrato history. You can even use this tool to learn to play quartertones and microtones. NOTE BAR works similarly to Pitch Line, except that pitch is represented by a bar instead of by a dynamic line. Note Bar is best used to examine pitch and rhythm issues with beginning players. COLOR FIFTHS shows the color wheel superimposed upon the circle of fifths. When you play a given note the appropriate circle will respond by growing. When you stop playing that note the circle shrinks. The natural relationship of tonality and color is exposed and you can observe the color palates and patterns of different types of scales. PITCH TENDENCIES shows your pitch tendencies accumulated over time. Leave it on while playing for several minutes or an entire piece and observe your tendency to be flat or sharp on any given note. Play, See, Perfect!

Screenshots

Piascore4 screens
Quantz Tuner Free1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Quantz Tuner Free at none against Piascore's 10. Quantz Tuner Free also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 82%). Piascore's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 7). On price, 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. Piascore sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Quantz Tuner Free asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quantz Tuner Free holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piascore has 1.9K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Piascore's written reviews are positive against 100% of Quantz Tuner Free's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Piascore versus Quantz Tuner Free: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiascoreQuantz Tuner Free
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.9K ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K — better7
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPiascore, Inc.Shelly Granger

Customer experience

Piascore

All ratings1,927 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews1,383 reviews
Positive81.6%
Neutral6.6%
Negative11.9%

Quantz Tuner Free

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Piascore

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unreliable facial gesture page turning
  • Issues with downloading and importing files
  • Inconsistent behavior when making edits

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to add/insert pages to existing scores
  • More customization options for annotations and page turning
  • Improved syncing across devices
  • Better support for guitar tablature and chord charts

Quantz Tuner Free

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Piascore

One-time9
  • Music Sheet$0.99
  • Music Sheet$1.99
  • Music Sheet$2.99
Show 6 more
  • Music Sheet$3.99
  • Music Sheet$4.99
  • Piascore Full Upgrading$5.99
  • Music Sheet$5.99
  • Music Sheet$6.99
  • Music Sheet2 variants$9.99
None

Quantz Tuner Free

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piascore free?
Piascore is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quantz Tuner Free free?
Quantz Tuner Free is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Piascore or Quantz Tuner Free?
Quantz Tuner Free is rated higher. Piascore averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Quantz Tuner Free averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Piascore or Quantz Tuner Free have ads?
Neither Piascore nor Quantz Tuner Free shows ads.

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