Score Creator vs Piano2Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Score Creator
Easily compose and edit sheet music on your mobile device. This app simplifies music creation with a text-keyboard-like interface for notes and chords, supports multiple instruments and clefs, and allows for lyric and chord symbol writing. It's ideal for songwriters, teachers, and students.
- Compose music scores with various clefs and symbols
- Write lyrics and chord symbols
- Multi-track support for different instruments
- Playback sound for each instrument
- Transpose songs and import/export MIDI/MusicXML
- Export to PDF and audio files
- Editing assistant features
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Score Creator is a music notation app for iPhone and iPad. Write sheet music as easily as texting a friend, let the app build a full accompaniment from just your melody (it adds the chords for you) or from chord symbols you have written, and scan printed sheet music from photos and PDF files. *** WRITE SHEET MUSIC Notes and chord symbols are entered with keyboards designed like a text keyboard: no tapping and zooming, no dragging from palettes. Write lead sheets, piano and solo scores, SATB choir scores and band scores with lyrics, chord symbols, dynamics, articulations and more, and listen to every instrument play it back. *** CREATE AN ACCOMPANIMENT Turn a melody into a complete arrangement in a few taps: - Suggest chords: the app proposes chord symbols for your melody, at a simple or an advanced level. - Create accompaniment: piano, guitar, bass, strings and drums are generated from your chord symbols. Choose the instruments you want. - 100 styles in 8 groups: Pop & Rock, Jazz, Latin, Dance & Folk, World, Classical, Electronic, and Songs & more, with patterns for common time signatures and odd meters such as 5/4 and 7/8. - Preview a style on the first measures of your score before you create it. - Rhythm from sparse to busy, and simple or rich harmony with seventh chords, smooth inversions and a bass with passing notes (rich harmony in the advanced version). - The accompaniment follows your music: it plays softer and louder with the melody's dynamics, gets fuller in the chorus, adds drum fills before new sections and ends on a held chord. - It stays in step while you edit: change a chord, the time signature or the key, or add measures, and the accompaniment is updated with it. - Mix it in the sound panel with one volume for the whole band or a level for each instrument. - Convert the accompaniment into regular staves to edit it note by note. - Export it with your score to MIDI and audio files. *** SCAN SHEET MUSIC Take a photo of printed sheet music or open a PDF file, and the app turns it into an editable score that you can play back, transpose and accompany. *** MORE FEATURES - Many instruments, including transposing instruments such as saxophones, clarinet and trumpet. - Transpose a score into any key. - Import MIDI and MusicXML files. - Export to MIDI, MusicXML, PDF, WAV and MP3. - Copy and paste, undo and redo. Score Creator is also a handy tool for music teachers and students: write exercises and favorite songs, play them back and practice along. *** End User License Agreement: https://www.termsfeed.com/eula/c6cf438c81097acbfd5a7d51600b6bba *** Privacy policy: The app does not collect or store any kind of personal information.
Piano2Notes
This app uses AI to convert piano recordings into sheet music. It provides playback of the transcribed score and allows export in various formats like PDF, MIDI, and MusicXML. Share your musical creations easily with others.
- Transcribe piano recordings to sheet music
- View transcribed music as classical score
- Playback sheet music
- Download sheet as PDF, MIDI, or MusicXML
- Share compositions
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» Transcribe piano recordings to sheet music » Transcribe piano MP3 files to sheet music » View the transcribed music as classical score » Playback the sheet music and listen to the result » Download sheet as PDF, MIDI, or MusicXML » Share your compositions with your friends HOW DOES IT FUNCTION? Once your music piece is uploaded, our artificial intelligence powered transcriber processes it to generate a sheet music based on what it hears. When the processing is finished, you get three outputs - a Midi file, a PDF engraved sheet, and a MusicXML digital note sheet. It has never been easier to convert piano pieces to sheet music! WHAT THIS APP DOESN'T OFFER » Separation of multiple instruments: The note recognition can't separate multiple instruments. If you record multiple instruments playing simultaneously you will get bad transcription results! As the name says, Piano2Notes will work only with piano recordings. » Live note recognition: This app is not able to show you live note recognition results. Instead, it will take some time to perform the frequency analysis and shows you the final sheet music. » 100% match percentage: This app won't detect 100% of the played notes and there will also be wrong detections. But depending on the quality of the input signal, it will give you more than useful sheet! REQUIREMENTS » Internet: active internet connection for server connectivity » Microphone SUMMARY Transcribe music recordings from your microphone to sheet music. With Piano2Notes you can create on-the-go recordings of your instrument. Those are uploaded to your personal songbook and transcribed to score. Musical note recognition for piano has never been so easy! CONTACT US We're always happy to hear from you. No matter what comes to your mind, we want to hear it. Would you like another feature? Does something not work as expected? Send us an e-mail at: support@piano2notes.com This app is actively developed and there are updates on a regular base The Apple Terms of Use apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Piano2Notes at 4.3 against Score Creator's 3.5. Score Creator's advantage is review sentiment (61% vs 37%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Score Creator sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Piano2Notes sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Piano2Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 495 and 294 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Score Creator's written reviews are positive against 37% of Piano2Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Score Creator ships an update every 11 days, Piano2Notes every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Score Creator | Piano2Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (495 ratings) | 4.3 (294 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.6% of reviews — better | 36.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 495 — better | 294 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 336 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRAN PHUONG | Klangio GmbH |
Customer experience
Score Creator
Piano2Notes
User reviews
Score Creator
From 495 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Great for composing music on the go
- 💡 Useful for learning and practicing music
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 🚀 Helpful for arranging and transcribing music
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🔇 Poor sound quality of instruments
- 🔇 Lack of dynamics and articulation support
- 🔇 Limited range of instruments
- 💰 Paywall for advanced features
Piano2Notes
From 294 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Dream come true app
- 🎶 Accurate music transcription
- 🎹 Converts music to piano sheet
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Great for composing
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- ❌ PDF export issues
- 📉 Inaccurate transcriptions
- 💸 Subscription costs are high
- 🚫 Cannot download anything
Bugs and requests
Score Creator
Reported bugs
5 issues- Sudden loss of data and unsaved work
- Playback issues, including notes not playing correctly
- Instrument key signatures not working as expected
- App crashing on launch or when opening certain scores
- Inability to edit or modify existing compositions
Requested features
7 requests- Add more percussion instruments
- Implement dynamics, articulations, and expression markings
- Allow for more than 2 instruments in the free version
- Improve the drum notation and playback
- Add support for chords, trills, and other advanced notation
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- Implement a swing/shuffle feature
- Improve the transposition and key signature handling
Piano2Notes
Reported bugs
17 issues- App stops working
- Desktop website doesn't work
- App crashes when creating PDF
- Subscription not recognized
- App crashes when tapping download button
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- Key not changing
- Cannot download anything
- PDF export issues
- Subscription restore function doesn't work
- Customer service not responding
- App logs out and loses info
- YouTube links not working
- App crashes on PDF creation
- Cannot fast forward
- App doesn't open
- Transcription speed mismatch
- PDF export changes notes
Requested features
9 requests- Ability to edit notes
- Improve general accuracy
- Add enharmonic transposition option
- Allow editing of transcribed music
- Fix PDF export issues
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- Add ability to use alternative sources (file, YouTube url)
- Improve speed of transcription
- Add dark mode
- More flexible ticket system
In-app purchases
Score Creator
- One-month full version$6.991 Month
- Basic user - one year$9.993 Months
- Three-month full version$13.993 Months
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- Basic user - one year$29.991 Year
- One-year full version$41.991 Year
- Basic user - full version$69.99
- Lifetime full version$167.99
Piano2Notes
- Piano2Notes Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Klangio Universe Monthly$24.991 Month
- Piano2Notes Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
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- Klangio Universe Subscription$149.991 Year
- Single Token$2.99
- 3 token package$5.99
- 10 tokens package$9.99
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- 50 Tokens Package$24.99








