Score Creator vs Crescendo Masters Edition
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 composition application that is specially designed for mobile platforms. It's a simple but powerful music creation tool that caters to your need to write music on the go. *** The app's user experience is completely optimized to make composing music on mobile devices easier and faster than ever. No more "tapping and zooming" the screen just to add a music note or a chord symbol. No more "dragging and dropping" from the palette just to add a sharp/flat sign. All you need to do to write a song is tap the keyboards (notes and chords) that are designed like a text keyboard. COMPOSING MUSIC IS NOW AS SIMPLE AS TEXTING YOUR FRIENDS! *** Apart from being a songwriting app for songwriters, Score Creator also functions as a music teaching and learning tool for music teachers and students. Teachers can teach students how to read music notation by directly entering music notes into the app and playing back the song, while music students can practice by themselves by notating their favorite songs in the app and playing along with their own musical instruments. *** The app is a perfect tool for writing different types of sheet music, including lead sheets, solo instrument scores, SATB choir scores, sheet music for brass & woodwind bands, and more. *** FEATURES: - Compose music scores. The app supports treble, alto, bass and neutral clefs, with a wide range of notes and music symbols: note lengths, time signatures, key signatures, slurs, ties, dynamics, articulations & ornaments, and more. - Write lyrics. - Write chord symbols. - Multiple tracks with different instruments: piano, guitar, violin, saxophone, drums, flute, horn, tuba, ukulele, mandolin, and more. - Scores for transposing instruments: saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone), Bb clarinet, Bb trumpet, and more. - Playback sound for each instrument. - Transpose songs into any key. - Import songs from MIDI & MusicXML files. - Change clef, time/key signature and tempo in the middle of a song. - Export songs to MIDI or MusicXML files so that they can be imported into other apps such as Finale, Encore, MuseScore, and Sibelius. The files can be copied to your computer or sent via email. - Send exported MIDI files to other apps on your current device. - Import MIDI files from other apps. - Export songs to PDF files. - Export songs to audio files (.wav, .mp3). - Editing features: multi-note selection, copy & paste, undo & redo, and more. - SCAN SHEET MUSIC FROM PHOTOS. - SCAN SHEET MUSIC FROM PDF FILES. *** End User License Agreement: https://www.termsfeed.com/eula/c6cf438c81097acbfd5a7d51600b6bba *** Privacy policy: The app does not collect or store any kind of personal information.
Crescendo Masters Edition
Easily arrange professional-quality sheet music, guitar tabs, and percussion notation. Add notes, accidentals, text, and lyrics, then listen back to your compositions with MIDI playback. This tool is ideal for composers to write, save, and print their musical ideas.
- Create sheet music, guitar tabs, percussion notation
- Change time and key signatures
- Add whole to thirty-second notes with accidentals
- Drag notes to adjust pitch and placement
- Add text for titles, tempo, dynamics, lyrics
- MIDI playback for compositions
- Save and print music
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Crescendo Masters makes arranging your own professional quality sheet music fun and easy. Create sheet music, guitar tabs, or percussion notation. With Crescendo, you can easily change the time signature and key signature and choose between Treble, Bass, Tenor, and Alto Clefs. Add notes from whole to thirty-second and assign sharps, flats, or natural accidentals to them. You can also easily drag notes to change their pitch or placement. Place text wherever in your sheet music to add titles, specify tempo changes and dynamics, or write lyrics. When you are finished, listen back to your composition with MIDI playback. Crescendo is the perfect program for composers to write, save and print their music compositions on their computer. This version of Crescendo is under a 7-day free trial. Once the trial expires, you will have to pay for the subscription in order to access the full features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Score Creator at 495 against Crescendo Masters Edition's 7. Score Creator also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 50%). Crescendo Masters Edition's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 3.5) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15). On price, update cadence, 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 $4.99 per month and Crescendo Masters Edition sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crescendo Masters Edition holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Score Creator has 495 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Score Creator's written reviews are positive against 50% of Crescendo Masters Edition'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, Crescendo Masters Edition fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Score Creator | Crescendo Masters Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (495 ratings) | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 495 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Fortnightly |
| 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 307 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TRAN PHUONG | NCH Software |
Customer experience
Score Creator
Crescendo Masters Edition
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
Crescendo Masters Edition
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Score Creator
- One-month full version$4.991 Month
- Basic user - one year$6.993 Months
- Three-month full version$10.993 Months
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- Basic user - one year$20.991 Year
- One-year full version$33.491 Year
- Basic user - full version$69.99
- Lifetime full version$98.99
Crescendo Masters Edition
- Full Features (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
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