Comparison

Score Creator vs Patcher

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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.

About

Patcher

Features
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Patcher is the input list, done properly. Build the channel chart for a show, see where every line lands on the stage, and get it to the people who need it — from your phone, at the desk. THE CHANNEL CHART Every input and output in one list: the name, the console patch, the stage patch, which stage box it lands in, the group it belongs to, the device on the end of it, and the notes that matter at line check. SEE THE STAGE, NOT A SPREADSHEET The stage box view shows the actual sockets, laid out the way the box is, colour-coded by group. Working out what is in socket 14 takes a glance instead of a scroll. A LIBRARY THAT REMEMBERS Save the groups and endpoint devices you use on every show — the mics, the DIs, the packs — and they autocomplete on the next one. The second chart takes a fraction of the time the first did. IT WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Venues have terrible reception, and load-in is exactly when you need the chart. Patcher keeps the last show you opened on the device and tells you how old that copy is, so you can read every screen with no bars at all. SHARE IT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT Invite the monitor engineer as an editor, or anyone else as a viewer. Or hand the whole list over as a CSV through the share sheet, which works over AirDrop with no network between you at all. BUILT FOR THE ROOM IT IS USED IN A dark theme that stays dark, controls big enough to hit one-handed, and a layout that works on a phone in your pocket and on an iPad on the desk. No adverts, no tracking, no analytics. Just the patch.

Screenshots

Score Creator4 screens
Patcher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patcher at none against Score Creator's 7. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Score Creator sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Patcher asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Score Creator versus Patcher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScore CreatorPatcher
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (495 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings495 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size307 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTRAN PHUONGJames Cox

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

Patcher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Score Creator

Subscriptions5
  • 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$32.991 Year
One-time2
  • Basic user - full version$69.99
  • Lifetime full version$98.99
None

Patcher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Score Creator free?
Score Creator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patcher free?
Patcher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Score Creator or Patcher have ads?
Neither Score Creator nor Patcher shows ads.

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