Digger Collection Listening vs ChoirXML
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digger Collection Listening
Personalize your music listening by rating songs based on your feelings and approachability. This app allows you to create custom keywords and comments for your collection, enhancing your music discovery experience.
- Impression dial inputs for approachability and energy
- Customizable high-level keywords
- Song rating and personal comments
- Search and play albums
- Continuous song selection based on filters
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Music is personal. Your collection is personal. Enhance your collected music experience by relating what you feel to the music you have chosen to own. Select based on what you think and feel. Digger features impression dial inputs for the fundamental song selection criteria of Approachability and Energy Level. As you listen, adjust these controls to match what you feel. Below the dials, you'll find custom extensible high level keywords you can apply for situational listening. If a song is particularly outstanding in your collection, adjust its rating and add a personal comment if you want. As with any music player, you can search your collection and play albums. What Digger uniquely provides is continuous selection of songs matching your own retrieval filtering of your own song characterizations. It's all you. Dig into your music.
ChoirXML
Transform printed sheet music into an editable digital format. Convert PDFs, scans, or photos into MusicXML, allowing playback, transposition, and sharing with notation apps. All processing is done locally on your device.
- Import sheet music from PDF, images, or camera
- Automatic page straightening
- Recognizes notes, rests, dynamics, and lyrics
- Editable score with bar-by-bar correction
- Playback with piano and choir sounds
- Export to MusicXML for notation apps
- On-device processing for privacy
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ChoirXML reads printed choral scores and turns them into MusicXML – the file every common notation app can open. An old sheet, a scan or a photo becomes an editable score you can listen to, transpose, re-engrave or share with your choir. IMPORT • PDF or image from Files, a photo from your library, or scan with the camera • several pages into one song • pages are straightened automatically • choose the kind of score or let ChoirXML tell: choir, piano, choir with piano, instrumental RECOGNITION • staves, clefs, key and time signatures, including changes along the way • notes and rests down to sixteenths, dots, triplets, chords and several voices per staff • ties, slurs, fermatas, multi-bar rests and pickup bars • lyrics with several verses – even when printed once for all voices • dynamics (pp to ff), crescendo and diminuendo hairpins, accents, staccato, tenuto and breath marks • chord symbols above the notes • pale, grey photocopies too CHECK AND CORRECT Your original on top, the recognised music below – bar by bar in the same place. Only what was uncertain is marked in red, and ChoirXML asks exactly about it: Is the length right? Is the pitch right? Does this syllable belong to this note? A loupe shows that spot of the original. • tap a note to change pitch, length, accidental, voice or expression • delete single notes of a chord • insert missing notes for one voice or for both – also onto the stem of a note where the voice divides • insert missing bar lines, set or remove a pickup bar • confirm a voice that sings only a few notes of its own right where they stand • assign a syllable by tapping its note • set clefs, keys, time signatures, slurs, fermatas, final bars and repeats • undo and redo every change LISTEN Play back what was recognised before you share it: with a recorded grand piano and a choir sound, the singing voices as a choir or as a piano. The sounding notes light up, and you set the tempo. EXPORT MusicXML with all voices, verses, markings and chord symbols – with one staff per voice (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, each with its own sound and part in your notation app) or like a piano score on two staves. Save it to Files or share it straight to your notation app. PRIVATE Everything happens on your iPad. No account, no subscription, no ads, no data collection. Your music leaves the device only when you share it. GOOD TO KNOW Recognition works best with cleanly printed music. Handwriting, smudged copies or very dense scores need more corrections – ChoirXML shows you exactly where. Please respect the rights to the music you scan.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ChoirXML at every 6 days against Digger Collection Listening's fortnightly. Digger Collection Listening's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Digger Collection Listening against 5.0 for ChoirXML. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Digger Collection Listening ships an update fortnightly, ChoirXML every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digger Collection Listening | ChoirXML |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eric Parker | Jonathan Froese |
Customer experience
Digger Collection Listening
ChoirXML
In-app purchases
Digger Collection Listening
No in-app purchases
ChoirXML
No in-app purchases
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