Comparison

SongTab vs Score Master

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

Head to head
About

SongTab

Features
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SongTab is a chord recognition app designed for musicians and music enthusiasts. It identifies chords from audio, making it an essential tool for learning and transcribing songs. ## Key features: 1. Advanced Chord Recognition: SongTab excels at detecting a wide range of chords, from basic to complex jazz harmonies, including augmented, diminished, sixth chords, seventh chord, 7-flat-5 chords, inversions, and many others. 2. Capo Adjustment: Change virtual capo position to display transposed chord names. 3. Playback Speed Control: Alter song tempo without changing pitch. 4. Flexible Looping Options: Full song loop and A-B loop. ## Free Plan - Create 3 new projects per day - View chord progressions for the first minute of audio ## Pro Plan: - Identify chord progressions for entire songs - Unlimited projects - Adjustable playback speed ## About Subscriptions: SongTab offers three subscription plans to unlock unlimited access to all premium features: - 1-Month Subscription โ€“ $0.99 USD/month - 6-Month Subscription โ€“ $3.99 USD/half-year - 1-Year Subscription โ€“ $6.99 USD/year Prices may vary by region and are converted to local currencies according to the App Store pricing matrix. Subscription Terms: All plans are auto-renewable. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your App Store account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the then-current subscription price. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time by going to your App Store account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://soulreload.com/app/songtab/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Score Master

This app is a professional PDF sheet music reader designed for musicians. It offers features like high-quality PDF rendering, photo import, annotation tools, a metronome, and a tuner to enhance practice and performance workflows.

Highlights
  • High-quality PDF rendering
  • Photo to PDF conversion
  • Annotation tools
  • Built-in metronome
  • Chromatic tuner
  • Bluetooth page turner support
Features
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Score Master is a professional PDF sheet music reader built by musicians for real performance and practice workflows. 1. PDF Score Viewer - Clear, high-quality PDF rendering - Smooth navigation with pinch-to-zoom up to 5x - Two-page landscape view on iPad - Fade, slide, and scale page transitions 2. Photo Import - Import sheet music directly from your photo library - Automatically converts images to PDF - Combine multiple photos into one score or import them separately 3. ZIP Import - Import multiple PDFs from a single ZIP file - Automatically organize them and create a setlist 4. Pages Manager - Add, duplicate, remove, and drag to reorder pages - Multi-select pages with undo and redo support - Add templates or extract selected pages as a new score or PDF 5. Score Enhancement - Enhance photographed or scanned scores directly in Pages Manager - Preview paper cleanup, brightness, contrast, sharpness, black-and-white, and perspective adjustments in real time - Enhance one page or multiple pages, use automatic enhancement, or reset to the original 6. Half-Page Turn - Preview half of the next page for smoother page turns 7. Apple Pencil Annotation - Pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso, text, lines, shapes, and arrows - Adjustable tool widths displayed in points - Per-page auto-save with undo and redo 8. Metronome - Save tempo and time signature for each score - Supports 20โ€“300 BPM and customizable accent patterns - Change tempo during playback without restarting the beat 9. Chromatic Tuner - Real-time note, frequency, and cents detection - Adjustable A4 reference from 415โ€“466 Hz - Sharp and flat note-name options 10. Piano Roll - Scrollable 88-key piano keyboard - Tap or slide across keys to check pitches 11. Library & Setlists - Create setlists for performance or practice - Add songs, new scores, photos, and files directly to a setlist - Favorites and alphabetical navigation 12. Bluetooth Page Turners - Supports foot pedals and Bluetooth controllers - Works with arrow keys, Page Up/Down, spacebar, and volume buttons 13. Themes - Multiple color themes with White, Sepia, and Dark score backgrounds 14. Share Extension - Import scores directly from other apps through the share sheet Score Master๋Š” ๋ฎค์ง€์…˜์ด ์‹ค์ œ ์—ฐ์ฃผ์™€ ์—ฐ์Šต ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ „๋ฌธ PDF ์•…๋ณด ๋ฆฌ๋”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1. PDF ์•…๋ณด ๋ทฐ์–ด - ์„ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ณ ํ’ˆ์งˆ PDF ๋ Œ๋”๋ง - ์ตœ๋Œ€ 5๋ฐฐ ํ•€์น˜ ์คŒ๊ณผ ๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ™”๋ฉด ์ด๋™ - iPad ๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ชจ๋“œ 2ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ํŽผ์นจ ๋ณด๊ธฐ - ํŽ˜์ด๋“œ, ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ, ์Šค์ผ€์ผ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ์ „ํ™˜ 2. ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ - ์‚ฌ์ง„์ฒฉ์˜ ์•…๋ณด ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™€ PDF๋กœ ์ž๋™ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ - ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์•…๋ณด๋กœ ํ•ฉ์น˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์•…๋ณด๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ 3. ZIP ์ผ๊ด„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ - ZIP ํŒŒ์ผ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ PDF๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ - ์•…๋ณด ์ž๋™ ์ •๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ์…‹๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์ƒ์„ฑ 4. ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ - ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€, ๋ณต์ œ, ์ œ๊ฑฐ ๋ฐ ๋“œ๋ž˜๊ทธ ์ •๋ ฌ - ๋‹ค์ค‘ ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ์‹คํ–‰ ์ทจ์†Œยท๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹คํ–‰ ์ง€์› - ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ ์„ ํƒํ•œ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ ์•…๋ณด๋‚˜ PDF๋กœ ์ถ”์ถœ 5. ์•…๋ณด ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๋ณด์ • - ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ์Šค์บ” ์•…๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ณด์ • - ์ข…์ด ์ •๋ฆฌ, ๋ฐ๊ธฐ, ๋Œ€๋น„, ์„ ๋ช…๋„, ํ‘๋ฐฑ, ์›๊ทผ ๋ณด์ •์„ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ๋ณด๊ธฐ - ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ยท์ผ๊ด„ยท์ž๋™ ๋ณด์ • ๋ฐ ์›๋ณธ ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ดˆ๊ธฐํ™” ์ง€์› 6. ํ•˜ํ”„ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ํ„ด - ๋‹ค์Œ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€์˜ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ์ „ํ™˜ 7. Apple Pencil ํ•„๊ธฐ - ํŽœ, ํ˜•๊ด‘ํŽœ, ์ง€์šฐ๊ฐœ, ์˜ฌ๊ฐ€๋ฏธ, ํ…์ŠคํŠธ, ์„ , ๋„ํ˜•, ํ™”์‚ดํ‘œ ์ง€์› - ํ•„๊ธฐ๋„๊ตฌ ๊ตต๊ธฐ๋ฅผ pt ๋‹จ์œ„๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์กฐ์ ˆ - ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ณ„ ์ž๋™ ์ €์žฅ๊ณผ ์‹คํ–‰ ์ทจ์†Œยท๋‹ค์‹œ ์‹คํ–‰ 8. ๋ฉ”ํŠธ๋กœ๋†ˆ - ๊ณก๋ณ„ ํ…œํฌ์™€ ๋ฐ•์ž ์ €์žฅ - 20โ€“300 BPM ๋ฐ ๋น„ํŠธ๋ณ„ ์•…์„ผํŠธ ์„ค์ • - ์žฌ์ƒ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ํ…œํฌ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ 9. ํฌ๋กœ๋งคํ‹ฑ ํŠœ๋„ˆ - ์Œ์ •, ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ์„ผํŠธ ํŽธ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ง€ - A4 ๊ธฐ์ค€์Œ 415โ€“466Hz ์กฐ์ ˆ - ์ƒต๊ณผ ํ”Œ๋žซ ์Œ์ด๋ฆ„ ํ‘œ๊ธฐ ์„ ํƒ 10. ํ”ผ์•„๋…ธ ๋กค - ์Šคํฌ๋กค ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ 88๊ฑด๋ฐ˜ ํ”ผ์•„๋…ธ - ๊ฑด๋ฐ˜์„ ํƒญํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํ›‘์–ด ์Œ์ • ํ™•์ธ 11. ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ & ์…‹๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ - ๊ณต์—ฐ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ์Šต์šฉ ์…‹๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ - ๊ธฐ์กด ๋…ธ๋ž˜, ์ƒˆ ์•…๋ณด, ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋ฐ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ์…‹๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ - ์ฆ๊ฒจ์ฐพ๊ธฐ์™€ ์•ŒํŒŒ๋ฒณ ์ธ๋ฑ์Šค ์ง€์› 12. ๋ธ”๋ฃจํˆฌ์Šค ํŽ˜์ด์ง€ ํ„ฐ๋„ˆ - ํ’‹ ํŽ˜๋‹ฌ ๋ฐ ๋ธ”๋ฃจํˆฌ์Šค ์ปจํŠธ๋กค๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์› - ํ™”์‚ดํ‘œ, Page Up/Down, ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋ฐ”, ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ ํ˜ธํ™˜ 13. ํ…Œ๋งˆ - ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ปฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ…Œ๋งˆ์™€ ํ™”์ดํŠธ, ์„ธํ”ผ์•„, ๋‹คํฌ ์•…๋ณด ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ 14. ๊ณต์œ  ํ™•์žฅ - ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์•ฑ์˜ ๊ณต์œ  ๋ฒ„ํŠผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์•…๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜ค๊ธฐ

Screenshots

SongTab4 screens
Score Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SongTab at Free against Score Master's $9.99. Score Master's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

SongTab is free to download; Score Master costs $9.99 up front. SongTab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Score Master asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SongTab ships an update every 8 months, Score Master every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
SongTab versus Score Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSongTabScore Master
PriceFree โ€” better$9.99
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Monetizationโ€”Paid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better17.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size28 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅฐ่ˆŸ ่‹Sanghyun Park

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SongTab

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Pro Half-yearly$3.996 Months
  • Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
None

Score Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SongTab free?
SongTab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Score Master free?
Score Master costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SongTab or Score Master have ads?
Neither SongTab nor Score Master shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SongTab or Score Master?
SongTab ships an update every 8 months, and Score Master every 3 weeks. Most recently, SongTab was updated on November 8, 2026 and Score Master on November 7, 2026.

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