Comparison

IMSLP Practice vs Sheetly

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

Head to head
About

IMSLP Practice

Access a vast library of public domain classical music scores and enhance your practice with integrated tools. Annotate directly on scores, use a metronome and tuner, record yourself, and organize your music for lessons or performances. Import your own PDFs and use hands-free page turning.

Highlights
  • Vast public domain score library
  • In-app metronome and tuner
  • Score annotation with Apple Pencil/finger
  • Practice session recording and playback
  • Practice plan creation and logging
  • Hands-free page turning
  • Import personal PDFs and forScore backups
Features
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IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library, the public domain collection of classical scores that musicians have relied on since 2006. This app puts it on your device, and gives you somewhere to work on it. FIND A SCORE Search by work, composer or instrument, or browse a composer's catalogue the way you would a shelf. Open anything straight away, or download it and keep it. Once a score is on your device it stays there, and it opens with no connection at all. MARK IT UP Annotate with Apple Pencil or your finger: fingerings, bowings, cuts, a reminder for the next rehearsal. Your marks stay with the score. PRACTICE ON IT A metronome and a chromatic tuner sit in the same window as the music, so you never put the score down to reach them. Record a take while you play, then listen back against the page you were reading. KEEP TRACK Build practice plans, log what you worked on, and see where the time actually went. ORGANISE Group scores into setlists for a concert or a lesson, and into collections for everything else. Put them in the order you play them, and they open that way. BRING YOUR OWN Import PDFs, photograph a printed part, or bring a forScore backup across. Your existing library comes with you. HANDS FREE Optional head-gesture page turning, so you can keep both hands on the instrument. It uses the front camera, it is off until you turn it on, and nothing leaves the device. MEMBERSHIP A free account holds ten scores and ten hours of recordings. An IMSLP membership lifts both limits, removes the download wait, lets you upload your own recordings, and opens the commercial recordings. It also keeps IMSLP itself free and open for everyone who reads from it. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Terms_of_Service_and_Privacy_policy_(app)

About

Sheetly

Instantly play back any sheet music by scanning it with your phone. Get instant answers to your musical questions from an AI coach and loop difficult sections to master them. Practice smarter and faster with interactive notation.

Highlights
  • Scan sheet music with camera
  • Play back scanned scores
  • Adjust tempo and loop sections
  • AI coach for musical questions
  • Import MusicXML files
  • Change playback instrument
Features
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Sheetly is a sheet music scanner with an AI coach built in: point your phone at any score and hear it play. Ever stare at a new piece and have no idea how it's supposed to sound? Or lose the tempo halfway through because counting just isn't clicking? Sheetly fixes that. Point your camera at any sheet music and Sheetly plays it back to you. Hear the piece before you play it, slow it down while you learn it, and loop the exact bars you keep messing up until they stick. And when you're unsure about a note (what it is, how it's played, which position or fingering to use), just ask. Sheetly's built-in AI coach reads your score and answers instantly, like having a teacher in your pocket. WHAT SHEETLY DOES • Scan sheet music with your camera and it turns into playable, interactive notation • Scan up to four pages of one piece into a single score • Hear any piece played back, at any tempo • Loop tricky sections until they're muscle memory • Change the playback instrument • Ask the AI coach about notes, rhythms, keys, positions, and anything else in your score • Import MusicXML files directly FREE AND PRO Free: play, loop and record the starter scores, scan one page a month, and ask three coach questions on every score. Pro: unlimited scans, unlimited AI coach questions, export to PDF, MIDI and MusicXML, and MusicXML import. WHO IT'S FOR Whether you're a student learning your first pieces, playing in a school band or orchestra, or coming back to an instrument after years away: if you read sheet music, Sheetly makes practice faster and less frustrating. I'm a teenage trombonist, and I was tired of losing count and forgetting positions. Sheetly is the practice tool I wished existed, so I built it. Hear it before you play it. SUBSCRIPTION Sheetly Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, available as: • Sheetly Pro Monthly: 1 month, US$11.99 • Sheetly Pro Yearly: 1 year, US$39.99 (with a free trial) Prices are shown in your local currency in the app before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.trysheetly.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.trysheetly.com/privacy

Screenshots

IMSLP Practice4 screens
Sheetly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: IMSLP Practice at 5.0 against Sheetly's 4.1. IMSLP Practice also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sheetly's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. IMSLP Practice sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Sheetly sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

IMSLP Practice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sheetly has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IMSLP Practice ships an update weekly, Sheetly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
IMSLP Practice versus Sheetly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIMSLP PracticeSheetly
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.1 (11 ratings)
Number of ratings111 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size237 MB86 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperProject Petrucci LLCCARL HENRIK RANMAR

Customer experience

IMSLP Practice

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sheetly

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

IMSLP Practice

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$3.991 Month
  • Annual Membership$35.991 Year
5 purchases

Sheetly

Subscriptions5
  • Sheetly Pro Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Sheetly Pro Annual1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Sheetly Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
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  • Sheetly Pro Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Sheetly Pro Annual14 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is IMSLP Practice free?
IMSLP Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sheetly free?
Sheetly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, IMSLP Practice or Sheetly?
IMSLP Practice is rated higher. IMSLP Practice averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Sheetly averages 4.1 from 11 ratings.
Do IMSLP Practice or Sheetly have ads?
Sheetly shows ads; IMSLP Practice does not.
Which is updated more often, IMSLP Practice or Sheetly?
IMSLP Practice ships an update weekly, and Sheetly every 5 days. Most recently, IMSLP Practice was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sheetly on November 1, 2026.

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