Comparison

IMSLP Practice vs Sight

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

Sight

Features
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Build the skill to read and play music at first sight. Sight-Reading Master creates a fresh score for every session, so you can practice reading instead of memorizing. Choose a difficulty, key and time signature, read against the clock, then listen to the reference melody and review your practice history. Features • A newly generated score every session • Adjustable difficulty, key and meter • Clear notation rendered by a dedicated score engine • Reference melody playback • Session-by-session practice history • No account required Recommended for music students, accompanists, ensemble players and anyone who wants to make score reading feel natural. An internet connection is required to generate and play scores. Ads and subscription · The app is free and supported by ads: a bottom banner, an optional rewarded ad when you generate a new score, and an occasional interstitial when you ask for another score from the review screen. · Prefer no ads? Subscribe to Ad-Free — US$0.99 per week, auto-renewing, no free trial. · The subscription removes the banner, interstitial and rewarded ads. · It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Cancel any time in Subscriptions under your Apple ID. Privacy Policy: https://mongsangsalon.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

IMSLP Practice4 screens
Sight2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sight at none against IMSLP Practice's 2. IMSLP Practice's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). On price, 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. IMSLP Practice sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sight asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IMSLP Practice ships an update weekly, Sight every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
IMSLP Practice versus Sight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIMSLP PracticeSight
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size237 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProject Petrucci LLCduck kyung lee

In-app purchases

2 purchases

IMSLP Practice

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$3.991 Month
  • Annual Membership$35.991 Year
None

Sight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IMSLP Practice free?
IMSLP Practice is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sight free?
Sight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IMSLP Practice or Sight have ads?
Sight shows ads; IMSLP Practice does not.
Which is updated more often, IMSLP Practice or Sight?
IMSLP Practice ships an update weekly, and Sight every 4 weeks. Most recently, IMSLP Practice was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sight on October 6, 2026.

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