Rhythm Reader vs Page2Play

Trouble reading sheet music? Rhythm Reader turns the printed page into something you can hear. Photograph a score with your phone and Rhythm Reader converts it into real notation you can play back, follow along with, and practise against. The notes light up as they sound, so you always know where you are on the staff. SCAN THE PAGE • Photograph a score with your camera, one page or many in a single session • Import pages you already have in your photo library • Straighten, rotate and crop each page before it is converted • Flash toggle for dim rehearsal rooms and orchestra pits FOLLOW EVERY NOTE • Playback highlights each note exactly as it sounds • Show or hide the cursor as you prefer • Loop any section you select and drill it until it is clean • Jump back to the top of the score with one tap HEAR YOUR OWN INSTRUMENT • 26 sampled instruments: piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, flute, piccolo, oboe, english horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, french horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, euphonium, baritone, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals and celesta • Set a default instrument once, or override it per score • Playback follows the tempo written in the score itself BUILT TO BE READABLE • Pinch to zoom, or step the staff size up and down • Scale notes and bars up for low vision • Full-screen mode with the interface out of the way • High-contrast engraving from professional music fonts A LIBRARY THAT TRAVELS WITH YOU • My Scans keeps everything you have converted • Like and save scores you want to come back to • Browse the Community library of scores shared by other musicians • Search by composer, piece title or file name • Choose per score whether it stays private or is shared with the community TAKE IT ANYWHERE • Export as MusicXML and open it in any other notation app • Export a printable PDF for the stand • Export WAV or MP3 audio to practise against away from your phone • Share straight to any app on your device WHO IT IS FOR Students preparing a seating audition. Section players learning a new part. Ear-trained musicians who play beautifully but read slowly. Teachers handing out parts to a class. Anyone who has ever stared at a page and wished they could just hear it. Rhythm Reader is used by musicians across schools, colleges, conservatories, marching and pep bands, and ensembles of every size. Subscription unlocks ability for user to scan and create own compositions. - Monthly subscription (9.99$ / mo) - Annual subscription (59.99$ / year, 7 days trial) Prices vary by country. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Got a keyboard at home but never learned to read sheet music? Page2Play turns any printed score into a playable practice piece. Scan or photograph the page, touch up the recognition in a built-in notation editor, and play the song by watching falling bars on a synced piano keyboard, with no note-reading required. Everything runs on your device. No account, no sign-in, no internet required for the core flow. Your scans, MIDI, and practice settings never leave your phone. CAPTURE • Import a scanned page (PNG, JPG, or pages exported from a PDF). Flat, evenly lit scans give the cleanest recognition. • Phone photos also work when scans aren't available; expect more cleanup in the editor on noisy phone shots. • Or skip recognition entirely and import existing MIDI or MusicXML. A REAL EDITOR, NOT JUST A VIEWER Recognition is rarely perfect, so Page2Play ships with the tools to fix anything the recognizer missed, right on the phone, with no desktop round-trip: • Tap a note and change its pitch. • Change the key signature when the recognizer guessed wrong. • Change the time signature per measure. • Insert or delete measures anywhere in the score. • Wrap notes into tuplets (triplets and other 3:2 groupings). • Multi-page navigation with per-page editing. • Undo and redo across the whole session. • Export to MusicXML (round-trip with desktop notation software), MIDI, or PDF, either a single page or the entire score. PRACTICE WITHOUT READING • Falling bars: notes drop onto a piano keyboard at the speed you choose. Watch the bars, press the matching keys on your piano. That's it. • Mute either hand to focus on the other. • A/B loop any passage until it clicks. • Slow it down or speed it up while keeping the pitch intact. • No MIDI cable? Play along on any acoustic or digital piano and Page2Play listens through the microphone. A Bluetooth or USB MIDI keyboard also connects, for the tightest timing. • Listen back with a built-in upright-piano sound. • Score mode: play a song on your MIDI keyboard or through the microphone for a graded run, with accuracy, combo, and a full-combo goal, plus your best score saved per song. • Practice stats: daily practice time, a running streak, and per-song totals for plays, time, and best score. RECOGNITION PIPELINE Page2Play uses an on-device optical music recognition pipeline trained on printed scores. It handles multi-staff piano music, key and time signatures, rests, ties, accidentals, and clef changes. Recognition takes roughly a minute or two per page depending on your device and whether GPU acceleration is enabled (Settings, then GPU acceleration). PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No analytics, no advertising, no tracking. • Optional crash reporting (Sentry) sends only stack traces, with no images, no MIDI, and no titles. • No data is uploaded for model training or any other purpose. Full privacy policy: https://page2play.app/privacy WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone with a keyboard at home and a song they want to play, who never got around to learning to read music, or got rusty. • Self-taught players who learn by watching, not by reading. • People with a stack of sheet music collecting dust. WHAT YOU NEED • A mobile phone. • A piano or keyboard to play along on (any acoustic, digital, or MIDI controller works; Page2Play tells you what to press, you press it). • A clean scan (PNG, JPG, or PDF page export) works best for recognition. • Optional: a Bluetooth or USB MIDI keyboard for the most responsive play-along. The microphone works fine without one.