Heard Music vs SheetScope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heard Music
Log, rate, and share albums to build a personal music taste profile. Discover new music by following friends and seeing what they're listening to in real-time. Connect with a community of music lovers.
- Log albums from Spotify's catalog
- Rate albums in half increments
- See friends' real-time listening
- Explore community-logged albums
- Build Top 5 albums and artists
- Like and react to friend logs
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Heard is the music app for people who actually listen. Log the albums that mean something to you. Rate them, write notes, and build a profile that reflects your real taste — not just what an algorithm thinks you like. Follow friends and see what they've been spinning. Discover albums through the people you trust, not a recommendation engine. What you can do: • Log any album from Spotify's entire catalog • Rate albums in half increments from 0.5 to 5 • See what your friends are listening to in real time • Explore the most logged albums in the Heard community • Build your Top 5 albums and artists on your profile • Like and react to your friends' logs • Get notified when friends follow you or log something new Music is more meaningful when shared. Start logging.
SheetScope
Transform sheet music PDFs, photos, or scans into editable digital scores. Convert MIDI files into sheet music. Recognition and editing occur entirely on your device, with export options for MusicXML, MIDI, and PDF.
- Sheet music to MusicXML/MIDI conversion
- MIDI to sheet music conversion
- On-device recognition and editing
- Export to MusicXML, MIDI, PDF
- Note editing and playback
- Supports various notation types
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Turn a sheet-music PDF, photo, or scan into an editable digital score. Drop in a MIDI file and get sheet music the other way round. Recognition runs entirely on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and results export as MusicXML, MIDI, and PDF. ■ Free · Score recognition — the first page of a PDF, photo, or camera scan, shown on screen to check and edit · MIDI → score — MIDI files exported from a DAW become sheet music, with no bar limit · Editing — select notes, move them up or down, fix accidentals, listen · Add and delete notes, change durations, swap rests and notes, set repeats and 1st/2nd endings by hand · Playback — hear the recognised score right away ■ Pro (one-time lifetime purchase, not a subscription) · Recognise every page of a document · Export — MusicXML (opens in MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and others), MIDI, PDF ■ What it reads · Lead sheets and single-line melodies with chord symbols · Piano grand staff · SATB choir systems · Drum notation · Key and time signatures, ties, slurs, triplets, chord symbols · Repeat barlines (1st/2nd endings are only partly read — treat them as a guide; missed endings can be entered by hand in the editor. D.C. and coda are not read) ■ About accuracy — please read before buying Measured against scores with known answers (our own tests, September 2026). · Clean printed lead sheets: notes (pitch and duration) 90-99%. Dense sixteenth-note songs around 80% · SATB choir: about 93% · Piano: simple pieces 95%+, complex pieces around 80% — treat as a guide · Drums: hi-hat and snare nearly exact; kick drum misses about half the hits in busy bars — treat as a guide · Ties about 87%, slurs about 60% · Photos: straight, well-lit photos match PDF results; tilted or blurry photos drop sharply · Handwritten and tablature scores are not supported · MIDI → score: quantised MIDI is exact. Piano with up to two voices is accurate; three or more voices and performed (unquantised) MIDI are a guide only Automatic recognition is a first draft. The app is built for checking and correcting in the editor, and it removes most of the time you would spend entering notes by hand. Try your own scores in the free tier before you decide. ■ No internet needed Recognition, editing, and export all happen on your device. Score images are never uploaded. No account, no ads. ■ Copyright Convert only scores you own the rights to, public-domain scores, or scores you have permission to use. The app is made for personal study and practice and has no sharing or upload features. ■ Made for · Players and arrangers moving paper scores into editable files · Producers turning lead sheets into MIDI for a DAW · Choir directors and singers making part-practice audio · Composers tidying MIDI sketches into notation
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Verdict
Heard Music and SheetScope both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Heard Music's written reviews are positive against 50% of SheetScope's. Heard Music also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (13 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. SheetScope sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Heard Music asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Heard Music against 5.0 for SheetScope. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heard Music has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Heard Music's written reviews are positive against 50% of SheetScope's.
Heard Music ships an update every 2 days, SheetScope every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heard Music | SheetScope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher Bible | HYO SEOP LEE |
Customer experience
Heard Music
SheetScope
In-app purchases
Heard Music
No in-app purchases
SheetScope
- Pro Lifetime$5.99









