Opuscan vs SheetScope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Opuscan
Transform printed sheet music into editable digital scores. Convert photos or PDFs into MusicXML and MIDI formats compatible with your favorite notation apps and DAWs. Pay only for the pages you convert, with no ongoing subscription.
- Scan sheet music from photos or PDFs
- Convert to MusicXML and MIDI
- Works with notation apps and DAWs
- Pay-per-page conversion model
- No subscription required
- Supports printed and engraved music
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Turn printed sheet music into an accurate, editable score in seconds, right from your iPhone or iPad. Snap a photo of a page, import a PDF, or add images from Photos or Files, and Opuscan gives you clean MusicXML and MIDI ready for the notation app or DAW you already use. No sign-in, no subscription: you pay only for the pages you convert. MUSIC AI THAT ACTUALLY READS MUSIC Opuscan runs on Tutteo's own optical music recognition model, built and trained in-house and served from our cloud. It doesn't just spot symbols on the page, it reads and understands the music on the staff, so the details that make a score correct come through far more often. Powerful cloud GPUs do the work, so every conversion is fast and always uses our newest, most accurate model. FROM PAGE TO EDITABLE SCORE IN FIVE STEPS 1. Import: snap a photo, open a PDF, or add images from Photos or Files 2. Pages: reorder, rotate, and crop 3. Convert: see exactly what it costs before anything runs 4. Review: confirm the title, score language, and each part's instrument and transposition, with a confidence hint on every guess 5. Export: save as MusicXML or MIDI, or send it straight to your editor WORKS WITH THE APPS YOU LOVE Hand your score to a notation editor (MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius, Flat, or Finale) or drop the MIDI into your DAW (Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, or Reaper). PAY ONLY FOR WHAT YOU CONVERT No subscription. Buy a pack of page credits, spend them only when you convert, and always see the price up front. Credits never expire. BUILT FOR PRINTED AND ENGRAVED MUSIC Opuscan shines on printed and digitally engraved music: solo parts, grand-staff pieces, full multi-instrument scores, and lead sheets with chords. For the sharpest results, use clean, high-resolution pages that sit upright and flat, and keep one piece per file. An internet connection is required. Handwritten music and tablature are not supported. YOUR MUSIC STAYS YOURS We train the model on synthetic scores from our own engraving engine and public-domain music. Your scores, uploads, and private work are never used for training. Bring your printed music to life. Scan, convert, and keep composing. QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Reach us at hello@opuscan.com
SheetScope
Transform sheet music PDFs, photos, or scans into editable digital scores. Convert MIDI files into sheet music. Recognition and editing occur directly on your device, with exports in MusicXML, MIDI, and PDF formats.
- Sheet music recognition from PDF, photo, or scan
- MIDI to sheet music conversion
- On-device editing of scores
- Playback of recognized scores
- Export to MusicXML, MIDI, and PDF
- Supports lead sheets, piano, SATB, and drum notation
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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
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Opuscan at 100% against SheetScope's 50%. Opuscan also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). SheetScope's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. SheetScope sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Opuscan asks for nothing beyond the download.
SheetScope holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Opuscan has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Opuscan's written reviews are positive against 50% of SheetScope's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Opuscan ships an update every 2 weeks, SheetScope every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Opuscan | SheetScope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tutteo Limited | HYO SEOP LEE |
Customer experience
Opuscan
SheetScope
In-app purchases
Opuscan
No in-app purchases
SheetScope
- Pro Lifetime$5.99









