OverScores vs StageScore.net

OverScores is a sheet music reader focused on the features musicians use most, without the complexity of rarely-used options. It's designed to help you practice, learn, perform and memorize music. Practice and memorize OverScores lets you hide individual measures or staves while reading a piece, so you can gradually rely less on the page. You can hide sections of a piece, work through difficult passages, and test your recall as you practice. Audio playback includes A/B looping and speed control, making it easy to slow down a passage while learning it. You can also play audio from Apple Music, YouTube, and Spotify alongside your music. Clean up and organize scanned music OverScores can improve the appearance of poor-quality scans by straightening bowed or curved staves and removing smudges and gray backgrounds. Measures can be detected automatically, and title, composer, and tempo markings fields can be automatically populated from scans. Large PDF compendiums can also be split into individual pieces. Practice tools • Audio recording • Metronome with tap tempo, meter control, silent option and auto-shut off for count-ins • Practice time logging • Keyboard with high-quality piano samples, playable on-screen or via MIDI input • Bluetooth page-turner support • Three markup layers with comprehensive annotation tools • Jumps for instantly flipping to a repeat or coda • MusicXML chord extraction and transposition • Side-by-side page view in landscape Bring your existing library If you already use ForScore or Newzik, you can import your setlists, including their markups, preserving setlist order. Your music library and annotations can sync between iPad, iPhone, and Mac through iCloud, or be transferred using library export. One purchase works across your devices. Try everything free for 14 days OverScores includes a 14-day free trial with access to all features. There is no subscription, no automatic billing, nor email signup. After the trial, some premium features are locked, but OverScores continues to work. You keep full access to everything you imported and every markup you made during the trial.

The singer changed the key? Your chart already did. StageScore is sheet music built for the bandstand. Pick a key and your instrument, and the whole chart is re-engraved on the spot: notes, chord symbols, key signature, accidentals. No new file, no transposing in your head, no signal needed. ANY KEY, ANY INSTRUMENT • Transpose a whole chart to any key in one tap. • Read the part for Bb, Eb or F instruments (trumpet, clarinet, tenor, soprano, alto and bari sax, horn), or in concert pitch. • Clean engraving, including a handwritten jazz look. THE VIEW EACH PLAYER NEEDS • Score for horns and melody players. • Chords for the rhythm section: a bar grid big enough to read in stage light. • Lyrics for the singer: big, readable verses, one section lit at a time, plus a teleprompter. A BAND IN YOUR POCKET • Bass, drums, keys and guitar play the changes in your key, at your tempo. • Swing, bossa, ballad, funk, rock, soul and more. Pick the feel, the kit and the instruments. • The bar being played can light up, so you never lose your place. MARK IT UP • Pen, highlighter, shapes, text and dynamics stamps. With Apple Pencil, just start writing. • Marks are anchored to the bars, so they stay put when you transpose or switch parts. • Notes per song or per gig: the intro, who solos, how it ends. BRING EVERY CHART YOU OWN • Import MusicXML (.musicxml, .mxl, .xml) from your notation software, PDFs and chord chart files, from Files or any cloud drive. • PDFs stay exactly as printed, and you can mark them up too. • Start a new score from scratch in the built-in notation editor, or write a chord chart bar by bar. READ THE PAGE (BETA) • Turn a PDF lead sheet into a chart you can transpose: notes, rhythm, key and chords, read by StageScore's page reader (free account and internet connection needed). • The printed line sits above what was read, and every doubtful bar is flagged for a second look. FIX IT WHERE YOU READ IT • Open any chart in the notes editor and drop notes, rests, accidentals, ties and triplets straight onto the music. • Change the key, the meter, barlines and repeats, or the chord symbols. • Hear any line back before you save. BAND BOOKS AND SETLISTS • Build setlists in running order, one tap to the next tune. • Share them in a Band Book: the band joins with a six-digit PIN. • Change the set and it updates for everyone, each player in their own key and view. • Download the book and it works offline on the gig. ON THE STAND • Chromatic tuner that reads in your instrument's key, with a movable reference pitch. • Metronome that takes the tempo off the chart. • Turn pages with a tap or a Bluetooth page-turner pedal. • Dark, red night-vision and high-contrast themes for any room. YOUR LIBRARY, SAFE • Your library lives on your device and works offline. No account needed to play. • With a free account: cloud backup, restore on your other devices, Band Books, and a community catalog of public-domain and chords-only charts. • Export any chart or setlist as a PDF, or back up your whole library to one file. In English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. Free, with no ads and no tracking. Made by a working saxophonist who got tired of transposing on the fly.