unrealBook Mobile vs MobileSheetsLite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
unrealBook Mobile
Carry your entire PDF music library on your iPhone. This portable reader allows you to view, mark up, and organize your sheet music. Seamlessly integrate with your existing music software for a convenient practice and performance tool.
- View PDF music files on iPhone
- Scrolling Set List view
- Markup music with pens and highlighter
- Supports Airturn pedals
- Link audio files to charts
- Dropbox file download
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A micro-sized unrealBook for your retina iPhone! Simple and portable! Carry your entire PDF library of charts with you to review on your iPhone. If you use unrealBook and have an iPhone, you definitely want this! Review your PDF charts on your iPhone. Reads set lists, indexes and more from unrealBook. Tap, swipe and zoom your way around your charts. This is a small but capable PDF music reader. A perfect add-on to unrealBook for the iPad! Features: View your music PDF files on your iPhone Scrolling Set List view Mark up your music with highlighter pens as well as regular pens Beautiful display of music in landscape mode with motion (auto-turn with linked files - beta) Supports display of unrealBook drawings Browse unrealBook set lists, bookmarks and indexes! Receive entire set lists and files from unrealBook via email or Airdrop Supports Airturn pedals (BT-105 and PED) and similar products Video out with rotation for display on a large monitor Link a song from your iTunes library or audio file to a chart Airdrop your PDF to other programs via iOS7/iOS8 Remote turn a connected iPad running unrealBook Download files from Dropbox Even more surprises! More coming.... this is just the beginning. This is a simpler version of unrealBook for the iPhone - it is not the same app as unrealBook for the iPad in terms of features, but it has some killer features of its own! Just like unrealBook for iPad, this app is made for you to add your own PDF files. It does not come with music PDFs.
MobileSheetsLite
This app digitizes your sheet music library, offering quick access to any score. It provides powerful tools for musicians, including hands-free page turns, annotation capabilities, and custom audio playback. Manage your entire music collection efficiently on your device.
- Digital sheet music library
- Hands-free page turns
- Annotation tools
- Custom audio player
- Library synchronization
- Metronome
- Setlist management
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MobileSheets is the ultimate sheet music viewer for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It frees you from having to lug around books and binders, and gives you the ability to access any score in your library in seconds. It also comes with a number of powerful features for musicians including: - Connect to other devices running MobileSheets on any platform, and easily share songs and setlists. - Synchronize device libraries using WiFi, bluetooth or the cloud - Multiple modes of operation including two pages side-by-side, half page turns, and vertically scrolling pages. - Hands-free page turns using any bluetooth or usb devices (including two and four pedal models), through the automatic scrolling feature or by using face gestures such as an open mouth or smile. - Annotations for marking up music including support for freeform drawing, basic shapes, text and stamps - Connect multiple tablets over WiFi or bluetooth in book mode to display two pages at once - A custom audio player for playing audio tracks with your scores. Audio player supports a-b looping and multiple sizes. - Custom page ordering, making it easy to cut out unnecessary pages, repeat pages or change the sequence of pages without affecting the original document. - A metronome with multiple display modes and sound effects - Bookmarks for quick and easy access to sections in scores - Link points for handling repeats and quickly jumping between pages - Smart buttons that can be placed on a score to activate configurable actions when pressed - Support for multiple file types including images, PDFs, text files and chord pro files. - Support for importing CSV index files to break up large PDF songbooks - Support for communicating with MIDI devices over USB, Bluetooth and WiFi to load songs or trigger actions. - The ability to transpose chords in text and chord pro files. - Manual and automatic cropping to completely eliminate unnecessary margins - Support for setlists and collections to efficiently group songs for playback. - Powerful library management features with a huge list of supported metadata fields, giving you complete control over the data in your library - A free companion application for the PC that makes it a breeze to create and edit songs Give MobileSheets a try today and experience the freedom of having all your scores just a simple tap away. The free version has the following limitations: - Only 8 songs are allowed in your library - Only 2 link points per song - Only 2 bookmarks per song - The Connect Tablets feature can only be used for 90 seconds - The library synchronization feature is unavailable - The advanced camera features such as automatic document detection and image correction are not available All other features are intact and identical to the paid version. NOTE: This application does not include any sheet music - you must provide your own. This application can not play back PDFs, images or text/chord pro files. It can only display those files and play back audio files. The companion app is for your PC and is not included. You can download the companion app for free here: https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/companion.php Privacy Policy: https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/privacy_policy_ios.html Terms of Use: https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/terms_and_conditions_ios.html
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Verdict
unrealBook Mobile and MobileSheetsLite both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of MobileSheetsLite's written reviews are positive against 20% of unrealBook Mobile's. MobileSheetsLite also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). unrealBook Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 8). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
MobileSheetsLite is free to download; unrealBook Mobile costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for unrealBook Mobile against 4.5 for MobileSheetsLite. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: unrealBook Mobile has 80 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 20% of unrealBook Mobile's written reviews are positive against 80% of MobileSheetsLite's.
unrealBook Mobile ships an update every 2 months, MobileSheetsLite weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | unrealBook Mobile | MobileSheetsLite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (80 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aron Nelson | Michael Zuber |
Customer experience
unrealBook Mobile
MobileSheetsLite
In-app purchases
unrealBook Mobile
No in-app purchases
MobileSheetsLite
No in-app purchases
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