Newzik vs enScore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Newzik
Digitize your sheet music with AI-powered conversion, playback, and transposition. Collaborate with other musicians in real-time and access your library across all devices. Includes essential performance tools like a metronome and tuner.
- AI music recognition for scores
- Real-time collaboration with musicians
- PDF score transposition
- Embedded metronome, tuner, and recorder
- Bluetooth pedal support for hands-free page turning
- Cloud storage for library access on any device
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Go paperless and discover the power of digital sheet music with our musical pdf reader. Listen to your scores thanks to our AI, collaborate instantly with your band, and benefit from all the tools you need in just one app. Approved by 400K+ users. > AI MUSIC RECOGNITION FOR YOUR SCORES Import your PDF sheet music or scan your scores and convert them to LiveScores, using our artificial intelligence. You can then listen to your score, generate playback for your musical practice, and export it to musicXML. > COLLABORATE WITH OTHER MUSICIANS Newzik is the best collaborative tool for teachers, bands, choirs and ensembles. Broadcast your scores and annotations in real-time with other musicians, and always remain up-to-date. > PDF TRANSPOSITION Transpose your PDF scores in one click. Newzik’s AI rewrites your scores for you. > ALL THE TOOLS YOU NEED TO PERFORM Newzik offers embedded metronome, tuner and recorder. The app is compatible with bluetooth pedals, for hand-free page-turning. > YOUR SCORES ACCESSIBLE ON ANY DEVICE With Newzik, your music is safe: your library is stored in the Cloud. Thus, you can access it on any device. > OUR PRICING Trial Version: Try Newzik for free with your 3 first scores, and convert up to 10 pages into LiveScores using our AI. Newzik Essentials - One-time purchase: Store up to 1000 parts in the Newzik Cloud and access them on any device. Newzik Premium - Yearly subscription: Enjoy all the features of Newzik without limits: unlimited storage, unlimited LiveScore conversions, unlimited collaborative projects. Try it for free. Your Newzik Pro subscription will be billed to your Apple ID at the date of purchase, and renewed automatically unless you cancel 24h before the renewal date. > WHICH INSTRUMENTS CAN USE NEWZIK? Any musician of any level using sheet music can benefit from Newzik. For instance, this app is for you if you play one of the following instruments: Piano Singing Violin Saxophone Guitar Flute Have a question or suggestion? Send us an email at contact@newzik.com General Terms and Conditions of Use: https://newzik.com/en/general-terms
enScore
This app is a digital sheet music viewer and organizer for musicians. It allows users to import, annotate, and display scores on Apple devices, with features for page turning, bookmarking, and a built-in metronome. Optional pro features and cloud sync are available.
- Import unlimited PDFs
- Annotate with Apple Pencil or finger
- Full-screen, side-by-side, single-page layouts
- Customizable page turns
- Built-in metronome
- Bookmark scores
- Annotation layers
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Every score you own. Every marking you've ever made. On the iPad in your bag, the iPhone in your pocket and the Mac on your desk, all in sync. The sheet music reader that runs on everything you play from. Free to download. SCORES THAT NAME THEMSELVES "scan_0417.pdf" becomes "Clair de Lune, Debussy" by itself. Import a folder of a hundred files and watch the titles and composers fill in. NO MORE BAD PAGE TURNS Half-page turns show you the next line before you need it. Turn with a tap, a swipe or a foot pedal. Put a concert in a setlist and one piece flows into the next, with the screen awake until the applause. THE PRACTICE ROOM Mark a fingering. Highlight the entry you keep missing. White out the editor's bowing and write your own. Apple Pencil, any stylus or a fingertip; the line follows your pressure. Highlighters blend like real ones. The eraser takes back one stroke or one pixel. Every marking sits on a layer you can hide for the concert. PLAY ALONG, HANDS FREE Attach a recording to any score. Turn the pages once while it plays and enScore remembers every turn, half pages included. Loop a passage, slow it down, or start it the moment the score opens. TALKS TO YOUR KEYBOARD Turn pages from any MIDI pedal or controller. Give a score its sounds so your keyboard is on the right patch the moment it opens: program changes, bank select and Song Select. YOUR PRACTICE, ON RECORD enScore logs minutes a day, streaks, and which pieces you practised and when. Set a daily goal, jot a note from inside the score, and share a report as a PDF. SHARE A SETLIST Send a whole setlist as one file: the PDFs, the order, page ranges and your markings. Open it on any device running enScore, ready to play. BRING IN YOUR MUSIC Share a PDF from any app or import a whole folder. Search IMSLP without leaving enScore. Point your camera at a photocopy and it lands straightened, cropped and clean, or use a flatbed or feeder scanner over Wi-Fi. COMING FROM FORSCORE? One .4sc file and your scores, ink, stamps and layers land exactly as you left them. Nothing to redo. EVERY DEVICE YOU OWN enScore runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision, and it is the same app on all of them — and on every other device you play from. Mark up a part on the train and it's on the stand when you arrive. One library, in sync in seconds. NO ACCOUNT? NO PROBLEM Reading, ink, setlists and scanning work with no account and no network. An account is only for Sync and the online title and composer detection. Your scores live on your device; the cloud only ever holds a copy. ALSO IN THE BOX - Two-page, single-page and full-screen layouts - Light, dark, sepia and inverted filters - Folders, composer, tags and key, all searchable - Reorder, rotate, hide or delete pages - Bookmarks - Metronome with tap tempo, subdivisions and nine sounds - Tuner - Two scores side by side on Mac and iPad - Print, or export with ink and layers included - Recently Deleted, so nothing vanishes by accident - Twelve languages - Blank manuscript paper: single staves, grand staff or tab, any page size - Find any word in any score: search the text inside your PDFs and practice notes - Crop and straighten a scan without touching the file Free to download. Pro unlocks the tools below with a single purchase. Sync is a separate optional subscription. Everything new in 3.5 is free. ENSCORE PRO - Lists: setlists with a page range and tempo per entry - Annotation Layers: show or hide each set of markings on its own - Score Snips: paste the bars after a turn before it - Score Shortcuts: tap a repeat or a Coda and the page jumps - IMSLP Search inside the app SYNC (optional, monthly or yearly) Every score, marking, list and bookmark on every device you sign into. Delete your account and your scores leave our servers while staying safe on your devices. Built by a musician in Sydney. Fill my inbox with your questions and ideas: support@thejonathanv.com Terms: https://thejonathanv.com/legal/terms-of-service.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: enScore at every 2 days against Newzik's every 3 weeks. enScore also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Newzik's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Newzik sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and enScore sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
enScore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Newzik has 1.6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Newzik ships an update every 3 weeks, enScore every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Newzik | enScore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Syncsing - Newzik | Jonathan Vardouniotis |
Customer experience
Newzik
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Bugs and requests
Newzik
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes when opening new scores
- Incorrect tempo and pitch playback
- Inability to properly import and read certain music file formats
- Syncing issues between devices and lost data
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for sorting music by genre, origin, or type
- Improve live score playback accuracy, especially for jazz and swing styles
- Implement a dark mode option for better visibility
- Allow more flexibility in organizing and rearranging setlists
- Provide a desktop app or better web integration
enScore
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Newzik
- Newzik Pro (monthly)$9.991 Month
- Newzik Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- Newzik Essentials$24.99
- Newzik Premium (lifetime)$179.00
enScore
- enScore Sync (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- enScore Sync (Yearly)$14.991 Year
- Sheet music edition$2.79
- Sheet music edition$3.79
- Sheet music edition$4.39
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- Sheet music edition$4.79
- Sheet music edition$5.49
- Sheet music edition$6.49
- Sheet music edition$7.49
- enScore Pro$9.99









