I have been using PlayScore from version one! Probably at least five years. Have tried the more expensive apps but this one beats them all providing you stick with the most obvious aspects and that is of course the best flatbed scanning at 300 DPI. I agree it works taking a photo with your smart phone but it’s not as accurate. I also subscribe to competitive apps such as Newzik which of itself is an amazing program. Where this app beats other apps is that it scans and converts to a midi file instantaneously whereas other programs were require because into a “”live“ score taking some time on the apps servers I presume. I cannot emphasise how responsive the developer is all the requests I’ve made over the years have eventually appeared and more recently. The ability to annotate has been extremely useful.

It’s not what it’s cracked up to be, at least in the free trial. This is because you don’t really get much to try so it’s hard to get a sense of how useful it would be for the money.

It does what it promises, I use it wothbMusescore.

When I take the photo on the device that’s vertical it does it upside down and when I do it horizontal it only does some parts of it and then it stops and it is really annoying me, what do I do?

After searching around for a while, Play Score2 stood out from the crowd. A few issues such as not recognising multibar rests and sometimes a bar will play faster than it should. As a clarinet player it was good to be able to hear other instruments, clarinet in App sounds a tad too synthesiser for my liking, especially in upper register. Emails to developer are quickly answered. Helpfully community feedback will be taken onboard as this has potential to be an even better App. It is pricier than competition but seems worth it, an free version can be used by most.

Works pretty well using good scans or images, following most time signature changes. (Even worked moderately well on a grainy image with bad trapezoidal distortion.) with good scans, there are no problems with multiple parts on different staves, can split parts on the same stave except unison parts are only given to the highest part if the tails are not doubled (up/down) and both parts share the same midi voice. Animation is great - follows the bars, but unsurprisingly assumes the beats in a bar are equally spaced on the score. Support was overnight and very helpful. (Pro version at least) Some problems can be fixed by simple pdf edits -e.g deleting an expression symbol mis-interpreted as 8va. More choices for the metronome function would be useful, e.g at twice, 3 or 4 times the time signature, with emphasis on the whole beats and it’s own volume control.

I’ve tried many different music score scanners and this is the only one that I have found that does what it says it does. Complex, multi-page, multi-staff choral and instrumental scores are converted into music xml files in a jiffy, which I can then import into my Finale software to produce computer readable scores (and audio files).

This app is a great idea - take a picture of sheet music and play along with it at various speeds. However, despite my photos being crisp (I even edited them first to make them as clear as possible) some notes are missed by the app. Maybe the developers could let the user see (and edit) the score it ‘sees’?

The amount of times this app crashes when trying to upload single pages of PDF is astounding. Please do not purchase until they have fixed the immense crashing issues, it’s not worth your money

I wrote my first review about this app 18 months ago and it continues to improve. I have looked at some of the less then positive comments about recognition and my impression after the last 12 months or more is that if one uses a flatbed scanner at 300 DPI it is indeed faultless in recognition. The ability to modify instruments and volume for each and every part in the musical score is I suspect rather unique and worth the five stars. Moreover the developer is very responsive to requests and recommendations and indeed in the most recent fairly major upgrade it has increased the choice of instruments including the recorder and also has the facility to count in. I am now retired and eight years ago decided to begin a musical journey of reading music and playing instrument. It has been so incredibly useful and I’m sure improved my ability both in terms of timing and tempo amongst other things / congratulations to the developer.