The PlayScore Music Scanning App is in the Stores NOW
The App That Reads Sheet Music
Hold your device up to the music, take a picture
and hear it play!
PlayScore takes traditional sheet music scanning to the next level. Using the latest techniques in Optical Music Recognition (OCR for music), PlayScore plays music naturally and smoothly.
New for IOS Users
Play my Part
Mute any combination of staves, listen to any combination of parts.
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Musical Notation Scanner
PlayScore understands all the symbols of standard music notation and can play all kinds of sheet music and scores.
PlayScore can read scores with systems of many staffs such as SATB vocal scores and chamber music as well as piano music and songs.
PlayScore is for musicians at all levels
PlayScore plays my accompaniment
App for Music Teachers
PlayScore is the Ideal for music teachers because using PlayScore, music students can hear assignments at home as they should sound. And whatever the instrument, piano, guitar, violin or voice PlayScore lets you focus on particular passages and phrases.
Play-my-part feature taught me the alto part (iOS only)
The Best OMR App – Helping you make music
PlayScore the Accompanist
PlayScore is the ideal practice accompanist. If you play *an* instrument like an violin or the flute, you can simply take a snap of your music and have PlayScore play the accompaniment, fast or slow while you practise your own part.
PlayScore can help you practise difficult passages and rhythms, and you can play along to PlayScore at any tempo, repeating tricky passages as often as you need.
New for iOS devices
Select or mute any combination of staffs. Have PlayScore play just your part (eg alto), or everything except your part so you can sing along and hear the whole effect.
Must be heard to be believed.
LOOPING
just drag over bars to create a loop
For Music Educators
PlayScore is perfect for teaching music theory. Beginning with Associated Board Grade I right up to Grade VIII, just snap any music exercise for students to check pitch and rhythm in their own study time.
PlayScore will pick out musical examples from a book, so you can play back exercises, stopping and starting as you go.
PlayScore is so easy – just click and play
From Anywhere
From a file, from the web, from your own library, from anywhere!
You can snap in portrait or in landscape. You can capture little music snippets from a book. And you can even take a photo of a tablet or a Mac/PC screen.
Books of sheet music
From the internet and PCs
To Anywhere
Because PlayScore exports MusicXML as well as MIDI, you can open your scores in virtually any notation program, on the Mac and PC as well as on your favourite device. Programs such as Sibelius, Finale, NotateMe, SeeScore and many more all support MusicXML. This means that as well as playing your score you can edit it, transpose it and arrange it for new instruments. Even print out parts.
‘PlayScore is an excellent app for music students at all levels’
This is one app I won’t change! – Really amazed at what they detect!
‘Play Score is an exciting new development which will benefit performers, composers and teachers in a variety of different ways. The chance to quickly hear what is on a page of music will surely be a great help to us all’
A wonderful App and really useful for students.
PlayScore just might be the most impressive app in the entire App Store. Up until now optical music recognition was very unreliable, even on a high powered PC. PlayScore is a game changer. Whenever I show it to musicians their jaws drop in disbelief. It not only works with sheet music, it works with images off of a monitor as well. This latest version is even 100% accurate with screenshots from my new IPad Pro. This is a must have app for every musician.