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24 alternatives to Scan Sheet music and play it from your phone
PlayScore 2 takes traditional music scanning to the next level. Using the latest techniques in Optical Music Recognition (OCR for music).
PlayScore is a mobile application that scans sheet music and plays back the notation through a phone. Launched in 2019, it enables musicians and music students to capture printed sheet music with their device's camera… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Scan Sheet music and play it from your phone launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hello HN, this has been my personal project for quite some time now. It has been a slowly evolving project over the years and its core function is for users to expose themselves to progressively more difficult lessons of music notes. NOTE: It is free and there are no ads. There is an in app purchase but most of the app doesn't require it.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Flat is intuitive music notation software for Mac, Windows, web, iOS & Android. Compose, collaborate, play & print sheet music from any device.
2016 · flat.io · its alternatives →
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2014 · benzguo.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, my name is Kevin Lin, and this is a Show HN for my sheet music smart glasses project. My video was on the front page on Friday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43876243, but dang said we should do a Show HN as well, so here goes! I’ve wanted to put sheet music into smart glasses for a long time, but the perfect opportunity to execute came in mid-February, when Mentra (YC W25) tweeted about a smart glasses hackathon they were hosting - winners would get to take home a pair. I went, had a blast making a bunch of music-related apps with my teammate, and we won,…
2025 · its alternatives →
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I always found sheet music way too hard to read - and I literally spent a year at a company building a sheet music rendering engine. I wanted an app that would display music like the tutorials on YouTube, but not be focused on upselling lessons etc. like most current apps, and also would let me import my own files This works on MIDI files. If it’s a valid midi it probably plays. Since releasing, I did add a subscription for classical music - on a theory that most normal users don’t know what a midi file is. It changed about a month ago from an up front price to in app purchases and/or a…
2023 · jacobdoescode.com · its alternatives →
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Learn music better with our living sheet music.
2012 · soundslice.com · its alternatives →
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Sheet music management app powered by Airsequel and Elm Land - Airsequel/Airsequel-Sheet-Music
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mozart for iOS▲258Make a song and a music video while you're on the go
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · webfft.net · its alternatives →
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2013 · notezilla.io · its alternatives →
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LightNote▲242An interactive site to learn the basics of music theory 🎶
2016 · lightnote.co · its alternatives →
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Melodic Mind▲134Intuitive touch-based Mobile DAW with Integrated Music theory. Audio effects & Toolkit. Ear training. Songwriting. Start creating music now.
Nov 2025 · melodic-mind.com · its alternatives →
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Listen to Lo-fi music radio Taiki on the Lofimusic open-source player: an installable Progressive Web app (PWA) written in Go (Golang).
2020 · lofimusic.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side. The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff. The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete…
2025 · cadenceguitar.com · its alternatives →
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I made a software library for displaying piano music 7 years back, and recently ported it to the web (which is now easier than even ever). It displays sheet music as you play, and let's you take snapshots of specific chords, then keeps a running list of chords as keyboard visuals (instead of just displaying sheet music). Just a simple tool for songwriting/ figuring out songs by ear, or just understanding music key theory (which I'm admittedly a still a beginner at).
2025 · pianoboi.site · its alternatives →
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Instrumental▲83Practice tracker for learning any instrument
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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MelodyScribe▲109Convert PDF files to annotated sheet music
2024 · melodyscribe.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · getprimavista.com · its alternatives →
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