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Sheet Music Scanner & Reader
App Sub 1 · 2,848 ratings · ★ 3.9
3.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 20 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"music"
6 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
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"notes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
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"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
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"sheet"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
5
"sheet music"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
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"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or o…" - Adrian Rosenlund-Hudson
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"work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn't work." - Joshua Clipp
📋 All 20 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Make sure to take good, clear photos otherwise the app doesn't recognise the sheet music. It skips bar repeats, so if you have a piece that's written with a lot of repeats, you don't get the whole piece. Also, it's not good at triplets or other close grouping of notes, and it changes octave where there isn't a written change of octave. Disappointing and not very helpful
Since I updated, the app keeps crashing when reading from 'sheet music list'. unusable.
Costs you money to get it, but does a horrible job recognising sheet music.
Doesn't work.
Even the notes on some clear sheets are not readable. Scale identification is often not detected.The occasional sharp notes are played as normal notes.
pretty poor recognition of the various sheet music I have. skips measures.. inconsistent.. many flaws and therefore frustrating. I gave up.
Try to load songs and the app freezes or closes down.
Did not read most of my notes
I could not get this app to do anything useful. It doesn't see key signatures and omits 80% of the notes.
this app doesnt work. please refund my purchase. after scanning the app just closes
only partially recognizes a page. useless
it doesn't recognize notes unless it's a literally pixel perfect picture and i took a bunch with good lighting and it recognized like one note
Quite simply the worst app I've ever downloaded. Plays worse than my 11 year olds sight reading (which I bought this app to help!)
Awful. Why the heck does it skip all over playing the music? What could possibly be a positive function of that? I bought this app to make my experience learning music easier, this was a headache and completely stressed me out. delete and regret buying.
It's a great program and I purchased it 2 years ago as a lifetime purchase, but now it is telling me that I have to rebuy it! why?
where is the swing function? the subscription version of the app has a swing function but this one time payment does not. I'm not gonna get a subscription to swing lol. maybe I'm just dumb and can't find it but I don't seem to have an option to switch to swing.
Unfortunately it does not appear to be the app for me. I want it to recognise music on the go and most of it comes from old books with yellowed pages that do not lie flat. I am looking for something that will allow me to learn tunes on the spot, when requested by other people. thanks for the effort.
They tried hard, but, it's sense of time is terrible, it has no sense of harmony or basic, or partial chords. It's really basic at best if it were free, but definitely not worth the download fee.
Good intention, still needs work. have tried a couple scores and none worked. Either the app shutdown or it did not import correctly. I understand it takes a lot of effort to build something like this but the app should not have been put out in the store in this state. Especially since it charges money to use. It feels experimental at best...
good
Sentiment summary
73%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)