The most accurate sheet music scanner available—trained on millions of scores for unmatched precision. Just upload a photo or PDF and instantly convert it into a fully digital score. Export in XML, MSCZ, or MIDI formats with ease.
The world's most accurate sheet music scanner.
The most accurate sheet music scanner available—trained on millions of scores for unmatched precision. Just upload a photo or PDF and instantly convert it into a fully digital score. Export in XML, MSCZ, or MIDI formats with ease.
The most accurate sheet music scanner available—trained on millions of scores for unmatched precision. Just upload a photo or PDF and instantly convert it into a fully digital score. Export in XML, MSCZ, or MIDI formats with ease.
The world's most accurate sheet music scanner.
The most accurate sheet music scanner available—trained on millions of scores for unmatched precision. Just upload a photo or PDF and instantly convert it into a fully digital score. Export in XML, MSCZ, or MIDI formats with ease.
🎼 Halbestunde: The Ultimate Sheet Music Scanner & Reader for MuseScore Users 🎼
Musicians worldwide, including many MuseScore users, rely on Halbestunde to digitize their sheet music with ease. Now, with over 500,000 users on iOS, we’re bringing our powerful sheet music scanner technology to desktops—making music digitization faster and more accessible than ever.
📂 Convert Sheet Music to MIDI & MusicXML Instantly
Simply upload your sheet music—whether it's a solo piece, a jazz quartet, or a full orchestra—and let Halbestunde accurately convert to MIDI, MusicXML, or MSCZ formats. Perfect for use in MuseScore Studio and other leading music software.
⏱️ Fast, Reliable & Accurate Sheet Music Reader
Say goodbye to manual transcription! Our advanced sheet music reader processes each page in just 20-30 seconds, ensuring high accuracy and seamless conversion.
✨ Why Choose Halbestunde?
✅ Supports Complex Scores – From jazz ensembles to full symphonies
✅ Universal Compatibility – Works effortlessly with MuseScore, Finale, Sibelius, and more
✅ Improved Accuracy - our scanner works even with imperfect lighting, angles or image quality
✅ Broad symbol library — one of the most comprehensive symbol sets of any scanning tool
✅ No subscription — one-time purchase, yours to keep
📧 Need help? Have suggestions? Contact us at support@halbestunde.com
Start digitizing your sheet music today with Halbestunde’s sheet music scanner—the fastest way to convert to MIDI and MusicXML, now available for all MuseScore users! 🎶
What Sheet Music Scanner offers
Create a MIDI/XML/Musescore file from a picture of a score
Create a MIDI/XML/Musescore file from a PDF
Transcribe up to 8 instruments per page
What’s new
Scan History is here — all your recent scans are now in one place, ready for you to browse, reopen, or clear out as you like.
Export to PDF — sheet music can now be saved as a PDF with a single tap.
Choose your export folder — set a default location for exported files, so everything lands where you want it.
Multiple scans at once — start processing several files without waiting.
Background processing — scanning continues while you freely navigate through the app.
0.1.2
FAQ
You can download and install Sheet Music Scanner directly through the MuseHub desktop client. Simply click the “Buy now” button on this page to begin.
Sheet Music Scanner is supported on Windows and macOS. Please ensure your system meets the required specifications.
Sheet Music Scanner is available for ZAR 499.99. You can check the current pricing and licensing details at the top of this page.
All updates for Sheet Music Scanner are handled seamlessly through the MuseHub app. You will be notified in the desktop client whenever a new version is available to download.
Yes, the MuseHub desktop application is required to securely download, install, and manage Sheet Music Scanner along with your other audio tools.
Mac OS version. It creates a lot of empty musical staves. It fails to recognize the bass clef staff. Honestly, this is a very poor sheet music scanner—especially when compared to something like SmartScore 64. I would like to request a refund, if possible. I purchased this via MuseHub at a Black Friday price. DO NOT buy it. Even if it were free, it wouldn't be worth the download.
Developer Response: Thank you for the feedback. To request a refund, please contact MuseHub support at https://support.musehub.com/en/
0.1.2
Produces V2 Musescore scores … and requires substantial rework
0.1.1
Excellent app. It handles its job 10 out of 10
Correcting all the mistakes and adding everything that is not recognized is actually more work than just creating the score manually.
There also seems to be no interest to do improve this product at all, the most recent version is 2 years old.
0.1.1
Tried with choir scores : Works well for few first bars then it become a mess : voices spreading accross multiple lines, dynamics, legato arent on the right place, sometime the file is corrupted. It still can save me some time, but it doesnt deliver a ready to use file.
At that price, grab this one hoping it will become a good tools in the future.
Only issue ive had is with very small print, older engraved scores from publishers like Ricordi
Been recommending this to my whole music department at school
0.1.1
The experience has been horrible. This product promises to scan virtually any sheet of paper, but it hasn't even come close to doing that. I paid for this service, and it has been a complete waste of money because it doesn't work as advertised.
Accuracy on complex orchestral scores with 20+ instruments is honestly impressive
Cant believe this isnt subscription based, feels like a steal for what it does
