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Sheet Music Scanner Reviews


Aug 17, 2026

Handles old yellowed sheet music from the 1960s better than I expected


authentic-hippopotamus897


Aug 16, 20260.1.1

Thanks, works better.


live-pig78


Aug 13, 20260.1.1

Great Update ! The App works much, much better ! Congrats


Pwakatwe


Aug 11, 2026

Any plans for an iPad app? Scanning straight from the tablet would be huge


blind-cod769


Aug 11, 2026

The MusicXML export saved me hours, exports clean into Finale


stable-narwhal22


Sep 25, 20260.1.1

The current version is unusable for me. Total waste of $25. They asked me for examples, and I provided them. No action--is this software going to be updated?


King Augustus Rhetoric III


Aug 10, 20260.1.1

Ditto July 25 review, Halbestunde which I purchased, will not open and keeps asking for authorization.

Developer Response: Hi there! I can see that our support team has reached out with some suggestions. If you run into any further issues, please be sure to follow up on your ticket so the team can continue assisting you. Thanks!


capital-bison361


Jul 26, 20260.1.1

I uninstalled MuseHub and everything else twice, every time I open it it still tells me I need to authorize from MuseHub to open the app. Quit the app and tried again, nothing. It used to work semi-accurately, but now it doesn’t work at all.

Developer Response: Hi there, we’re sorry to hear you’re experiencing an issue. Could you please share more details by submitting a support ticket here? Our team will be happy to help: https://support.musehub.com/en/


pvvc


Jul 26, 20260.1.1

My primary material is SATB choral closed scores with piano accompaniment - the "bread and butter" of church choir music. This software fails miserably every time. The output bears practically no resemblance to the original score. This is modern, well-printed sheet music, scanned at 300 DPI in greyscale, yet this software can't handle it. Absolute waste of time and money.


scarce-moose402


Jul 26, 20260.1.1

An easy example is to convert a staff that has full measure rests. The result is incorrect every time. This is not yet ready for reliable use. I'm going back to SmartScore.


Fretman


Jul 9, 2026

Does it recognize guitar tabs or just standard notation? Would love tab support


grown-goose414


Jul 9, 2026

Been using PlayScore and SmartScore before, this blows both out of the water for accuracy


mealy-woodpecker281


Jul 4, 20260.0.6

Why? I pait twice but it don't work

Developer Response: Hi there, we’re sorry to hear you’re experiencing an issue. Could you please share more details by submitting a support ticket here? Our team will be happy to help: https://support.musehub.com/hc/en-gb/requests/new


jovial-wombat88


Jun 30, 20260.0.8

I have transcribed 300 sheets with Sheet music scanner and very few were not perfect. Its 100 times better than any other competitor like smartscore, photoscore etc... a bit slow its right, and results get worse for big sheets (more than 15 pages) but its doin the job for massive transcription tasks


Rosanna999


Jun 23, 20260.0.8

only getting rests an NO notes!


next-eland226


Jun 12, 20260.0.8

To not be a desktop version and rely on the web for conversion means this thing is slow as death. Waiting for a two page pdf to load was painful. All the power in our modern machines is wasted on this app. Not even worth $25.00 which is the “sale price.” End results are far from satisfactory even if you can afford the painful waiting.


grand-capybara306


Jun 8, 20260.0.8

I tried converting a very clean PDF and the result wasn't even close. I then tried converting a PDF exported from MuseScore back into an MSCZ file, and all I got was one long paus. This isn't working at all. I would like a refund, please.


apt-llama486


May 29, 20260.0.8

Even with ultra clean pdf (not scanned) ends up too often with blank sheets or entire parts filed with pauses. I don't even dare to try with optical scans.


carefree-kouprey637


May 25, 2026

I’m surprised that it works equally well with PDFs and photos.


salty-dragonfly486


May 22, 2026

This is such a help! Is there a limit to how many PDFs I can upload per day?


elderly-starling589


May 22, 2026

Great conversion quality, it has gotten better with each update.


negative-lion805


May 20, 2026

Very simple to use. How many more features will be added soon?


mean-hawk21


May 20, 2026

How many chords do you support?


powerful-slug15


May 18, 2026

I feel like I got ripped off! I took a piece or music that had the chords at the top of the staff along with a capo position. It got the title wrong, it mixed the capo converted and non converted chords, temoved the chord charts and left just the names (again mixed between the two) and some of the notes are wrong. In essence, completely unusable! And, no way to edit, adjust prefs etc. Might be cheap but feel like I wasted y money.


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