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 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.
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What’s New?
0.0.6
Improved user experience.
Bug fixes for occasional authorisation
Fixes for file uploads and preview
Description
🎼 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
✅ Regular Updates – Continuous improvements for precision and performance
✅ Universal Compatibility – Works effortlessly with MuseScore, Finale, Sibelius, and more
📧 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! 🎶
Create a MIDI/XML/Musescore file from a picture of a score
Create a MIDI/XML/Musescore file file from a PDF
Transcribe up to 8 instruments per page
Create a separate MIDI/XML file for each instrument
Works fine for me! Thanks for the software. I'm curious to see what will be possible with the full version
0.0.6
I'm pretty disappointed with the capabilities of this software: anything beyond a simple piano part is unusable. It only works reasonably ok with PDFs that already come from a music notation program. But if you think you can use it to create files for a chamber orchestra from photos of the score, you'll be disappointed… Hopefully version 1.0.0 will be better
0.0.6
Not very accurate yet. No text recognition. Chords recognition doesn’t work that great.
Even got something complicated almost completely right, good!
I just got it, and the first scans were all successful. Great!
Really good and fair for the one-time price
I have a score published in 1892. Not a handwritten score: printed. This app got so much of the score wrong, it was unusable. Back to hand-transcribing, I guess. I even tried to improve the resolution but it failed. I guess the technology simply isn't there yet. Oh well, at least it wasn't full price.
I bought this product but was given no instructions on how to use it once purchased. I've contacted them twice and have been told "we've opened a ticket". Now i just want my money back
I wasn't so happy at first, but I think it got better after a few updates. Now, at least for me, it's better.