SmartScore Alternatives

SmartScore is described as 'Scan, edit and transpose your music in just minutes. There is simply no faster way to get printable music into your computer. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning' and is an app in the audio & music category. There are six alternatives to SmartScore for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and Android Tablet. The best alternative is ScanScore. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try PlayScore or PDFtoMusic. Other great apps like SmartScore are SharpEye, PhotoScore Ultimate and NEURATRON PhotoScore.

SmartScore alternatives are mainly Music Recognition Apps but may also be Music Production Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of SmartScore.

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SmartScore

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Music Production App

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ScanScore
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Recognition App
Music Production App
Windows
5 alternatives to ScanScore
With ScanScore you can scan sheet music and have them played to you. For scanning, you can use a smartphone, a tablet or a conventional scanner. Via the MusicXML interface you can export your notes to almost any music program and edit them further.

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SharpEye
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Recognition App
Windows
6 alternatives to SharpEye
SharpEye Music Reader converts a scanned image of printed music into a MIDI file, a NIFF file, or a MusicXML file. It allows direct scanning from TWAIN compatible scanners. (Most scanners are TWAIN compatible).
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1. OCRExtract the text from a screen capture or file and paste it into another document for edits.
Image recognition
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Not compatible with modern OSes.
PlayScore
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Freemium • Proprietary
Music Recognition App
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
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5 alternatives to PlayScore
PlayScore uses advanced optical character recognition (OCR) to let you scan sheet music and play it on your phone or convert to MIDI or MusicXML.

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PDFtoMusic
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
3 alternatives to PDFtoMusic
You often download score files in PDF format from the Internet, and youd wish to hear them?

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PhotoScore Ultimate
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Recognition App
Mac
Windows
3 alternatives to PhotoScore Ultimate
Music Scanning Software and Audio Transcription Software for Sibelius, Finale and More.PhotoScore & NotateMe Ultimate picks out virtually every detail and even recognizes 4 and 6 line guitar tablature, 1, 2 and 3 line percussion staves.
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PhotoScore Ultimate Features
Sheet music transcription
NEURATRON PhotoScore
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Paid • Proprietary
Music Recognition App
Windows
5 alternatives to NEURATRON PhotoScore
Music scanning & PDF to notation software.

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ScanScore

SharpEye

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PlayScore

PDFtoMusic

PhotoScore Ultimate

PhotoScore Ultimate Features

NEURATRON PhotoScore