Piascore - Smart Music Score App Reviews

Does just what it is supposed to do. I quickly found songs I had been looking for in a key that I can sing. A great app.

I can write any special notations in a flash. This really helps with respect to nuance and musical direction... Great app.

One main feature that is missing is the ability to sync sheet music to another device since I have two iPads and wanna keep them both up to date

This is such a helpful app for musicians everywhere. If you dont have this app yet, I suggest you get it right now

Great App! Does everything I need for choir music.

I love this app. Sheet music in PDF format can easily be loaded in, and I have also been scanning in a lot of my old sheet music. I no longer have sheets scattered all over and everythings organized and easy to find. When scanning in, be sure to specify colour. Black and white comes out blurry. I purchased the AirTurn blue tooth page turning pedals and it works great having hands free for playing. It is also very handy being able to add notes and text, such as fingering. Overall, this is a great app.

Working with the new iPad Pro, I finally have the screen size that lets me read music reasonably (my eyes are old!). I set out to find the best music reader for me, which meant ease of marking the part and a way to turn pages quickly, as both hands are busy when I play (horn). I scanned all 47 pages of Hansel & Gretel (horn 1), separated them into acts, cropped (in Preview), made a few page breaks for easier page turns (screen shots of part of the page, combining in Pages and "printing" back to PDF). Lots of work, but I have lots of time! Put them all on iCloud Drive and imported everything into Pia Score. Then I began to practise along to a recording, to keep me honest about the page turning and find potential real-rehearsal problems. Sometimes, page turning was not fast enough by reaching up and tapping the screen, so I rigged up a mute holder that clips to the music stand and glued on the plastic tray from the original packaging from my iPhone 4S. The iPhone app (Pia Score Air) connects well to the iPad, as long as you dont have another bluetooth device really close by (found that out the hard way). The page-turning app on the iPhone is reliable, simple and puts the turning much closer to my bell hand, so quick turns are pretty good. The overture was still impossible to turn by hand (were doing the small orchestra version which puts lots of other parts into those parts that play -- only two horn parts) so I have been practising the scrolling feature of Pia Score, and after a few times, have the speed about right. If the conductor gets too carried away with rubato there may be some problems, but Ill find out next rehearsal. We have had two rehearsals so far and aside from all the notes he gave for us to mark in the parts, it has been great. The paper part is right next to the iPad in case of issues, but none yet, aside from the aforementioned deluge of notes -- I just wound up marking the paper part and transferring it all the next day. There is one problem for me with the app and it is that sometimes my markings are partly missing when I open the app the next day. Things I have erased show back up, other markings are missing the next time. After doing the marking again it seems to stick though. This is only on a few markings, not widespread, so livable but a bit of a concern. For me, so far, it is a very good software and hardware solution to a set of eyes that struggle in poor light, which our performance venue has. If my getting through the opera is successful, then that is a good test I think. Well see in a couple of weeks!

App is responsive and organized, easy to use and has tons of tools available. I recommend this to anyone who wants a solid platform to view PDFs, especially music scores.

I loooooove this app!!

Nice app, works well and support is really fast to respond and fix when bugs appear.

Very well done

So much better than sheet music! I do find it difficult to make markings in the music, though. A zoom-in feature would make this much easier.

Its just perfect. Its what I want. Thanks.^^

Thats really good stuff!

As a professional pianist who is constantly consulting scores, this app simplifies a lot the task of searching manually in sites like IMSLP. It has some very important features like sepia color and autocrop. Please add one thing: The ability of turning pages with volume control buttons.Sometimes, while playing, would be easier.

Awesome!!

The best score viewer

very convenient and useful application. Thanks!

La migliore app

Overall, really easy to use and get download scores. Pretty good app