MuseScore: sheet music Ratings and Reviews

Great app. Helpful song selection. Any opportunity for limiting hard copy sheet music?

Hello, I pay for the subscription to your app and have been happy because I can find many of the songs I want to learn on your app. I only have one main question. Can I download pdf versions of my songs onto a tablet, kindle, or iPad and scroll each page as I play on my keyboard? This would offer a customer like me a few vital benefits, such as the limit of money I spend to print several pages per each piece, eliminate the space I need to keep track of all my hard copy songs, easier searching when I want to play a song I haven’t practiced recently, and a much easier time flipping through pages of the song while I play. As always the library of songs offered for me is the primary benefit and more is wonderful. I love current popular music, I occasionally download classical music on the piano. I don’t play any woodwind instrument so I take my guitar sheet music from other apps. Any suggestions on electronically updating my sheet music practice I’d appreciated.

Would be good if I could actually see my section.

I love music. I’ve been playing the violin for as long as I can remember. It has always been easy to find my songs for violin. A couple years ago, I switched to the double bass. Now, i can barely find any popular songs that are readily available. (without purchase because i’m broke 😝) Musescore has been good to me, until i go to the larger peices. I’m talking the scores that have +12 parts in them. The whole point of having a zoom in and out feature is so you can see the whole score in at least decent quality. But on Musescore (for some apparent reason) they decided “Oh, let’s screw over the lower sections and let them not be able to see their parts hahahaha.” Which, for me, I take as a personal attack because i’m a proud member of my section and I don’t take disrespect lightly. At least make a *FREE* (did i mention it needed to be FREE??) feature to where you can section off parts so you can actually see them. Honestly, these people are just here to get your money in the most apparent way possible. Do yourself a favor and just go to Google and search for the song you’re looking for, it’s much easier and cheaper too. And another thing. Don’t advertise your app as having “however many millions” of songs if you can only get to those songs through a paywall. It’s just being money hungry, and greedy. Like, i’ve already gone and downloaded your app, you already get money from that. What more do you want from us???

Developer Response ,

Hi! It would be great if you could contact us through support@musescore.com and describe your technical issue with all the details! Please include your device model, the app's current version, screenshots, or a screencast, steps to reproduce the issue, and a link to an example score

Good right now, but could be much better.

So this would be a 4 star, but there’s one thing that I think would make this app a whole lot better. That thing is, to be able to make score sheets in the app, or at least have an app that solely focuses on the ability to make score sheets that pairs with this app, as in you could upload scores you make in the supposed sister app from this app. And I haven’t exactly come across some of the issues other users have had with this app, except for when I try to open score sheets that are very long, so for instance medleys which tend to be over 10 or 20 minutes long. Every time I try to open a very long score sheet on the app, it freezes and I can’t do anything except for close the app and relaunch it. Meanwhile, the website has little to no problem opening the same exact score, and just to be clear I use a laptop that is over 2 or 3 years old, it’s a Dell and is not exactly great, and I use google chrome as my default browser. Other than that I don’t have any real problems with the app, and if you could conjure up something that allows users to make score sheets on their mobile device and upload from this app when on the go, that would be quite a make up for the mentioned “issues” that users comment on that I can’t seem to find or come across.

Absolutely in love with the concept, not the way it currently functions.

This app is amazing where transcribers, song writers, and general musicians can share their work and provide others the opportunity of learning something they can’t anywhere else. I especially love to reference this app for A Cappella because of the amazing transcribers found on this platform. There are major downsides, simply with the way it functions. Some features work one day, but either completely don’t work or crash the app another day. For instance, the option to listen to individual parts was somewhat functional, but then its button changed to “transpose” and I thought that was a pro feature. The individual part selector is something I relied on as a free feature as a chorus member. Sometimes when trying to listen to individual staves or parts, it will still play the other parts, and I would have to back out of the music and go back in just for it to work. Sometimes when listening to the song as a whole, the bar that indicates where you are in the song is ahead of behind of the audio, making it challenging or confusing to follow along. Again, the concept of the app is like no other and revolutionizes the music world, but it’s coming up short with its lack of reliability in functionality.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Thank you for your review! We are glad to know that you enjoy the idea of the app and we understand that some bugs can be annoying. Sorry for any inconvenience you`ve faced. We`ve informed developers about the problems you mentioned. Hope, all the issues will be solved in the nearest future. If you have any other suggestions, please, don`t hesitate to contact us via support@musescore.com. We appreciate your assistance.

Scam

I signed up for a PRO subscription years ago while I was working as a private lesson teacher. As I no longer am in that field of work, I canceled auto-renew in September, and received a confirmation email that I had done so, and they were sorry to see me go. Then, upon noticing that it was somehow still active, I canceled auto-renew AGAIN in December, and received ANOTHER confirmation email. Now, in February, I was charged $49 to renew my subscription for a year! When I asked for a refund, and sent proof of the confirmation emails, they told me that because I had not canceled before the start of the billing period, that my purchase was fully pre-authorized and they cannot issue a refund. I DID CANCEL, TWICE! AND SENT PROOF! He said because of the “inconvenience of the existing situation” that he spoke to “his head office” and they could give me a “special offer” of a 55% refund or 10 months extension on my subscription — a subscription which I don’t even want and tried to cancel twice before being notified they had billed me. The lackluster response email they sent was sent from a “do not reply” email account, so that I couldn’t even re-attach the proof that I had canceled the PRO account and reiterate that they need to refund me in full. I’m going to have to take this up with my bank. Ironic that I thought I was helping the “little guy” by supporting this app. What a joke.

Developer Response ,

Hi! Could you contact MuseScore support at support@musescore.com one more time and attach this review? We’ll take a look at your case and try to reach a mutually beneficial compromise. Waiting for your email.

Worse than the website

Hi, I’m a trombone player I have been play it for a year now and I was looking for a good app/website to print out some video game music to perform with my friends and I came across the website for this I thought this would be good, and I can easily print something out to play it but no. One you have to pay for everything which would be fine and stuff, but paying money to print some thing that just seems a lot. it also keeps trying to get me to download the app so I do it the same only there is no print button and if I download it as a PDF I can’t only get trombone it’s really buggy and hard to use and when I tried to do the free trial, it just simply didn’t work it cut off half the things on the screen so I would have to turn my tiny phone, which, then I couldn’t even read the music the music that I want is only on this app so it really frustrates me that I can’t do what I want to do with 1. not having to pay 2. it being super buggy. would not recommend for anyone trying to print or practice something if you’re just trying to listen to something then it’s for you.

Ps. i’m not too good at making constructive criticism. and my grammar is horrible. Hope you can make this app a little more user-friendly

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for your review. Using a free account in the app, you can listen to scores, change their tempo, share music with friends, use the practice mode, and auto-scroll. Also, you can download and print scores related to compositions in the Public Domain and Original compositions written by our users unlimitedly on our website. To download scores by parts, please use the musescore.com website.

Works fine, but not very intuitive

This app mostly works fine with what it advertises: Finding and playing user made sheet music. However, there are a few problems I have with it. Firstly, too many features are locked behind a paywall. If you want to download PDFs of the music (like advertised on the app store listing) you have to pay a subscription that’s like $50 a year. They are also constantly bring up full-screen popups trying to sell you on this. I think their subscription is a bit pricy for what it gives, and might be worth it if it wasn’t for the unintuitive app design. When you open a score on my iPad, it opens with everything very small. Zooming in on the score doesn’t decrease the amount on one page like it used to, but does a normal zoom. This is significantly worse because you have to manually pan around the page, which is hard to do while playing. If you want to replicate the old functionality, you have to press the magnifying glass in the corner and press “Enlarge” repeatedly. This new system is less intuitive and more time-consuming than the new one. This app still works fine, but I rated three stars for the pushing for a subscription and unintuitive design.

Developer Response ,

Hi! It would be great if you could contact us through support@musescore.com and describe your technical issue with all the details! Please include your device model, the app's current version, screenshots, or a screencast, steps to reproduce the issue, and a link to an example score

Good App Until It Bugs and Ruins Everything

I had been happily using MuseScore for a little over a month even made an account for it. Then I got a personal offer for their music subscription, it was cheaper than what the subscription usually was so I had decided to buy it. Then everything went wrong, after refreshing the app to use my new perks, MuseScore decided to kick me out of my account. I logged back in and saw that my subscription wasn’t there I pressed restore purchases and it then claimed I hadn’t even bought a subscription. It then kicked me out of my account again and I tried to log back in only for MuseScore to say the account your trying to log into does not exist, so I was pretty frustrated at this point since I had a library of songs I had favorited and been practicing for days, and now I’m even more frustrated since now my subscription is useless! But it doesn’t stop getting worse, I decided I will just use MuseScore without an account since it was so insistent on not letting me use my previous one, and upon trying to play a peace of music it says “Oops!” “The app seems to be turned off in the background, please try refreshing.” I did as it told me and the message popped up every time I opened up a piece of music so now I can’t even use the basic app.

Developer Response ,

Hi! If you use the MuseScore mobile app simply enter your name and click the 'Login' link on the 'Let's get started' screen. If you encounter the window that suggests starting a subscription press 'X' in the upper left corner and log in using the same username and password. If it doesn't help please contact us at support@musescore.com

Just a big pain

If this app actually worked, I would love it! I play the piano and the trumpet and this app has a ton of awesome songs to play. The day I downloaded it, everything was great, I found some really great music, learned some cool things, and just overall had a great time. But since then, the app has just been horrible. The interface covers up a whole line of music, and if you try to remove the interface it works sometimes, other times it doesn’t work and often it will misunderstand and turn the page. However, If you try to turn the page, most of the time it won’t do anything or it will toggle the interface. The problem is, there aren’t any controls for the functions you want, you just have to tap, swipe, or pound on the screen until it does what you want it to.

Oh yeah, also, often if you turn the page it does the little page turn animation but doesn’t actually turn the page. Then no matter how many times you try to turn the page, it just stays as the same page of music (or it toggles the interface and you scream at your phone and you post a lengthy-one star review about how much you hate MuseScore)

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your feedback. We've fixed the issues with score controls, turning pages and the other issues. So it works stable now. Please try the new update and let us if there is something we need to improve, I would appreciate that much.

Thank you!

Seems a little shady

I had a free trial - printed out the sheet music I was looking for - which by the way was formatted weird and started half a page down so the top half was blank - there was no title or composer attached to the print out so I had to write it in myself.

Anyway, I forgot to cancel my pro subscription, asked for a refund, and they said no, we can give you 35% refunded OR ten months free after your year. Then I responded with no I just want a refund i won’t be using this app…every other time this has happened with a different company they’ve refunded me there’s been no issue. They THEN respond, “ok we’ve refunded you the difference between the yearly and monthly version” - - so I'm out $10 which is a month long cost. It’s shady that this wasn’t an option in their first response email. And also why does every other company have the ability to refund me the full amount but they’re unable to. I suppose I can understand, but not the fact that they left it out of their first response with all my “options”, when they then quoted their policy I can get a difference of yearly/monthly cost within the first 14 days if I cancel. So just weird vibes!

Developer Response ,

Hello! Thank you for sharing your feedback. We are sorry that your experience was not an amazing one. At MuseScore, we strive to provide the best experience we can for our customers. Please feel free to reach out to support@musescore.com with any further comments, concerns, or suggestions you have so that we can make your experience a better one. Your MuseScore team.