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Create a Playable Score, so each member can listen to their part on its own or standing out from the others.\n\n• 19 high quality instruments per staff to choose from\n• Change tempo (even while playing)\n• Tap anywhere to play, or drag with a finger to create a loop\n• Mute and adjust volume, and change instrument for each staff individually\n• Transpose the whole song or by instrument (transposing instruments)\n* Adjustable multi-measure count-in and metronome\n* Swing playback\n• Adjustable dynamic range\n\nPlayScore 2 makes it easy to create multi-page Playable Scores:\n\n• Rearrange recapture or delete pages\n• Select a page range in a PDF\n• Clip and mask\n• Search and sort by title or composer\n\nSubscriptions - Even without a subscription you can\n\n• Play and interact with any PlayScore Playable Score \n• Play pages of music in unlimited staves from a photo\n• Create and share single page playable documents\n\nPlayScore 2 Productivity subscription\n\n• Create and play multi-staff, multi-page scores captured with the camera or imported as images\n• Export your documents for anyone to play\n• Interact with scores, auto-transpose transposing instruments, export MIDI files\n\nPlayScore 2 Professional subscription\n\n• Create Playable Score documents from PDF scores that anyone can play\n• Export any score as MIDI and MusicXML containing full notation and text\n\nProductivity and Professional versions are available as 1-month or 12-month auto-renewing subscriptions.\n\n• The payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase\n• The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period\n• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal\n\n• You may manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on-line after purchase\n\nImportant: Capturing copyrighted music without the copyright holder's permission is illegal.\n\nPlayScore 2 recognises full music notation – see full spec at playscore.co\n\n† please see online help for exclusions\n\nTerms of use: https://playscore.co/terms-of-use","facts":{"developer_id":1422471846,"developer_url":"https://playscore.co","first_released":"2019-01-23T17:42:48Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"3.66","release_notes":"Long-range looping\nAccuracy improvements\nBetter playback sound","rating_current_version":4.14967,"rating_count_current_version":4757,"star_counts":null,"genres":["Music","Education"],"languages":["NL","EN","FR","DE","IT","JA","ZH","ES"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":null,"made_for_iphone_duo":null,"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-24T09:59:12.875Z","catalog_read_at":null,"reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-22T08:27:14.599Z","placed_at":"2026-10-18T03:48:11.703Z","scored_at":"2026-10-24T09:57:12.860Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Plays back music read from photos, images or PDF scores, scrolling measure by measure, with export to MusicXML and MIDI.","what_is":"PlayScore 2 is a Music app that reads sheet music from camera photos, imported images or PDFs and plays it back with a scrolling view that follows each measure. 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