What input works best for sheet music scanning?
Printed (typeset) music, scanned or photographed straight-on at 200+ DPI in good light. Handwritten manuscripts and low-res phone photos significantly reduce recognition accuracy — that's true of all OMR, including $200 desktop packages.
The recognition missed some notes — what now?
Download the MusicXML, open it in MuseScore (free) and fix the misses — usually far faster than entering the whole score by hand. The re-rendered preview shows you exactly where to look.
Is it free?
Converting is free — 5 jobs a day, files up to 40 MB, no account. The preview shows the score with highlighted notes and plays the whole piece in the browser, so you can judge the recognition before paying. The downloads are a one-time purchase per piece, priced by length: up to 2 pages $2.99, 3–9 pages $5.99, 10+ pages $9.99 for MusicXML + MIDI; the Rehearsal Pack with per-part practice MP3s and slow mixes is $3 more. One-time payments — no subscription. Doing several pieces? Credit packs save you more: $9 unlocks 4 pieces, $19 unlocks 10.
What happens to my files?
Uploads are used only to run your job. Unpaid uploads and generated files are automatically deleted 7 days after processing completes. Please save any free results you need before then. Paid customer files are excluded from this automatic cleanup. We don't share them or train on them. You can delete any upload yourself at any time — the 🗑 on its card removes the file, everything made from it and any share link immediately. See our privacy policy.