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Song Reader, One of the Best Sheet Music Apps for Android

Your sheet music, always in your pocket.

Photograph your sheet music with your phone's camera, and Song Reader scrolls through it automatically as you play. No paper, no page turns, just fragment-based playback that understands repeats and codas.

No need to carry paper music sheets
Automatic scrolling, move forward/back
Sort songs in library / directories
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Your song library

Song Reader keeps your sheet music with you everywhere, without carrying paper. Photograph each page with your phone's camera, and the app scrolls through the song automatically during play, so there's no more turning pages by hand. A companion Song Reader Manager also lets you prepare songs on a computer, and there's a short video tutorial if you'd rather watch than read.

Creating a song

From the main screen, tap Create song and give it a name and (optionally) a folder. Add pages either by taking a photo directly in the app or by importing existing pictures from your SD card, handy if you already have scanned sheet music. Reorder, edit, or delete pages from the song's page list at any time.

Create song: set name and directory Create song: pages added

Defining fragments

Use the edit tool to drag-and-drop fragments on each page. These are the segments that get connected and played back seamlessly. The app understands common musical repeat structures like |: … :| repeats, coda, D.S. al coda and D.C. al coda, including multiple repeat endings.

Edit song: fragments view Choose a music symbol

Playing a song

Open any song from the main screen and tap play. Standard transport controls (play/pause, jump to start, step back/forward one fragment, jump to end) sit alongside adjustable tempo and zoom, with the current position always shown in the title bar. Swipe with your finger to move around freely during playback.

Select a song to play Playback, landscape Playback, further into the song

Deleting a song

Remove a song with the delete icon from the song list (delete all songs in a folder before removing the folder itself, and Song Reader will warn you if the folder still has songs in it).

Play / Edit list, with delete icons Delete directory confirmation

Sharing a song

The Pro version supports sharing songs as files straight from the share icon. Received a shared song from someone else? Open the file and Song Reader will ask which directory to save it into. See the privacy policy for details on data handling.

Share song with… Choose a directory to import into
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