For choir singers · SATB

Scan the score.
Sing your part.

Take a photo of your choir music or open the PDF your director sent. ScanSing reads the notes on your phone and plays your line louder than the rest, so you can learn it before the next rehearsal.

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First page of Blessed City, Heavenly Salem by Edward C. Bairstow, for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and organ
straight from the folder
The ScanSing home screen: Sing your music, Continue Hosanna, Open my music and Add music
How it works

From paper to practice in three steps

No account and no upload. The notes are read on your phone, even on a train without signal.

The Add a photo screen with Take a photo and Choose from photos
1

Scan or open

Photograph printed pages, or open a PDF from Mail, Files or WhatsApp. MusicXML files open as they are.

First page of Hosanna to the highest by Henry Purcell
2

Pick your part

Choose soprano, alto, tenor or bass. Your line gets louder and is marked in the score; the others step back.

The ScanSing library with four pieces ready to sing
3

Sing along

Slow it down, loop the hard bars, and sing with the other voices or on your own until it sits in your voice.

The first system of Blessed City, Heavenly Salem: soprano, alto, tenor and bass staves
E. C. Bairstow, Blessed City, Heavenly Salem. Edition © 2011 by the Choral Public Domain Library, freely distributed.
Try it

Your line, picked out on the page you were given

ScanSing keeps your printed page on screen and marks the staff you sing. Pick a voice to see it move.

Features

Made for the week between rehearsals

Your part, front and centre

Hear your line over the other voices, or on its own. The score follows along and keeps your staff marked.

With music · Solo

Practice loops

Pick a phrase or a range of bars, set how many times to repeat, and add a breath or a count-in between passes.

Repeats 3 · 5 · ∞ · Breath 2–6 s · Count-in 1–2 bars

Tempo and key

Start slow and work up. Move the whole piece up or down in semitones to fit a lower alto or a tired tenor.

Tempo at 100 percent and Transpose at 0 semitones in the player settings

A library for the whole season

Every piece keeps your part, your tempo and where you stopped. Continue from the home screen next time.

PDF · photo · MusicXML
Four pieces in the library, each marked Ready to sing

See where you drifted

Sing your part with headphones on. After each pass every note you sang is tinted on the staff: red where you were sharp, blue where you were flat, stronger the further off. Tap a note to hear it as you sang it and in tune, or play the whole take back auto-tuned.

Practice section · Voice input · Your last take
Practice section on the opening of Purcell's Hosanna: one note tinted red where it was sung sharp and one blue where it was flat, with the last take ready to play back
The opening of Purcell's Hosanna in the bass part, notes and words drawn by hand on plain paper
Drawnhand-drawn notes on plain paper
The same bars as clean lesson notes on warm cream paper
Lessonclean, rounded notes on warm paper
The same bars drawn by hand over the Chapel watercolour of a balustrade above a lake
Chapelcream and gold, a balustrade over the lake
The same bars drawn by hand over the Twilight watercolour of a lavender lake at dusk
Twilightlavender dusk behind the ink
Reviews

Choirs can't stop talking about it*

Honest stories from real rehearsal rooms. Tap a film to hear it.

* Not really. Everyone here was made with an AI video tool. It was the only way to find a choir director willing to press one key forty times on camera.

  1. Learning parts, the old way:
  2. the same note, forty times.
★★★★★ I pressed that key forty times a week for twenty years. Then the altos found ScanSing. Choir director, St. Somewhere
  1. The alto part, bar one:
  2. still the same note.
★★★★★ Eight bars on one note. ScanSing played me the other three parts, and now I know why. Alto, back row
  1. Two bars of rest.
  2. The tenor counted one.
  3. Everyone noticed.
★★★★★ I came in a bar early in front of the bishop. Now ScanSing counts me in. Tenor, one bar ahead
  1. Red light. Bass part, bar 12.
  2. Low E. Full commitment.
  3. He has fans now.
★★★★★ My part is so low only the car can feel it. ScanSing keeps me in tune at every red light. Bass, stuck in traffic
  1. 1 a.m. The concert is at 11.
  2. Same phrase, attempt 37.
  3. Her husband knows it by heart now.
★★★★★ Now I loop the phrase in my earbuds and my husband sleeps. Our marriage thanks you. Soprano, night shift
Pricing

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  • Player, your part, tempo, transpose, loops
  • Open MusicXML without limit
  • All skins
  • Export MusicXML
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  • Export MusicXML to MuseScore or Sibelius
  • Family Sharing
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Coming next

For choir directors

Scan the new piece once and send your choir a link. Each singer opens it with their own part already chosen.

Tell us about your choir →
Shared: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem
Questions

Before you try it

What kind of music can it read?

Printed choral scores such as SATB, SSA or TTBB, from a photo or a PDF. Handwritten scores are not supported. MusicXML files from MuseScore or Sibelius open directly.

How accurate is the scan?

Clean printed pages come through best. Photos taken at an angle or in poor light do worse, and old or faint prints can have mistakes. Check the tricky bars against your printed copy. We tested it against other apps on nine printed scores: see the results, including where it loses.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. Scans are recognised on your phone and stay there. ScanSing's App Store privacy label is "Data Not Collected".

Does it work offline?

Yes. Scanning, playing and looping all work without a connection.

Is there an Android version?

Yes, in beta. Open the Android beta link on your phone and follow the steps to install it.

let the day sound brighter

Learn this week's piece
before the next rehearsal

The public beta is free while we test. On iPhone, iPad and Mac it runs on TestFlight: open the link on your device and install TestFlight if Apple asks. On Android, open the Android link on your phone and follow the steps to install the app.

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