Your sheet music, off the paper
StageScore turns your phone or tablet into your music stand. Import your own PDFs, turn pages without taking your hands off the instrument, and use the same score when you practise, at your lessons and on stage.
Get it on Google PlayThe iPhone and iPad version is in App Store review
While you play
Works the moment you import a PDF. Nothing to set up first.
Turn pages without letting go
Turn with a Bluetooth pedal, a swipe, or a tap on the edge of the screen. You choose which edge does what, and how fast the turn animates — set it once and forget it.
A whole session in one run
Group pieces into a setlist for a practice session, a lesson or a gig, and play straight through in that order. One piece leads into the next with no trip back to the library.
Nothing on screen but the music
Performance mode hides every control until you ask for it. Lock the zoom so nothing shifts mid-piece if you brush the screen.
A metronome built in
Set the tempo, the meter and the accent. When the room needs to stay quiet, in a lesson or a concert hall, switch it to a visual-only pulse that makes no sound.
Prepared at home
Done once per piece, so there is nothing to think about while you play, at practice or on stage.
One book, split into its pieces
A PDF collection splits into the individual pieces inside it, so you can open one on its own or the whole book when you want it. The boundaries between pieces stay editable.
Mark up the score
Draw, highlight and stamp musical symbols on any page. Hide every marking when you want the clean chart, or export the annotated PDF to send to someone.
Reorder pages so you never turn back
Insert a duplicate of a page, or a blank one, and lay the pages out in the order you will actually play them. A D.S. al Coda becomes a turn to the next page instead of a scramble backwards mid-phrase. You can also drop a jump link on the page and tap it directly.
Draw the bars once, and three more things open up
The three below share one preparation step, done once per piece: you outline the staff lines on the PDF page, then divide each line into bars. Splitting one line into four bars is one gesture, not four; where a split lands unevenly, drag the divider. All of it happens on your own PDF — nothing to scan, no format to convert to. Once it is done, the app knows where every bar sits on the page.
It follows the score with you
Once it knows where the bars are, it can track where you have got to:
- A playhead moves along the staff, in time with the tempo you set.
- Pages turn themselves at the end of the last line, so your hands stay on the instrument.
- Mark the repeats, voltas, D.C. and D.S. once, and the app unfolds them into the path you actually play — including when the same page comes round more than once.
What keeps time here is the metronome, not a recording. Play-along backing tracks are on the web side of Backing & Score — see the section just below.
Readable on a phone screen
Instead of shrinking a whole page to fit, the app crops to the staff lines you outlined and blows each one up to the full width of the screen, moving through them one at a time. That makes a phone usable for practice, not just a tablet.
It works with no network at all
Everything lives on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, and no ads — and we collect nothing about you or your music. Your library, annotations, and setlists back up to a single file you keep yourself.
Read the StageScore privacy section →Available in nine languages: English, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, French, German and Spanish — the same nine as the rest of Backing & Score.
Part of Backing & Score
StageScore is the score you carry everywhere: practising at home, in your lessons, and on stage too. On the web at backingscore.com you'll also find interactive sheet music with note-by-note feedback, play-along backing tracks, and Score Cinema for turning a score into a video.
See the whole platform