Score Sketch: Music Notation

Score Sketch is a sheet music maker for writing melodies, songs and piano parts on your phone, with undo that is still there tomorrow and a big staff made for fingers.

▶ UNDO EVERY STEP, EVEN AFTER REOPENING
• Every change to the score is one step you can undo and redo: notes, rests, durations, accidentals, ties, chords, key, time, tempo, transposing, lyrics and the title.
• The undo history is saved inside the score's own file, so Undo still works after you close the app and come back.
• Each score keeps up to 200 steps; very large scores keep fewer. Quick taps on the up and down buttons count as one step.
• Autosave runs within 2 seconds of your last edit, and the title bar shows Edited, Saving… or Saved. If a save fails you see it, and the app asks before you leave.
• A rhythm that can't be written where you tapped is refused with a short message, and your score stays exactly as it was.

▶ A BIG STAFF FOR YOUR FINGER
• The bar you are writing in is drawn again in an entry band at twice the page size, with five ledger lines above and below the staff.
• Touch a line or space: a ghost note and its name (for example F♯5) follow your finger, and the note is placed when you lift.
• Empty bars never shrink in the band, so there is always room for the next note.
• Prefer keys? Switch to a two-octave piano strip and swipe sideways to change octave.
• Move a note up or down a step with the arrow buttons.

▶ WRITE
• Whole, half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes, dots, triplets, rests, sharps, flats, naturals, ties and chords.
• A note that runs past the barline is split and tied into the next bar for you. Beams and accidentals are set automatically.
• Treble staff, bass staff or piano grand staff.
• 15 key signatures, 10 time signatures and a tempo from 30 to 240 BPM. Key and time can change at any bar.
• Transpose the whole score up or down by an interval, or by semitones.
• One verse of lyrics under the top staff, plus title and composer.
• Note names as letters, solfège or German (H).

▶ LISTEN
• Play from the bar you are on; the cursor follows the music.
• Hear each note as you place it (you can switch this off).

▶ EXPORT AND SHARE
• MusicXML (.musicxml) to carry on in a notation program on your computer.
• MIDI (.mid) with the notes, tempo, time and key.
• PNG pages at 1240 × 1754 px, with title, composer and tempo on the first page and no watermark.
• Every file is read back and checked before the app reports it as written, then you share it wherever you like.
• Back up your whole library, including each score's undo history, to one file and restore it later.

▶ GOOD TO KNOW
• Score Sketch is made for melodies, songs and piano parts: one voice per staff, treble and bass clefs, one verse of lyrics.
• Exports are MusicXML, MIDI and PNG pages.
• Notes are entered by touch, on the staff band or the piano strip.
• Playback uses a piano-style tone synthesized by the app, and it stops after 10 minutes of audio.
• Exported files stay in the app's export folder for about a day. Share them to keep a copy.
• The app asks for no permissions.
• Ads appear on the Manuscripts screen and sometimes after you finish an export, never while you write or listen.