Notes fall onto the keyboard
Notes fall from above onto an 88-key keyboard. You can follow which key to press, and when, without reading the score.
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Snap your sheet music.
Hear it play.
Point the camera and press the shutter. AI reads the notes and turns them into sound right away, so you can tell how a piece goes even if you cannot read music.
Available for iPhone and Android. Recognition is done by AI, so the result can contain mistakes. Anything that looks wrong can be corrected inside the app.
Twinkle, TwinkleBPM 96
Public scores
Play the published scores right in your browser.
Scores published in the app can be played from this page, with no sign-in and nothing to install. Watch the notes fall onto the keyboard, and play one hand at a time or at a slower speed.
- No sign-in or install
- Plays on PC, tablet and phone
- One hand at a time, any speed
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When this helps
What do you do when there is no recording to listen to?
Learning to read music takes time. Until then, hearing how a piece goes can depend entirely on finding someone to play it for you.
- A new piece handed to you in a lesson, and no idea how it is meant to sound
- An exercise from a method book, or a score you wrote yourself, with no recording anywhere
- A choir or wind band part you want to learn by hearing your own line on its own
- A fast piece you want slowed down so you can check the hard bars
Features
You can start practising before you can read music.
Built as a tool for practising, not as a tool for reading.
Right hand only, left hand only
Play one hand at a time. Listen to the harder hand over and over, and learn the two parts separately.
Slowly, on repeat, in time
Slow the tempo written in the score down to a speed you can play. Loop just the difficult bars, play along with the metronome and count-in, or transpose the pitch.
Fix misreadings on the spot
The result is shown on a staff. Any note that came out wrong can be tapped and corrected: pitch, length, rests, time and key signatures, even repeat marks.
MIDI keyboard input and recording
Connect a MIDI keyboard and enter notes straight into the score. Record yourself playing and the notes are written out from how long each key was held.
Fingering, only where it is printed
Fingering numbers printed in the score are shown beside the notes. Nothing is invented where the score says nothing.
Scores you scan are kept and organized
Scanned scores are saved to your account and open on any device. Sort them into folders and tags, and export a score to PDF.
Public scores: listen, and publish
Find scores published by others by title or genre and listen. In a browser you can play them without signing up. Publish your own, free or priced in tokens.
The more you keep going, the more it shows
Your streak, time practised, play counts for each score, a calendar and badges make the habit visible.
How it works
Three steps from photo to playback.
Nothing to set up. You do not need to be at an instrument — take the score out of your bag and listen right there.
Photograph the score
Take one page at a time. A slight tilt is fine; the image is straightened before it is read.
Wait for the reading
AI reads the notes and the key signature. The time signature is an estimate, so correct it on the staff if it came out wrong. For pieces of several pages, add the rest one page at a time.
Listen. Correct.
Play it straight away. If something was misread, fix it on the staff and listen again.
Pricing
Free to start.
Downloading the app, playing back, editing scores and listening to public scores are all free. Tokens are spent on only a few features.
Tokens are spent on just three things
Reading notes from a photo, seeing the sheet music of a paid public score, and exporting a score to PDF. Playback, your library, editing and listening to public scores are free, as often as you like. The app tells you how many tokens something takes each time.
Earn tokens when your published score is bought
Publish your own scores, free or priced in tokens. When someone buys a paid score you receive earned tokens, which you can spend inside the app. The share and the waiting period are shown on the publish screen in the app and in the Terms of Use.
Top up only if you run out
If you run out, you can buy more inside the app. Accounts with a confirmed email address may also be given free tokens (the amount and conditions are shown in the app). What is on offer, and at what price, is shown on the purchase screen in the app.
How many tokens something costs is shown in the app before you use it. Purchased tokens do not expire. Sales terms are set out in the Commercial Transaction Act notice.
FAQ
Things worth knowing before you start.
The questions we are asked most often about Fumenru.
Can it read any sheet music?
It is built for printed piano music on a grand staff. Handwritten scores, very faint printing and photographs taken at a steep angle are harder to read. The time signature is an estimate and can come out wrong. Anything misread can be corrected on the staff.
Can I use it if I cannot read music?
Yes. Take the photo and press play. Notes fall onto the keyboard, so you can see which note sounds and when without reading the score.
What happens to the photos I take?
Photos that are read successfully are deleted at that moment. Only the resulting score data is kept. Photos that could not be read are kept for up to 30 days so that we can look into why, and then deleted.
Do I need an account?
Playing the sample scores and writing notes onto a blank staff work without an account. An account is needed to scan a photograph of a score, to publish a score and to buy a paid one. Just listening to public scores needs no account, even in the browser on this site.
Does it cost anything?
Downloading the app, playing back, editing scores and listening to public scores are all free. Tokens are used when notes are read from a photo, when you see the sheet music of a paid public score, and when you export a score to PDF; the app tells you how many before you use them. Token prices are shown on the purchase screen in the app.
Do tokens expire?
Purchased tokens never expire. Tokens given out for free may be given an expiry date. Note that deleting your account forfeits any remaining tokens, whether they were given to you or purchased.
Will choir or orchestral scores be supported?
Piano music on a grand staff is what is supported today. Support for individual instrumental or vocal parts is something we are considering.
Which devices can I use it on?
It runs on iPhone and Android. Download it free from the App Store or Google Play. If you only want to listen to public scores, you can play them in the browser on a PC, tablet or phone, without signing up.
Can I listen to public scores without an account?
Yes. From Public scores on this site you can play them right in the browser, with no sign-in and no install. Paid scores are free to play too (seeing their sheet music takes tokens). Adding favorites and publishing your own scores are done in the app.
Start listening today.
Out now on the App Store and Google Play. The app itself is free to download.