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Scores

Your sheet music, on the stand that is already in front of you. Import the PDF, tap the right edge to turn, draw a fingering with the Pencil, and press play on the piece — the clock and the score are one gesture.

Open scores free · no sign-up · works offline

What it does

Import a PDF from Files, Drive or anywhere the share sheet reaches, and it lands in the library with its title and composer read from the document when the publisher filled them in. Edit either, add tags — baroque, exam, duet — and the library becomes searchable by any of them. Sort by what you opened last, by title or by composer, or group the whole shelf by composer the way a real shelf ends up organised. Each row carries a small thumbnail of the first page so a scan and an engraving are told apart at a glance.

Read full screen. The page fills the width in portrait and the height in landscape, on a black ground that keeps the eye on the notes. Tap the right third of the screen to turn forward and the left third to go back; the middle shows or hides the controls. A Bluetooth page-turner pedal works too: it presses the arrow or page keys, and those turn pages. The reader remembers where you were in every score on every device, keeps the screen awake while it is open, and works with no connection at all.

Bookmark a page with one tap and give it a name — coda, the hard bit, development — then jump to it from a list. Bookmarks sync with an account, so the phone and the tablet agree.

Annotate with an Apple Pencil (or any stylus). Three pen colours, a highlighter, an eraser that sweeps along the stroke, undo and redo. The pen draws and a finger still turns pages, so you can mark a fingering without leaving reading mode; a toggle lets a finger draw when there is no pencil. Ink lives on its own layer and syncs as tiny vector strokes. The PDF is never modified: save this score to a file gives you back exactly the bytes you imported.

Big scans

A scanned score can run to 30 or 60 megabytes and take half a second a page to draw on a tablet. Chopinly renders such scores once, keeps the drawn pages on the device (up to a budget it manages for you), and turns them instantly from then on. Engraved PDFs are light enough to render on the fly. Either way the file itself stays in your browser's storage, not on a server, unless you ask otherwise.

Scores and the practice clock

Link a score to a goal in the logbook, and practice this starts the clock on it from the reader. Start the clock on that goal from anywhere else and Chopinly asks whether to open the score. The Today card shows a link to the score of whatever you are practicing, and the goal's own page lists its scores. The reader shows a quiet practicing mark while the clock runs, so the two never drift apart.

With an account

Signed out, everything stays on the device. Signed in, the list, tags, bookmarks and ink are backed up like the rest of your practice — they are small. The PDFs themselves go up only when you choose upload in the library: pick the scores, or select all, and they move one at a time into a space that is private to your account. On another device the row reads in the cloud — tap to download, and opening it fetches the file. Every account has 100 MB of that space while the feature is promotional. Delete a score and its cloud copy goes with it; delete the account and the space is emptied while the device keeps its copies.

Rights

Upload only music you have the right to keep a personal copy of — your own purchases, public-domain editions, your own manuscripts. Files are never shared, listed or published; they are yours, in your space, for your other devices.