Bring in any score
PDFs and MusicXML from Files, or scan printed pages with your camera. Photos are cropped, straightened and cleaned up automatically, even with shadows across the page.
Synesthesia
Sheet music in light
Import a PDF, scan a printed page, or bring in MusicXML. Synesthesia redraws your score as glowing notation that moves in time with you, so your eyes stay on the music, not on turning pages. Singing? Bring in a lyric sheet and the words play through, chords and all.
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Vision Pro
What it does
Practise with your music lit up
Synesthesia reads the staves, bar lines, repeats and tempo from your page, then plays it back as light at the speed you choose.
Press play
The music glides past a glowing playhead at any tempo from 20 to 400 BPM, with a count-in and an accented metronome you can switch on or off. Or tap the tempo in.
Hold the music still
Prefer reading like paper? The music stays put and the line moves across it, turning the page on time.
Or no line at all
Turn the playhead off for clean music with nothing drawn over it, whether the music scrolls or holds still.
NewSee the whole page
Full Sheet stacks the lines that come next under the one you're playing, and moves up a line as you go.
Follows the road map
Repeats, 1st and 2nd endings, D.C. and D.S. al Fine, pickup bars, C and ¢, and meter changes are followed for you. Tap any bar to jump there.
Song lyrics, too
Import a lyric sheet from a PDF, a photo or a timed .lrc file. The words play through a line at a time, with the chords above them.
NewAsk about your score
Ask "Where does the repeat go back to?" or say "a bit slower" and "go to bar 17". Answered on your device by Apple Intelligence.
In your room
Set the score down on a table or wall in AR on iPhone and iPad, or pin it beside your instrument on Apple Vision Pro.
Make it glow your way
Six ways to see your music
Switch looks any time from the palette button. Your choice is remembered on each device.
See it
Your score, on iPhone and iPad
Lyrics mode New
Sing along, line by line
Bring in a song's lyric sheet and Synesthesia plays the words through at your tempo, the line you're on glowing in the middle of the screen with a bar showing how far through it you are.
- Import Lyrics. A PDF, photos of a printed sheet, or a camera scan, read on your device. Or a timed .lrc file.
- Chords stay over their words. Chord lines above the lyrics land on the right syllables, glowing gold. Headings like Verse and Chorus are kept.
- Set the pace. Tempo, bars per line and time signature, with a count-in and a click. Timed .lrc lyrics keep their own timing.
- Tap any line to jump there. Make the words bigger for the stage, or hide the chords.
Augmented reality
Set your score down in your room
On iPhone and iPad, turn on AR and the score floats in front of you through the camera.
- Point at a table or wall. A glowing ring shows where the score will go.
- Tap to set it down. It stays put while you play. Double-tap to bring it back to you.
- Prefer a plain screen? Turn AR off for Screen Mode, the score on black.
Apple Vision Pro
Your score, life-size, where you practise
On Vision Pro, Synesthesia opens as a window with your library and controls. Then send the score out into your space at full size, floating at eye height above the controls like a music stand.
Move it with your hand
Pinch and drag the score anywhere in the room. It turns to face you as it goes.
Look and pinch to jump
Look at any bar and pinch your fingers to play from there. No reaching for buttons mid-piece.
Pin it, and it stays
Pin the score beside your piano or stand. Next time you open it, even after a restart, it's waiting in the same spot.
Practise under the stars
Turn on Art Mode and the room fades into a night sky of twinkling stars and slow nebula clouds, with your score glowing in the middle.
Glass or free-floating
Show the score on a soft glass panel, or let the notes float freely in your room.
Everything else, too
Full Sheet, every look, Ask about the score and the Pro features (all but head turns) work on Vision Pro too.
Synesthesia Pro
Free to play. Pro when you want more.
Pro adds an unlimited library and tools for serious practice and live play.
Free
$0
- Up to 15 of your own scores and lyric sheets, plus the samples
- PDF, MusicXML, photos and camera scans
- Scrolling, still-music and no-line playback
- Full Sheet, repeats and road map, tap-to-jump
- Holographic, Neon Blue, Neon Green, Traditional Black and Art Mode
- AR on iPhone and iPad, life-size on Vision Pro
- Lyrics mode: lyric sheets with chords, at your tempo or timed
- Ask about the score (Apple Intelligence devices)
Synesthesia Pro
$4.99 / month
Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited library. Import and scan as many scores as you like.
- Sheet Music. Your score in black on white, just like the printed page.
- Follow me. Just play: it listens, and the score speeds up and slows down with you. For scores imported from MusicXML.
- Explain the markings. Tap dolce, rit. or a fermata for a one-line explanation, in your language.
- Turn pages with your head (iPhone and iPad). Turn right for the next line, left to go back. Hands stay on your instrument.
- Art Mode moods. Starry Night, Stormy Sea, Golden Sunset, Enchanted Forest and Aurora, each with its own colours and a backdrop painted by Image Playground.
Tap Go Pro at the top of your library.
Synesthesia Pro is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews each month unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Prices shown in US dollars; your local price is shown in the app. Terms of Use · Privacy Policy
Private by design
Your music never leaves your device
Reading your scores, scanning pages, answering your questions and hearing your voice all happen on your iPhone, iPad or Vision Pro. No accounts, no ads, no tracking.
Ready to see your music in light?
For iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro.