“Won’t Refund — Charged for a FREE TRIAL”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 543 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.6 ★78,577 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
194 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
PLAY FREE MUSIC SCORES Whatever instrument you play, whether it's a piano, trumpet, guitar, or harmonica, or kalimba, you will always find notes of excellent quality. • Browse the most extensive sheet music collection from MuseScore. • Access over 1.5 million pieces of FREE sheet music: piano notes, guitar tabs, and scores for most instruments. • Play compositions that suit all tastes: from timeless classics or Christian tunes to anime music transcriptions, movies (OST), or songs from video games (soundtracks). • View and play your favorite sheet music online and offline. • Search for scores with ease. • Find something new to play - scores are added every day.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.14.50 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.14.50, updated 2026-09-30.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Raised by 43 distinct reviewers — 7.9% of the 543 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 4.79 to USD 179.99 — a 38x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 6
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 543 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 543 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 18 distinct reviewers (3.3% of 543 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 16 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 543 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 24 distinct reviewers (4.4% of 543 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (2.8% of 543 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“some things about this app — I had a very frustrating experience with this app. My child purchased a piece of sheet music listed at $0.99, but I was charged twice for it. A 7-day trial for a quarterly subscription was also pre-selected…”
“Free trail is a scam — The app said it had a 7 day free trial. When it took my payment information, I was charged immediately and after only one day of having the app, I contacted customer service. They refused to refund me the entire…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.14.50.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown8
Lowest$4.79
Highest$179.99
MuseScore Pro+$5.99
MuseScore Pro+$99.99
MuseScore Learn$179.99
Music Score Features$4.79
MuseScore Pro$6.99
Show 3 more purchases
Music score features$7.99
MuseScore Pro$39.99
MuseScore Pro$49.99