“DO NOT USE: I signed up for what was explicitly advertised as a "Free Trial," but MuseScore immediately charged my card $39.99 upfront anyway. Trying to get a refund has been a complete nightmare. Their automated bot is entirely…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 502 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
MuseScore: Music Chords & Tabs
Musescore Limited🎹 Play free sheet music, learn piano, practice guitar tabs, and master music…
3.8 ★161,757 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
🎹 Play free sheet music, learn piano, practice guitar tabs, and master music theory with interactive tools.
MuseScore is your all-in-one sheet music reader, music learning app, and practice platform for piano, guitar, violin, flute, and every instrument.
Access over 3 million FREE sheet music scores: piano sheet music, guitar tabs, chords, music notes, and full scores for solo, ensemble, band, or orchestra.
• Discover classical, pop, rock, jazz, anime, movie soundtracks, and game music • Browse by instrument: piano, guitar, trumpet, violin, percussion, flute and more • Save favorite scores and build your personal music library • Download sheet music for offline practice with MuseScore PRO
🎼 Learn music with interactive sheet music
Improve note reading, rhythm, and performance skills using smart practice features:…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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 2.14.48 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.14.50, updated 2026-09-29.
The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 2.14.48, not the version now listed on the store.
Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:
Version 2.14.50 · 2026-09-29
No release notes were provided for this version.
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 at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say 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
Under 65% 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.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 7
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: 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 11 distinct reviewers (2.2% of 502 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 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 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 502 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 9 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 502 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 14 distinct reviewers (2.8% of 502 reviews scanned)
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: Surprise charges: raised by 23 distinct reviewers (4.6% of 502 reviews scanned)
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 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 502 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“they charge your card when you sign up for the free trial. I had to call my credit card company to get them to fix it. no one is home at muse customer service. awful service . stay away”
“I signed up for the 7 day free trial, and the same day (yesterday) it charged me for 2 years worth of subscriptions. Please refund immediately!”
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.
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