Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-04 from 502 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
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 the analysis found
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Trial converts to a charge
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…
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!
Aggressive ad load
After subscribing to Pro+ on the website and installing from the store, you are bombarded with ads for add-ons without any easy way to get to quickly get to the actual app. "Continue" buttons that are just "confirm purchase" buttons. The…
So much advertising it feels predatory.. even the metronome is locked behind a paywall
Excessive advertisements for higher tiers plague the app, just use the website it's way better.
Hard to cancel
This is deceitful subscription process. I had been a paying customer a few years back. Lately I paid for a one off score download but was then automatically signed up for ongoing payments without this process being visible as a 7 day…
Tried to cancel my trial period but was still charged for the annual fee. Why? Dishonest.
GUYS DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THIS APP! I ONLY BOUGHT A 1 DOLLAR MUSIC PIECE AND NOW I GOT CHARGE $50 FOR NO REASON! I DIDNT EVEN BUY A SUBSCRIPTION! NOW I CANT CANCEL IT, THERE IS NO OPTION. BEAWARE OF THIS SCAM!
Paywall blocks the basics
Horrible app, most features locked behind a paid subscription. Most of my favorite music is inaccessible because they monopolize and monetize so much music. The app is also extremely buggy and I've had several instances where music won't…
Everything's behind a paywall. They claim free options but bill you straight away for the "free trial." Nothing like the open source desktop program, seems managed by a different branch. And in regards to their response, I want to make it…
everything the app says you can do on it requires a subscription.
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Edit: Somehow they made this app even worse. They now hide the "No thanks" button on the initial auto-renewing subscription ad behind an actively hostile UI to get you to give them your credit card info, and it takes about 5-10 steps to…
Paid for it, barely any music available. Really bad experience. Kept getting pushed to upgrade and spend more. Clearly not made for musicians.
Everything's behind a paywall. They claim free options but bill you straight away for the "free trial." Nothing like the open source desktop program, seems managed by a different branch. And in regards to their response, I want to make it…
Reports of unexpected charges
I was trying to sign up for pro+ and they double charged me and signed me up for both learn and pro+. I can't get the app to sort properly or show just drum tabs. I found one on their website and when I hit "open in app", or download the…
they tried to steal my money twice with very little support, after looking it up on reddit this seems to be a common occurrence. went ahead and filed a report to the FTC for musescores malpractice and manipulative actions
The app is extremely buggy and seems almost impossible to use. It's the only app I have that keeps crashing again and again. It's also pushing the user to buy additional subscriptions, why would I do this for a product that barely works?…
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
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…
Scam. The ad says FREE sheet music, then as soon as you install it you have to enter a credit card to buy it or be auto charged after 7 days. It might even be good if not advertised as FREE but I never pay on fake ads. If they have to lie…
Abysmal interface and hoop jumping. False advertising. Not possible to write music in this app
What this app sells
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.