Nawtara: Sheet Music Scanner

Your sheet music, played aloud, quarter tones included.

Open a PDF, take a photo or scan a page. Nawtara reads every note, half-flats and half-sharps included, and plays the piece so you can learn it by ear with the notes in front of you. Western scores work too.

HEAR EVERY QUARTER TONE Nawtara reads Arabic notation: half-flats and half-sharps in the key signature and in the bars, as the maqam asks. The note you hear lights up in brass, its name underneath: do ré mi, letters, or maqam degrees (Rast, Dukah, Sikah).

READS THE PAGE AS PRINTED Repeats, endings and key changes are played as written. When the reading is unsure of a bar, it says so and shows you that bar on your own page. Fix an accidental, a key signature, a rhythm or a triplet in a few taps, and hear it at once.

PRACTISE AT YOUR OWN PACE

Slow down or speed up, from 25 % to 150 %, always in tune
Loop a bar, a passage or a section
"Speed up as I repeat": the tempo rises a little each time you loop
Metronome and count-in
CHOOSE YOUR SOUND Arabic ensemble or Western instruments: nine playback sounds, from violin and piano to the ensemble.

ANY SHEET

PDF, photo, or several pages scanned with the camera
MusicXML files too
Open a sheet straight from Files, Mail or WhatsApp with Share
YOUR LIBRARY Every piece in one place, searchable, with what still needs checking. Export the sheet as PDF, the audio as M4A with your instrument and tempo, or MusicXML for other notation apps.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking or analytics. Your uploads are deleted after 30 days, or at once from the app.

In Arabic, English and French. iPhone and iPad.

PAGES AND PLANS Every new install gets free pages to try on your own sheets. A page is one page read; playing, practising and fixing are free. For more:

Yearly plan: new pages every month
Lifetime: new pages every month, paid once
Page packs that never expire The app shows how many pages each option gives before you buy.
The yearly plan is an auto-renewable subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings.

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