Calypso Score: Sheet Music
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Calypso Score is a feature-rich digital sheet music app for the iPad that lets musicians manage their scores in a way that was never possible with paper. With the app’s pre-built indexes for dozens of popular jazz and pop fakebooks, you’ll never struggle with finding the right chart at a rehearsal or jam session. Calypso Score also provides unique features for navigating through multi-page scores and powerful, easy-to-use tools for organizing and annotating your entire digital library.
Compare these features with other apps to see how Calypso Score changes for the game for digital sheet music:
ORGANIZE YOUR DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC FILES
• Import sheet music PDFs directly from any app that supports file sharing, including common cloud services
• Extract only the pages you need from a long file (e.g., just your part from a multi-part score) and assign critical metadata with an intuitive import wizard
• Annotate your songs with text, music symbols, guitar tabs, highlights, and drawings, all optimized for Apple Pencil; no additional purchase required
• Optimize the layout of your songs with a powerful built-in PDF editor; no additional purchase required
• Create your own custom songbooks for organizing your repertoire; a song can appear in more than one songbook, so you no longer need clumsy workarounds like bookmarks and layers to maintain different annotations and settings for different playing situations
• Easily share your library, including your fakebooks, songbooks, set lists, and individual songs; optionally include annotations, metadata and synchronized recordings with the PDF
• Backup files and metadata to iPad folders or any cloud service
FIND SONGS QUICKLY
• Get started with pre-built indexes for over 90 commercially published jazz and pop fakebooks*. +100 Aebersolds*
• Search and sort by page #, song title, composer, lyricist, genre, creation date, or user-assigned labels
• Search all fakebooks at once or limit your search to a single book
• Easily adjust indexes for missing or added pages
• Organize selected songs into set lists for quick and easy access at a gig
FREE YOUR HANDS AND EVEN YOUR FEET
• Turn pages automatically without swipes or pedals
• Minimize scrolling and scanning for repeats and jumps with optimized layouts for each turn of a page
• Manually turn pages with a Bluetooth pedal
PRACTICE MORE PRODUCTIVELY
• Attach any number of recorded music tracks to your sheet music for play-along during practice; audio files are linked to the index entry for a song, so only one copy of the track is needed even if the song appears in multiple books
• Synchronize playback of an attached audio file to follow automated page turns or start at a specific bar
• Adjust the pitch and playback speed of audio files - even if synchronized to the score
• Record your practice session; recordings are automatically synced to the score
• Avoid inefficient app-switching with built-in tools including a metronome, keyboard, and tuner
GET STARTED!
Calypso Score offers a familiar look and feel that follows best practices for iPad user experience and integration with iPad services and other apps. Detailed video tutorials (in-app and on our website) and an extensive help system will further help you get started quickly with productive management of your digital sheet music library.
*PLEASE NOTE
Calypso Score only provides the indexes for commercially published fakebooks; it does not provide the books themselves. However, Calypso Score makes it super easy to import any PDF and match it to one of the pre-built indexes.
What’s New
Version 7 is here with powerful new features and improvements to all aspects of the app. Key enhancements include:
• NEW! Half-Page Turning: Powerful automated page turning was already available with our Auto-Layout feature, but the new Half-Page Turning feature offers an alternative way to set up your scores for performance. The two methods are complementary: Auto-Layout is fully automated, whereas Half-Page Turning is designed to work with manual page turning using gestures or a Bluetooth pedal. Half-Page Turning is also enabled in Fakebooks in addition to Songbooks. Check out our three new video tutorials to learn more about this feature. Users who have previewed this feature think it’s a game changer in the world of music reading apps.
• NEW! Tuner tool: Available in the Recital toolbar. Button can be hidden in Settings
• NEW! Advanced audio engine: Improves stability and quality of attached recordings and the embedded keyboard. Add your own sound libraries to the keyboard using freely available SoundFonts (.sf2 files)
• Pitch and tempo settings for audio files are now included in exports
• Audio can be sent to Airplay directly from the Recordings Manager
• Settings have been reorganized to improve ease of use
• Apple Pencil integration has been updated to improve feel when drawing
Version 7.0.1
Version History
App Privacy
The developer, Siegfried Koester, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy
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The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Ratings and Reviews
Ratings and reviews are verified
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Fosod, 08.09.2022Beats lugging books aroundI’ve been using Calypso for over eight years. As an amateur musician who plays flute, soprano, alto, and tenor, Calypso has enabled me to easily choose different fake book pages Show more
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Gordon Giedt, 31.01.2021Calypso is great!I use this program all the time. I have books for all the bands I play with, Fakebooks (some of my own creation), and exercise books. With a 12.0” iPad Show more
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Hod A Mighty, 15.05.2020Exactly what I needed to combine and index my fake books and other music sources.If you will spend some time reading the manual and are diligent about finding supported fake book pdf files you will be thoroughly rewarded. You can access your fake books as Show more
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DCORTAZA, 21.06.2019Very hard to useI bought the app to organize my charts in set lists for my gigs. I spent the good part of a day trying to figure out how to use it, Show more
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JimChwaszczewski, 08.01.2016Excellent!!For the past year I've tried various music organizers and readers. This one's the WINNER! I have a lot of music in pdf form. I want indexes but without Show more
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Math roots, 03.11.2015Wrong impressionThe photos showing what the App looks like gives you the impression that you get all the fake books and songs when you download the App; Not true at Show more
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PottsPansSteel1, 15.08.2015Best sheet music app ever!I am a full time professional gigging musician. I used to use multiple binders filled with charts to go to gigs with. After trying every other sheet music app I Show more
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Kita Wia, 02.06.2015Great App.Calypso-Score is absolutely fantastic and does everything it claims. I have read several of the bad reviews and assume it is a problem of the user not following directions. Show more
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loriwillbur, 22.02.2015Doesn't workIt keeps restore audio file and never worked.. Mine is air 2 and this is junk!! Omg,,,
Information
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Category
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Age Rating4+
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Price19.99 USD
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Size164.64 MB
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ProvideriMobilTec
Languages
English, German
Copyright
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2004-2025 Siegfried Koester. All rights reserved.