Scribe apps

A score for your band. A tab for your guitar.

Two apps that listen to a recording and write down what was played. Each is made for its own players; both keep your music on your own devices.

A score for your band, from any recording.

Play it, record a rehearsal or open a file. Brasscribe writes down the parts for your brass band, marks the notes it wasn't sure about, and lets you practise along with the band.

For
Brass band players, section leaders and conductors.
Runs on
  • iPhone and iPad (test build)
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Windows (preview)
See Brasscribe Download
The Solo Cornet part of Old Hundredth on iPhone, as written for B flat, with question marks over the uncertain notes and the player below.

Turn a recording into tab.

Play a riff, record a song or open a file. Fretscribe writes it down as tab for your instrument and tuning, shows what it heard before any fret is written, and lets you practise with the recording.

For
Guitar, bass, ukulele and mandolin players who read tab.
Runs on
  • Android
  • iPhone and iPad (test build)
  • Mac
  • Windows (preview)
See Fretscribe Download
A bass tab in Fretscribe on a phone: Bass line in standard tuning, bar 1 marked, a question mark over a doubtful note, and the player below with Speed and Repeat bars.

Your phone asks. Your computer listens.

Picking single notes out of a recording is heavy work, more than a phone should do on a bus. So the apps share one helper: Bandroom, a program on your own Mac or PC.

Bandroom on the computer
Does the listening and the writing: every band score and every tab. One Bandroom serves both apps and every phone you pair with it.
The app on your phone
Records, opens files, shows the score or the tab and plays along with you. Pair it once; after that it finds the computer by itself.
Private and local
The recording never leaves your own network: it goes from your phone to your own computer and nowhere else. Bandroom's first run needs the internet, to download what it listens with, and for Brasscribe's band writer a free Hugging Face account.
Where your recording goes The recording goes from the app on your phone to Bandroom on your computer, and the score or tab comes back, all inside your own network. Nothing goes to the internet. Your own network The internet: nothing is sent The app on your phone records, shows, plays along recording score or tab Bandroom on your computer listens and writes it down

What each app needs

To makeYou need
A band score, with BrasscribeBandroom on a computer on the same Wi-Fi as the phone.
One instrument's part, with BrasscribeOn Android and on a Windows PC, the app alone. On iPhone, iPad and Mac, Bandroom too, for now.
A tab, with FretscribeBandroom on a computer on the same Wi-Fi, always.
Reading and practising what you have madeThe app alone.
  • The apps run on the newest system and the one before it: Android 17 or 16, iOS, iPadOS and macOS 27 or 26, and Windows 11.
  • Bandroom needs a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or newer, or a PC with Windows 11 (x64), and about 15 GB free.
  • Nothing is in an app store, and the downloads are not signed yet. Each download page says how to install on that device anyway: Brasscribe, Fretscribe.

Get Bandroom

For a Mac with Apple silicon or a Windows 11 PC. It runs quietly in the background, and the first run downloads about 10 GB.

Bandroom for Mac Bandroom for Windows

Setting it up and pairing a phone is in Brasscribe's guide and Fretscribe's guide.