Songscription is a music-technology startup founded in 2024 that automates the historically painful task of transcribing music into notation. Users upload an audio file or paste a link from YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, and Songscription's AI models analyze the recording and output it as sheet music, MIDI, guitar tablature, or MusicXML. The company describes itself as the "Shazam for sheet music," emphasizing speed and accessibility for people who can play but cannot transcribe by ear.
The platform handles a range of instruments and sources, including piano, guitar, violin, and vocals, and exports to formats that drop into notation software and DAWs. By converting audio to editable MIDI and MusicXML, Songscription serves not just hobbyists who want to learn a song but also educators preparing teaching materials, arrangers reworking pieces, and producers who want a starting point for a track. The result is a workflow that compresses hours of manual transcription into minutes.
Songscription launched publicly in mid-2024 and grew quickly, reporting more than 150,000 users across 150 countries within roughly five months. That traction underscores a large, underserved demand: music transcription has long been a manual skill gated behind years of ear training, and reliable automation opens it to a much broader audience of learners and creators. The company continues to expand instrument coverage and arrangement features.
In November 2025 Songscription announced a $5 million funding round led by Reach Capital, which also led its earlier round, with participation from Emerge Capital, 10x Founders, Dent Capital, and angel investors including former Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. The funding supports model development and a broader push into music education. Songscription competes with sheet-music apps and transcription tools while betting that high-accuracy, multi-instrument AI notation can become the default way musicians capture what they hear.