My Music Staff vs OPS

My Music Staff is studio-management software for private music teachers and studio owners. It handles private and group lesson scheduling, attendance and notes, student records, billing and family communication. Teachers can set lesson categories and locations, send automatic email and SMS reminders, and sync calendars with Google Calendar or iCalendar in both directions. Student records can hold family contact details, waitlists and leads; the service also supports bulk messages and importing student lists. Billing includes calendar-based charges, invoices, online payments, overdue reminders and automatic late fees. Families can use the Student Portal to register for open slots, view notes, repertoire, resources and studio news, and pay online. Website widgets add sign-up and portal login to site builders such as Wix, Squarespace and WordPress. Stripe and PayPal integrations support payments, and lesson reminders can include online meeting links. The web app can be added to Android and iOS home screens. Pricing is from $16.95/mo, with a 30-day trial and no free plan.

OPS is a management platform for orchestras, bands, and music schools, bringing scores, member records, instrument inventory, accounting, and documents together. Its score library uses OCR to identify scanned scores and create a separate PDF for each instrument part. Member management supports custom fields and groups, bulk imports and exports, and optional user accounts. Instrument records can include loan contracts, repairs and maintenance, QR labels, photos, and waiting lists. The music school module handles enrolments, courses, attendance, grades, report cards, and a parent portal. Accounting follows the French Plan Comptable Général for associations and includes FEC export. Setlists can be shared with a public link or embedded on a website; ensembles can cross-share scores through the Mediathek. OPS Scores is an iPad app with Apple Pencil annotation, offline access, and Bluetooth page-turn pedal support. OPS Mobile for iPhone supports QR scanning, score browsing, inventory and loan management, member lookup, and an accounting overview. The maker says data is hosted on OVH servers in Strasbourg, stays in Europe, and is GDPR-compliant. Events, calendars, and in-product communication are marked as coming soon.