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Like the title says, I use this all the time. It is very handy when I am learning something new and want something to play along with. I am sorry the developer seems to be having trouble with the App Store Show more

I actually have v3.2.17 (3.1.17 listed as latest.) It pretty much does everything I want it to, and the ability to change instruments is a plus. My main beef—I cannot select Tunebook as an “Open In” option when downloading an abc file. I can save it anywhere else, including Tabledit, but not Tunebook. I’m sure there is a simple workaround, but it’s just odd that an app whose sole purpose is to read and create abc files is not recognized by iOS as an associated app. Otherwise, it’s a pretty well designed and stable app. Show more

This is sooo much better an app for organizing your fiddle tunes than TunePal, though that app obviously has its place too. You can also back up your tunes via Tunebook using Itunes file share which I learned from the designer who happens to be not only a brilliant app designer but also a really nice guy! Once youve saved your tune list file to your desktop you can retrieve and add to another ios device etc. Buy this!! Show more

This is a great app. Works just like it says. But there are a few little tricks that aren't obvious. First, there's only one copy of each tune. The Tunebooks are just different views (catalogs) of the full collection. So, you can create temporary Tunebooks for setlists, favorites, or whatever. Just never delete the tunes, or they'll be gone. Second, you can create a new tune manually by using the + button in the All Tunes list. Third, Tunebook appears in the share menu for a text file in any other app. This lets you import ABC files from other apps, cloud servers, etc. Show more

I have been using Tunebook for several years. It keeps getting better and more essential to my life as a musician. I focus on Irish traditional music. There are written versions for many tunes readily available on the web. Locally we play our own versions. So it is very enabling to be able to get a version from the web, customize it to reflect our local version, and then share it with friends. Now days it is very well connected to other apps so it is easy to share via email or text. I highly recommend Tunebook to anyone interested in Irish Trad. Show more

Dump all your paper sheet music and have all of your tunes, and limitless others with you wherever you go. I still see people lugging notebooks full of paper sheet music at all the jams and sessions I go to. Tunebook eliminates the need for that and does much more besides. The built-in player is extremely flexible and provides the ability to hear any tune with any mix of instruments and orchestration, at any speed you like, which is a godsend for tunes with complex broken rhythms or odd meters. Plug your ipad into your stereo and play along with tunes with accompaniment to help you get your playing up to speed. If you don't already know how to work with ABC notation, you can learn all you need to know in a few minutes and the you can use this app to store and help develop any new tunes or songs you write or pick up at jam sessions. It's very intuitive and this app gives you instant access to hundreds of thousands of traditional tunes even if you aren't ABC savvy. I can't say enough good things about this app, if you play music, you need it! Show more

Love the app!

Renders my abc collections accurately and provides a decent playback. I find the edit interface to be easy to use with symbols readily available in a toolbar above the virtual keyboard. Easy access to cloud storage to import collections thru internal browser or start up the program's internal server to upload thru a browser. Easy and quick access to any tune within one collection or across all collections with search function and sorting by key, title or index. I have my collections rendered as PDF files also for use in Goodreader, but I find Tunebook to be much quicker for accessing the tunes. Playback of tunes with parts works correctly if you have i.e. P:ABC in the header of your tune as well as labeling each part in the tune body (P:A etc.). Best app on my ipad. Show more

I am very happy with this app. I've been using this for quite a while and it runs very well. Easy to enter new tunes and edit existing ones, easy to download ABC files containing multiple tunes and easy to organize into individual tunebooks. The latest updates have been very useful. I have no complaints and I have no regrets in choosing this app. The idea of carrying all my fiddle tunes on my iPad is wonderful. One downside is that you cannot make "pencil-notes" on the sheet-music -- but that's asking a lot technically speaking. At a jam session I can look up a tune without having to rifle thru a fat non-alphabetized 3-ring binder for a tune. By the time I would find the tune it would be half over. Yesterday I downloaded 3 ABC files containing about 300 Irish fiddle tunes in total. Not only was the process fast and easy the app asked if I wanted the tunes put into 3 separate tunebooks. 5 Stars for this app! Show more

I've been using it since it's beginning. I like being able to carry around my favorite music on my iPad instead of a big book.

This app is no doubt the best app anyone interested in playing music can own. Tunebook has always worked well, with the ability to import large abc files and sort them according to index, title, key, or meter. Jerry, the app's developer, added a Transpose Key feature in the previous update which I have found to be enormously helpful. The recent update makes this app even nicer. The file management improvements are fantastic. You now longer have to be afraid of clogging up your library with a bunch of tunes that you might not like. Just download them to a tunebook folder, preview them and remove the ones you want to keep, then delete the folder to trash the remaining files. Also the multiple delete and other changes recently made to the app are quit useful. Lloyd Show more

As a traditional Irish whistle, flute, and fiddle player, this app has been invaluable. The ability to store the massive number of tunes available in ABC format for easy reference has been welcome. However, with so many tunes at one's disposal, the size of the library becomes an impediment. Most players will be working on a small number of tunes. There is no easy way to create such a list other than copying and pasting the ABC source for the tune into a new list, a cumbersome process at best. This app would benefit tremendously from the ability to add tunes to a favorites list, or at least a way to quickly copy a tune to a new or existing list. Show more

This is by far my favorite app! I rely on this to recall tunes I know and to practice with!

Great for composing tunes, but the Play component no longer works and there is no one to contact. Disappointing.

As noted by another, the midi feature doesn't seem to work. The display of ABC files is nice and the import/email features seem quite powerful.. Built-in editing. I'm sure I'll use it, but I find playback helpful to quickly screen things -- I'm a slow sight reader. Show more

I have found Tunebook to be a wonderful app. I have used it to download scores from the internet, view them and play them on my iPad and email them as PDF files to other people. It has all worked seamlessly for me. I can understand JohnMetta's frustration if he can't play the tunes, but I've never had this problem. He might tap the guitar icon and check the instrument, tempo and volume settings. The volume setting on Tunebooks is independent of the volume setting for the iPad itself. Show more

Nice interface, and really great to be able to go to thesession.org and grab a traditional tune from within the interface. However, it's fairly useless to me if it doesn't play the tune. I can read music in a basic way, but I learn by ear, and so the whole point of ABC notation for me is to have a player so I can get the tune in my head. There's a play button in Tunepal, and an instrument selector, but when I press that play button, all I get is silence. Not sure if there is other software I need, like a media player, or if the play button is simply not hooked up. It'd be a real nice piece of software if it played the tune. As it is, it was a waste of money for me. Show more

It would be great if this had basic organizational features besides creating tune books - who plays a single tune at a time? I would love to be able to select several tunes & put them on a single page for a set, & compile sets into my own tune books. Of course this can all be done by manually editing abc files on my computer, posting them on the web, going to the web site and importing them into the app....but it would be great to have a simpler way to do this. On the other hand if you're serious about trad you should only have the sheet music in front of you for as long as it takes to commit a tune to memory anyway... Show more

I've been loading tunes into this app and I think it's great. I have a fun doing this. I'm looking forward to the day when I won't need to carry books to a session. The iPod version was good, but the IPad version is great. It's easy to type in the ABC music with the nice iPad interface. I'm looking forward to more improvements with the upcoming OS update. Show more

The app looks great, and has decent editing features. It's very quick and easy to transfer tunes into the app. I've got a library of over 15,000 tunes installed, and it's still quick and responsive. Show more