Appmuse

I’ve been using flat since 2018. It used to be a fair enough program that let you write music relatively freely. But in recent years the overall quality has dropped significantly and this is for three main reasons: Reason #1, the membership. As with most programs, a premium membership is offered. There used to be no problem with this membership, it would unlock some decent features and instruments with a higher quality MIDI, no complaints there. But then I don’t know if the developers became money hungry or what, but you practically have to have the membership now for this app to be practical in any sense. Here is only a small list of features locked away behind the membership: -The entire pitched percussion section -The entire percussion section, minus a drum set which doesn’t even have all of the sounds of a drum set -Swing time -The bari sax and bass clarinet, two very common instruments -the ability to edit your exports. This includes layout, measure sizes, and other such things -The ability to print individual parts -Multi-measure rests, one of the most basic aspects of music This is one of the least user friendly apps when it comes to writing literally anything other than a simple tune. And if you do print something out for free, be ready for problem #2: the printing. If you want to print something for free, be prepared to have watermarks absolutely everywhere and for the score to eat up all of your ink since the default setting fits maybe 4-6 lines on one page. And that’s if you’re printing only one part. If you want to print multiple at once (which you’ll have to do anyways since it doesn’t let you print individual parts for free), be ready to have a bible’s worth of pages. And even if you buy the membership, which could resolve the previous issues, you’re still hit with reason #3 for this app’s decline in quality; the performance issues. The performance has been an issue even before the membership. If you use this app, expect lag, random refreshes, the program not letting you select certain notes inexplicably, unresponsive buttons, and straight up crashing if you dare to make a score bigger than 4 parts or longer than 150 measures. The updates say they fix bugs and improve performance, but in 4 years these problems have gone completely unresolved. And if you think you can bypass these issues by going on the browser version, you’ll be severely disappointed. Now that musescore 4 is out, you honestly shouldn’t even bother with flat. Yes, it offers some features that musescore doesn’t, but the list is so small that it honestly doesn’t matter. The big one is collaborative scores, which sure, musescore doesn’t have, but it’s not like collaborative scores even work that well. They’re even glitchier and laggier than a regular score. I just hope that this app takes a turn for the better soon before musescore 4 makes it completely obsolete. Show more

This is by far the most comprehensive and useful notation program for iOS. I’ve looked for good music writing software for my phone for some time, and I was grateful to discover it. Doesn’t seem to pivot when I rotate the phone. It would be great if it worked with the accelerometer. Show more

It is easy to write music leans music and has a positive community would recommend

Overall a really good app. Has a good selection of instruments, even without premium (although it would be great if baritone sax was one of the default instruments). It is easy to use. The only things that are weird are the instrument volume and the glissandos. Show more

I’m a beginner at this (iOS) but I’ve written several songs that I’m quite proud of on this app. I have noticed several issues and bugs and also some missing aspects. There are functions that don’t seem to do anything at all. Slurs, scoops, fall-offs… they don’t seem to do anything to create jazzy effects (and I was really hoping to write some jazz with these elements). As far as what’s missing… I would love be able to create a nice growl on a trumpet along with something that mimics the effect of a plunger mute. I would also love to see a whammy bar option for the electric guitars. One more annoying issue than anything… when I export my songs into my files the balance goes way out-of-whack. Either that or the audio playback settings on the app aren’t correct. Also I don’t notice a lot of change in volume between different dynamics. I hope this brings it to someone’s attention. Show more

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Ok so I lost my music, after I spent a solid 10 hours on a couple of pieces (I would have but with the AMAZING OUTSTANDING system that is very easy to use, I took half the time!!!.) I forgot to create an account before I started composing, so it was on a guest account. I created it, and everything was gone! So I contacted them. I come home from school the next day, AND ALREADY HAVE A RESPONSE! THEY FIXED IT!!! I went to my account, and surely enough, IT WAS ALL THERE!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ?????????????? I AM SO HAPPY RN TYSM Show more

I’ve used this app for about a year, And I can’t help but get disgusted with it. I’ve tried other apps, and this is the best I could find. Unfortunately, it just seems to get worse and less user friendly with each update. Maybe I’m going nuts, or the developers have a screw loose, or something. Show more

Cumbersome UI, same notes input in standard notation inexplicably result in different tab numbers

Great app. I love it. Right now I’m using it and MuseScore and prefer it.

This app is phenomenal

I really like this program, but the one problem I have is that the music is spread out when you try to print. It would be nice to have some options to more condensed version of the sheet music, that way I can have two pages of music instead of four. Show more

This is the app I need I have trouble finding my notes and remembering my notes. Where was this when I needed it the most?! This app is life saving for me in music. Show more

As a music student with a budget, I have been looking for a (free) notation program to expel my thoughts with. Looking for a mobile version, of course, because my computer broke the first day of classes and now I’m operating from a iPad. However, upon installing this app and going to the composing interface, I came to find out that all of the pitched percussion and most of the unpitched percussion wasn’t free. As a percussionist, and primarily a mallet percussionist at that, I would have benefited greatly if I knew that for only $9.99 (a month I think), I could have access to all the instruments that I needed in the first place. For any other instrument, I assume this would be fine, and if I was writing for the piano it would be fine. I expected the free program to be buggy, but I don’t even have access to my preferred instrument, so this is a no for me. Tldr; not good for percussion writing, unless you’ve got money. Show more

It’s a very good app in my opinion. Quite easy to use and simple functions are all free, including exporting scores. It doesn’t lag often or have ads. It is kind tiring to use for long periods of time, but overall, I think this is a great app for creating scores. Definitely Recommend. Show more

I love the app, it’s amazing. But when I play it back, there’s no sound. I’ve tried turning my phone off and on, but it doesn’t seem to work. What’s also weird is that this happens with most other score writing apps, like Notation Pad. Show more

This app is actually pretty decent. You get a decent selection of instruments to use and many things to do, like add dynamics, slurs, bowings, tenuto, staccato, even fingerings and thumb positioning. Although, some free instruments don’t sound the best (take violin for example) which is understandable. Overall, a fine app. Show more

Personally I think this app is a great way to do beginner work. The issues I have with it is the instruments sound off or not close to the instrument’s sound. For example, the violin has a slight bow sound but besides that it sounds like a tone generator. Besides that I think it’s a good opening for someone who may not have access to apps like MuseScore. Show more

More often than not, after uninstalling and reinstalling, I can't get past the loading screen! I couldn't even contact support! Even after uninstalling and reinstalling, nothing happens!

Ok i get it, but a score cap?!? I would be fine with this app if there was no score cap, but I understand if you don’t change/remove score cap. (I would give this app a 4.9 rating if there was no score cap, but at least your better then most). UPDATE: thank you for you response, but I have problems with it. 1. It seems robot-like compared to your other responses. 2. It makes me feel you completely ignore what I said and just skimmed through it and not actually read it. 3. you don’t even assess what I was even talking, there are making me believe you didn’t care what I said. 4. it makes me NOT want to get premium BECAUSE of the preceding reasons. This is not a top priority message and you can answer it when you have the time, and I just want to point out this possible mistake so that someone further down the line doesn’t get extremely mad over it, thanks! (P.S. your app is still amazing to use) Show more