SongBook+ User Reviews

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Crashes during live performance

Using video playback on a loop - and the app just shuts down leaving only an iPad desktop showing on a huge audience facing stage monitor. Unacceptable during live performances

Response from developer

Please contact SongBook+ support with details of how we can reproduce the problem. If we can reproduce the problem, we will fix it.

Update forces purchase

This update deletes almost all of your information and forces a payment to get it back!
The problem is that avoiding an update is near impossible if you update all your apps at once as I did.
I purchased this app some time ago and don’t need the update but had to purchase it to get my info back on my iPhone, I expect I’ll have to pay again to get the info back on my iPad. A rip off having to pay 3 times for my own information!
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Response from developer

Thank you for rating SongBook+, even if it is a bad rating. Users that bought the full version more than 5 years ago should either not update anymore or have to buy the license again. The app makes users aware of this after 4.5 years and it is also conspicuously stated in the AppStore description of each update. The newly purchased license is valid for all devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac) of the same Apple ID. It may be necessary to run the "Restore in-app purchases" function once on the other devices.

The best app ever !!!

This cool app

Response from developer

Thank you for expressing your enthusiasm in a review.

Hard to set up

Hard to set up little info to connect to Genoa keyboard

Response from developer

Please contact our free support here: https://en.songbookplus.com/support. And here you can download a Manual on how to connect Genos keyboard with SongBook+: http://www.baum-software.ch/downloads/OtherManuals/Manual_Yamaha_Genos_SongBook.pdf

Full version won’t open

I liked the free version so I purchased the one time fee for the full version, but wouldn’t let me get past the 15th song so I tried to purchase again and it told me I already have the full version, yet still can’t load anymore songs.

Response from developer

Please try to execute the option "Restore in-app purchases" in the menu on button "...". If that doesn't help, please contact our support.

Too complicated

Simply too difficult to understand, my patience last about 20 minutes then binned it.

Response from developer

Thank you for the review of SongBook+, even though it was very poor. There are many reviews of the app in the store that say exactly the opposite, that the app is very easy to use. However, since the average rating of the app out of more than 1700 reviews is 4.6, I don't think it's serious to give the worst possible rating after only 20 minutes.

Dropbox doesn't work but Google Drive does

Started working properly after closing it out a few times. Importing directly from Dropbox still hangs the app after two songs, but I switched over to Google Drive instead and now it works flawlessly.

Stopped working after 2 songs uploaded

The functionality of this app is questionable. I was testing the free trial before committing to upgrade and after importing two songs from Dropbox, it no longer works. I would hate for this to happen to others after spending money on the app. It looked decent initially, but a lot of bugs left that devs need to figure out.
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Response from developer

Hello Caleb. It is really not normal, that the app is no longer working just after adding some songs. Otherwise the app wouldn't get that many positive 5 star ratings. The wold wide average rating from more than 1600 ratings is currently 4.6 out of 5. Please contact our support at https://baumsoftware.freshdesk.com/de/support/tickets/new. We are happy to help you.

Songbook plus

It might suit some of you but I’m not very clever it’s far too hard for the likes of me give me a paper book anytime

Response from developer

Is this really a specific review for SongBook+ or a general statement that you prefer paper books to electronic ones?

Not so great..

I put 200 or so songs in only to find out you can’t change the size of the words or alter a song that’s wrong. Not very happy after all the work putting them in.

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. It is correct, that you cannot change the font and size of .TXT files in SongBook+. The reason is, that the preferred file format of SongBook+ are .PDF files. The heart of SongBook+ is a PDF viewer. With PDF, you can design the document with font, size, colors and more in your preferred office software (like MS Word, LibreOffice, Apple Pages,…), then export ithe result as PDF to use in SongBook+, and it will look in SongBook+ exactly as you designed it.

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