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Perfect, but see below
The reasons I almost gave 4 stars are performance and premium.
Let’s begin with performance. It often crashes, freezes, or severely lags. Another notable has been that songs continue to play despite having the user gone back to the search page. However, I am using MuseScore on an iPad mini 2, so I can’t fully blame these issues on the app itself since I don’t know if it’s just my outdated tech.
Premium is another reason.
The fact that I need premium for certain features such as mixer or convenient transposition is annoying, but musescore is completely free other than that and has no ads, so I gave it 5 stars out of appreciation to that.Show less14 year old pianist
Scam
I have never written a review on an App or a company before. This company has terrible customer service. Please be very weary when every response that you receive is from “Paula Abdul”- I think everyone here has talked to Paula. During the COVID-19 pandemic, I was unable to cancel my subscription within the time frame. In fact, I canceled it a few hours after the deadline, thinking most companies would see I never used the product and it was not what I was looking for. Instead, the company wanted to up sell me on a PRO account and said they would offer me a 40% refund. Ok, I get it. It was a free trial and I canceled 2 hours too late. But the company response was awful. I’m trying to locate what country they are in to file a further complaint, but no one has responded. In fact, I really wish I had read all the reviews about this company before I even opted into the trial. Review after review indicates how awfully they treat customers. I tried to write a review on FB about them, but guess what, you can’t write reviews about them. Hence, why I’m here, writing my first ever review on a company. Seriously consider not doing business with this company- they do not care for their consumers. Or file a complaint and you might get to talk to Paula as we all have....Show lessLisacolus
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We are sorry you’ve had such frustrating experience with our customer service. If your problem hasn’t been solved, please, write to our support one more time. We hope we can do better next time.Could be improved.
Ok, so as someone who has used musescore for a long time, I have a love hate relationship. It’s great. But still should have some fixes. First of all, the soundfonts. A lot of them are exactly the same or sound nothing like what they are supposed to sound like. Second, add options to swing 8th and 16th notes. Third, let private scores be unlimited. Fourth, let people create scores on mobile. For now I don’t have much more criticism, but musescore is a great option if you can’t get expensive programs for music. Noteflight is great, but it’s limited. The only limit musescore has is the amount of uploads. I’m broke so I can’t afford a subscription, but you can still create as many as you want and save them on your device. I rate it 4.8 :-}Show lessmjd14of14_
Great app with constant problems...
I usually don’t write reviews for apps; however, I feel that it is necessary to let the developers know about some bugs. As a musician, I absolutely loves this app. It allows me to get an endless amount of music for free, and I don’t have to carry around a bunch of music, or go searching through an endless pile of music. However, this app is constantly giving me issues, and trying to fix them wastes valuable time that I could have used practicing my trumpet. The most current issue I’m dealing with is how the app responds to exiting a score. Usually, the app will smoothly back out of the score I’m reading, but now it loads only half the screen and leaves a white nos around the left side of my screen. So far, the only work around that I have found is to close out the app, which is just inconvenient and annoying for me.Show lessDude McMann
Ok at the beginning...
When I first downloaded this app I obviously had to read the reviews to see how good it was. I read the first one I came across. It stated mistakes and good things about the app, then I read a reply from the people who made this app. It said that they had fixed these problems. So I was using this app and it showed my favorite songs that I wanted to play on the piano. I had saved those songs in my favorite list, I went back to one of those songs to learn it. There wasn’t a problem there, until I wanted to listen to the audio. The button was just now working, so I figured that it just had to restart the application. When I went back in after restarting it, it wasn’t in my favorites list and when I went to search it up again it said there wasn’t any results.
I hope these problems can be fixed, so I can use this app again. Thank you.Show lessjen.exe's review
Absolutely in love with the concept, not the way it currently functions.
This app is amazing where transcribers, song writers, and general musicians can share their work and provide others the opportunity of learning something they can’t anywhere else. I especially love to reference this app for A Cappella because of the amazing transcribers found on this platform. There are major downsides, simply with the way it functions. Some features work one day, but either completely don’t work or crash the app another day. For instance, the option to listen to individual parts was somewhat functional, but then its button changed to “transpose” and I thought that was a pro feature. The individual part selector is something I relied on as a free feature as a chorus member. Sometimes when trying to listen to individual staves or parts, it will still play the other parts, and I would have to back out of the music and go back in just for it to work. Sometimes when listening to the song as a whole, the bar that indicates where you are in the song is ahead of behind of the audio, making it challenging or confusing to follow along. Again, the concept of the app is like no other and revolutionizes the music world, but it’s coming up short with its lack of reliability in functionality.Show lessMajor_General_San
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for your review! We are glad to know that you enjoy the idea of the app and we understand that some bugs can be annoying. Sorry for any inconvenience you`ve faced. We`ve informed developers about the problems you mentioned. Hope, all the issues will be solved in the nearest future. If you have any other suggestions, please, don`t hesitate to contact us via support@musescore.com. We appreciate your assistance.Ppl put scripts in the descriptions
Whenever I search for something, there are ALWAYS a few certain songs that are at the top of the results. They don’t even apply to what I’m looking for. The reason is that people copy and paste entire movie scripts in the description, which means that whatever key words you’re searching for, they are most likely going to be in those movie script descriptions as well, making them the first results.
You devs probably know this and are fixing a bunch of things already (hopefully), but can you please add a word count limit for descriptions, or at least a report irrelevant content button to songs?
Also I don’t even have access to song descriptions on mobile anyway, but I read a few comments of songs so that’s how I know.
I haven’t seen desktop version yet, and I’m 🤍ing a bunch of songs before getting pro version so I can download them right away, and I’m very thankful for you guys for actually responding to negative comments and that you are aware of many problems with this app and are trying to fix them. Others devs usually aren’t that involved.
So I’ll be waiting patiently for you ppl to smooth out this app, so take your time and fix as much as you can I guess.Show lessGoata33
This app is so broken
Overall this is an okay app. I enjoy being able to find music then learn the notes and rhymes of the piece. But what is really frustrating is how if a score has lots of parts whenever a new measure hits and you are viewing the top of the score it then instantly goes to the bottom of the score. Also with one of the newest updates I am unable to favorite music scores and the scores that I had favorited before the update disappeared. The apps search feature is also very broken in the since that if I’m searching for a specific instrument with 3 parts it’ll still show pieces with a different number of parts and sometimes additional instruments with in the piece. The search feature isn’t as frustrating as the first two issues. If the app didn’t have some of these issues I would enjoy my time with this app much more.Show lessEnter a Nichname please
One of My favorite music App
Muse Score is an app I come back to time and time again not just for finding music but also for writing music. I have found the interface for composition purpose to be well made and simple to work with. I play a multitude of instruments and being able to write music for one and then modifying it for another has been made realitivily simple on all fronts. I also like the aspect of being able to find music that people have put and added to share because some times finding a piece can sometime take a lot of time and then the cost for that single piece to me isn’t worth it.
The draw back I find is that I can’t always find the pieces I want.Show lessNic2396
Don’t see PRO as a very wise choice...
Recently, MuseScore has changed its site entirely and requires a PRO subscription to download and print almost all music created by writers or translators. Before, it was a simple site where people could share music as a recreation and people would download them, and MuseScore would make money through advertisement. I may be biased and understand funds, but I believe the choice of ‘PRO’ mode isn’t a wise one.
The reason MuseScore was such a popular site in the first place is because it was free, could be easily navigated, and was the software for creating music was highly polished. Creators are supposed to get the ‘benefit’ from pro mode, as their content can’t be downloaded without permission. Still, people who are trying to make money out of sheet music shouldn’t be uploading on a site like MuseScore anyways!
You should be charging users for using the creation software, not the browsers if you aren’t already. The ‘PRO’ mode can still be easily bypassed, so there’s no point in upgrading anyways.Show lessDarthVaderIsLukesFather
