Ableton Note Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience72.2% of reviews
Neutral13.6% of reviews
Negative experience14.2% of reviews

~ Based on 485 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Ableton Note

Is Ableton Note Safe?

Ableton Note appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Ableton Note is 84/100.

This assessment is based on 699 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

78.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 696 App Store ratings for Ableton Note.

Is Ableton Note Legit?

Ableton Note appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Ableton Note is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Keeps corrupting files

The last version frequently more often than not actually corrupt the project when I come back to work on it also corrupted ones will not sink so they’re gone all work. You’re doing all ideas you do. I just puff and smoke. I’ve stopped using the app because of it it’s a waste of time.

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. We're sorry to hear about your experience with the latest version of Note, especially the issues with project corruption and syncing. This was a bug that we've fixed in the latest 2.1.2 update, so we recommend updating Note to the newest version. You can find details about this and other changes in Note's release notes: https://bit.ly/3ThYSvT We hope the update resolves the issues you've experienced and that you'll give Note another try. Thanks for your patience!

Simply awesome!!!

Fun on the run

crazy underrated

super powerful. i thought since the reviews were lower than koala samples that it wouldn’t be as good, but it’s like Koala plus tons of built in sounds, and seamless integration with ableton live

Disappointed

This Could have been something great. The au is absolutely terrible- not a patch on korg gadget

Great

The app is very good. Skills and material transfer to Ableton Live.

Gotta say this

This app is absolutely amazing. Great way to work on song ideas with quality sounds, extreme ease of use, and a very flexible and powerful interface. It's tidy, snappy, and it just works. I used to be intimidated by Ableton. But now I am continually impressed and inspired by Ableton. For the price, nothing beats it.
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If you make music, get this app

I’ve tried several different music making apps and this one is the only one that actually works. Let me put it this way: In all the years/decades that I’ve used smartphones, I’ve paid for exactly 3 apps. This was the first of the 3.

The layout is intuitive, the ability to link to Ableton is wonderful, and while control is limited because this isn’t a full DAW, what control exists is extremely powerful. Automating effects, tuning, synth parameters? Unheard of elsewhere.
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The melody I just wrote just vanished out of thin air.

Ableton Note is almost perfect - every interface and interaction is pure art.
Unfortunately, there's one fatal flaw. After giving you the ultimate user experience, it just erases everything from the last minute or hour.
This is the third time I've run into this problem. The first two times, I wondered if cloud synchronization had replaced my local files with a newer version from the cloud. After this, I never turned on synchronization while editing again. But the bizarre thing happened again when I was working entirely locally: it completely wiped out two hours of my work.
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🤦🏻‍♀️

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Excellent

Ableton has transformed electronic music making, and the fact that this is super deep app that can produce music with in your pocket is insane. Thank you Ableton.

Absolutely amazing

This app is incredible and great when paired with a midi controller. Record vocals, guitar, synths and anything you can think of. In depth mixing is absent from note but that’s what a full daw is for. Ableton also added custom time signatures which has been an incredible feature.

I often find myself in beautiful places that inspire music that I need to write down. This app has provided that bridge.

Record your ideas on the go and seamlessly send them to ableton live when you’re at your full setup to finish the track.
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Great App with discounts for Ableton Live

Not only is this a great app for creating tunes on the go but with the included Ableton Live Lite 12 you can get a discount for upgrades to their paid versions of Ableton Live.

Great App, almost perfect on the go. Journeys fly by. The only thing missing is the composure view. Not a deal breaker as you can import your tracks into the desktop application and compose there.
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Best plugin ever

I use note as intended, for ideas on the go… but! It’s easy layout and great selection of sounds, plus the insane ability for expressing midi; makes this the greatest plugin ever. Sampling from this to Ableton is the closest thing to plug a cable to your mind. We need more adding like Drift 😩

Needs improvement

I love this app, but there’s always bugs, even after MONTHS of beta 🤦🏾‍♂️ I made a tune on this app last night, went to preview it today and it didn’t save. Saved nothing!!! All gone 👎🏾👎🏾 At least give us a SAVE button cuz auto save isn’t working all the time. And this isn’t the first time this has happened
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Please add custom Time signatures

This app is incredible and great when paired with a midi controller. The only feature I’m missing is custom time signatures. Blows me away that it’s missing. Seems like a no brainer feature.

Incredible Software

This is a creativity firework. For me, it keeps me within boundaries, and randomizes instruments which induces a lot more variation, keeps things simple, and enables me to churn out solid, reliable, song ideas. And more, it’s fun and easy to use.

Feels half assed

There is no way to get an actual piano diagram, the time is very annoying to control, I feel like they were so close to making a super fun and useful tool to capture ideas they are just missing some things

All in all kinda fun but super annoying to use

This is the best app ever

Definitively. Hands-down. It is Ableton after a fashion, and it’s in my phone. Something about the way it’s set up is conducive to making fun music. And I can export not just samples, but basically project files into Ableton itself. I don’t even rate apps on the App Store; I’m rating this one. They update it more than is probably profitable for the company. I don’t know, maybe that’s not true… but it’s amazing nonetheless. I feel like I had to say something.
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Need Piano Roll input!

I really need piano roll midi input method rather than realtime rec with pad or keyboard.

Constantly annoyed by additional paid download

I bought note years ago and they have slowly improved it over time. Until they added a new device, which they charge for: no problem, I just won’t use it. BUT IT IS CONSTANTLY ADDING IT TO MY SETS in a trial capacity, without the ability to adjust the sound. Please add a preference to not include devices I don’t own - even if you do there are already sets which are tainted.
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