Advent Hymnal User Reviews

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Love it!

I LOVE that the sheet music comes with chords on top! That makes it so much easier for me as a pianist who’s not the beat at sight reading both melody and bass clef. God bless you! I wish that there’s an option for the sheet music to be the default view instead of just lyrics.

Love the concept

Lots of glitches. It plays the wrong song at times and some songs don’t have chords. Hope you put out an update to fix bugs

Brayden Redfern

I personally think this app is great, on the guitar charts I personally learned some of the chord finger positions differently to what is shown which I think is worth pointing out. Most hymns have bass/treble clefs which is useful for leading a choir. If someone knows how to read music eg: eighth, quarter, semi and whole notes. Also if you have no one who can play an instrument or it’s your first time hearing the song, there’s an instrumental/backing track available for most hymns.

I can’t wait to see if there will be any updates, I’ll be learning some new songs on guitar and would recommend this app to anyone looking to learn how to play hymns on instrument or singing. This app was exactly what I was looking for!
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Glenda HARKER

I purchased this hymn book for the purpose of playing from it in church meetings.
However it is very disappointing to find that many os the hymns do not have scores!!!
There are many with chords which help instrument players and this part is good.

Awesome for musician alike

Not only an easy experience with singing but playing the piano too. Well done!!!

Nice app, but…

Nice app. Some scores and nice and sharp and other scores are clearly page scans from the hymnal. It would’ve been nice if the description mentioned that some scores aren’t available due to copyright.

There are some bugs and opportunities for improvement:
- Some scores don’t properly adjust for the screen size (example Hymn 71, 103, 121, 123) —> I’m sure there are many other hymns like this in the app. These are lower quality page scans.
- Hymns 71, 103, 121, 123 - Scores don’t show hymn title or composers. I’m sure there are many other hymns in the app like this. These are lower quality page scans.
- Scores don’t include the hymn number
- Bottom line of score of hymns 51, 122 is cut off i.e. lower region of staff is cutoff —> maybe if score was scaled and paginated to fit the screen it may avoid this issue. I’m sure there are other scores with this issue.
- Needs the ability to scroll through Scores as is possible with lyrics-only view
- Add setting to set views for “lyrics only” and “lyrics and score”
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Almost perfect

Bought this app recently and am enjoying it. The only improvement I can suggest to make it better is the ability to adjust the font. On the phone version, the font can be rather small and difficult to read especially for people with not so good eyes. Otherwise great app

Only plays first verse.

I couldn’t get it to play more than one verse at a time.

What is wrong?

Am I just picking the wrong hymns? There is never an intro to the song, there is only one verse played, and there is no harmony in the playing. I paid $10 for something that is totally unusable for me.

Chords

Thank you so much for adding the chords above the score. It helps me improvise.

Can’t email developer!

I recently purchased this app and made a playlist for some of my favorite Christmas music. When adding music to playlist I see my Christmas playlist however when I actually go through the playlist I cannot find my Christmas playlist. How do I find it?

Settings? What Settings!!?

Having paidGOOD MONEY for this App, it would be nice if the BASIC Settings included the ability to enlarge the font!

I wouldn’t pay for this one if your vision requires you to enlarge the font! The old free app was fabulous - but they don’t do it anymore <sigh>!

Totally worth it

I play guitar in church and this app is exactly what I was looking for. I just punch the number and the chords are there. Some hymns are missing the chords but I can leave with that. I wish they added an option to download all the chords at once and the option to transpose the songs instead of relying on PDFs.
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Not official SDA app

This app could be okay, but there are some issues:

- some of the sheet music is cut off across the bottom of the pages so half of the base clef is missing.
- there is no way to print or save a copy of the sheet music (only email a PDF, which is time consuming to do one at a time).
- no way to contact developer for support or a refund, which I am seeking in this case.
- hymns are missing details which are included in the printed hymnal, such as year, composer, and scripture references, etc.
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Utter disappointment

Recently this app has changed and I can no longer use it!
Previously I have used this app as an sda hymnal for the music score,
I would simply type in the hymn number say 100 and the score would pop up allowing me to read and play.

Now when I type in 100 I get the correct hymn but only the lyrics .
And only an MP3 option . Where has the score gone ?

I’ve been robbed .... I paid good money for this app a few years ago and now it doesn’t work in the same way.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
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Not all claimed functionality is complete

This app. seems to be a repackaging of an older app (Created by MovinPixles which I loved and paid money for the PRO version as well). The content seems to be the same. This version however claims to allow you to send a PDF aversion Of the score via email, but that functionality is not there, the send button remains inactive. I play guitar and the screen on my iPhone is to small for my old eyes to see so I would print a copy out. . Cannot do that in this version. It is also claimed that you can download the files for offline use. This is also not true, that functionality used to be under settings and cache in the older version Of the app. I wanted to send this information to the developer via a private email or such, but there seems to be no way of contacting them. So if you buy this app, be aware that some functionality is not complete. I am hoping they will fix these functionality issues, because I love the app as it was intended to be.
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Amazing App

This is such a delightful app to use, I love listening to my favourite hymns and being able to carry them all in my pocket. Having the scores and chords built in is also a massive plus. The app is so simple to use. It looks gorgeous and everything works as expected. Thank you for making this app, I’m so happy!
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