Ts so bad
Gotta reinstall it every hour for it to work
I would rather die than use this app
The songs literally do not load, this app has made playing music significantly harder DO NOT BUY.
New app, new improvements
To Beam,
Good work on the new app! Definitely has room for improvement, but all in all, after getting used to the different tool locations, definitely an upgrade. Other than minor nuances, such as the way editing tools glitch off the screen occasionally, or when the tools glitch, definitely an upgrade!
Thanks for your hard work, and can’t wait for more updates!
Good work on the new app! Definitely has room for improvement, but all in all, after getting used to the different tool locations, definitely an upgrade. Other than minor nuances, such as the way editing tools glitch off the screen occasionally, or when the tools glitch, definitely an upgrade!
Thanks for your hard work, and can’t wait for more updates!
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Bad
Worst app ever. Causes me life long pain, makes my life miserable. DO NOT GET
I feel bad
It's like all 1 stars and I high key feel bad so it's like okay idk bra
Arc should have never touched beam
I don’t know what arc is but they took beam (which worked perfectly) and made it the worst app possible. Nothing works, the music you download doesn’t load, live doesn’t work, and you have to uninstall and reinstall to see your music at least once a week.
W app
My band uses this app, so useful
Ui is absolutely horrendous
This app is so bad and not user friendly whatsoever it’s so hard to use and I end up drawing all over the screen by accident
why…
We want the old Beam back!
Regressive Product
Unbelievably worse than the last iteration. 20% more expensive, less features, and a click through experience that is somehow less intuitive than before. Can’t hide and filter music easily, no live mode. Released a year early, truly a step backwards.
Horrible App
This app is so hard to draw on with an Apple Pencil. It makes it so hard to correctly write down music and effectively learn. I don’t like the push for this app on schools in Texas due to the very limited technology restrictions.
Not bad
This new Beam is still being worked on but they’ve managed to add back most of the features from the older Beam, live mode still isn’t back yet but it’ll be added sooner or later. I hope to see smoother drawing and more optimization added in the future, otherwise it’s pretty good 👍
Way worse than original Beam
The old Beam was a good app with some issues. This one is mostly issues with an app buried somewhere beneath them.
The lowlights I’ve noticed so far… They changed it so that to enter annotation mode, you hold the screen. Doesn’t sound too bad until you’re trying to zoom in or move the music around, and you end up accidentally drawing all over it because you held the screen too long. Also the bottom bar to switch pages as well as the Beam logo button never go away, which robs precious screen space and covers your music which is especially problematic on a phone.
There are also features that are missing or broken from the old Beam app. First of all, they removed the feature that let you auto select your part, so now you have to choose your part for every individual piece, which is extremely inconvenient as a marching band student where we have dozens of different things we need to switch between. They also removed dark music mode, which was a huge battery saver with an OLED screen and was a much more elegant solution than having to invert your entire phone through accessibility settings. Finally and maybe worst of all, the save zoom feature is completely broken. The problem is that when you bring up the menu, it shifts the page down quite a bit, so when you then save the zoom level, it ends up saving somewhere off in the corner of your music instead of where you actually wanted it.
Overall, this is a horrible and unnecessary “remaster” of the old Beam app.
The lowlights I’ve noticed so far… They changed it so that to enter annotation mode, you hold the screen. Doesn’t sound too bad until you’re trying to zoom in or move the music around, and you end up accidentally drawing all over it because you held the screen too long. Also the bottom bar to switch pages as well as the Beam logo button never go away, which robs precious screen space and covers your music which is especially problematic on a phone.
There are also features that are missing or broken from the old Beam app. First of all, they removed the feature that let you auto select your part, so now you have to choose your part for every individual piece, which is extremely inconvenient as a marching band student where we have dozens of different things we need to switch between. They also removed dark music mode, which was a huge battery saver with an OLED screen and was a much more elegant solution than having to invert your entire phone through accessibility settings. Finally and maybe worst of all, the save zoom feature is completely broken. The problem is that when you bring up the menu, it shifts the page down quite a bit, so when you then save the zoom level, it ends up saving somewhere off in the corner of your music instead of where you actually wanted it.
Overall, this is a horrible and unnecessary “remaster” of the old Beam app.
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Waiting on tech support to address a zooming bug.
On my third year of using Beam as a director. First two years it was great… with the new app, our screens are going white/blank when zooming in. VERY glitchy. Tech support asked for my PDF’s and has now gone silent. We are a small school and this is an expensive license/app. Please restore my faith in Beam.
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Removed the one good feature
This new app literally removed the one good feature it had. It no longer keeps your screen on when in Low Power Mode. Arc is an Israeli company it’s the only explanation
Major downgrade
There’s a bar you can’t ever remove at the bottom of the screen, zoom save doesn’t work, live isn’t there despite working fine on the old version. Sucks all around and is a pain to use
Lost Functionality
I liked Beam last year, but this new app is so much worse. The UI hides important features like zoom lock behind submenus. You can’t auto download specific parts, only all of the parts which is so much extra space wasted. Worst of all, the app doesn’t have a screen lock disabled, so constantly my screen dims or turns off while I play. As a trombonist it is so difficult to keep tapping the screen to keep my phone on. I hope these issues are fixed soon, or this app will making this season miserable
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REALLY buggy
The app is okay for the most part and gets the job done but every time I try to write personal notes in my music to keep note of, the lines get very delayed and even go sharp and jagged in a way. Another thing is that every time I undo a line it pops back up briefly and then goes away again so I’m confused. My stylus works on every app I can write on with ease except for this one.
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This nee version of beam is a joke
I'm actually appalled on how horribly executed this "upgraded" version of beam is. It feels like it was not made by musicians or anyone with marching band and music reading knowledge. The people who bought this app out and others associated should genuinely be ashamed.
I liked it a lot
I personally liked this update and everyone else is Lwk a hater