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IOS App Not ready

I appreciate the hard work, and am very thankful for the chant tools. But the iOS app (both iPad and iPhone) just does not work correctly.

Wish it worked

Chants won’t play
Lack of organization
Things are beyond the screen
Things move when I tap them
I wish this would work

Best Gregorian App

This blows all the other tools out of the water. It has the most comprehensive ordinary and propers for masses, and the best psalm tool. There are some improvements I’d make-
1- have a “simple view” and “complex view” for the psalm tone tool- all we need to select is the tone, special ending/solemn, whether it shows all the verses written out or bonded/italicized, and the psalm/canticle!
2- there is an “English” version, however, none of the psalms are in English and it would require an external source to work.
3- the propers for the Novus ordo calendar don’t sync with the calendar like the traditional calendar dates do
4- having the other hours integrated into this would be so huge!

That’s all for now, but thank you so much Ben!
God Bless you!
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Great but buggy

It is incredibly useful, with full chants, psalm tones, Liber Brevior, and Chants Abreges options. However, playback doesn’t work for 90% of the chants. That is a killer for me as a cantor.

Sound doesn’t work

Fix the sound before I delete it and I’ll update my review.

When it works it’s great.

The sound often stops playing and it’s very hard to get it to play again. It definitely needs debugging. If you don’t need the sound function, it’s great for showing you the chants. I haven’t tried writing any. It will also show readings (without the incipits) but not the orations- and sometimes the readings don’t end at the right place.
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Great app with minor exceptions

Great app except the playback function does not seem to work at all and most if not all of the clefs for the Gloria Patri are incorrectly placed. Other than that very good.

Great app but no sound

Just what I needed but whenever I press PLAY it doesn’t work on my iPhone nor my iPad

Some issues

Good concept. However, the tone stops playing after you listen to it for a little while as the marker keeps moving. Have seen this on multiple devices and others have experienced this as well. Also unable to find proper of saints for the Novus

The Transcription Sound does not Work

Great app! But the title says it all. Unfortunately, I am not hearing any noise when I play any chant on my iPhone SE.

Very useful!

This app is most useful for Gregorian Chant, especially if you deal with gregorio files any. You can produce the chants for the day and you can export the .gabc files for use in Latex if need be.