Flat Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience67.8% of reviews
Neutral13.5% of reviews
Negative experience18.8% of reviews

~ Based on 943 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Flat

Is Flat Safe?

Flat: Sheet Music Maker & Tabs appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Flat is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 6,980 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,980 App Store ratings for Flat.

Is Flat Legit?

Flat: Sheet Music Maker & Tabs appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Flat is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

⚠️とてもいいアプリなのに致命的な欠点⚠️

楽譜も完成に迫った時、少し重かったのでファイルを開き直しました。すると入力した覚えのない音符たちが、我が物顔で散らばっているのです!!困惑しながらも受け入れ、手作業で削除していきました。これは序の口に過ぎなかったのです。
さあ!ようやく完成した!最初から流してみよう!と、また同じ理由でファイルを開き直しました。するとなんということでしょう。全ての小節に四分休符が丁寧に並んでいるではありませんか!!!達成感に包まれ心地良かったのもつかのま、私は地獄の休符取り除き作業に取り掛かりました。最後は四分休符がわかめに見えて仕方ありませんでした。バグかなにかで勝手に声部2が追加されていたようです。
その他に欠点はなく、無料版で充分作成できるので油断していました。これさえなければ!かなりくらったので星2つはそのぶん引かせていただきます。なにはともあれ革命的なアプリだと思いました。無料版ユーザーなのにグチグチとすみません!!
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Garbage

Do not buy credits. They are useless without the subscription. You can’t even undo changes.

They clearly sell you credits that the application won’t allow you to use properly without a subscription. I want my money back. The score it scanned is useless since I tapped something and it changed a note, and even reverting to a previous state is a paid feature.
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Too complex

The app is great and can be used for many things however there’s one thing i do not like and that’s The app automatically Putting in note lengths In complex form That even my band director would be struggling reading Can you please add a setting to where your score does not automatically do some of this stuff I am also confused by the navigation Because i am used to the navigation Can you please add some mode to where it looks like the old look please
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Amazing

Love that you can switch the version of the look!

great app with minor issues

this is a very great app that i use to write a lot of my music on but the only problem i have is that when i put the “fall off” notation on a note on any instrument it does not make the sound indicating that the instrument is falling off the note i just feel like if y’all could find a way to implement that into the app then it would make mine and a lot of other peoples arrangements 10x better.
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Large Pieces

the app just cannot handle a score when theres a couple more instruments and keeps refreshing. it also distorts a lot which gets annoying

The New UI is AWFUL!

Genuinely what did you guys do to the mobile UI. It is so clunky and it’s honestly unusable as of right now. Especially when trying to copy and paste or select certain sections of music. Please at least give an option to go back to the old UI

New feature

Great compose app but you guys should add a feature where whatever is recorded is transcribed to the sheet music. For example, if I hit record on the feature and play four doubles then the sheet music should show four doubles. It’s more like a call and answer thing but yeah besides that good app. Just don’t make the feature premium.
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안녕하세요

처음 써 보는 앱인데요, 셋잇단음표가 안 되네요 ㅠ

Response from developer

알려주셔서 감사합니다! 문제가 발생한 것에 대해 유감입니다. hello@flat.io로 지원 팀에 연락해 주실 수 있나요? 도와드릴 준비가 되어 있으며, 신속하게 해결할 수 있도록 최선을 다하겠습니다.

Bass instruments

I love the app and have had it for a good moment but I really wish it had bass trombone and bass saxaphone. The contrabass clarinet sounds shaky and stands out in some of my music, other than that the app is great and a HQ bass clarinet would be nice

New update

The new update is horrible. Every time you try to click a note to hear it you add a new one it’s annoying. Also the new arrangement of the buttons is over complicated.

Great app, Some Bugs.

i have been using this for over 5 years now. It is a great tool for composers who may struggle with other complicated websites. The HQ instruments are pretty high quality, maybe not as good as other MIDIs but for the price they’re pretty good. I prefer the browser version but the app is pretty good as well, just struggles with the HQ instruments sometimes.
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Great features but just ruined it

This app is overall a good choice for mobile users but if you play any non standard instrument then I don’t recommend. You have to pay for even some standard instruments such as bass clarinet. I am retiring from this app since I can no longer write music due to the lack of available things. Most of my music uses triplets. Guess what they put behind a paywall. Triplets. Something you see in most pieces of music. I literally cannot compose or transpose anymore without them. The app is useless
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Can’t hear score on mobile

The only thing is I can’t hear the score on the iPhone app and haven’t been able too for months. Other than that it’s a good app.

You have to pay money

Money

Ok but

It’s a good app but I’m a bit upset that there is hundreds of instruments but mine so could you please add the bagpipes as an option?

Amazing app, but definitely not for professionals and hardcore composers.

Ive been using this for over 3 years. I have bought the lifetime premium before it was removed (?)

The composing itself is great. It might be laggy for older devices.

There is a score limit on free, around 15? Few minor features are missing on free, including swing.

There are a few minor issues regarding playback and sound quality, nothing to deter you. For free this is probably one of the best apps.
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What the hell is this update

If i could give this a negative rating i would

Terrible.

This app is impossible to use! It doesn’t copy and paste where I wanted to deleting anything completely changes the song and the layout makes it impossible to find stuff

Read before you Downaload

I have been using flat for quite some time now. It has allowed me to learn the art of composing and I’ve been able to make creation I never thought I would be able. And as great as that is, there is still a giant issue within this app. As I said before, it’s a great app to learn the basics of composing, learning about instrument ranges and how different harmonies work together. That sort of thing. But once you get to larger scores, it is pretty much impossible to make progress. Scores will reload 2 times in a row after clicking a single note of the score or after playing for five seconds. I spend too much time actually getting to the sections I need to write for. After all of that, it maybe lets me plug in three notes before sending me back to the same white screen with yellow text box saying that the page is reloading. Composing on this app has been incredibly frustrating unfortunately and has convinced me to try to move to other platforms.
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Response from developer

Hello Percival5724, thank you for your valuable feedback! We invite you to reach out to us at hello@flat.io so we can address your playback and reloading concerns. Additionally, if you have any thoughts on our new interface, we’d love to hear them as we work on our next update.