Hudson Music Digital Bookstore User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience21.4% of reviews
Neutral4.8% of reviews
Negative experience73.8% of reviews

~ Based on 42 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Is Hudson Music Digital Bookstore Legit?

Hudson Music Digital Bookstore appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hudson Music Digital Bookstore is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Discount code not available when completing purchase

Not very happy that I made purchase through the store and could not enter my discount code.

Excellent Ebooks

The e-books are very convenient to use and they are very easy to access

Drummer

Everything to read and learn

Great app!

I’m on this app every single day for hours. Easy to navigate, great features for students, great library selection of books. Highly recommend.

Well Done!

New updates to this app are great. I use the metronome all the time!

Great book

This entire app is so helpful to learning and makes getting better on the drums so efficient. Everything you need is in one place. You can annotate and bookmark. And there’s examples to go along with what you’re trying to learn. I don’t know how you efficiently learn without this.

Good update

Latest update really nice. I like the new metronome. Very useful for practicing.

No good

The pages do not want to turn. My suggestion to Hudson music is to work out partnership with kindle or another major ebook platform

No offline Mode!

I do like the content!
But I paid several hundred Euros for books specifically to practice the drums professionally - this is the group that this content is targeted at.
The drumset is an instrument that in most cases obviously cannot be played at home (where there would be wifi available). Instead I have to drive to a separate, rented room in a corporate building to play my drums. There is bad cellular connection an no wifi available. This means that most of the time I cannot use the books I purchased. I understand that I cannot download the audio- and video-files, but the sheetmusic books, in 2025? I do not understand this.
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Getittogetherhudson

Always have had bad experiences with this app, but the update has made it worse. Glitches all the time, can’t turn pages, ends up freezing. Please get it together, you do wonderful work with your products but your IT just doesn’t cut it. I feel like I’m wasting money now whenever I want to purchase a digital book
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Would be great if

The App would stop crashing every time on my iphone 14 pro max…. Please update

No offline mode

Having to go online every time to read my own book is the most stupid concept I have ever seen and is quite discriminating.

No offline use!

It’s a shame that there is no offline use anymore. No Internetcomnection and you cant use Books you‘ve payed for!

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. You are correct that the latest version of the book reader does require an active internet connection to access and view books. This change was made to take advantage of enhanced features for books and within the app. It's also worth noting that even prior versions of the app required an active internet connection to access audio and video within the books, so this is not a complete change within the apps.

No offline access supported anymore

It‘s a shame. I payed a lot of money over the years and now they don’t support any offline access anymore….

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. You are correct that the latest version of the book reader does require an active internet connection to access and view books. This change was made to take advantage of enhanced features for books and within the app. It's also worth noting that even prior versions of the app required an active internet connection to access audio and video within the books, so this is not a complete change within the apps.

I lost all my purchases after update

After update I can’t get access to my purchases. 🤷‍♂️

iPhone app Review

The load time for each page is so incredibly slow. App buttons on the bottom of the screen lack realtime interaction between hitting the “button” and something happening.

I think it’s a good idea to have them catalogued online, but the execution of the service provided feels like I just spent $40 and cannot get the benefit of what I thought I was paying for. Maybe ChatGPT can help?

Hope it gets better.
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Landscape mode

The app looks better no more scrolling through the whole catalog to find your purchases.
My gripe is the new UI does not have a landscape mode. If you have device with a large screen you are fine but if you have a device with a smaller screen you are constantly zooming in and out or scrolling to get to areas out of view.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback. We did limit the iPhone version to portrait view only, as we felt pages were too small to be useful in landscape, 2-up display on those sized screens. The iPad version does support landscape display.

Worst app EVER

You can’t search the books you’ve bought, you can’t even just see them, you have to scroll through everything to find your book, then the app crashes anyway. Do not use this. They don’t even allow you to download the ebook YOU PAID FOR! So you pay to not be able to see it in the app. It’s horrendous and they should not allow them to make money like this
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Response from developer

Hello and sorry to hear this. We have just rebuilt our bookstore app from the ground up - I would suggest updating your app to the latest version and seeing if your experience is improved. You can also now contact us directly from within the app for support or feedback if needed!

Can’t view my purchased and downloaded books

I can’t even view my downloaded books. I purchased them through hudsonmusic.com and they showed up before but I kept getting an annoying error message, which said, “ network error” so I deleted the app and downloaded it again, now I can’t even see my downloaded books. I only get an error message. They show up on my computer online through their website, but nothing on the app. This is very frustrating. Coming from a legacy company like Hudson who charges a premium price for their Digital products but can’t keep up with the digital world.
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Response from developer

Hello and sorry to hear this. We have just rebuilt our bookstore app from the ground up - I would suggest updating your app to the latest version and seeing if your experience is improved. You can also now contact us directly from within the app for support or feedback if needed!

Mediocre

The app does not allow you to organize your purchased book in any way. Worse, you cannot search for specific books, and you cannot even see the items you have purchased unless you browse the entire store looking for them and download them. Badly designed app.