# Hudson Music Digital Bookstore — user reviews > 45 indexed App Store user reviews of Hudson Music Digital Bookstore by Hudson Music LLC, rated 5.00/5 from 14 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hudson-music-digital-bookstore/id649223137/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hudson-music-digital-bookstore/id649223137.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 14 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (12 of 45) ### 3/5 — Missing Horizontal View *2026-08-18* It's in the title, really annoying not be able to view zoomed horizontally full screen on small screen such as iphone . Otherwise very good contents ! ### 2/5 — Discount code not available when completing purchase *2026-07-23* Not very happy that I made purchase through the store and could not enter my discount code. ### 2/5 — iPhone app Review *2024-06-22* 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. ### 3/5 — Landscape mode *2024-06-17* 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. **Developer response:** 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. ### 2/5 — Mediocre *2024-03-10* 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. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-01-06* I’ve spent hundreds of dollars with Hudson either through physical books or ebooks. The app does not play the audio when you click on the link/button, even though the download is clearly there taking up space on my phone. There is absolutely no support from Hudson - I regret spending my hard earned money with this company!!! **Developer response:** 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! ### 2/5 — Extremely Outdated *2023-11-28, version 6.7.0* I love digital books. Hudson is a name that’s respected and trusted so it’s great to see them fully embracing the digital age. I would love to be able to link/export my books to forScore but I can understand if it’s not possible for copyright reasons. The downsides are the app is extremely outdated, especially on the large 12.9” iPad. There needs to be a way to search/filter to browse and purchase books. There also needs to be a way to view all of my library and decide which ones to download, currently I have to endlessly scroll to find my book in the store no then download to my iPad which adds it to the download tab. It’s also very strange to have the # in the name of the tabs. The sharpness of the books isn’t quite as good as I would have expected, it makes me wonder if these are a really good scan and not actually an export from a digital file. Hoping for some big updates to the app soon, very much needed! ### 1/5 — Unusable *2023-11-08* Hudson Music! Please fix this app. Also what’s with zero compatibility for non M1 Apple products? I use your books to teach and now I can no longer access them for my students. This is extremely frustrating! **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — Badly designed *2023-11-05* The app is very user-unfriendly. It does not allow you to organize your books in any way. Worse, it does not show you your purchased books in a separate window/shell unless you download them; and to download them you need to find them within the hundreds of books in the store, one by one. So you better download them immediately after buying and hopefully have still space in your tablet/phone. And even more stupid: the app used to have a “purchased” button and they got rid of it. It seems they hate their customers. **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — Very Bad! *2023-11-04* No option to search for books and videos in the books that I have purchased don’t work. Unfortunately it’s the only way to purchase the drum book I wanted so I have to use it, but will never recommend it to anyone. Should have just purchased the physical copy. **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — User unfriendly *2023-11-02* The app does not show a “purchased” button or other way to see my books in a shelf separate from the entire store library. I have to go through the entire catalog finding the books I purchased and download them. What if I don’t have enough space? The iOS app showed a “purchased” button before. The Android app did not and Hudson did not want to fix it. On the contrary, now they included the defect in the iOS version too! ### 1/5 — Terrible app *2023-09-19* Unreliable and useless. It’s unfortunate that you can only access the digital content you pay money for on an app that doesn’t work. You can’t download the content that you pay full price for, instead you have to rely on an unreliable app. I won’t buy digital content through Hudson Music bc of this, only physical. It’s unfortunate because I prefer digital content but it’s not worth the headache. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No good *2025-12-11* The pages do not want to turn. My suggestion to Hudson music is to work out partnership with kindle or another major ebook platform ### 1/5 — No offline Mode! *2025-10-23* 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. ### 1/5 — Getittogetherhudson *2025-08-10* 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 ### 1/5 — Would be great if *2025-06-26* The App would stop crashing every time on my iphone 14 pro max…. Please update ### 1/5 — No offline mode *2025-01-21* Having to go online every time to read my own book is the most stupid concept I have ever seen and is quite discriminating. ### 1/5 — No offline use! *2024-09-10* It’s a shame that there is no offline use anymore. No Internetcomnection and you cant use Books you‘ve payed for! **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — No offline access supported anymore *2024-07-14* It‘s a shame. I payed a lot of money over the years and now they don’t support any offline access anymore…. **Developer response:** 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. ### 1/5 — I lost all my purchases after update *2024-06-25* After update I can’t get access to my purchases. 🤷‍♂️ ### 1/5 — Worst app EVER *2024-05-26* 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 **Developer response:** 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! ### 1/5 — Can’t view my purchased and downloaded books *2024-05-24* 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. **Developer response:** 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! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great book *2026-08-30* 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. ### 5/5 — A great resource *2026-08-16* Hudson music is great, this app works well and has what you need. ### 5/5 — Excellent Ebooks *2026-07-23* The e-books are very convenient to use and they are very easy to access ### 5/5 — Drummer *2026-06-18* Everything to read and learn ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-05-23* I’m on this app every single day for hours. Easy to navigate, great features for students, great library selection of books. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Well Done! *2026-04-07* New updates to this app are great. I use the metronome all the time! ### 5/5 — Great book *2026-04-06* 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. ### 5/5 — Good update *2026-03-24* Latest update really nice. I like the new metronome. Very useful for practicing. ### 5/5 — Fantastic!! *2015-01-12* There are some incredible audio embedded digital books for the drummer and percussionist. This is a great platform. I was looking for a book on Hip Hop style drumming and through online research I found the best thing ever written, "The Breakbeat Bible" by Mike Adamo. Then I searched for an ebook version and here I am! Thanks for the free sampler issue to check out other titles and samples of each publication. ### 5/5 — Incredible *2013-12-23* My favorite app. The only drums resource I need! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-09.*