Fun app but where are saved files?
I’ve been enjoying exploring this app but it’s useless to me if I can’t export saved files to my files folder.
Response from developer
Happy to hear you're enjoying Lily! Please could you elaborate a little on why you want to export a saved composition to the Files app? That way I can evaluate whether it's something I can add. For example, is it to allow you to transfer a composition to another iOS device and then import it into another copy of Lily? Or to share it with friends perhaps? Or to back up your compositions? Thanks for your feedback! -andy.
Awesome
Just got the update and this improves on it almost every way. We have new visuals that work on an iPad, a greater range of sounds that improves the playability for new users, whilst maintaining the fun aspects that made this such a nice instrument to play with. So from my perspective, it's awesome to play with, and on the surface it might seem like a simple app, but as you delve deeper into what's on offer, you realise that it has a lot of potential to be more than just a passing interest. With a little effort on the users part, It's possible to set up quite complex rhythms, and with the addition of the playful sequencer function, it expands on the original by a long margin. An unusual and graphically playful musical instrument in today's world of serious synths, but that's what makes this worth buying it and playing with. Hell you might even be surprised at what you can get out of it. Yes it doesn't have AUv3 or midi, which by the way would be awesome, but when has that stopped anyone serious enough about music. If Teenage Engineering can do it with hardware, then this does it with software.
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It works again.
They fixed the launch bugs. I appreciate that.
Awesome
It's awesome to play with, and on the surface it might seem like a simple app, but as you scratch the surface, you realise that it has a lot of potential to be more than just a passing interest. With a little effort on the users part, It's possible to set up quite complex rhythms, and with the in-app purchases, you can expand the sound pallet available. An unusual and graphically playful musical instrument in today's world of serious synths, but worth buying it and playing with it. Hell you might even be surprised at what you can get out of it. Yes it doesn't have AUv3 or midi, but when has that stopped anyone serious enough to make music.
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Awesome, but...
It's awesome to play with, however, be careful not to purchase any in-app purchases, as these will disable the app. Unfortunately the developer is no longer contactable, so beware.
Useful and Fun, Though Limited
Lily was one of many purchases I made scouring the App Store for any music-making apps I can get my hands on, and having bought up all the pro stuff, I’m taking in apps from the outskirts.
Lily strikes me as a sort of primer app as far as music-making goes. The GUI is beautiful, and it’s really useful and fun for making polymetered phrases with the great-sounding in-app soundpacks. I would absolutely recommend it for young students of music to get their hands wet.
For professional use, however, it leaves some to be desired. First, you can’t change the tempo. It remains fixed at 110 BPM with no discernible means of adjustment. There is a “tempo” option in the sequencer menu, but this is an error; what is optional is the note *duration* rather than the tempo. Nonetheless, the very simple sequencer can be easily programmed to make multidimensional polyrhythmic sequences thanks to the ability to control the number of steps in a Lily loop.
The next problem is it appears that you can’t change the key; only the scale. The key is always rooted in C as far as I can tell, and to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to change that. However, the scale does lock and there is a decent variety to choose from so that you should never find your lines becoming vanilla.
Finally - and this is not a shortcoming on the developer’s part, merely an established standard - there is no MIDI input, Ableton Link, AuV3, or Audiobus support. All creations have to be exported, and if you have multiple channels, you may find yourself soloing each one and exporting them one by one only to mix them together elsewhere (GarageBand suffers the same limitation, but that’s an Apple app so the expectations are higher). Mind you, it’s a minor inconvenience for the privilege of building easy melodies.
Now none of these complaints come from anything other than a professional perspective and I’m spoiled by the best, so take it with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, for what it is, I still find Lily to be fun to use, easy, and useful for quick loops. Key and tempo transposition I can do in other programs, and while it would be nice to see these innovations incorporated into future versions, none of this will subtract from the experience of what Lily has to deliver. I might have given it a lukewarm rating, but Lily is a perfect gateway for music dabblers to take it to the next step, and for what it it’s, it’s just as good as perfect.
Lily strikes me as a sort of primer app as far as music-making goes. The GUI is beautiful, and it’s really useful and fun for making polymetered phrases with the great-sounding in-app soundpacks. I would absolutely recommend it for young students of music to get their hands wet.
For professional use, however, it leaves some to be desired. First, you can’t change the tempo. It remains fixed at 110 BPM with no discernible means of adjustment. There is a “tempo” option in the sequencer menu, but this is an error; what is optional is the note *duration* rather than the tempo. Nonetheless, the very simple sequencer can be easily programmed to make multidimensional polyrhythmic sequences thanks to the ability to control the number of steps in a Lily loop.
The next problem is it appears that you can’t change the key; only the scale. The key is always rooted in C as far as I can tell, and to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to change that. However, the scale does lock and there is a decent variety to choose from so that you should never find your lines becoming vanilla.
Finally - and this is not a shortcoming on the developer’s part, merely an established standard - there is no MIDI input, Ableton Link, AuV3, or Audiobus support. All creations have to be exported, and if you have multiple channels, you may find yourself soloing each one and exporting them one by one only to mix them together elsewhere (GarageBand suffers the same limitation, but that’s an Apple app so the expectations are higher). Mind you, it’s a minor inconvenience for the privilege of building easy melodies.
Now none of these complaints come from anything other than a professional perspective and I’m spoiled by the best, so take it with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, for what it is, I still find Lily to be fun to use, easy, and useful for quick loops. Key and tempo transposition I can do in other programs, and while it would be nice to see these innovations incorporated into future versions, none of this will subtract from the experience of what Lily has to deliver. I might have given it a lukewarm rating, but Lily is a perfect gateway for music dabblers to take it to the next step, and for what it it’s, it’s just as good as perfect.
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Response from developer
Thank you SO MUCH for your super detailed review @ZeroGrav1984! I really appreciate all of your feedback; it’s so valuable to hear both what you like as well as your constructive feedback on aspects that can be improved. I’m beginning work on another update for Lily and will absolutely be taking into account your feedback. ❤️ -andy.
App doesn’t open
It simply crashes. Please fix this.
앱 실행이안돼요
그냥 꺼지는데…..?
Response from developer
This is now fixed in the latest version (2.3.1). Thanks! -andy.
Does work
This app will not open.
Export to WAV audio now supported
In the current version, you can now export your audio files in WAV format to any app.
Lily is easy to use and nice to look at. A child would have plenty of fun with it, but it’s good for adults too. The synth wave add-on sounds great and is well worth the price.
Lily is easy to use and nice to look at. A child would have plenty of fun with it, but it’s good for adults too. The synth wave add-on sounds great and is well worth the price.
Serve aggiornarla....
.... Non è più compatibile con le ultime versioni di IOS. Per di più ho anche pagato le estensioni di essa.
App won’t let me in 🥺
I’m v interested and paid for it even but as soon as I tap to open it does the open animation but all I get is a black screen for 0.03 seconds and then back to my home page sad cuz I was excited to make music
The app won’t open
I purchased this game hoping it would be fun to explore but I can’t even open it. :( I’m on an iPad and I’ve tried clicking on the app and it just immediately closes out. I’ve tried deleting and re-downloading and that didn’t fix it. I’m not sure what else to do :(
Lässt sich auf iPod touch nicht öffnen
iOS 15 ist drauf, auf dem 12 mini läuft es , auf dem iPod touch meiner Tochter nicht ? Woran kann das liegen . Wir haben es mit neu installieren versucht , ohne Erfolg
(Schreibe hier weil der App support Link keine Möglichkeit zur Email hat)
Hoffe auf eine Lösung -lieben Dank ❣️
(Schreibe hier weil der App support Link keine Möglichkeit zur Email hat)
Hoffe auf eine Lösung -lieben Dank ❣️
Ne fonctionne toujours pas
Crash toujours au démarrage de l’application sur iPhone X iOS 15.2. Même après désinstallation et réinstallation de l’application. Merci de corriger.
No longer works
Since iOS 15.0.1 this app no longer functions. There seems no way to contact the developer. After waiting weeks from the developer for a response, I was told to update my system - which I had done already. It still doesn’t work. It crashes immediately.
No Sound
Start, make one lily , it rotates but no sound. ???
Response from developer
Hi Jakarto. Tap the lily and add some notes by moving the petals up and down. When a petal is transparent it has no note and will act as a musical rest. -andy.
Amazing
I just downloaded this game and I already love it so much and I just had to buy the extra packs. It’s just so amazing and I’m going to buy your new app. And I totally recommend this to everyone. I hope you make more pack for this in the future and I hope you make more games like this.
Response from developer
Thanks so much Noahjanes! :)
RIP-OFF, NOT USER FRIENDLY &Pushes in-app Purchases
Was looking for a Relaxing(Not Irritating) app to play around with, making musical compositions—LONGER THAN 6 OR 8 NOTES
—this was “PICK OF THE WEEK”—HA!—just a TECHNIQUE TO BOOST SALES
I Notice the great reviews are from people who got this app Free a year ago- I assume they got more....
ALTHOUGH—REVIEWERS WHO COULDN’t EVEN GET THE APP TO WORK-HAVE 2, 3, & even 4 STARS ON THEIR REVIEWS- WHAT’S THAT ABOUT??
***THIS VERSION IS ONLY 4 (or 5)months old***
- Why are most of the reviews shown 1year old??
For $1.99, I got one 6 note Lily Pad (SOMETIMES AN 8 NOTE LILY) that will play those 6 (or 8) notes, OVER & OVER....supposedly there are 6 lilies Somewhere,
HAVE NEVER SEEN MULTIPLE LILIES on a screen —as advertised (see pictures of app)
ONLY 6 (or Sometimes 8) “note choices” can be made at one time, they “go away”, & 6 more can be chosen....not how I play with a keyboard
>> NO TUTORIAL <<
>>DEVELOPER CLAIMS THERE’s A Save option: “You can save and load your {6 note} compositions in the lily ponds screen, which you will find by tapping the lily ponds button in the bottom right corner of the app.”
**THE ONLY Bottom Right Corner “BUTTON” found leads to a screen that’s NOT USER FRIENDLY, AND/OR, OPTIONS WORK INCONSISTENTLY—hard to tell—FRUSTRATING, LIKE REST OF APP.
>>It appears that, even if one could (laboriously) compose & then manage to get 6 lilies to play in sequence,
The resulting “composition” would contain only 36 (or 48?) Notes....wow
An 8 note lily pad Sometimes Appears-when I first Open the app-don’t know where it comes from or goes to —compositions also disappear ... can’t find a Save option anyway... Mostly there’s that (repeating) 6 note composition option 😔💤 .....Would bore a 4 year old
Easy to get stuck in the Ad-BUY THIS area. VERY EASY TO PURCHASE MORE.
Still not sure where(or if!) there’s a multiple LILY PLAY area ....
APP SHOULD ENABLE PURCHASER TO:
**Easily PLAY & SAVE WORK—LONGER THAN 6 or 8 NOTES— Should be focus of App
**use Controls that work consistently
But
—ALWAYS EASY TO FIND ADS—-
App big on pushing PURCHASES for MORE LILIES 😞
also CONTAINS ADS FOR OTHER APPS☹️
ALSO:
CONTAINS (customer)VIDEOS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU USE APP
But—REQUIRES USE OF (burning up of) HI-SPEED DATA PLAN, so I don’t know if any of them teach anything-doesn’t seem hopeful
COMMUNITY POSTINGS:
—postings read were of no help in using app—
HOW TO questions are asked there, but no answers are given
Some Compositions are posted--appears hardly anyone viewing or listening to them
—this was “PICK OF THE WEEK”—HA!—just a TECHNIQUE TO BOOST SALES
I Notice the great reviews are from people who got this app Free a year ago- I assume they got more....
ALTHOUGH—REVIEWERS WHO COULDN’t EVEN GET THE APP TO WORK-HAVE 2, 3, & even 4 STARS ON THEIR REVIEWS- WHAT’S THAT ABOUT??
***THIS VERSION IS ONLY 4 (or 5)months old***
- Why are most of the reviews shown 1year old??
For $1.99, I got one 6 note Lily Pad (SOMETIMES AN 8 NOTE LILY) that will play those 6 (or 8) notes, OVER & OVER....supposedly there are 6 lilies Somewhere,
HAVE NEVER SEEN MULTIPLE LILIES on a screen —as advertised (see pictures of app)
ONLY 6 (or Sometimes 8) “note choices” can be made at one time, they “go away”, & 6 more can be chosen....not how I play with a keyboard
>> NO TUTORIAL <<
>>DEVELOPER CLAIMS THERE’s A Save option: “You can save and load your {6 note} compositions in the lily ponds screen, which you will find by tapping the lily ponds button in the bottom right corner of the app.”
**THE ONLY Bottom Right Corner “BUTTON” found leads to a screen that’s NOT USER FRIENDLY, AND/OR, OPTIONS WORK INCONSISTENTLY—hard to tell—FRUSTRATING, LIKE REST OF APP.
>>It appears that, even if one could (laboriously) compose & then manage to get 6 lilies to play in sequence,
The resulting “composition” would contain only 36 (or 48?) Notes....wow
An 8 note lily pad Sometimes Appears-when I first Open the app-don’t know where it comes from or goes to —compositions also disappear ... can’t find a Save option anyway... Mostly there’s that (repeating) 6 note composition option 😔💤 .....Would bore a 4 year old
Easy to get stuck in the Ad-BUY THIS area. VERY EASY TO PURCHASE MORE.
Still not sure where(or if!) there’s a multiple LILY PLAY area ....
APP SHOULD ENABLE PURCHASER TO:
**Easily PLAY & SAVE WORK—LONGER THAN 6 or 8 NOTES— Should be focus of App
**use Controls that work consistently
But
—ALWAYS EASY TO FIND ADS—-
App big on pushing PURCHASES for MORE LILIES 😞
also CONTAINS ADS FOR OTHER APPS☹️
ALSO:
CONTAINS (customer)VIDEOS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP YOU USE APP
But—REQUIRES USE OF (burning up of) HI-SPEED DATA PLAN, so I don’t know if any of them teach anything-doesn’t seem hopeful
COMMUNITY POSTINGS:
—postings read were of no help in using app—
HOW TO questions are asked there, but no answers are given
Some Compositions are posted--appears hardly anyone viewing or listening to them
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Lovely design but......
Adding ability to export would allow me to rate this quite lovely app 5 stars. Imo, being able to save the audio to files, use it with Audiobus, or export to an iOS daw or other music app is key for me....Sharing a little melody on FB or Twitter is nice for a lotta people, I’m sure but to use this WITH other sounds created from other musical apps is pretty standard nowadays and would be amazing, as the sounds here are super useful and good quality..... All in all, love the sounds and the ability to add layers of melody....Push the app a little more and open the export option and I’ll give 5 stars happily and sing its praises.
Update: Due to the developer’s quick and personalized response to some suggestions I had for this graceful app, which I’m sure will now happen, 5 stars.
Update: Due to the developer’s quick and personalized response to some suggestions I had for this graceful app, which I’m sure will now happen, 5 stars.
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Response from developer
Hi avmarko. Thanks so much for your review and the suggestions. I'm going to look into the recording/export functionality for the next update, so stay tuned! - andy.
