# MusicSketch — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of MusicSketch by Sketchmusicapp, llc, rated 4.69/5 from 127 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musicsketch/id1620119788/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musicsketch/id1620119788.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 102 · 4★ 13 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of MusicSketch? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Intuitive and easy to use - 💡 Great for beginners - 🚀 Simplifies music creation process - 💰 Free with no ads/upsells - 📱 Mobile composition on iPhone/iPad - 🎵 Awesome instrument sounds - 🔗 Easy collaboration - 🎶 Exports to multiple formats (audio, MIDI, charts) - ✨ Helps with understanding music concepts (beat, rhythm) - 💡 Adds chords and lyrics functionality - 🎹 Supports various clefs and formats (G, F, lead sheet, piano) - 🎵 Can hear compositions in real-time - 💡 Great for jotting down ideas quickly - ✨ Modular capacity and drumbeat selection - 💡 Easy note entry - 🎵 Makes music writing joyful - ✨ Game changer for composition and collaboration **Cons** - ❓ Some users find it confusing without music reading skills - 🎚️ Limited time signatures - 🎚️ Missing alto clef option - 🥁 Needs more drum notation options (flams, etc.) - 🎸 Needs guitar tabs - 🎵 Limited instrument variety (more woodwinds, brass, percussion needed) - 🎚️ Audio mixer not usable while playing - 🎚️ Loop feature default to entire piece desired - 🎚️ Missing ability to stack notes of different lengths - ❓ MIDI input not available (or not obvious) **Most requested features** - Add more woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments - Include drum notation options (flams, etc.) - Add guitar tabs - Add alto clef option - Improve audio mixer functionality (use while playing) - Set loop to default to entire piece - Allow stacking of notes with different lengths - Add more time signatures - Provide a tutorial/intro for new users - Enable MIDI input ## Newest reviews (15 of 74) ### 5/5 — Great app for writing music *2025-12-26, version 3.0.1* Intuitive interface for all levels of people who write music! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-12-25, version 2.5.6* Really enjoying this app so far. Highly recommend for any musician at any skill level! ### 5/5 — The music app we needed *2025-12-23* What an incredible app. What a great tool for song writers. It’s free and easy to use. It was the app I needed to be able to create on the go and hear my thoughts in real time. It’s easy and intuitive. Nothing like this is on the market, it’s not even in the same ball park as apple notes. Would highly recommend for anyone in the music industry!! ### 5/5 — Awesome Instrument Sounds *2025-12-21* I love the vast instrument library and its sound quality. Even better, I can export my songs as midi and have my song sketches shown up as individual tracks in GarageBand and LogicPro! ### 5/5 — Simple & Easy *2025-12-20, version 3.0.1* I love the addition of the new Chords & Lyrics module. This is like having Apple Notes for music! ### 5/5 — Love music *2025-12-19, version 3.0.1* Wow! There is nothing like this for songwriters who want to start and work on a song with friends. And it’s free. ### 5/5 — Perfect for when inspiration hits! *2025-04-14* This rules and I love to see an actually free app that someone made out of passion. It is perfect for waking up with a song in your head and jotting it down. Only two things I would like to see/couldn't figure out 1. Use the Audio Mixer while playing the piece 2. Have Loop default to looping the entire piece Thanks to whoever did this! I love it! ### 5/5 — Changing my life as an artist… *2025-01-07* Can’t wait to see what this app does next! Love the modular capacity, and being able to post-select drumbeats. Excited to continue to explore! ### 5/5 — Surpassed Expectations! *2024-12-16* Excellent user interface that makes for an easy and intuitive work environment. Everything you need is just a click away. Many notation programs are clunky with common functionality buried behind more menus. Not Here! I’m hoping development is still underway. Rendering phrases usually 4 bars per staff, Coda symbols and a few font options would be a nice finishing touch. Nice work! ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2024-11-14, version 2.5.5* Just overall really easy to use and doesn’t have a bunch of ads but is still free. ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2024-11-12, version 2.5.5* Such a cool app that I can create music with. Plus it’s free! WOW so amazing! ### 5/5 — Perfect for when inspiration hits! *2024-10-29* This rules and I love to see an actually free app that someone made out of passion. It is perfect for waking up with a song in your head and jotting it down. Only two things I would like to see/couldn't figure out 1. Set tempo (figured this out! it's in the individual voice editing) 2. Stack notes of different length Thanks to whoever did this! I love it! ### 5/5 — Great app for music production *2024-10-28, version 2.5.5* Love this app! Fun as a musician and producer! ### 5/5 — Pretty interesting app. *2024-06-29* A little bit of a learning curve, but if you keep messing around with it, it will click. I like it because it can take any sheet music, type it in, standard notation, and can hear what it sounds like, instead of learning to play it first. Why learn it, if it isn’t interesting to you? One plus, is the placement on the staff and the selection of notes, aids in being able to read standard notion. I used to be painfully slow. I am starting to get it. And you can learn bass staff also. All Cows Eat Grass. One small, complaint. There are only three time signatures. Open that baby up here guys and the sky will be the limit. At least for me, right? I gave it 5-stars. I’m not going to knock them for a time signature gimme. I think you all are on the right track with this. A couple more tweaks and it will be the one. ### 5/5 — SO FUN *2024-05-05, version 2.5.5* im literally in loveeeeee! it’s so fun to just play around with note and give life to melodies that have been stuck in my head! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — No midi input? *2022-06-06, version 1.0.4* Pretty much a nonstarter for me as it doesn’t allow midi input…or am I missing something? ### 3/5 — Happy *2024-11-27, version 2.5.5* Good ### 3/5 — It’s good but uhh *2024-11-06, version 2.5.5* I think it’s good but I wish there was accents I also think you should add more instruments like more woodwinds more brass and more percussion instruments I’m just saying.Overall it’s a good app ### 3/5 — Great app but please add drum notation options!! *2024-11-06* This app is great and something that is so helpful but a way to improve it would be to include a drum notation version. We have treble and bass staff but not just a drum line one. Same with things like flams or other drum notation. Another feature would be guitar tabs. ### 3/5 — Ok *2024-09-18, version 2.5.5* Needs more instruments would have liked to see drums that were custom ### 4/5 — Music sketch *2024-10-27, version 2.5.5* It is a great app, but It doesn’t give you all instruments.The main instruments they have are guitars. Besides that the app is great. ### 4/5 — Great app! *2024-03-15, version 2.5.5* It’s an amazing app, however im a bit upset that they don’t have alto clef as an option but other than that it’s amazing for making your own music! ### 4/5 — CS *2023-09-27, version 2.5.4* I play violin and guitar, this app is amazing for all of the music ideas and songs I want to compose. It’s easier and more exciting now to compose and also hear what my songs sound like in real time as well as being able to tweak and play with different sound. Love that you send it directly to anyone you are song writing with for instant feedback as well. Love love this app! ### 4/5 — Good app *2023-05-12* i it was confusing especially for me because i cant read music that well (thats my fault). maybe a tutorial intro would help a little. other wise everything is great!! ### 5/5 — I’m a beginner - NOT a composer - and this is perfect *2026-05-28* As a committed beginner, I’m thankful that there are SO many online tools to help me learn. Maybe too many? What I’ve found is that for many of the things I’m trying to learn, MusicSketch is literally the only tool that I can use to illuminate those “dark corners”…I’ve had a dozen “lightbulb moments” that I simply couldn’t understand without MusicSketch - my piano teacher tried everything to communicate, for example, the difference between beat and rhythm when learning boogie woogie. No “aha” moments and I thought that, well it was just beyond me. It would stay in the “mystery” area reserved for prodigies and professionals. Then he wrote out four measures for me on MusicSketch and boom - the light went on. It’s a priceless tool the features of which I can’t find anywhere else. Easy as pie to use. Best “lightbulb” app I’ve found in five years.. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amplifying Creativity *2026-02-27* What I love about this app is its functionality. When I’m done with a song, I can instantaneously export it to multiple modalities : whether live audio, a guitar chart, or a Music Sketch archive. Ultimately, it becomes something tangible. The flexibility of Music Sketch simplifies my process and amplifies my creation. ### 5/5 — tadhg *2026-02-18, version 3.0.3* Superb app for music creation!!! All song writers and musicians should use this free app. ### 5/5 — Facet *2026-01-27* Oh my goodness. This is an amazing app!!! I can’t believe I can write melody lines, bass lines, add chords to lyrics and all on my iPhone or iPad. And the instruments are awesome. Way to go and thank you for making this free with no upsells or ads. ### 5/5 — The world needs more music *2026-01-27, version 3.0.2* This is an amazing app. I love the new chords and lyrics. The are no other apps like this. And the instruments are truly amazing. ### 5/5 — Just downloaded *2026-01-25* Awesome app! So easy to write chords and also has BPM which is amazing. Perfect for people who need something quick and easy to jot their ideas. Love it. ### 5/5 — Super Impressed! *2026-01-23* I stumbled on this app today while searching for a simple means of creating small riffs for keyboard. This is the easiest, most intuitive app of all that I’ve tried. How is this free?! ### 5/5 — Loco *2026-01-20, version 3.0.1* Amazing and so easy to use. So great and I can't believe it's free!!! ### 5/5 — Fast and Easy ! *2025-12-31, version 3.0.1* Intuitive and easy to get started. Makes collaborating super easy. ### 5/5 — Truly on the go! *2025-12-27, version 3.0.1* Wow! Amazing! On your iPhone?! You can score, share, hear it back! Amazing 🎹 chord symbols are truly great, too! G Clef, F Clef, lead sheet format, piano format… On your iPhone?! Amazing! --- *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 2026-07-28.*