Notion Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience42.3% of reviews
Neutral15.9% of reviews
Negative experience41.7% of reviews

~ Based on 508 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Notion

Is Notion Safe?

Notion: Music Notation & Tab has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Notion is 64/100.

This assessment is based on 71 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.1/5.

Safety Analysis

45.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
42.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 68 App Store ratings for Notion.

Is Notion Legit?

Notion: Music Notation & Tab appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Notion is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

It’s good with no cost free for schools

This app is good because you can choose bar and blues for your song and title can be edited at the top of your page this app is only for music which I like as it makes good tunes as everyone and I think there is subscriptions I haven’t seen any so I’m rating 4 stars as it’s kinda easy to use but needs work on some of the functions as I can’t find any of them.

Thanks.
Pls fix it for everyone
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Bug fixes

Bugs, please fix:

1) copying and pasting large amounts of staves is unreliable.

2) in large and long orchestral scores , and even chamber ensembles, adding and deleting measures can cause various glitches like unintended deletions and some visibility issues with the GUI like the change appears in print view but not scroll view.

3) if your finger accidentally touches an accidental on the iPhone when you’re simply trying to reach to zoom in or out, you will accidentally remove the accidental and change your harmony. Now I must go through the entire score to ensure the harmony is intact.

4) you have offered new mixer options, please adequately explain what they are and how to use them in the manual.

5) resizing page is too slow

6) adding and deleting measures, adding and removing pickup measures, glitchy.

WISH LIST:
I would love for you to provide as many instrument articulation options as spitfire audio.

I would really like easy pan, volume, EQ, reverb, bus sends to get these samples sounding like an opera hall, even if I can’t expect spitfire audio level instrument richness.

I wish hairpins were more expressive and sforzatos more audibly discernible.

I would like clear notices in the manual and privacy notice that the company guarantees it does not spy on user contents or train AI on them and will never do so.

I would like a mark tree, better acoustic guitar sounds, more expressive guitar bends and vibrato, more articulations for every type of guitar.

I would like the midi to be more transferable to other DAWs so it won’t be such a hassle to make it sound less robotic.

I would like better options for rubato and tempo changes. I would like rubato achievable like the first recorded complete set of beethoven’s string quartets, which uses heavy rubato.

I would like measure numbers to be at the bottom of the score in the middle distance between bars enclosed in a square shape and to appear for each measure in the piece, especially for full scores.

I would like the ability to add tables of contents , title page, to not have page numbers on the title page, and to use a final ending measure line multiple times in the same project file without it causing playback glitches, and I want the score to have measure numbers start at 1 again after the final bar line.

Ability to resize page numbers and measure numbers and title and subtitle and all font.

I would like full score to automatically resize to fit on the page so I don’t have to resize the page , but if it’s going to be super glitchy then don’t release this option until it’s perfect because that would be chaos.
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writing music notation

This app is excellent for amateur keyboardist like me, and easy to read the notes on my iPad 10.9 inches screen size. I have fun learning keyboard even I’m a 70 year old guy. 😉 I tried to print as pdf file and when I open the pdf file the staff lines height is only 7mm and difficult to read, I want to make the staff lines to 8mm to 9mm but it didn’t change.
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Needs user guide for use with IPad and Apple Pencil

This app is what I’ve been looking for a long time. I’m primarily using it on an iPad with an Apple Pencil.
The user manual is predominantly focused on computer keyboard input.
Please can you provide a user manual for tablet and pencil users.

The best app out of many for me

I am a dedicated Fender Notion app user who has been using Notion long before Fender acquired it. Given that I am not a keyboard player or a stylus user, I find Notion to be the most user friendly notation app of my 4 paid sheet music notation apps. It also seems to export the cleanest PDFs out of all my apps. I also discovered that Fender Notion’s developers genuinely listen to users like me in terms of feedback and reviews. I don’t care what the review score of this app says, I will remain a dedicated Fender Notion app because it’s THE BEST app for me.
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Good but with longstanding issues

Sound sets are nice, especially the strings. Have used this app for around 6 years and it covers a lot of bases for a mobile app. Intuitive for a composing app. There is however a large stability issue and I cannot recommend the app while it exists:

Adding new measures in the middle of a score will sometimes break the playback. The added measures do not show up in the score. The playback cursor gets all glitchy in the spaces where those new measures would be, sometimes moving way too slow and other times teleporting. The music still sounds normal when this happens, but it accounts for the “added” measures, causing a huge pause in the middle of the piece that you can’t do anything about. It is like a certain amount of space in the score just gets corrupted. You cannot undo this once it happens, and I have had to manually copy and paste everything into a new document if I wish to keep editing the music or listen to the playback. This is extremely frustrating, especially when it happens with larger projects. A huge timewaste that gets in the way of productivity. The chance of it happening seems random but often enough that it does not feel stable. 4 times within the last month or so, and I have had this issue for at least a few years.

Also copy and paste doesn’t always work, which can compound with the above issue.
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pdfにすると音符がズレる

この前まで大丈夫だったのに、急にずれてしまうようになりました。とても困っているので、すぐに改善してください。お願いします。

잘 사용하고 있습니다.

1. 겹세로줄이 바로 옆 마디마다 계속 설정이 안 된다는 것
2. 바로 옆 마디에 새로운 음자리표 표기시 박자표를 품은 것으로 인식하는 건지 빈 공란이 생기는 것


이 두가지가 아쉽습니다ㅜㅜ

入力の手間

何年も使ってるけど、そろそろコピペ出来なくなるバグを修正してほしい。他に使いやすいものが無いからまだ使ってるだけ。自分で段組を決めれないとか、音符の感覚のバランスが悪いとか、色々すとれすのかかる点は目を瞑るけど、急にコピペができなくなるのは作業が完全に止まるからほんと修正してほしい。
やる気がないのかな…

Response from developer

Are you handwriting notes for the first note to be disappearing? Please specify. For previous files tap the Folder icon to open the Apple file selector. You should then be able to open and save your scores. For community help, tips and support, join our new Facebook user group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/PreSonusNotionUsers/ Or our Notion Mobile forum at https://forums.presonus.com/viewforum.php?f=416

改善依頼

コピーしてもクリップボードに保存されていない(ペーストできない)ことが多々あるので早く修正されてほしいです。それ以外はおおむね利用できています。

최악...

빨리 원래대로 돌려놔라...

Problema Latest Update

**Bug** write a Boxed Text in Jazz Notation Font on iOS and it changes automatically to standard notation font …need a Fix to 5 stars.

Edit: I just noticed that it also changes the font in all of my previously created scores, which used to display correctly.

Wird immer schlimmer

Ein Update? Juhuuuuu! Oh… es ist schlimmer als vorher. Benutze es seit Jahren. Ist inzwischen eine Hassliebe geworden. Ein super Programm mit leider unglaublich vielen Bugs. Nach dem letzten Update ist es nicht besser geworden. An die alten Bugs hatte ich mich zumindest gewöhnt und konnte inzwischen mit ihnen umgehen. Jetzt muss ich mich mit neuen herumquälen…

Copy and Paste zerschießt die umliegenden Takte. Warum?
Beim Exportieren sind die Beschriftungen nicht mehr lesbar. Ich muss raten wohin ich exportiere. Wollt ihr mehr Anregungen für das nächste Update?
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Response from developer

Hi thanks for the review. Yes, as we've communicated before, if you don't tell us what the bugs are, we can't fix them. We have a public beta for iOS available, as well as public forums and Facebook groups. Please do join one of these and then let us know! For community help, tips and support, join our new Facebook user group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/PreSonusNotionUsers/ Or our Notion Mobile forum at https://forums.presonus.com/viewforum.php?f=416

AVOID if you’re a musician

Ridiculous limitations on samples they SELL you with archaic demands for credit on commercial recordings. Unacceptable - feel free to refund me or bring your EULA into 2026

Sudden Glitch as of Tuesday August 4, 2026 around noon

This app suddenly doesn't export PDFs properly anymore. Many of the notes are "frameshifted" in that they're not quite on the line or not quite in between the lines. This results in zillions of wrong notes on playback when I upload a PDF from Notion to my Playscore2 app. I've uploaded the PDFs to Forscore and Genius Scan and to iPhone/iPad Files and still this problem of "frameshifted" notes persists. Fender Notion, I'm a dedicated client of this app of many years and I am asking you to repair this MAJOR glitch. Otherwise I will reluctantly search out other apps and give up on you forever.
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I didn’t expect this app to get any worse

I wasn’t expecting much from a mobile notation software, so I will take some of the blame for entrusting too much to this app. But oh my goodness, they have a limit on registering your account… don’t buy the bundle they have advertised because it really doesn’t do much, the pen tool is very inaccurate and a headache to work with. You spend $16 on a pack with mediocre sound libraries (again don’t expect much from a mobile app) and you only get like 3 times of signing back into your account before they tell you the limit is exceeded. Joke of a company and joke of a piano app. This makes Flat look good.
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Keine Anmeldung möglich

Es kommt immer die gleiche Fehlermeldung:
Sitzung abgelaufen, melden sie sich erneut an

ㄴㅗㄱ음이깨짐

원래는 악기소리도 같이 녹음이되서 잘 썻는데 왜 지지직거리면서 안되나욕
진짜개빡치게

Nice

Nice gemacht, doch nicht alles was ich z.B. über meinen Noten schreibe, hört man nicht, wenn man es abspielen lässt und wenn man ein paar Stimmen kostenlos gibt, kann man auch gleich alles machen, denn das wirklich doof, aber ansonsten eine prima App.
Erix-Guitar übertreibt ein bisschen, denn ich habe Notion jetzt schon lang und es ist gut.
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Best Music Notation App

I did pay for the notation pencil add on and while you don’t need it, it works well. I bought other notation apps for the others and they just sit unused. Also if you own Fender Studio Pro (Studio One Pro) the extra music pack is free. Finally Fender Notation is updated, some of the others do not.
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