# Prelude - Score Editor — user reviews

> 109 indexed App Store user reviews of Prelude by Felipe Braunger Valio Desenvolvimento de Sistemas Ltda, rated 3.00/5 from 4 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prelude-score-editor/id620817095/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prelude-score-editor/id620817095.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2

## What do users think of Prelude?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 💡 Simple interface
- 💡 Good for basic notation
- 💡 Potential for improvement
- 💡 Useful for teaching
- 💡 Easy to write notes

**Cons**

- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 🐛 Incorrect playback
- 🐛 Difficult editing
- 🐛 Limited features
- 🐛 Unintuitive controls
- 🐛 Inaccurate accidentals
- 🐛 Poor note placement
- 🐛 No sound in free version
- 🐛 Expensive for features
- 🐛 Unreliable save function
- 🐛 Notes don't respect duration
- 🐛 Key signatures incorrect
- 🐛 Can't delete notes
- 🐛 Paid version issues
- 🐛 Instruments out of tune
- 🐛 Notes switch octaves
- 🐛 Doesn't respect timing

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes frequently
- Playback is incorrect (wrong notes, wrong rhythms)
- Notes don't line up correctly
- Accidentals are placed incorrectly
- Key signatures are incorrect
- Cannot delete notes
- Paid version has issues
- Instruments sound out of tune
- Notes switch octaves unexpectedly
- Timing is not respected
- App freezes or becomes unresponsive
- Save function is unreliable
- Touch controls are difficult and inaccurate
- App closes automatically on playback
- Notes don't play back at the correct pitch
- Notes don't play back with the correct duration
- Measures have incorrect beat capacity
- Notes are placed on top of bar lines
- App doesn't adjust for note types
- Sound takes forever to load or doesn't work
- Notes don't stick when trying to place them
- Cannot get notes below middle C in treble clef
- App deleted saved work
- Cannot drag notes to the stave
- Playback doesn't play treble and bass together
- App doesn't recognize accidentals
- Cannot change keys
- Notes don't sound properly
- App doesn't play the right notes
- Note values on playback are incorrect
- Soft and loud symbols appear in the wrong place
- Sharps are in the wrong areas
- Difficult to move notes
- Key signatures don't work properly
- Adding accidentals individually doesn't work
- App doesn't adjust for note types
- App doesn't play back compositions in the free version
- App doesn't beam quavers
- App places sharps incorrectly
- Measure isn't large enough for notes
- Cannot adjust measures
- Notes don't beam
- Quavers are written incorrectly
- Playback doesn't respect timings correctly
- Editing of notes is not precise
- App doesn't play notes as they are composed
- Cannot undo actions
- Cannot start playback from various places
- App is unresponsive
- App crashes on playback
- App doesn't respect metronome, pauses, etc.
- Acoustic feedback is misleading and wrong
- Hard to hit correct note to move
- Hard to find correct places for notes
- Buggy with time signatures other than 4:4
- Notes are not visible due to finger
- Cannot hear notes in the free version
- App doesn't play back compositions
- App doesn't have sound unless paid for
- App is useless without sound
- App is a ripoff
- App doesn't work
- App is disappointing
- App is bare bones
- No way to save anything
- App blocks at every step
- App is fake and useless
- App is faulty, pointless, and not intuitive
- Cannot delete a note
- App skips notes but doesn't allow deletion

**Most requested features**

- Add repeat signs
- Add ledger lines
- Add words to music
- Add slurs and ties
- Add beams for notes
- Add more instrument options
- Add glissando signs
- Add harp notes
- Add crescendo and decrescendo
- Add accents
- Add key signatures
- Add time signatures
- Add magnifying glass for note placement
- Add more note values (eighth, sixteenth)
- Add rests (whole, half, eighth, sixteenth)
- Add ability to write on music
- Add double bar lines, repeat signs, da capo
- Add chord bank
- Add ability to change note values
- Add sharps and flats to key signatures
- Add ability to adjust measure size
- Add undo/redo button
- Add ability to choose playback start point
- Add ability to save/export
- Add harp instrument
- Add more note range (higher and lower)
- Add C note
- Add more symbols
- Add metronome
- Add in-app keyboard
- Add more than two staves
- Add annotations
- Add tuplets
- Add staccato and other accents
- Add tie or slurs
- Add beamed notes
- Add ability to specify key
- Add ability to delete any note
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Add 8va
- Add wider note range
- Add lines connecting notes

## Newest reviews (18 of 109)

### 2/5 — Good, but incomplete.

*2016-10-28*

The editing of the notes are not precise.
The playback doesn't respect the timings correctly
There is no beamed notes
You can't do annotations on the sheet
The flat and sharp signs are placed far from the note
There is no Tie or Slurs or Tuplets
There is no Staccato, or any other accents (trill, mordent, turn, etc)

### 3/5 — 환불 요청합니다

*2016-06-06*

유료 구매했는데 악보 그리고 내보내기도 안 되고 단순히 되는것은 악보 읽기뿐... 많이 아쉬운 프로그램이네요 덕분에 시간만 날림

### 1/5 — terrible

*2016-05-16, version 2.6.2*

I tried making a song and putting accidentals onto it, it won't, not only that, but it won't play for me UNLESS you get the full version which is 3$?!?! WHAT A RIPOFF

### 1/5 — Dinero malgastado

*2016-02-14, version 2.6.2*

No sirve para nada, que vergüenza de desarrollador, engañoso. He pagado para la versión con instrumentos y no sirve para nada. La duración de las notas no se respetan al hacerlas sonar.

### 1/5 — Don't waste your time and/or money!

*2015-12-28*

I tried entering a simple melody and the playback plays note duration based on position in the score, not on duration of the note. For example, placing a half note immediately next to a quarter note plays back as a quarter then half note. Placing notes is difficult to do right the first time - you'll end up moving notes to their correct position after initial placement. I could not find how to start a song with a pickup note so my first 6/8 measure has 7 beats rest before beginning. This is a poor editor, even for a handheld device!

### 1/5 — DO NOT GET THIS APP!!!!

*2015-11-25*

It is not at all user friendly, takes forever to learn how to use, and in order to playback requires a £4 purchase that doesn't carry over key signature. Some parts just don't work, like sharps or flats, by which point I had given up. This app is broken, and a complete waste of your time, extremely unimpressed, fix ASAP.

### 3/5 — 환불요청

*2015-10-01*

환불요청합니다......

### 1/5 — Not good

*2015-09-29*

Has great potential, but seems like it's just not thought out at all.

### 2/5 — Useless.

*2015-09-19, version 2.6.2*

I downloaded this app planning to write music for multiple instruments together, piano, and clarinet, but I'm unable to change it from having only two staffs. The app won't beam the quavers and whenever I try to put in a sharp key signature, it's one below where it's supposed to be. I'll never have the need to write a song in a mysterious key with only a G# and a D#. The accidentals take up a ridiculous amount of room, and the measure isn't large enough to hold eight quavers, it will only hold seven. I couldn't find a way to adjust it. I can't use this.

### 3/5 — Like the basis of the app

*2015-08-03*

I wish that the placement and movement of the notes was more sensitive. When I am in a general region it picks up notes near where I am but not where I am. I also would love for there to be an undo/redo button. In addition it would be nice if the app allow for the writer to choose where to have the play section begin. If I am further along in my editing I want to be able to hear the new stuff not everything from the beginning. Also when in the play mode edits can still happen if I touch the screen in the wrong place. For now having just purchased the app these are my suggestions. I will keep updating if I find other things. I love the principle of the app, but it still could use a bit of work.

### 1/5 — Poorly designed

*2015-04-19*

This app is too lute on detail. It hasn't been well put together and isn't worth wasting your time trying to work with it.

### 1/5 — Nice idea but needs a lot of work

*2015-04-05*

Gave this a go with one of my students but the key-signatures are incorrect, notes don't beam and quavers are written incorrectly, gave up after that. The layout is decent and has potential to be good but needs a lot more work.

### 2/5 — Not impressed

*2015-03-29*

This app does very little other than allowing you to place notes on a stave. Playback, save and export appear to be enhanced version options, but there seems to be very little explanation of anything.

### 1/5 — Partitura

*2015-03-08*

Aplicativo ruim demais!
Partitura as colocações das notas tem que ser mais precisa.
Faz com que o touch fique travando e não responde aos toques.
Mas também por este preço...

### 1/5 — No.

*2015-01-30*

IT EXPLAINS NOTHING. I dont understand how to delete notes and the treble clef key signatures, while automatic, are INCORRECT.

### 1/5 — Soldi buttati

*2014-12-10, version 2.6.1*

Nella riproduzione non rispetta il metronomo, le pause, niente. 
Serve solo per scrivere note sul pentagramma, ma il feedback acustico é fuorviante e sbagliato

### 1/5 — Very bad edit controls

*2014-11-23*

Would be very nice app if i would able to edit sheet without problems. Current version unfortunately has very pure implementation - it is hard to put notes, with 1/4 and less hard to hit correct note to move, no undo and hard to find correct places for notes with different lengths in one tact. Also some times is buggy and edits and plays wrong with other then 4:4. I had issues for example with 3:4 and had to completely delete sheet and recreate it to solve issue. 

So with current quality I do really regret that i paid money for this.

### 1/5 — Vain

*2014-11-19*

Malheureusement quand on met de le doigt pour placer une note on ne la voit pas à cause du doigt............ Donc on passe son temps à déplacer les fausses notes qu'on a mises......

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — app as fake as your life

*2024-12-13*

I’m just gonna flat out say, this app is as useless as you. Just some notes and a white screen

### 1/5 — Warum ist so etwas fehlerhaftes im App Store

*2024-06-19*

Fehlerhaft, sinnlos und nicht intuitiv. Verstehe nicht, wie solch ein Programm durchgehen konnte

### 1/5 — Can’t delete a note

*2023-10-02*

In a 4/4 I happened to input an extra in a measure. The app seems to figure out and skips it, but it doesn’t seem to allow to delete it. I’m nit sure if there’s a way to delete any note at all.

### 1/5 — Decepcionante.

*2022-11-06*

O aplicativo simplesmente não funciona.

### 1/5 — Bare bones, NO way to save anything

*2022-01-15*

Super simple note/chord entry.  No way to save ANYTHING, not even Grand staff template.  What possible use is writing music if you can’t save or export?

### 1/5 — Desastroso

*2021-10-01, version 3.2.1*

Un caso. Se bloquea a cada paso.

### 1/5 — Really just awful. Don’t waste your money.

*2021-01-31*

Wish I’d read the reviews before I purchased it. Can’t play notes as they’re being composed. Can’t undo. Can’t start playing my song from various places in the composition. This could have been so much better but the developer of the app is just plain lazy and trying to make a few bucks. Glad it wasn’t too expensive but even for really cheap, it’s over-priced.

**Developer response:** We're happy to announce that we've released version 3.0 of Prelude, where we've rewrite the entire app. We listened to the opinions of many people, including you, to understand what we needed to improve. We would like to invite you to try Prelude 3.0 and give us your feedback again.

### 1/5 — Frustrating

*2020-04-23, version 2.6.2*

Firstly, you can not specify the key of the piece, adding anything before the time signature. If you require a paid version even for this, I am not interested. Secondly, the tails of the eighth notes if written high, are back to front, as if a kid had drawn them. Not for musicians.

### 1/5 — No sound

*2018-07-11, version 2.6.2*

Be aware that you don’t hear what you have composed unless you pay. Bit useless really. Hearing at least a few bars in the free version would have been better

### 1/5 — Odiei

*2016-06-10*

Tem comprar para ouvir as notas,baixaria só porque achei que tudo era gratis

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Cool app

*2023-06-20*

Really cool app

### 5/5 — AWESOME

*2015-07-12*

I just wanted an app for writing music and this made it so easy. You can write a title and the artist and can write notes easily. The notes are a little hard to write but I'm totally fine with that. The free version is perfect unlike other apps which you have to buy.

### 5/5 — Muy buena

*2014-09-12, version 2.6.1*

Me gustaría que se pudieran unir las notas para que queden iguales que en partituras originales y que se puedan imprimir aunque si se mandan las partituras a un correo si podrán imprimirla 

Desde ya gracias

### 5/5 — Solid app

*2014-06-29, version 2.5.1*

Prelude is solid, simplistic, and reliable. Everything you need is there to compose a great piece of music!

### 5/5 — Great quick score writer

*2014-01-17*

This app is great and a must have. Please update with 1) the ability to repeat section (with repeat bar symbol |:    :| ) and 2) a link note flags feature to bar notes.  Barred notes are easier to read. Thanks!!!

### 5/5 — Bellissima!

*2014-01-08, version 2.3.2*

Bellissima app la sognavo da sempre e funziona benissimo!!! L'unica cosa è che se uno mette una nota che vale 4 quarti ce la fa sentire come una da un quarto. Sistemate questo e tutti prenderanno questa app!! E io sarò felicissimo!!!!!! Perfavore!!!! Una cosa: dovete 
migliorare l'ascolto perchè con il piano le note stonano un po' e non legge i diesis e i bemolle!!!

### 5/5 — Speciale

*2013-12-12, version 2.3.2*

Un'app unica e veramente utile. Creare musica VERA è sempre stato un mio sogno e un'app come questa lo ha realizzato. Potrebbero esserci più simboli musicali, però.

### 5/5 — GREAT

*2013-11-19, version 2.3.2*

Must GET!!! I don't know why the ratings are slightly low but this app is wonderfulisimo! It seems great...

### 5/5 — The best notation app for piano teachers!!!!

*2013-09-27*

This is exactly what I was looking for. Easy to use, nice interface, simple and intuitive navigation.
I use this app to teach theory and composition. 
I write solfeggio exercises and send to students in pdf. Very helpful!
Thanks a lot for this app.

### 5/5 — Haza

*2013-07-13*

I really like the app, I think it has real potential. If 8va, key and time signatures and a wider notes range was added then this would be incredible. I hope these are added in a future update; if so I would use this to write my own music more often. Also I think the lines between notes need to be added so the lines connecting say two quavers.

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