Has great potential
I’ve used this for a while now and am able to get down ideas but this has limits and functionality problems
The chord placing tool doesn’t work well and exporting isn’t working
Needs an update!!
The chord placing tool doesn’t work well and exporting isn’t working
Needs an update!!
Garbage
Deleted all my recordings within the first hour of use and no chords would appear. The makers of this app should be ashamed
Can’t add chords to more than one song
I have paid the fee and am up to date but can only seem to enter chords to one song only. It doesn’t allow chords to be put into one writer song. That basically makes this app useless to me
Buggy
Please update and remove the bugs! I have so many songs stored on this app that I don’t want to go through the trouble of changing apps, but after years without fixes, I think it’s time to move on :’(
Used To Be The Best Songwriting App
This used to be an amazing app. The best! But after getting taken over by a holding company, this app hasn’t seen an update in 3 years. The Dropbox linking has been broken for some time which didn’t affect me until my iPhone X quit. Now I’m no longer able to access my songs that were stored in Dropbox. If the developer would fix the broken Dropbox link it would be fine.
This app received a modest update to work with iOS 11. I was ecstatic to see this because the app had not been updated in 4 years and was not working with iOS 11. I have a lot of content in this app and wasn't sure how I was going to get to my material. It's a great app but therein lies my problem. If they decide not to update it anymore then I'm screwed and all my years of songwriting are gone. But this goes for any app. I've toyed with the idea of moving all my material to an app such as OneNote that's not going away but it's not specific to songwriting and not as great to use. Plus there is no easy way to export your material from one app to another. I did that years ago when iWork for iCloud came out and lost a ton of material because iCloud was buggy. So this is a great app for songwriting and I've used it for many years. I said all this to say this: just make sure you have a backup plan.
This app received a modest update to work with iOS 11. I was ecstatic to see this because the app had not been updated in 4 years and was not working with iOS 11. I have a lot of content in this app and wasn't sure how I was going to get to my material. It's a great app but therein lies my problem. If they decide not to update it anymore then I'm screwed and all my years of songwriting are gone. But this goes for any app. I've toyed with the idea of moving all my material to an app such as OneNote that's not going away but it's not specific to songwriting and not as great to use. Plus there is no easy way to export your material from one app to another. I did that years ago when iWork for iCloud came out and lost a ton of material because iCloud was buggy. So this is a great app for songwriting and I've used it for many years. I said all this to say this: just make sure you have a backup plan.
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It’s Messy
The Setting the letters above are covering words below that line all the way down the page. My folders & song Titles are blending into the line below. It’s in need of a basic fix. I’m using an iPad 12.9” screen & iPhone Pro & both have this same issue. The font for Settings is too big to fit correctly in the app & same goes for I suppose the Folders & sing titles. This should be quite fixable for the developers. Why if I’m paying could I not move my songs from the initial trial/free version over to the paid version. I didn’t want to d.l. an additional app (paid). I just wanted to pay for more than the 2-3 folders in the free version but when I went to purchase it had me download the app a 2nd time. No way to purchase from within the app. Why? Please fix. This is messy! I’ll revise my review. App has great potential but no readable Settings/Instructions etc. Why?
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Hands down the best songwriting app.
5 stars! Been using it since it came out. It’s so simple and basic but does it well. All other apps in that genre I’ve come across are full of fancy features but don’t get the basics right. It’s in need of an update for adding chords and exporting songs as PDF which isn’t working with the latest OS. But don’t change anything else.
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It’s good
It’s a good app, it works. I just wish they’d fix the text input issue which has been mentioned in multiple reviews before this..
Pay for less?
Had original Songwriter HD, which was really pretty cool. But you could only have a few songs on at a time. So I paid for this version. It’s horrible. It truncates how much can be entered, so short you can’t even write a pop song, the screen is totally bizarre, only using part of the tablet screen, and the format is big blocky print.
The original was so much better. Why couldn’t my purchase have gotten me the ability to have more songs in process with the original purchase? This version is useless to me.
The original was so much better. Why couldn’t my purchase have gotten me the ability to have more songs in process with the original purchase? This version is useless to me.
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Ipad7s
Needs to be updated at least its a very useful app i love it but i guess we have to start looking for something similar to this app
-IOS 13.0
-IOS 13.0
Disappointed
This used to be an awesome app. Now the bold chords don’t work and after you wrote the first line of lyrics the second line disappears so you can’t see what you are typing. iPhone X
Needs to be updated
This app hasn’t been updated and It no longer works with dropbox.
Since I lost my phone I lost over 200 songs that I’ve written.
Since I lost my phone I lost over 200 songs that I’ve written.
Incredibly frustrating
Lines constantly disappear while editing.
Wish i could get my money back.
Total garbage
Wish i could get my money back.
Total garbage
WOW!
This is Better than Awesome! I love it! Get this app! It’s worth it! Thanks
Exactly what I was looking for!
I wanted a way to have a digital version of some little songs I’ve written, and this app is perfect! It is incredibly easy to use.
Started out great but ended up real bad!
Just like the songs you write. They start out good and end up in the round file.
I had a bunch of good stuff in Songwriter and lost everything. I couldn’t transfer the songs out of SW to mail or text like I was able to do in the beginning. After trying so many things, I finally tried rebooting the app and lost everything.
Like one of the other reviews said “have a back up plan”.
I’m going to look for another app. I don’t trust this one anymore. So sad.
I had a bunch of good stuff in Songwriter and lost everything. I couldn’t transfer the songs out of SW to mail or text like I was able to do in the beginning. After trying so many things, I finally tried rebooting the app and lost everything.
Like one of the other reviews said “have a back up plan”.
I’m going to look for another app. I don’t trust this one anymore. So sad.
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Ruined by update.
Until the text Input problem is fixed I now won’t be using this as it kills my workflow. Every time you start writing and start a new line the text is hidden. When you press return it comes back however you then have to click delete to get the words back underneath the first line you wrote.
This was my go to app but with this silly problem it’s now getting deleted. Shame.
This was my go to app but with this silly problem it’s now getting deleted. Shame.
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Needs update bad
Killer bug that leaves what you write invisible.
Plus some bars at the end of verses or choruses missing.
You also CANNOT send your song via email which is a major game breaker if you want your song sent to you for collab and backup purposes.
Was the best app now to be forgotten I guess..
An iPhone X update would be nice as well, although farfetched at this point. 😐
Plus some bars at the end of verses or choruses missing.
You also CANNOT send your song via email which is a major game breaker if you want your song sent to you for collab and backup purposes.
Was the best app now to be forgotten I guess..
An iPhone X update would be nice as well, although farfetched at this point. 😐
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Amazing
Super useful and amazing. I wish the developers would pay more attention to it and provide us with more updates!
Please Update
I’m glad that the app was updated so I can use it on iOS 11, but now there’s more bugs than I’ve ever noticed. After picking a folder and closing it, the screen turns blank and you must swipe to get your folders back, and sometimes when I am typing, the line I am typing will disappear. I can still type, and it still works, but it just doesn’t show the line until I move to the next one.
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