# SongKit — user reviews > 35 indexed App Store user reviews of SongKit by Thomas Grapperon, rated 4.39/5 from 36 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/songkit/id1509076878/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/songkit/id1509076878.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 27 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (11 of 35) ### 4/5 — I’m Hooked *2023-09-15* I was a long time user of Chord! And had a couple of hundred songs in the app. When SongKit came out I was somewhat dismayed as I had put so must of an investment into Chord! and was used to it. It was familiar and easy to get around in, for me. However, I tried SongKit and now have close to 400 songs in it. SongKit has a much easier interface for song creation and maintenance. I am very happy I gave it a chance because it is now my app of choice for storing my music. Don’t get me wrong, I still use many of the features of Chord! also and think the two apps together make a winning team. Kudos to the developer. ### 5/5 — Simply superb *2022-08-19, version 1.1* Hands down this is the very best lyrics / chords app I have come across. Love it. Thank you developer for your hard work ### 5/5 — Terrific! (with a couple of suggestions) *2022-05-29* It’s a 5 star app! Not sure where that 1 star rating came from. I bought SongKit/Chord! Bundle, although I am finding that I like SongKit better suited for my needs. I was looking for a tool to simply transcribe (chords and lyrics) my own songs and turn them into sheets - mostly for my own use, so I don’t forget how I played them originally. I do know majority of the chords and am fairly familiar with the chord theory but I am not super fluent so I usually need a fretboard to try different fingerings. Overall I like the app; I think it’s great and it does suit my needs quite well. A few things that I particularly like I like the overall setup. It’s pretty clean. Songs are easy to create. The sheet view is fantastic - all I ever needed. The chord selection is very extensive and the song is very easy to edit I love the fretboard view to reverse search/build the chord! It’s by far my favourite feature. I like that it auto Caps first letters when you type in the song name! Very useful! Import from chord-pro also works like a charm! Bugs: the app froze (became completely non-responsive) on me 3 times - both times when I was in song View mode. I could not consistently reproduce it, so from the developer’s standpoint there is not a lot you can do, but you might keep an eye on it, in case other users bring it up. It also often gets a little laggy. I also have a couple of suggestions Sheet view This one is minor: when I tap on the chord above the lyrics, what I expect to see is an enlarged diagram for the selected chord. Instead it shows the entire strip of all chords in the song. It does the job but my suggestion, perhaps bring up the individual chord diagram by default and let user tap to see next or previous, if they choose. While we are at it, another suggestion. I understand that sheet view is for viewing - not for editing. But as a user sometimes I would like to correct a particular chord, so instead of going back to Edit mode and finding that exact line and exact chord, it would be nice to be able to tap on the chord in the View mode and then have an option to switch to edit it. Perhaps a popup menu? Edit View When typing the lyrics, I have noticed that there are no auto suggestions for some reason, yet when you enter song info, for instance, they show up! It would certainly help to have auto correct/suggest enabled when you type the lyrics!. Entering chords: The chord strip to select from is great and easy to use for basic chords but if I need Bm, I have to scroll all the way to the end. Perhaps adding a search, where user types “Am7” or “Esus2” and it sends them to the chord editor, would be a good feature? My biggest pain however is Chord Edit. Use case: I enter, say D7, but I often like to play it x-3-5-4-0-x, so I need to change it. I would like to simply tap and edit it on the fretboard view, just like I can when adding a new chord, but for some reason I can’t - at least I have not found a way to do it! All it gives me is the chord selector, which makes it more tedious for me (to find the right chord, I’d have to monkey around with the chord settings, like disabling barres, allowing bass other than root, limiting fingers to 3, etc.). I often end up simply deleting the chord and use “+” instead to add a new chord using the fretboard view. I know you have a Current Song option for chord selector strip, but I thought that perhaps adding a “recently used” option would be a good idea. You also have Suggestions option, but it’s hard to tell what it actually is based on, so perhaps you providing a description would be helpful. I still can’t figure out what the “lighting” button does. When I tap on it I don’t notice any changes, so perhaps adding some sort of explanation would be a good idea as well. Documentation. It is a bit scanty and perhaps could be better organized, although as a developer, I know that writing documentation is like pulling teeth for most of us :). That’s why I’m a big fan of making things more intuitive, to avoid writing 50 page manuals LOL. Playback. I know it is probably not the purpose of this app but I thought that if you considered adding a ‘play chord’ button so user can actually hear what the chord sounds like, it would make the experience much better. Overall though I think it’s a great app. Happy to spend the $$ and support the developer. ### 5/5 — GREAT APP *2022-02-21, version 1.1* THIS APP IS KILLER AND THE-MOST EFFICIENT FOR SHARING WITH THE BAND. JUST WISH YOU CAN AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT FROM GUITAR TO PIANO REGARDLESS OF VOICINGS ### 5/5 — Useful, Fun, Lots of Options *2021-10-28* I’ll just say I’m very grateful this app exists. Makes it very easy to quickly sketch out a song, lyrics, chords and all. Easy to print, too. Awesome app. ### 4/5 — Wow! *2021-08-16* This app actually can feel a little overwhelming with all the options available. But I like being able to customize each song. Will take some time to learn. The only reason I gave it a 4 star, instead of 5 was due not being able to create a set playlist, so I can quickly move from one song to the next when preforming. **Developer response:** Hello, Thanks for your feedback. The setlist feature is being developed right now. It should be available in a few weeks. Best regards, Thomas ### 5/5 — Amazing app! But if only if…. *2021-06-04* Goodness, I am actually using this app! Can’t tell you how many apps I’ve purchased just to realize they weren’t of much use for me. This app is amazing in that it holds all my music tabs in one place. But…..and this is really nitpicking here….if only there were some sort of forum where users could upload their creations for all of us to enjoy. Sort of like the Kemper Profiler’s Rig Manager. Other than that, it’s perfect. Note to developers - this app is SO easy to use right now. Please don’t lose that simplicity in future updates. Which BTW, I will purchase and support your hard work. Cheers! ### 5/5 — This app is all I was looking for *2021-05-29, version 1.0.4* Now I can organize the songs that I'm learning and it's so simple to organize the chords and create the tabs. Thanks to create this! The only thing I miss is the possibility to use the external keyboard to navigate while I’m creating a tab. Tip: If you’d like to organize your songs buy it, and if you are learning, like me, buy the bundle with Chord!, the app will help you to learn the scales, and shapes, this is amazing! ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2021-03-16* Great app ### 5/5 — Thank you *2021-03-01, version 1.0.3* I am so grateful at long last you have brought this app for Keyboardist also. This will help me in my teaching of music. Thanks once again for listening and acting on my plea. With Chord! and Songkit app, I am relieved. ### 5/5 — Best songbook app ever! *2020-12-19* I have been using apps for only the last 2 years for my guitar music. Songkit! is the only one that does every thing that I want/need. I was setting up my music on my computer in a page layout program so I could have tab were I needed it and chord diagrams for the specific inversions that I chose. But I can’t change the key. With Songkit! I can have tab and custom chord diagrams where I want them and change the key-EVEN the tab changes key. The best ever. Easy to use. I absolutely recommend this app. Ty ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Нет импорта *2023-08-20* Невозможно сделать импорт песен, хотя написано что можно. ### 1/5 — No rhythm notation *2022-03-16* This app is missing any ability to notate rhythm or pitches using musical staff. The transposition feature is cool but no staff or rhythmic notation is a deal breaker. I was hoping to use this as a replacement for carrying around my fakebook to notate full song forms. All the visuals are cool but I could not recommend this to any serious musician. I really like the app chord! by this developer. Would consider updating review if musical staff and rhythm are addd. ### 1/5 — Péssimo *2022-02-10, version 1.1* Difícil de entender, não intuitivo. Difícil fazer ações simples como no OnSong. Não recomendo a compra. Pra mim foi dinheiro no lixo. ### 1/5 — Just bough the app & it keeps crashing *2020-10-20, version 1.0.1* Great app but unusable. iOS 14 latest as of 10/20/2020 iPad 5 mini Keeps crashing - unusable. ### 2/5 — app freezes, no manual, chord editing (guitar) difficult, UI cumbersome *2023-11-25* This could be a great app. But you won`t understand this app really because there is no manual, just a basic first step help. There are many features, like all these strange icons with red dots and black dashes between them (has it to do with a circle of 5ths?) that go with every chord. I found no explanation whatsoever. Quite a few things in chord editing and detection just don’t make sense, the editing is a pita because the UI is all over the place here, and while you edit the chords the app can freeze, which.happened to me several times. Example: You enter a chord’s notes in the virtual fretboard, say Cmaj9 - often used by guitarists (Note C on the third fret). The app will recognise an “E7 (b13)no5/C”. Aha! But wait, you can look up 138 variations and find the Symbol you hoped for, the Cmaj9. If you tap on the shown chord, the window with the options disappears and the strange E7 thing did not change. Why show the options when you cant choose it? And so on and so on. (I tried to contact the developer three times to describe the quirks in detail and felt like a beta tester, but no reaction. So don’t try to get any help if you need it. I also have the first app of the dev. named Chord!, but could not get along with its cluttered UI, but this app looked so much better and I needed different features anyway. Wrong I was. Spent my money and cannot use the app. Very frustrating, because it could be such a great app and radio silence from the developer. ### 2/5 — No Sound Coming of the app ..... *2020-11-02* iPad Pro Gen 2 iOS 14 .....There no report or support email so guess this the only to reach you **Developer response:** Hello, There is no sound in the app yet. This will be implemented in a next update, once the Mac version is released. Please tell me if something in the description of the app or the screenshots can let people think there is sound in the app. There are support links on the App Store page, and inside the app, first row of the third section of the Settings screen. Best regards ### 3/5 — Cant import my Chord! songs no iPhone *2021-12-09, version 1.1* It doesn’t do the importation using the chord Pro meta tags, it generates a clustered song at SongKit. I wasn’t interested in moving to SongKit, but since I read that the importation process was seamless bestarem booth apps I decided to buy. But this issue broke my heart. I will give 3 stars because of that. Hopefully I can change my rating on a next version ### 3/5 — Still on the search for my tab maker *2021-11-02* Solid but doesn’t include 7 strings and PDF import. The import in general is a little spotty but I can see the use case. **Developer response:** Hello, Thanks for your feedback. Song import only supports 6 strings standard guitars for now, but I can see how I could improve the situation in a future update. Otherwise, 7 strings guitars are fully supported when editing and displaying songs. If you haven't done it already, you should go in the settings, "Music" section, and create a new guitar instrument. Feel free to get back to me by email if you have difficulties using 7 strings instruments, or for any other suggestion. Best regards Thomas ### 3/5 — Only one problem *2021-10-20* I love this app so far! I’ve already put several songs in and transposed them and played around with them without problem. My only issue is that it doesn’t look like I can put words over or under tablature. From what I’ve been able to figure out I can only put it in a block with chords underneath the tab. Other than that though I love this app! Edit: One major thing is that this app doesn’t support traditional sheet music. Other than that and the above, gold! ### 3/5 — Great features but not without critical flaws *2021-02-10* The app is flexible to use and full of great features. I use it to construct Uke tunes. One complaint is that the app crashes occasionally and/or does not save progress before returning to documents. This wipes out hours worth of work if I do not copy to clipboard first. Also, there is no option to set the chord voicing default to "relaxed". The default chord voicings for Uke are terrible and I rarely use the suggested version. I spend most of my time going deep into the settings, each time I place a chord to select relaxed mode to find a simple open voicing version of a chord. This is a huge time waste. **Developer response:** Hello, I'm sorry that you're not having a great experience with the app. Would you mind enter in contact by email (support@songkit.app) so we can work on resolving all these issues? Thanks Thomas ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A Must Have *2025-12-29* I encourage every musicians, directors and teachers should have this app. Perfect for teaching, rehearsal and live performances. ### 5/5 — Good stuff *2025-12-04, version 1.2* Used it for a few yrs now. Decent app ### 5/5 — Extraordinaire !!! *2025-08-03, version 1.2* C’est exactement ce que je cherchais pour pouvoir écrire mes chansons et vu que je connais pas bien le Piano, avoir sous les yeux les notes à jouer sur le clavier, c’est royal ! je ne regrette pas de l’avoir payé, c’est une très bonne application. Merci beaucoup au développeur ### 5/5 — Great app for keeping track of songs learned *2025-01-26* Would love to be able to easily print off lyric sheets without chords, though. Closest I’ve been able to figure out is hiding the chords but it still leaves little boxes that look like this [OBJ] wherever a chord has been placed in the song sheet. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and no nonsense *2024-02-14, version 1.2* This app has really inspired me to get into writing more music, I definitely recommend reading the documentation first but once you understand the workflow its becomes second nature ### 5/5 — Enjoyable, easy to use *2024-01-25* I’m a 68 year old who decided to play guitar again after 20 plus years. I had some old yellowed paper (remember that?) chord charts and decided to use SongKit for the chord charts. Excellent functionality and presentation, plus the PDF output can provide me with quality paper copies as well. Using Siri dictation certainly speeds up the process. ### 5/5 — Finally - lead sheets done right *2023-10-20* I’ve looked for an app like this for ages. I have downloaded and tried so many apps for creating basic lead sheets with chords and vocals to share with jam buddies and band mates. Until now none of them were very satisfying. Chord! is great and has a huge range of features including the ability to generate lead sheets, but SongKit focuses on its core function of creating lead sheets, without any extraneous functionality that would complicate the interface. The first time I opened it up on my iPad, it took only moments to create a new song, set the key, type some lyrics and add chords. I’m excited to see how tablature is supported, but even without that bonus feature this is an absolutely perfect app for quickly generating lead sheets and organizing songbooks. Well done - thanks so much for building this great tool for musicians! ### 5/5 — Simple but perfectly formed *2023-07-22* I use this app regularly for my band lyrics and set lists. I like how simple it is compared to the other common expensive apps but it still has all the functions I need. Love how I can import songs and also easy to share them with my band mates. Can change keys on the fly if needed, it auto scrolls. It is the best value for money app of its type I believe. Marty-New Zealand ### 5/5 — Easy as pie *2022-10-25* Easy to use. Very intuitive. Knocked out my first transcription in an hour including having to look for the right chords for the arrangement. This app needs the ability to input a melody line in between the chord diagrams and the lyric line. Needs that asap. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Great app for organizing all my songs *2022-08-26* Is there a Mac version in the works? Even just an iPad port for Apple silicon machines would be fantastic. I literally use this app every day. I’ve never felt more organized about my music. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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