A Helping Hand
It’s like having a songwriting partner even when I’m alone
Ripped me off!
Just purchased this out of the App Store and immediately got a notification that was no longer supported. It requires you to upload songs to their server which I’m never going to do and download a newer version of it using AI. I wish I could give them -5 stars for ripping me off.
Really terrible, after years I finally gave up and deleted it.
I struggled with this app for years. It was obvious the developer was never going to fix the major problems.
The rhyming dictionary is unusable. RHYME GENIE is great, by the way.
Never used the recording feature or a couple other “tricks.” Just wanted to use it to write. When I read all the reviews later about people losing all their songs, I started emailing mine to myself.
So buggy. So very buggy. Clunky.
Try to select a line and sometimes it takes five or six clicks to land where your finger is.
Gives instructions that are useful once but get old after a few times. Yes I know about blocks.
Tried to write a long verse, use different lines to choose from later, earlier text disappears into the header, thought to use free style. Nope, only when you first start a song. Pick the setting to email lyrics, text becomes mess and uses strange symbols for apostrophes etc.
It is possible to work around bugs, but why?
One of the worst apps I’ve ever purchased.
I don’t know who would give this app five stars, or even two.
Beginners, paid reviews, fake reviews, people who know nothing about songwriting.
The rhyming dictionary is unusable. RHYME GENIE is great, by the way.
Never used the recording feature or a couple other “tricks.” Just wanted to use it to write. When I read all the reviews later about people losing all their songs, I started emailing mine to myself.
So buggy. So very buggy. Clunky.
Try to select a line and sometimes it takes five or six clicks to land where your finger is.
Gives instructions that are useful once but get old after a few times. Yes I know about blocks.
Tried to write a long verse, use different lines to choose from later, earlier text disappears into the header, thought to use free style. Nope, only when you first start a song. Pick the setting to email lyrics, text becomes mess and uses strange symbols for apostrophes etc.
It is possible to work around bugs, but why?
One of the worst apps I’ve ever purchased.
I don’t know who would give this app five stars, or even two.
Beginners, paid reviews, fake reviews, people who know nothing about songwriting.
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Pretty terrible
Still very buggy. Clunky. Gives instructions that are useful once but get old after a few times. Yes I know about blocks. Tried to write a long verse, use different lines to choose from later, earlier text disappears into the header, thought to use free style. Nope, only when you first start a song.
Pick the setting to email lyrics, text becomes mess and uses strange symbols for apostrophes etc.
It is possible to work around bugs, but why?
Pick the setting to email lyrics, text becomes mess and uses strange symbols for apostrophes etc.
It is possible to work around bugs, but why?
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Great song writing tool.
Love the built in recorder!
I love this app!
The only problem for me is that I keep starting songs…and don’t finish them! But that’s on me!!! Songwriter is amazing… and I remain a fan since it was first released. so, here’s to more fun with this app in 2023!
Iphone version is different tho?
Luv this app so much and its helpful as some1 shamelessly in the disability community💕 🧩 however the iphone versions like a decade behind and i rebought this app being that ive supported these devs from the start. Update wud b very appreciated 🧞♂️🪛🛠💚
Worth Every Penny
I don’t normally rate apps, but wanted to share my experience as I’ve used this app now for several months. This app is wonderful for songwriters - when arranging you can shift things around and backup different lines (phrases) to try new ones. The rhyming section is not without flaws (everything listed doesn’t rhyme) but there’s still a great list of words that do so it’s still very helpful. The ability to with a few clicks backup everything to Dropbox is great. (I’ve heard people fuss about the app locking up and them losing input - this has not been my experience, but if I had to guess, those people either didn’t backup, or didn’t backup properly - early and often)
I could go on as it has many great features, but the bottom line is, is that it’s a great app. Not perfect, but well worth 5 stars. If you want a perfect app, quit crying about the work of others and build one yourself. This app deserves more recognition than it has received. Thanks dev.
I could go on as it has many great features, but the bottom line is, is that it’s a great app. Not perfect, but well worth 5 stars. If you want a perfect app, quit crying about the work of others and build one yourself. This app deserves more recognition than it has received. Thanks dev.
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TERRIBLE! AMAZINGLY BAD AND ABANDONED.
WILL THE BUGS EVER BE FIXED? I’ve had this for years now and there are text problems, copy and paste problems, font problems....it’s like buying a car with no tires and no engine!
I wrote an earlier review thinking this was going to be really good but it's not that great. Very buggy - cut copy and paste doesn't work properly with a line or a paragraph. Rhyming dictionary is awful. Try to rhyme "hate" and get a word like "choose."
THE ONE THING it's fairly good for is having a finished set of lyrics to email to yourself with a uniform font and date. Except, the fonts are messed up and when I email it to myself, apostrophes change to hieroglyphics.
These days I start with paper and pen, and when I almost have the finished song, I use this app to get a clean copy.
I am going to switch to Apple’s “Notes” app instead of this piece of trash.
I wrote an earlier review thinking this was going to be really good but it's not that great. Very buggy - cut copy and paste doesn't work properly with a line or a paragraph. Rhyming dictionary is awful. Try to rhyme "hate" and get a word like "choose."
THE ONE THING it's fairly good for is having a finished set of lyrics to email to yourself with a uniform font and date. Except, the fonts are messed up and when I email it to myself, apostrophes change to hieroglyphics.
These days I start with paper and pen, and when I almost have the finished song, I use this app to get a clean copy.
I am going to switch to Apple’s “Notes” app instead of this piece of trash.
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Needs work badly
Sync creates issue with text import, doesn’t sync correctly between my desktop version and this version. Also chord names split the words depending on where you try and set them, the full screen view is not full screen it is a window in the app. No refund so hopefully these issue get resolved. It is too much work to get through this app.
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Needs work on key features
I like this app because unlike MasterWriter, you can sink in the cloud, allowing me to work with iPad or my MacBook. The problem is the tools. The logic in the rhyming dictionary is so inconsistent, often times just wrong. I haven’t tried the recording options so I can’t comment of those features. The rhyming phrases features need a lot of improvement to earn anymore stars from me. I hope the developer improves the app.
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Too many bugs for someone trying to use it to keep track of ideas
Second time an update has deleted all my recordings... lost ideas. If there is one thing an app like this CANNOT DO it is lose audio tracks. I mean come on.
Solid. Hopeful for tweaks. Good service.
A solid app for the songwriter of any level or genre; hoping it continues to get upgrades to make interface and storage more fluid and user friendly (i.e. Navigating upload/downloading songs from cloud, cloud based storage/sync using my own apple cloud, some clunky dialogue boxes and folder organization especially on the desktop version, ability to upload sound recordings into song, more than one chord per word, text compatibility). Designer is SUPER helpful if you have any problems and a fair business person as well. The app keeps things nice and organized, legalized, and easy to print out for bandmates and the like.
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Really good app
I'm relatively new to structured song writing. Up until recently I always just threw my thoughts onto scraps of paper. I found this app and was a little cautious at first mainly because of the mixed reviews and the fact that it doesn't appear to have been updated for over a year. Long story short I've written a handful of new songs using songwriter and found most of it really awesome and works well on my iPad Pro. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was because I couldn't select my own word for the ideas area. There appears to be a spot where I can enter my own word but it won't let me type in anything.
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Excellent
I'm an iOS musician and this app in a class all its own. The developer has really put his heart and soul into this and it shows. He's very responsive to feedback and this thing is absolutely essential. Well designed everything works great and is extremely well designed. One of those apps that you just open it and go. I had it mastered in about 5 minutes without reading the manuals. Great indispensable piece of programming. Highly recommended.
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You are asking way to much to sync with your cloud
Are you kidding me Dropbox and iCloud charge significantly less for storage and there are other apps like notability and day one that sync to them. I like the idea of songwriter but you still have tons of bugs and writing in your blocks is cumbersome and impedes workflow. I think you have the potential to be a 5 star app. However you are to busy trying to find ways to bleed people of money rather than fixing your buggy app. I, nor any of my students will ever pay the prices you want for storage. It is simply a waste of money when there are plenty of apps that do the same thing for no extra cost. Let's put it this way I would probably pay around $20-30 for songwriter if it synced to the cloud or Dropbox and did everything it does now as well. However I refuse to pay on a monthly basis to sink to your bogus cloud that probably has more bugs than the app itself. You should probably come up with a better business model. I would pay $2-5 as an in app purchase to sync to the iCloud or Dropbox.
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Great song writing tool!!
After just the first few uses I am giving this app 4 stars and I may upgrade it to 5 after using it for a while. I have never been a good lyric writer, and this app is helping collect my thoughts, make notes for research, and in general making it easier for me to write and make some serious attempts at lyric writing. I now use the desktop version. The syncing across multiple devices really makes this a great tool. I have run into issues with some information getting garbled. The company responds quickly to help requests.
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Works well, for the most part
I've gone to pretty much exclusively using this app for writing lyrics, and it works very well. It's nice to be able to sync all my songs across my devices via the cloud. However, there are little things that annoy me. The phrases in the inspiration databank are a bit cheesy, and can sound repetitive. The rhyming bank is off, too - you'll get stuff like "horsemen" as a rhyme for "morning." Once in a blue moon I've also had the app crash on me, resulting in me losing all of the lyrics for a song I was working on. Don't let these things deter you from getting it, however - it's still a great app.
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Indispensable App
I've been using this app for a couple of years now and it is brilliant. I love having all of my lyrics in one place, I love that I can attach audio notes to them and I love that they are backed up to the cloud. I've never had any major problems and any issues I have had have either been down to user error or nothing a quick email to tech support couldn't fix. it just works! Today I upgraded my storage amount and bought the desktop version. Everything went very smoothly and now I'm even more organized. Couldn't be happier. Keep up the Great work!
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Great tool for pro songwriters
I use a lot of apps for creating music on my ipad. This is one of the few I use everyday! I've been a pro songwriter for more than 40 years, and I take my lyric composition seriously. This app allows me to capture every idea. I love the ability to imagine words, phrases and concepts that I'd like to use in a song and save them in the margin. Arranging sections (blocks) is a breeze, and backing up to icloud allows me to work the same song from several devices. Customer support is great. The rhyming dictionary and thesaurus are very good. I've tried other apps for lyrics but this is hands down the best.
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