So frustrating!!!
I have been interested in buying this app for quite a while but have resisted until now because of the negative reviews about how the handwriting recognition is really bad.
Well I bought the app and I can confirm that although it is potentially an awesome app it is just so buggy and frustrating to use that I would wait another year before the technology will be able to catch up with the idea before purchasing the app.
It’s such a shame that after spending £84.99 on the app I could of written 10 pieces of music in MuseScore in the time it took to write 10 bars in this app.
I have watched their videos and the app seems great, but just trying to change an instrument for another caused the app to crash 5 times! This is not acceptable. I cannot get my Apple Pencil to work as an eraser and I find I am going backwards and forward trying to write in notes etc and because it won’t recognise my writing I have to keep jumping back and forth to the erase icon to erase and then rewrite everything again.
So frustrating, but if it worked it would be awesome! I’ll keep persevering but I’m certainly not prepared to shell out £99 for each of the add on sound libraries until I can at least get the basic app to work.
Ant
Well I bought the app and I can confirm that although it is potentially an awesome app it is just so buggy and frustrating to use that I would wait another year before the technology will be able to catch up with the idea before purchasing the app.
It’s such a shame that after spending £84.99 on the app I could of written 10 pieces of music in MuseScore in the time it took to write 10 bars in this app.
I have watched their videos and the app seems great, but just trying to change an instrument for another caused the app to crash 5 times! This is not acceptable. I cannot get my Apple Pencil to work as an eraser and I find I am going backwards and forward trying to write in notes etc and because it won’t recognise my writing I have to keep jumping back and forth to the erase icon to erase and then rewrite everything again.
So frustrating, but if it worked it would be awesome! I’ll keep persevering but I’m certainly not prepared to shell out £99 for each of the add on sound libraries until I can at least get the basic app to work.
Ant
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AAntMusicMan
Recognition problems
It’s a great idea and concept but the reality will never be practical until it can recognize handwriting symbols more accurately. This has just been a very long exercise in frustration!
WWannadoo
Unusable
Spent 20 minutes trying to add a Db at the bottom of treble clef. Finally gave up.
MMusik24
Unbearable
I can’t think of an app I dislike more. Cannot control the number of bars per line on the app’s printout (why not, folks?). Cannot disable most of the annoying presets (why not?). When you ask why, they answer that this isn’t a professional app so you shouldn’t expect more control. Handwriting recognition implies less automation or the option to suspend automation. Not so. And for it to register your pencil strokes you have to draw just so, otherwise it can’t recognize. Circles, dots, lines, stems… no can do. A handwritten quarter rest or eighth or sixteenth rest is way beyond its capacity to recognize. Really? In 2026? For sharps and flats you have to go through insane protocols and when you finally get what you want it keeps switching accidentals on you. More like it was a high school app-making project from 20 years ago than anything that deserves to have a price-tag attached to it. Add to this the exorbitant price and you are in the realm of not to be believed.
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GGarneau
Great app for those left who like to compose music by hand.
Using StaffPad for years now. I works wonderfully. Sound libraries available are great for orchestral mock-ups. More information on further development would be greatly appreciated.
LLoutti
