Unusable
Spent 20 minutes trying to add a Db at the bottom of treble clef. Finally gave up.
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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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.
Not updated for 2 years
I really like this app a lot but it’s very very overdue for an update. 5 stars if you can update it.
Amazing. I Wish There was a New Update.
This is the greatest workflow for easy sketches and traditional scores. StaffPad’s brush stroke counting solution has been *the* solution to using a pen to do notation. Other writing notation apps like Notion’s have awful solutions where someone has to make musical notation somehow recognizable to the program. This is the frontier of notation software in my opinion.
For drawbacks, the need for an Apple Pen where third-party pens only work on the tutorial is annoying, but not impossible. There’s capability for traditional, common scores, but then not much yet for contemporary scores with graphic notation without other programs like photoshop or so.
I love this app and use it every day. I hope that there’s room for more updates but there hasn’t been anything in two years now. I recommend it in its current state to anybody needing *the* quickest notation software. Super easy to pick up as well.
For drawbacks, the need for an Apple Pen where third-party pens only work on the tutorial is annoying, but not impossible. There’s capability for traditional, common scores, but then not much yet for contemporary scores with graphic notation without other programs like photoshop or so.
I love this app and use it every day. I hope that there’s room for more updates but there hasn’t been anything in two years now. I recommend it in its current state to anybody needing *the* quickest notation software. Super easy to pick up as well.
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