# Staventabs: Compose & Notate — Sheet Music Editor

> Mobile score and tablature editor for music composition and practice. (iPhone/iPad app by Ivan Korovin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/staventabs-compose-and-notate/id947545539 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ivan Korovin](https://appshunter.io/developer/937929054)
- Category: Music, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.70/5 from 69 App Store ratings · 227 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 121 MB
- Languages: Russian, American English, Italian, French (France)
- Released: 2015-03-25
- Data updated: 2026-08-28
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/staventabs-compose-and-notate/id947545539/reviews.md

## What is Staventabs?

A simple notation and tab editor, Staventabs could become your indispensable helper in music creation. Use smart and convenient tools of Staventabs for composing and improving scores on your iPad or iPhone. Get inspired by viewing majestic classics scores or practicing good old jazz. Easily edit sheet music and tablature with user friendly interface like never before. Share musical inspiration with your band using Staventabs files.

Create music
• Start your new score from the scratch or with one of the two dozen templates²
• Enter notes with intuitive instrument-independent interface or virtual Piano Keyboard
• Explore and edit your score with sophisticated Piano Roll and Drums Editor
• Choose from 22 groups of the instruments (keyboards, guitars, strings, drums, percussions, etc.)² listening their preview fragments
• Use context-sensitive selection for bars, chords and tracks
• Modify notes with dots, tuplets and ties
• Make your music alive with lyrics
• Customize clefs, key signatures and time signatures for bars
• Change dynamics
• Switch between enharmonic equivalents of the notes
• Use customizable voices
• Setup tunings with the large value of presets
• Navigate around the score with Tracks board
• Easily copy, paste and remove selected areas
• Switch fast between tablature and stave inputs
• Edit tabs with easy-to-use numeric keypad or virtual Fingerboard
• Input notes by Staff Positions
• Set the visibility for instrument parts in the score
• Edit title and information about creators
• Select and customize horizontal, vertical or page layout for your score
• Use Scientific or Helmholtz pitch notation when entering notes
• Add repeat signs and volta brackets
• Don’t worry about losing data thanks to auto-saving
• Connect your MIDI devices to Staventabs

Practice your songs
• Play the whole composition or selected fragment
• Customize metronome clicking and countdown
• Change track’s audio properties on-the-fly
• Loop the playback of the desired part

Improve compositions
• Mark non-playable objects with "Highlight issues"
• Use the "Starred scales" AI to determine the chromatic scales most similar to the selected area
• Adjust the semitones of the selected area notes to the chromatic scale
• Customize the chromatic scale for adjustment³
• Diminish, augment and subdivide note values
• Transpose pitches by semitones

Manage projects
• Browse your projects with convenient file manager
• Store your compositions in iCloud Drive and keep them up-to-date across all your iOS devices
• Create new projects and duplicate existing (up to three editable projects in free version)¹
• Listen to preview fragments of the scores directly from the files menu
• Open SNT, MIDI, MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML (MXL), Guitar Pro (GPX, GP5, GP4, GP3) and Karaoke (KAR) files
• Edit MIDI, MusicXML, MXL, Guitar Pro and Karaoke files¹
• Organize your files from a desktop computer using iTunes or iCloud Drive
• Open files from Mail and other applications (Dropbox, Box, etc.)
• Convert files between supported formats¹

Share your brand-new hits with friends
• Email your scores and tabs right from Staventabs
• Print your score¹
• Export to PDF and MPEG-4 AAC¹

Features marked with superscript numbers are available via the corresponding in-app purchases:
¹ Unlimited Projects
² Additional Instruments
³ Advanced Composing

## Key features

- Score and tablature editing
- Intuitive note input
- Virtual piano and fingerboard
- Instrument previews
- Playback and metronome
- AI-powered scale suggestions
- MIDI and MusicXML import/export

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlimited projects | $10.99 | one-time |
| Additional instruments | $10.99 | one-time |
| Advanced composing | $9.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Staventabs?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Efficient music notation
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- 🎨 Customizable chord diagrams
- 💾 Supports multiple file formats
- 🎶 Realistic instrument sounds

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 💰 Paywall for basic features
- 🔀 Inconsistent note/chord handling
- 🔍 Unclear documentation
- 🔊 Lagging playback

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Imported MIDI files lose instrument assignments
- Disappearing projects after updates
- Inability to adjust note lengths in piano roll
- Metronome not audible over instrument playback

**Most requested features**

- Add support for grace notes and ornaments
- Implement repeat/coda symbols
- Allow custom font and layout options
- Integrate MIDI input and output
- Improve chord recognition accuracy

## Recent user reviews (10 of 227)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/staventabs-compose-and-notate/id947545539/reviews.md

### 4/5 — Great functionality, a bit tough on my battery

*2026-04-12*

I really like this app. It has a bit of a learning curve, but the more I learn how to use it, the more I appreciate it as a music tool.

Unfortunately the app seems to eat through my battery fairly quickly and my iPad gets pretty hot, even when I'm not moving anything and it is just sitting idle. Could be something caused by screen brightness, though. I heard a dark mode might be coming at some point, which could help with this.

I totally recommend the app and the provided in app purchases.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review and kind words. We’re really glad to hear that you’re enjoying the app and finding it useful!

Regarding performance: there are no known optimization issues on our side, the app is designed to be efficient, and it does not run any background processes when idle.

What you’re experiencing could be related to other activity on the device (for example, another process running at the same time), or simply the fact that working with a bright white score means the screen stays fully lit, which can noticeably affect battery usage and heat. That said, we understand your concern, and we’re also planning to introduce a dark theme for the score in the future, which should help in such cases.

It would be very helpful if you could email us at support@staventabs.com with more details about when this happens. We’d really appreciate it and will gladly look into your specific case.

Thank you!

### 1/5 — Critical Bug: Lost 80% of my work. Zero reliable backup.

*2026-03-28*

I’m a paid user. This app is a nightmare. I just lost 80% of my progress on a music score I spent hours on. I even tried to manually "Export to File" several times during the process, but the exported files only contained old data from nearly an hour ago. The app claims to save, but it doesn't. There is absolutely no reliable backup system or history recovery. If you value your time and your music, STAY AWAY. This is the most unstable notation app I've ever used.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback, and we’re really sorry to hear about this experience, we completely understand how frustrating and stressful it is to lose work like that.

The app includes an autosave system that saves the project after every 5 actions, so this behavior is definitely not expected. From what you describe, one possible reason could be that the file is being edited in a location without proper write access (for example, some third-party cloud storage providers). In such cases, changes may appear to be saved, but are not actually written to the file correctly. It’s also possible that the data was lost due to sync issues on the cloud provider’s side.

We’d really appreciate it if you could contact us at support@staventabs.com with more details about your situation. This will help us investigate the issue as quickly as possible and make sure you can use the app reliably going forward.

Your experience is very important to us, and we truly want to resolve this for you.

### 1/5 — 저장기능 고장

*2026-03-14, version 6.6*

ㅅㅂ 저장 왜 안돼

### 5/5 — Отлично

*2026-01-26*

Пользуюсь уже больше года наверное. Очень полезное и рабочее приложение.

**Developer response:** Спасибо за Ваш тёплый отзыв! Такие слова очень вдохновляют нас продолжать развивать приложение и добавлять ещё больше полезных возможностей

### 4/5 — Make the midi free please? :)

*2025-12-13, version 6.5.3*

Cuz the midi is super useful and it works on any application and most of the apps have free midi and it’s fine for you to do a free midi too? I missed it :(

### 1/5 — 0

*2025-12-04*

👎

**Developer response:** Vielen Dank für Ihr Feedback.

Es tut uns leid zu hören, dass Sie so unzufrieden sind. Bitte schreiben Sie uns eine E-Mail mit einer kurzen Beschreibung des Problems an support@staventabs.com
 – idealerweise mit ein paar Details oder Screenshots. So können wir besser verstehen, was passiert ist, und versuchen, Ihnen gezielt weiterzuhelfen.

Wir würden uns freuen, von Ihnen zu hören.

### 5/5 — Дудочки? 🤨

*2025-11-29*

Отличный редактор! Но дочь-флейтистка велела передать пламенный привет: обнаружить флейту в разделе «Дудочки» рядом с окаринами и бутылками — это, конечно, неожиданный культурный опыт :)

**Developer response:** Спасибо большое за высокую оценку приложения!
Флейта сейчас находится в разделе «Дудочки», потому что мы следуем классификации General MIDI. Но вы абсолютно правы: в будущем мы планируем переработать группировку инструментов, чтобы она была более интуитивной.
Спасибо, что делитесь впечатлениями – это помогает нам делать Staventabs лучше!

### 3/5 — Cool app, ok? Just make trombone free.

*2025-11-24, version 6.5.2*

Hey there. I really like the app, I'm a trombone player. But, this is the only thing that matters. Make trombone free please. The other composing apps are hard to use, and I've been wasting 20% of my storage just to look at apps, and so far, this app looks cool. Please make trombone free and I will rate this app a 4 or 5, and I will be able to use this app. Thank you!

### 3/5 — Bug report + Dark paper, dark paper and widgets

*2025-10-14*

BUG report: the icon isn’t appearing correctly when dark mode is enabled.

Please, bring some features:

1) DARK PAPER: Black paper and white or light gray sheet. It’ll be healthy for our eyes;

2) DARK ICON: bring support to the iOS 18 dark and tinted icons. A black background with the orange symbol;

3) WIDGETS: bring some widgets to access more quickly our files, create a new document;

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review! We really appreciate your feedback and would like to address a few points you mentioned:
1) Dark mode for scores – support for dark pages in sheet music will be added in one of the upcoming updates.
2) App icon appearance – we’re aware of the issue with the dark appearance of the app icon, and this will be fixed in the upcoming Staventabs 6.5.1 update, which will be released in a couple of days.
3) Widgets idea – thank you for the fantastic suggestion of adding widgets for quick access to recent files and fast document creation. We’ll definitely take this idea into consideration for future updates!

We really appreciate your support and your thoughtful ideas — they help us make Staventabs even better.

### 4/5 — Good apps

*2025-09-16*

Thanks (:

**Developer response:** Thanks for your kind review!

## Frequently asked questions about Staventabs

### What can I do with Staventabs?

Staventabs allows you to compose and edit musical scores and tablature on your iPad or iPhone. You can create new pieces from scratch or use templates, input notes using various methods, and enhance your compositions with advanced editing tools. The app also includes features for practicing songs with playback and metronome functionality.

### What file formats does Staventabs support?

Staventabs supports opening and editing a wide range of file formats, including SNT, MIDI, MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML (MXL), Guitar Pro (GPX, GP5, GP4, GP3), and Karaoke (KAR) files. This makes it versatile for importing and working with existing musical projects.

### Is Staventabs free to use?

The app offers a free version that allows for up to three editable projects. Additional features and capabilities can be unlocked through in-app purchases, providing a freemium model for users.

### What devices is Staventabs compatible with?

Staventabs is designed for use on Apple devices, specifically your iPad or iPhone. It also supports iCloud Drive integration, allowing you to keep your compositions up-to-date across all your iOS devices.

### How can Staventabs help me improve my music?

Staventabs offers features like 'Highlight issues' to mark non-playable objects and AI-powered 'Starred scales' to help you identify and adjust notes to fit chromatic scales. You can also diminish, augment, and subdivide note values, and transpose pitches, providing tools for refining your compositions.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.7.3 — 2026-08-04

• Improved print output accuracy across different printers
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests! They really help and inspire us on our way to the perfect and simple app that could become your true friend in the wonderful world of Music.

Have a good music making with Staventabs!

### 6.7.2 — 2026-07-10

• The inactive voice transparency setting is now stored in the project file
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests! They really help and inspire us on our way to the perfect and simple app that could become your true friend in the wonderful world of Music.

Have a good music making with Staventabs!

### 6.7.1 — 2026-06-24

• Refined Pedal Marks display and playback for more accurate notation and interpretation during playback
• Improved support for MXL files with better compatibility when importing MusicXML scores
• Multiple bug fixes and stability improvements

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests! They really help and inspire us on our way to the perfect and simple app that could become your true friend in the wonderful world of Music.

Have a good music making with Staventabs!

### 6.7 — 2026-05-31

• Improved chord editing with options to either create chords without notes or update notes at the current position based on an existing chord
• Bug fixes and stability improvements

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests! They really help and inspire us on our way to the perfect and simple app that could become your true friend in the wonderful world of Music.

Have a good music making with Staventabs!

### 6.6.3 — 2026-05-18

• Bug fixes and stability improvements

Thanks for your feedback and feature requests! They really help and inspire us on our way to the perfect and simple app that could become your true friend in the wonderful world of Music.

Have a good music making with Staventabs!

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