This app allows users to play show scores using performance accompaniment recordings. It provides essential resources for musical theatre productions, offering immediate assistance for any emergencies during a show.
2.6(88 ratings)
Free
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2.8😞(81 ratings)
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This app provides essential music rehearsal tools for musical theater productions. It offers playback features on iOS devices and director's editing on iPads. A license from a theatrical publisher is required to use the app.
What We Love
- 👍 Handy tool for learning parts
- 👍 Useful for theater kids
- 👍 Good for practicing songs
- 👍 Helpful for learning harmonies
- 👍 Can layer voices in/out
- 👍 Settings save correctly
- 👍 Good for teaching students
- 👍 Can adjust sliders/mutes/solos
- 👍 Works on iPad
- 👍 Helpful for lead roles with harmonies
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Constantly crashing
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🐛 App freezes often
- 🐛 Hard to play transition tracks
- 🐛 Sound stops instead of restarting
- 🐛 Rewind button issues
- 🐛 Metronome cannot be turned off
- 🐛 Lacks guitar/drums in tracks
- 🐛 Tracks sound odd (piano/metronome)
- 🐛 Irritating to use
- 🐛 Does not load on iPhone
- 🐛 Randomly kicks user out
- 🐛 Buttons not showing on iPhone
- 🐛 Unreadable button tops
- 🐛 Kicked out after entering passcode
- 🐛 Songs don't have words with vocals
- 🐛 App disappears from phone
- 🐛 Needs to be reloaded
- 🐛 Crashes when trying to repeat songs
- 🐛 Horrible and glitchy
- 🐛 Does not keep user show ready
- 🐛 Freezes and needs restarting
- 🐛 Part mute/solo buttons unreliable
- 🐛 Tab bar hides information on iPad
- 🐛 Music stops playing, only click track
- 🐛 Needs delete/reinstall to fix
- 🐛 Glitches at jump cues
- 🐛 Tempo changes disappear after freeze
- 🐛 Glitches on vamps/repeats/cesuras
- 🐛 Needs complete reboot
- 🐛 UI crowded with admin features
- 🐛 No ability to loop
- 🐛 Low bass buzzing
- 🐛 Buttons at bottom not visible
- 🐛 No vocal tracks to follow
- 🐛 Kicked off app within seconds
- 🐛 Tracks not present
- 🐛 Old design
- 🐛 Audio freezes
- 🐛 Not worth getting
- 🐛 Long download time
- 🐛 Tempo issues or stops briefly
- 🐛 Latest iOS update issues?
- 🐛 Song comes in/out at specific measures
- 🐛 Adjustments do not save
- 🐛 Wasted time resetting adjustments
- 🐛 Needs to reset adjustments every time
- 🐛 Changes on the fly are frustrating
- 🐛 Wouldn't let me log in for a while
- 🐛 Needs better quality instruments
- 🐛 Unintuitive interface
- 🐛 No tutorials or in-app help
- 🐛 Difficult to see what you are doing
- 🐛 Measures/track numbers don't match
- 🐛 No good way to select specific measures
- 🐛 Audio levels constantly changing
- 🐛 Settings continually shifting to defaults
- 🐛 Parts not playing sometimes
- 🐛 Cannot practice orchestra parts
- 🐛 Cannot play parts after repeat/fermata
- 🐛 Constantly crashing when opening
- 🐛 App won't open at all
- 🐛 Immediately closes
- 🐛 Doesn't show music
- 🐛 Kicks out within seconds
- 🐛 Doesn't show songs
- 🐛 Randomly mutes everything
- 🐛 New update hides song title
- 🐛 Instruments sound bad/no emotion
- 🐛 Distracting and takes from experience
- 🐛 Laggy and overall terrible
2.8😞(195 ratings)
Free
This app provides a virtual accompanist for musicians and theater performers. It offers full musical scores with adjustable tempos, looping capabilities, and the ability to isolate or remove individual vocal tracks. Users can also transpose songs, jump to specific measures, and add cuts or vamps.
What We Love
- 🎵 Ability to isolate individual vocal parts for practice
- 🎯 Customizable accompaniment mixing and muting options
- 📍 Measure number navigation for precise song positioning
- 🎭 Access to musical theater tracks not available on streaming platforms
- ⏱️ Adjustable tempo control for practice flexibility
- 🔄 Loop feature for practicing specific sections
- 👥 Useful for group rehearsals and cast coordination
- 📱 Generally intuitive interface once understood
Room to Improve
- 🔇 Audio requires phone ringer to be ON (major usability issue)
- 🐛 Frequent audio/sound failures and glitches
- 📵 Music stops when phone screen locks or goes to sleep
- ❌ No background audio playback capability
- 🎹 Poor MIDI instrument quality and limited instrument variety
- ⚠️ Interruptions from notifications stop music playback
- 🔧 Inconsistent performance across devices and iOS versions
- 💾 Requires frequent app reinstallation to restore functionality
- 🎼 Vamp sections play with timing/rhythm issues
- 📱 iPad/landscape mode support is limited or non-functional
- 🔐 Account access and login issues reported
- ⏸️ No auto-advance feature for vamps
- 📊 Poor customer support and lack of responsiveness
