Henle Library

It’s a wonderful experience to be able to carry many scores inside one’s iPad that weighs less than most single Henle editions. Wonderful additional features: various performers’ fingerings, customizable layout and very easy adding of one’s own markings. And on top of that a fast, accurate and friendly help desk.

I love the app but the price for the scores are very high. Piano part and accompaniment would be nice to have a more affordable bundle price. Printing diminishes the quality too greatly. Would be important to have an option to print with no loss of quality. If I could include screenshots as example you would be surprised! Incredible that is not posible to access the app with iPhone 13 mini. What if I want to print the score? Usually I use iPad but anyway, no excuse for that (on my perspective). Imagine that battery of iPad dies or you lose the iPad before a concert.. you could access the app with iPhone and print the desired score with your markings, not posible currently! Mind blowing. :(

De app heeft één avond gewerkt, de volgende dag crashte hij elke keer als je naar de henle store schakelde. De prijs van de muziekstukken is dermate hoog dat je beter de bladmuziek in papieren versie kan kopen.

Frustrating. I can’t trust it. Ever. It just randomly whites out a page while I am playing or most of a page. I have to close the piece to get it back. If the music didn’t cost an arm and leg, I would not be using it! I

Just awful to use. The annotation tool is so awful that it is hard to understand how it came to light. I love Henle and I wanted to get this app so I could mark the score without destroying my paper edition. That function is basically so cumbersome that it is totally useless. Just wasted money buying credits for something that is unusable. What a wasted opportunity to create a beautiful app. Such a disappointment.

Better than a pdf scan of the score and the new pdf upload feature is great. Plenty of features like bookmarking, easily switching from the solo part to the same part in the full score, and annotating.

I consistently have problems opening scores that I’ve purchased, scores disappear all the time. Very buggy. Such a shame since the concept is so lovely.

[update to previous review] After some delay I finally got the credits I purchased last year and could begin test the app. Thank you Henle support for getting my issue resolved—and thank you for the extra credits! ***** The good stuff ***** The app is very smooth and responsive and (after a short learning curve) easy and intuitive to navigate. Scores are legible and the ability to annotate without a physical pencil is amazing. (If only we had this 40 years ago!) Based on the urtext complete Beethoven quartets the cost is very competitive with printed scores: $64 for the set vs. $153 from Amazon—almost a 60% discount. And you don’t need to lug a backpack full of scores around. ***** Not-so-good/needs work ***** Scores are scans of printed editions sliced into staves, not digital vectors. This has some knock-on effects: Supported zoom levels appear to be limited (via SCORE SETTINGS > Stave Spacing). Changing orientation to landscape shows a higher resolution rendition, but only 1-2 staves vs. 4-5 in portrait. You will want the largest tablet screen you can get. Print quality is … terrible. The score images (printed on a 600 DPI PostScript laser printer) suffer from severe aliasing and are pretty much useless. If you need hard copy buy the excellent printed edition. But then you’ll need to transcribe all your annotations by hand. And get a fat backpack to lug the paper. ***** Summary ***** If you need to schlep a large collection of scores around the campus and don’t have the budget of the Hamilton production this app is made for you. The annotation capabilities will be an invaluable layer of frosting on your cake. If you cherish high-quality musical typography and need paper scores the Henle app will disappoint.

Implementation is barely there. I feel like there is no organization in my library. The search function for the Henle store especially is straight up to find any score it’s a straight up nightmare. Why can’t I zoom into the score?

U can’t write on top or bottom of the page because their writing menus block those areas. Absolutely ridiculous