NotateMe

I’ve tried to enter music with it and all sorts of bizarre symbols pop up, so I’m pretty much given up on that, especially considering that it doesn’t have any pop-up help or any way to really figure out how to make it work. The YouTube video I went to visit was about another app on the desktop. When I try to take a photograph inside the app it crashes, but if I process a photograph, it’s already been taken through the camera application, it does a great job of recognizing the music—it’s worth it for that, but I’m disappointed that I can’t actually write music with it.

Buyer beware! Do NOT buy the in-app Photoscore feature! The app is quite difficult to use, and the Photoscore feature crashes every time I try to open it on iPhone. And I only tried to open on iPhone because it was scanning an illegible blur on iPad, and I thought the iPhone camera might do a better job taking a photo of my page of sheet music. The Photoscore pictures are illegible. Ultimately, I was not successful importing sheet music using Photoscore. It seems impossible to get a refund for a feature that doesn’t work and crashes. Disappointing. I completely regret taking a chance on this app. For the price, I expected things to work.

I thought for a long time about whether to buy and I still bought it, used it, very much regretted it. The program is not suitable for comfortable use. Do not buy

To paraphrase Monty Python’s famous parrot sketch, this is a dead app. It has ceased to be. This is an ex application. I thought this app would become a great must-have tool. Instead, it hasn’t been updated in four years. I paid for everything one could get with this app, thinking I was supporting the developers and helping to ensure its future. Ha!

Keeps crashing/freezing on me! My IpadPro has 1TB of storage and nothing else is running on the background. I paid good money for this piece of crap and am now frustrated and back to square one as far as my projects! This is proof positive that all Silicon Valley is good for are useless apps that publish likes and dislikes from idiots!!!

Great concept but unfortunately not ready for professional use. Have not seen any development in quite some time.

I’ve used this product for a couple hours so far. There is quite a learning curve. Sometimes it works fine. Other times useless. I would not buy again knowing what I know now.

Great app! First thing I noticed is the handwriting recognition is best I’ve used. I love the two staff layout , one for your handwriting and other the computer version. Sometimes in other apps, it’s confusing when the app realize your writing before your finished and you can’t see your original idea, here the staff w your original idea is never changed, it feels like a separate sketch paper on one staff and the computer interpretation on the other. Also very easy to enter notes between existing notes and a separate pen for comments is nice!

This app is exactly what I was looking for! Handwriting recognition is excellent. Photo recognition app worked amazingly well on some old music books I purchased many years ago. Having the image converted and played was well worth the purchase!

I use Notate Me to transcribe manuscripts of (mostly) Baroque music into modern notation and have found the app to be quick to learn and generally very useful. There are a few things that can be frustrating (Baroque ornamentation, for one!) and I do wish grace notes (with and without slashes through the stems) were included in the menu of notations you can add -- but overall I would recommend this app. It's pricey, but not so much compared to the heavy duty music-processing programs like Sibelius.