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With over 10 years in the App Store, Notion Mobile is a free, award-winning music composition tool for iOS, iPadOS®, macOS and more! You’ll effortlessly create dynamic compositions in traditional musical notation or guitar tablature with its intuitive touch-based interface and incredibly broad editing capabilities.

With a user-friendly interface and simple interactive piano keyboard, fretboard, drum pad, and even optional Handwriting Recognition, Notion Mobile makes it easy to get started composing your music. You can also hear your music performed with the most realistic playback possible, using real audio samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.

Notion Mobile is a native cross-platform app, meaning you can write anywhere on any device without requiring a constant Internet connection. And when you’re back online, you’ll be able to sync your work across multiple devices — either through your preferred cloud provider, or through the optional wireless transfer between PreSonus applications on any device. Start your work on one device and finish it on another. Once you are happy with your creation you can share the Notion file, or export as MIDI, MusicXML, PDF or as an audio file.

Compose, edit, and play back your music performed with real piano and orchestral samples recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios — along with outstanding sampled guitar, bass, drums and other popular instruments. And when you’re ready for more sounds, you’ll find the extensive library of Notion Add-on Soundsets to purchase as part of the Feature Bundle. To save space, the initial app download contains just piano — you can then manage which of the bundled Soundsets to have on your device or keep in the cloud, just tap on Sound Installation.

Notion has been featured in various Apple campaigns including the 2014 YourVerse television commercials and has won several awards, including a prestigious music industry NAMM TEC Award for Best Smartphone/Tablet App.

What you get:
Notion Mobile includes unlimited staves, comprehensive editing features and core orchestral and rhythm section Soundsets — all for free. You can optionally register (also for free!) to unlock an additional Soundset (containing Solo Strings, Classical Saxophones and Glockenspiel), the multivoice function that allows writing in up to 4 voices per staff, and access to the friendly Notion Mobile User Forum. Then for the full experience, either sign in with your Studio One+ membership or purchase the Notion Feature Bundle. This unlocks Handwriting Recognition, Layout Controls, all the Expansion Soundsets (including many auxiliary instruments and additional articulations and effects), additional audio export formats (m4a, OPUS, FLAC) and direct file transfer between any PreSonus application running on the same network (including Notion Mobile, Notion Desktop, and Studio One.)


Free:
Unlimited staves
All editing features
Core Soundsets
Export as MIDI, PDF, wav, mp3

Register for free:
Reward Soundset including Solo Strings, Glockenspiel, Classical Saxophones
Access to the new Notion Mobile User Forum
Additionally write for voices 3 and 4 in a single staff
Export as MusicXML, Compressed MusicXML

Feature Bundle (in-app purchase or sign in with Studio One+):
Handwriting Recognition, powered by MyScript
Available on iPhone, iPad and macOS (macOS with supporting graphics tablet or using Sidecar with compatible iPad)
Automatic pen vs. finger recognition to switch between handwriting and edit mode
Pressure-sensitive support for Apple Pencil
Adjustable timer for Handwriting Recognition
Override handwriting timer by double tapping Apple Pencil (2nd Gen)
Layout Control
All Expansion Soundsets
Additional audio export formats (m4a, OPUS, FLAC)
Direct file transfer between any PreSonus application running on the same network (including Notion Mobile, Notion Desktop, and Studio One)
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In-Apps

Harp
0,99 €
Mandolin
0,99 €
Jazz Bass
0,99 €
Handwriting
8,99 €
Harpsichord
0,99 €
Feature Bundle
17,99 €
Flute Section
0,99 €
All Sounds Bundle
34,99 €
Classical guitar
0,99 €
Percussion Bundle
5,99 €

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Best Notation app

Daghatt on

Loyal Presonus user for many years now both software and hardware wise. Notion 6 is an awesome notation software with great features and sound that keeps getting better. My requests as a guitar teacher and guitarist in general are: 1) a district, easy and clean way to insert left hand fingering beside the notes (1,2,3,4), I think the right hand fingering (p,i,m,a) can be inserted somehow already… 2) even more technique and expression symbols for classical guitar 3) a more modern, classy and minimal redesign of the app icon and menu in version 7 Keep up the great work 🤘🏼

Cannot restore purchases

Kleitous on

Hi. Your app is excellent, but there are some bugs. I purchased jazz bundle, guitars bundle and percussion bundle but they never downloading. And of course I can’t see the individual instruments in my score. Fix it please.

Very good, but needs update

theotox on

The current version is 2 years old, I’m using it on iPadOS 13.1.2 and it’s not very stable, (although still usable), from time to time I have to exit the app and start it again in order to have it behave properly. Also, it does not work very well when other midi apps are active eg ik iGrand etc And it urgently needs integration with iPad filesystem (“Files” app). And although hand writing is available as a in-app purchase (and it works!) the Apple pencil works as a simple passive rubber-tip stylus, not exploiting the true pressure-sensitive potential. Also , I would like to see handwriting supported not only for note entering but also for writing comments.

Chord diagrams?

derbederis on

I would like to see better guitar chord diagrams. The existing ones are lacking and baggy. Also extreme need for audiobus support. Perikles

Amazing!!!

rhapsodyenmauve on

Great potential, for an iOS device, in my humble opinion, the BEST so far. I've been using Finale all the time and opted for this app as the closest alternative on my iPad, while on road. Now, I am using it even home! The sound of the samples is sooooo good!! The only thing that lacks for the moment is MIDI input, I hope it will be available in the future. Also the quality of .xml files is really good, so that someone can easily transfer his/her work on other software. For me, an excellent work, keep it up!!

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App Info

Category
Music
Publisher
Notion Music, Inc.
Languages
Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean, French, English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese
Recent version
3.3.2 (2 weeks ago )
Released on
Dec 16, 2011 (12 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago