Notion

Terrible update I’ve got to go looking all over my devices for my files. Menus and options are not being read anymore by my VoiceOver screen reader on my iPhone or iPad. Handwriting is useful but the app entering notes automatically when I am scrolling around and can’t make it accessible like it used to be isn’t!

The new handwriting option is total rubbish, and should not be charged for, as an in-app purchase. Most of the promises in the description are broken, and do not actually function. If you want to learn how to input your music in nothing faster than a quarter note, never need to erase a note, and have Notion decide what you really meant to compose, then fire ahead and waste €8. I am seeking a refund, as the item simply does not match the sales description, and borders on being a fraudulent in-app purchase. Presonus apps are not inexpensive, and need to improve a whole lot, if they ever want to see my money again. I also hate having to award this even one star, in order to post this review. Shameful sales pitch.

So I tried to open up a composition of mine after updating the app and it crashed, when I re-opened it, it had deleted all of my compositions. Years of work wasted, not all were backed up either. Avoid this app. It was so good before as well. Really angry now.

This ipad app gets better and better with every update. Its amazing value in comparison to desktop scoring programs.

Good The app is pretty much the same as the desktop version but is scaled down so you at this point in time you do need the desktop app to attempt a score fit for publishing. Other than that , for work horse score editing while mobil, this is an app well worth getting in to and can only improove. Its two way compatible with the desktop app, both using the same file and not a 'lite' file as created by many Apple apps. It looks good and support for the app is excellent. Its very intuitive for someone who has worked with any of the DAWs with its score lines behaving like tracks and a mixer Bad Few bugs ( eg the Title function in the mobile version does not work properly there are a score features missing from both apps that are available in the Sibelius/ Finale...thes have been highlighted in the forums wishlist .. I miss being able to dictate the split point on, say, a piano LH /RH stave you can't copy text or lyrics from stave to stave on the mobile version

We purchased the app a few years ago, and it was glitchy, but workable. I don’t know what has happened with the newer version, but it seems to be more trouble than it’s worth. Although we did pay for the app at the time, a window keeps popping up wanting me to purchase. Even though we have registered the app, the “restore purchase” button does nothing. The final straw was there does not seem to be any positive way to save my work. When the app crashed, I lost everything I had done in the past half hour. I’ll be looking around for a different app.

Nothing is more frustrating than getting five or six measures of beautiful music out of your head and onto the screen and then to have the whole thing crash, losing what took you so long to get out of your head. Please please fix the crashes!

Used to be great, but now I have lost two scores I was working on because the app glitches, freezes, and then shuts down! Is this what a paid app gets you?! So angry I lost not one, but two scores! I will definitely be looking for other notation software.

I used Notion for years and loved it. This was my first foray into Notion Mobile. I am VERY disappointed. What used to be an easy to use, intuitive, highly responsive workhorse of a program is now glitchy, buggy, incredibly slow, unintuitive and even crashed on me in the middle of entering a piece, losing everything. Entering music is VERY slow (using built in keyboard). It sometimes deals with low G ukulele tab correctly and other times acts like the low G string doesn’t exist. Even when the low G tab works (not guaranteed), can’t play it back (guaranteed - all notes on low G string are silent). Selecting a single note with the pencil sometimes works, others not. Doesn’t seem to have palm suppression when using the pencil. Selecting part of a measure to transpose defaults to the entire measure. Can’t make a duplicate of a piece to create different versions. Simple things like enharmonics or dotting notes takes forever. If there is any way to go back to the pre-Mobile Notion I would take it in a second and even pay for it again.

I bought and used the handwriting function before the update, but after the update, i can’t press restore my purchase history. I want to you guys check it and give it back Asap