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)
Upgraded my paid app to a free one - thanks for nothing
Bought this app when it was a paid app. Now I have to purchase an upgrade to get the functionality I had already paid for. Customer support told me they had generously “upgraded” my paid app to a free one. They told me I had not lost any functionality but this isn’t true as I used to be able to edit which I can no longer do without paying…..again!
Very annoyed and won’t purchase from them again.
Great app but update has flaws
Took some time but got used to the update and there are many improvements! But the old version made beautifull prints, but since the update the notes are thick and crowded on the paper. The syncope function behaves not always in a reliable way suddenly. Delete (empty) measures doesn’t work. Hope to see this fixed soon.
Update is terrible
This was one of my favorite apps. I’m a music teacher and I used it al the time to write down short songs. Since the update so much had changed and I do no longer understand how it works. Pencil doesn’t work anymore. I contacted help desk several times, nothing is solved.
Why did you change so much? Can I contact you in Dutch?
Crashes all the time
I’m running this app on an iPad Pro 3rd generation and I bought the in-app pencil recognition.
Presently I use the app by importing XML-files, which do not impose any problem in MuseScore. These XML-files are generated from a PDF-file by SheetMusicScanner.
I switched off the pencil-input option, but it still gets activated (in options still switched off) and then intervenes with the other input.
In the beginning you can change the instrument and the long/short names. After 2 or 3 parts this becomes impossible; the app freezes and other input becomes impossible.
The app freezes also on various other actions like exporting the file, inserting flats/sharps or any other type of alteration of the score.
I re-installed the app twice. But after the second (the third when I include the initial installation) installation the app remains frozen. I cannot open another score anymore because I cannot reach the homepage of the app anymore.
I restarted the iPad now three times and the app stays frozen.
I cannot recommend this app in any way.
Bert R.
Update is horror
Without any warning the product was updated and I am lost. My first imported score does not play any sound, after some messing around only one part of the 5 was played. After saving the file and reopening it finally played all 5 parts. But now I want to select 1 part (track) and this option had disappeared. I used to use it many times. I cannot get any help anymore because I have no clue on where to find my product key. And the personus site does not tell you where to find it.
New version - No purchase restore
1 year ago I bought this app including the handwriting option, and it was a very nice program with lots of options. But after updating the app to version 3.0, there is no Restore Purchase possible. You can click the restore option but nothing happens! How can this be solved, else I’ve lost a total purchase of 26 Euro for this complete app?
Update: very good and informative support from Presonus by a personal message about this problem. Problems are solved with the latest update 3.0.1…great job, thanks !!
Discontinued app?
There are few improvements made to the poor UX of this app. I still cannot do basic things like insert a notes or rest in between notes in the same measure. The manual is incomplete and not maintained.
Nice app, but way too instable
Of course, this could be a temporary issue, or due to personal usage, but I immediately applied for a refund on the apple store. As per december 2020 I do not recommend this.
Lyrics
The lyric function don’t work sins the latest system update 13.4
Please fix it.
Not good
I don’t like this app. The layout is confusing and the handwriting tool doesn’t work that good. I would like to get my money back but it seems impossible