Compose. Edit. Play. Anywhere.
Reflow is a powerful tablature and music notation editor designed for musicians who play guitar, bass, drums, and more. Trusted by thousands of musicians daily for over a decade, Reflow provides the tools you need to bring your musical ideas to life.
Key Features
Tablature Editor
- Stringed Instruments: Perfect for guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, and more.
- Chord Diagrams: Easily add chord diagrams to your scores.
- Guitar Effects: Includes bends, brushes, and more for authentic tablature creation.
Piano and Classic Music Notation Editor
- Standard Notation: Write scores for any instrument with a traditional staff.
- Advanced Features: Supports grand staff for piano, cross-staff beaming, and more.
Drum Sheets
- Drum Notation: Widely used by drummers for accurate articulations and techniques.
- Special Techniques: Includes tremolo, flams, drags, fingering, and more.
Easy to Use
- Intuitive Interface: Custom visual keypad makes notation entry simple and efficient.
Score Renderer
- High-Quality Rendering: Beautiful, precise score rendering using native Apple frameworks.
Embedded Synthesizer
- Playback: Hear your compositions instantly.
- Practice Tools: Solo/mute tracks, set loops, and adjust playback speed for practice.
Live Edit
- Real-Time Editing: Modify your document during playback for a seamless workflow.
Privacy
- Data Security: Your data is stored locally and privately within the app.
- iCloud Support: Works seamlessly with iCloud for backup and synchronization.
- Offline Functionality: No internet connection required.
- No Tracking: No account, login, or data tracking required.
Interoperability
- Export and Share: Export to PDF, print your documents, and share freely.
- Guitar Pro Compatibility: Read and write Guitar Pro files.
- Cross-Platform: Works seamlessly on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Free and Fair
- Core Features Free: Essential features available without restrictions.
- Fair Subscription: Unlock premium features with an optional subscription. Keep features forever even if you cancel.
Apple Native
- Optimized for Apple: Built with Apple technologies for the best user experience.
Independent
- Crafted with Passion: Developed independently since early 2011.
How the Subscription Works
Reflow offers all core features for free. Opt for an annual subscription to unlock premium features, including all future updates. If you cancel, you retain access to the features you’ve unlocked. Subscription price increases won't affect your current subscription rate.
Premium Subscription Includes:
- No Watermark: Export PDFs without the Reflow watermark.
- 128 Instruments: Access the full General MIDI instrument set.
- Multitrack Scores: Create and display multiple instruments simultaneously.
- Metronome: Enable a click track for practice during playback.
- Playback Speed Control: Adjust the playback speed to suit your practice needs.
- MIDI Input: Use your MIDI keyboard to enter notes step by step.
- Support Indie Software: Help us maintain and develop Reflow for future generations.
Download Reflow now and start creating your music today!
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Reflow FAQ
Is Reflow free?
Yes, Reflow is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Reflow legit?
🤔 The Reflow app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
It has been a few years since I have used Reflow. I used to use it a lot and am now getting reacquainted with it. There seems to have been quite a few changes. Using it on a grand staff is a bit more difficult, I’m sure I will get used to it, but there are changes that are not intuitive for someone writing a score for piano. Also, the button for sharps is not working. I hope you put out an update that fixes this soon.
Lost Documents
Was working great but files have been lost. I know they exist because when I try to creat a new one the program renames it with a number at the end. Very frustrating
Needs some work
Love the app, but it’s frustrating that there’s no notation for effect cymbals, flams and double pedal
It’s improved, but it still has problems...
This is your long-time Reflow user again, back all the way from Version 2. Thanks a lot for fixing my problems with version 15.2, especially the ones dealing with volume dynamics! However, we still have these problems to deal with:
– Text on a staff shows if you’re in page view, but it DOES NOT APPEAR if you’re in horizontal view, which I use all the time!
– If you use an instrument with a grand staff and add some notes to the staff, or some dynamics, you get a RIDICULOUSLY large gap between the top staff and the bottom staff (even if none of the notes are on ledger lines) and there’ll also be more space than necessary between the bottom staff and the bottom of the page (in horizontal mode).
– I increased the tempo of a section of measures, which started with two tied whole notes, to be DOUBLE of that of the previous section, and the tied note played for the length of two tied whole notes at the tempo BEFORE the actual tempo change instead of at the correct tempo!
– If you’re in page mode and have a lot of stuff on the page at once (e.g. a full band’s worth of staves), the page content does NOT resize to fit the page (or vice versa), meaning that you can easily have parts that are clipped off or even removed entirely by the bottom of the page!
– Occasionally, when I’m in Edit mode and go to the instruments panel and click on an instrument’s info button, the app will crash. Note that I’m currently using iOS 13.3 on an iPhone 6S+.
– Having more variety of bends would be nice on the mobile version.
– Could you note (if you haven’t already) how long a double-dotted note should be in relation to a normal note in the user manual? I think it should be the note length plus 3/4 of that note’s length, but I’m not certain. NOTE: Double-dotted quarter notes still render as a quarter note plus an eighth note PLUS a dotted sixteenth!
– If you change a stringed instrument’s tuning (e.g. tune all the strings down by a half-step), it doesn’t automatically transpose the tablature notes to their original correct pitches. In case someone wants to keep the same fretting (with this new, different pitch), this should be an option.
– We still can’t change the tempo marking midway through a measure; only at the start of it.
The good news is that this time around, the number of problems are far fewer than in 15.2. However, they should still be checked out when you guys get the chance, particularly the first five I listed here.
Thanks for your consideration and support!
Retracted Bad Review - Beaming
I sincerely apologize for the bad review based on the beaming capabilities of Reflow. I have since figured out what I was doing incorrectly with the software. I do wish that the software was a bit more intuitive but it DOES do beaming by using the [+] or [-] keys. I used to be a software developer and I believe that software stands on the ease of use through its interface. I am still learning this app and had trouble even after reading the manual. Anyway, Reflow does create nice looking scores and with a little more manipulation and time I’m sure this software will train me how to use it more effectively. To the software developers... please accept my humble apologies for the previous bad review. You efforts are appreciated.
My scores look juvenile at best without the ability to connect notes with beams. Every picture on your app page shows beautiful scores with nice tidy beams. I paid for this to do basic scores on drums for students right from my iPad. I will have to just find another solution. This looks horrible and I feel like you’ve misrepresented the product. Reflow has no business being in the Apple Store for iOS. Shame on you!
Seriously. This is a pitiful effort bringing a half thought out effort to the market place. Please disclose your application’s limitations on your Apple Store page for iPad users.
This app is of limited value to iOS users.
No website support
How do I contact developer?
Website not working!
Is this app only for guitar??
I was looking for drum set notation.
I’ll change rating once I get answers.
Looks good but keeps crashing
Load a file (Dropbox supported) hit settings, turn off the score and scroll around for a couple seconds and it crashes every time. Hope to see this fixed as I love the way it looks.
Many features no longer work
Reading the manual online it shows you should be able to copy and paste. Well, no dialog comes up giving you the option to copy or paste after selecting things. This isn’t the only feature I’ve found that doesn’t work
Horrible App
It erases your work after you close it. It simply doesn’t save. There is no clear way to change tempo or set a loop. You will spend hours only to have it wasted. Avoid. The developers ruined this app.
Exceptionally useful
There so many capabilities in this app that it significantly reduces the time and effort I must spend too learn or change a song. My only criticism is that I've not been able to find a way to reach them for help that's not covered in their quite thorough instruction guide. For example, creating repeat starts and stops are wonderful, but how can I create 1st, 2nd, and 3rd endings for a user of my songs? Nevertheless, I highly recommend this app!