TEFpad

Imposes 16 bar limit until you purchase pro features. Basically you're paying a lot for a demo and you'll have to pay ~5x in total to get those pro features. I can understand people being put off by that. Making LE free would solve it. That said, it works great for the most part. It's a bit cumbersome to navigate bars, sections, etc, but in the end I can see myself working faster with it than the desktop version. Missing the reading list which I can't seem to find. Would also be great if there was a (jump to) named section feature. Seems to have a bug where my BT keyboard's up key (working correctly in other apps) translates to a down stroke.

stay away from this crApp

Maybe because I use Apple iPad. But a lot of the promised features don’t seem to work.

I like this app and bought the pro version upgrade today but now the app has reverted to the LE version. Apple shows the pro purchase so what happened. Restoring the pro purchase was successful but I lost a significant amount of work.

I use this app for writing tab for bass guitar. I’ve tried other apps that offer similar functionality. None of them compare to the usability and completeness of TEFPad. There is a bit of a learning curve to get proficient with it. However, the more you use it the faster you get. I feel that there are some things that aren’t covered very well in the user guide. But I still give this app a full 5 stars. Do save your work in progress often, though. Also, the support from the developer is outstanding.

The app assumes you know all the musical terms necessary to compose a song. The help function is useless. It throws items on the tab by all by itself, without any explanation as to why, and there is no information to learn from. As an example, trying to match the format of a tab I found in a book, it required a “double line” at the beginning of the measure. I found it in the pallet, tried to add it, but it wouldn’t show up. However, it did randomly place double lines on two other measures in the tab. And now I can’t get rid of them. Oh, how about the app crashing when you print? That’s fun too. Glitchy…but its all we have.

I was using the lite version and then when I went and upgraded, wow buggy, buggy, buggy. Audio quits playing so I have to restart the app; trying to add song info is very temperamental, adding pull offs to the first couple of notes gives me a tie that spans two bars. It’s a bit clunky as it is with the lite version, but workable. Now very frustrated with the upgrade. Should have stuck with lite.

I’ve been using it for at least five years. Can do everything I need it to do. Online helpful as needed Would recommend

Thank you to the developers for your response. It still took me some time to figure out how to get multiple instruments but now that I have the program works for my needs.

This is a really good app. I already have the windows version And love it. Just found out about this one and need to get used to it.