iGigBook Sheet Music Manager

iGigBook is a great tool for jazz musicians, and anyone who can benefit from a lead-sheet organizer/indexing app. The ability to search by song title and composer is very convenient for song research and jam sessions.

If you are tired of being burdened carrying a lot of fake books and want to clear up space on your bookshelf this the app for you. Perfect for practice and performance. IGig Book does more than I am able to describe. Once you use it you will never want to be without it.

iGigbooks has allowed me to resolve many problems encountered by all musicians. I can play more requests, practice anywhere I can bring my iPad, be better prepared for Rehearsals, and so much more. iGigbooks goes where my horn goes!!

I love iGig Book. It’s an amazing app. I can search for authors, songs or just drop into the fake book I want and have at it. It takes a bit to get it all set up but the on line tutorials really help dial it in. It has notes you can leave, it has a metronome and more. And most all of the fake books can be found and downloaded FREE on line!

The built in fake book indexes work well. You have to find the fake book pdfs yourself same you may have to make adjustments using the offset function. So far I have the Real Book vol 1 6th edition and the New Real Book vol 1. Highly recommended!

The only support I get is “ use this link”.

I was lucky to find this app early in its development. I’ve never looked back. Phil continues to add features. There’s simply nothing n]better out there for the practicing or gigging jazz musician.

I give this app a 5 Star Rating! It is a tremendous data base for reference purposes, this app is an indispensable tool for all my charts and musical arrangements. I depend on it for so many things that I would be totally lost without it. I use it extensively on all my gigs. It gets better all the time!

In many ways, very good, in many ways not so good. I understand. This is probably written by one developer, and I have to say well done However, there are many very awkward aspects to the user interface, and I would say some inconsistencies. I have spent time trying to overcome the difficulties and some have worked out some not yet. I hope that this application continues to evolve and become more bulletproof. Thanks for your work in this area!

I’m a new user and find this less than adequate. Too much tinkering and no real help in identifying pdf files of fake books so it becomes little more than an indexing tool but you have to find the files to index which can be frustrating and tedious. I’ll probably give up with it and try forScore as there see to be more readily available standard jazz Real Books. I wrote the first paragraph shortly after initially buying the app. I actually am Les’s satisfied the more I use it. They send you all over the internet cresting yet more passwords to download free products which I was never able to get. The time I’ve spent trying to learn how to use the app would have been much better spent practicing with an old fashioned book. I keep saying it’s got to be easier than this but I just keep getting led in circles getting no where. Consequently I just took a star off my initial rating. If you want to spend hours trying to figure out how to best use this app then go for it. I’m going back to practice! Followup: in all fairness this is a followup to my first review and an improved rating, you’ve got to read tutorials etc. and reach out to tech support if needed. Once I did that I began using it successfully for my practice sessions and gigs. It’s working well and I’ve figured out how to load books and individual lead sheets. It’s not perfect but it’s far better than dragging big fake books to my gigs.