Notion

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

The apps functions are not what i need and want Wonder if i can get refund please??

My previous review gave this app 5 stars as the absolute best music notation app on iPad, with fantastic sounds at a great price (they gave a great preview of what you composed, which it still does), ease of use, intuitive interface, and round trip between iPad and Mac version. Was it perfect? No. It had a couple of extremely minor issues, but it allowed me to work efficiently on the go (and often even when not on the go, as it was that useful and even fun to use on iPad). Sadly, the developer, like many others, decided to ignore usefulness to follow the “clean” trend of mobiles, which is fine for a phone, which you might use in the pinch, but useless, clunky, slow, unintuitive and inefficient for actual production on a bigger screen. This new interface is absolutely awful, and should really be tossed. It’s a shame I was surprised by the upgraded new version, otherwise I would have blocked the upgrade and kept the old one until the system blocked it. I’ve tried this version, but its interface is so slow and unintuitive. The old one was more like the Mac interface with a great layout, easy access and discoverability, you know, basic interface design 101 stuff. Quick access, quick writing, quick articulations. But no more. Sadly, my time of composing non-stop on iPad is over until I find a replacement that’s designed for actual efficient work and not as a gimmick to show on a phone, on which the old interface also worked excellently btw. Thankfully the Mac version is still awesome, and continues to be my bread and butter. Please don’t ruin it as well. I have yet to find something even remotely close to what y’all built for Mac. In summary, I used to recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in composing or learning to compose, but with this interface, I can’t recommend it the same anymore. The underlying power is still there, hence the 2 stars, but in my personal opinion, accessing it is no longer enjoyable or efficient.

I do not want to have to leave my mobile devices and go to the desktop just to prepare sheet music (or any other purpose that I should be able to achieve via my iPad) — so for that purpose, MusScore is not an option (as their mobile app, unlike their desktop app, is just a viewer). So I searched to find a good app to use instead for mobile score editing. And I found a GREAT app for that purpose — this one!!! Even the free version is great —- though you can pay to get some features of extra convenience. I have no idea why this app has fewer than four stars. I would expect that an app like this would have over four stars, and closer to five.

I’ve been using this app on my iPad for years. It wasn’t the most intuitive, but it worked. A large upgrade happened a year ago and it became a little confusing, but it continued to iron out things that weren’t as intuitive (which I highly appreciate) and it’s become so much easier. I especially appreciate the quick access to all the notes along to side so I don’t have to press multiple buttons to quickly change notes. I’m a music teacher on a small school and my band has “challenging” instrumentation. I’ve been using this app all school year to write arrangements for them, and just wrote my first Choir piece on this app. My only issue is that I wish there was a button or a way to easily cancel out articulation. If I select a staccato or an accent or something I’m stuck with it (I’ve been selecting the slur option to cancel it out because that works for me). If there already is something like this, I haven’t found it yet.

I have used this app for years and have been interested in music composition as a current high schooler. The new update is simply not intuitive and less efficient compared to the previous versions. The previous versions were solid and gave a great foundation for efficient composition. I was able to create tons of chords and melodies with ease and it felt fantastic. However, just like the other recent written reviews seem to hint at, and I hope Notion developers have noticed that, these new “features” make the app super clunky to use. I can barely make a measure of chords without getting frustrated, not because it isn’t possible, but because it is so much worse than something that I have known this app to be. And I have tried for hours, because I don’t want to speak prematurely. But now I’m sure. The new side bar with all the options do not help. The new features do not help. Please go back to the old setup. It wasn’t perfect either, but it was much better than what we have now. Now, this app I used to rely on so heavily might cause me to lose my interest in composition (until I figure out how to download the older versions, of course 😉).