Symphony Pro - Music Notation

This app is amazing value for money, it takes some time to learn the shortcuts and to learn where to find the things you need, but the bottom line is.. it works. The biggest improvement that could be made is the formatting. When you’re finished writing your music it can take hours to align things to make a professional looking export.

This app is the reason I bought my iPad Pro. I absolutely love it. Scoring is easy, and with MusicXML it’s cool to send the score to another app like Notion. Update: after version 6, this app is again my number one app for scoring music. I still favour Notion on my desktop, but all the hard work is done in Symphony Pro. I really liked this last update. Working with Apple Pencil goes like a dream, but thanks for killing bugs. Keep it up.

The app crashes even when I try to send a bug-report! I want my money back.

Useless on IPhone XS max

This is the only satisfactory and easy to use app I have found in the app store for writing sheet music (and I have really been looking). The earlier problems with crashing and freezing have more or less been solved. When finishing a song I convert it to pdf file by e-maling it to myself and then open the attached file in the Goodreader app (you can also turn your iPad to portrait mode and get a clean picture of your written music there, but I think it's easier to systematize the files in Goodreader). No paper sheets on stage anymore when performing with my band - just the iPad attached to a microphone stand. Perfect... But the developers still have a way to go regarding some details in the final viewable result, especially fine editing the number of bars on a page. One should be able to completely control where to shift to the next page as far as I have learned to use the app (f. ex. to avoid turning to a new page in the middle of a complex passage). There is also a problem when converting SP file to pdf - the pdf file does not always look the same as the SP file (f.ex. next page starts on a different place than the SP-file). When this is fixed my rating will be 5 stars and not 3. Pål.

This is probably the best app for composers and musicians so far! A couple of small improvements can make it a great tool.

When I found this app, my first thought was WOW! Then I read the comments, but I had to try it anyway. This app, is actually great! Not nearly powerful as those for pc. But still, one could do a lot with this app. For composers that write very complex music, it might fall short. But for beginners and medicore composers, it is realy a great app. When that's said.....It is completely useless. Don't Get me wrong. The gui and functionality is great, and the price for this is not bad. Unfortunately this app is so full og bugs, that it's more productive to write music on old fashion note paper. It regulary crashes, freeze up, and does not always save your work. You can work on a longer piece, only to find the app crashing, and most of the work gone when you start it up again. As someone else here said, it's a headache. This app could easily be on of the best of it's kind. But so far, the dev seems uninterested. It really is a shame.

Denne appen er full av bugs. Noe som gjør at den låser seg og krasjer jevnlig. Hadde det ikke vært for disse feilene så hadde appen vært meget god og verdt de 105 kronene de skal ha for den, men når feilene er så mange og så omfattende så går det veldig ut over produksjonshastighet. Håper de tar seg sammen og fikser alle feil slik at dette kan bli en god app, for det kan den bli.

Apps are in general affordable to buy. And if this product was anywhere near usable, I would consider it good value for money. But this is a buggy pile of crap. The programming engineers behind this **** have obviously no professional integrity releasing this half baked misery. It drops out for no reason, it looses midi connectivity the moment I leave it to watch a handwritten pdf score. Importing xml destroys the original file it was made from. God only knows what else dung I will run into, if I could be bothered to keep investigating this legoland software. I only pray that pros like Finale and Sibelius and the likes come up with a sturdy notation software worth spending time and money on! Because now I only bought myself a migraine. If this is the top shelf producet at the time, do your work elsewhere than on the iPad.

Useless, expensive, crashing all the time