StaffPad Reader

Perfect addition to StaffPad!

I love StaffPad, but this app is still in the development phase. I haven’t actually tried syncing with other devices because I mainly use this app to watch music that I wrote in a more “readable” format (or to play along with individual parts). The problem is, I haven’t been able to get the automatic page turning to work for a while. It worked on and off when I first got the app about a year ago, but it hasn’t worked ever since. I emailed the developers, and they responded saying they would address the issue, but it hasn’t changed as of yet. Another thing I have found with this app (as well as StaffPad) is that when playing directly from the iPad speakers, it is unusually quiet (even with all of the audio settings set to full). It’s fine in headphones, but not the device speakers. Not sure why you can’t or haven’t made it louder, but that’s just a little annoying. I can see the potential that this app could have, but it isn’t there yet.

I know this is a free app, but it has a lot of potential with a lot of issues.. let me get straight to the list of issues: 1. Public annotation syncing (the grey annotation) only sometimes syncs back to Staffpad.. this is horrible. I’ve tested this several times, and i think you need to put a little more QA into this. The idea here is to ensure that things get synced, and there’s no way to really do that if it only half of the time works. 2. There’s an import function to import a Staffpad file, but no way to really save the annotations back to the main file.. you are stuck relying on this ScoreSync stuff, which only works (point #1). 3. If I’m in ScoreSync mode, i do not have a play button… Why is there a Play button that only works in import mode? I get that this is a feature, but this idea to have some central playback device is really limiting… can we not find a way to bypass this? S e.g. a menu option? 4. I strongly dislike this app’s reliance on a sync between devices… this seriously needs to be standalone - especially with the Import function and annotations… a performer is sometimes the composer, and therefore there needs to be a way to publically add annotations via the reader.. …but to be honest, a lot of what I’m looking for would simply be solved by adding a Page view to Staffpad…. This reader app is not really that useful for most, and I think the use case here is best solved in other simpler ways.

I was really looking forward to using this app but it just does’t recognize my handwriting. I am using a brand new iPad pro 2021 with Apple Pencil 2. I have no problem using the handwriting feature in Notion for iPad. Staffpad also doesn’t feature a page view which is a major drawback. I definitely wasted almost $100 bucks.

Apple debe calificar esta app como #1 en música. Es excelente para grupos musicales. No tengo palabras para decir lo increíble que esta la app. No hay mejor app que esta en combinación con Staffpad. 5 estrellas para sus creadores.

i'm a teenager and never one to write bad reviews, but customer service won't respond to my emails and the actual staffpad app won't let me review it (it says that i can't review something i don't own, but the whole issue is that i do own it.) staffpad won't work for me. i've done the interactive tutorial, deleted things, pressed every button in the app, but it won't let me write on the actual staff. the tracker on my apple pen won't even show up. i don't understand why, and i tried writing to you but i've gotten no answer. please, please respond and help me with this. i honestly believe it's a good app, i just want it to work for me. i was really looking forward to it. thank you :)