I wish I could put into words how meaningful it is to have an app that improves accessibility for less experienced musicians. Furthermore, I am so grateful, as a person with dyspraxia, to have a way to incorporate chords into my songwriting that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to play. At the same time, there are a few limitations that make recording frustrating. You really do have to follow the steps in the order they’re given or it will mess up your recording. I also can’t seem to figure out how to record instruments other than piano, and I’ve spent over 2 hours on this app at this point. Maybe I’m just a geriatric 25 year old, but I do think the UI could be improved and the tutorial could be more robust. Minor complaints, truly, in comparison to my praises.

There is a major flaw in this app when it comes to choosing the length of your notes. They are missing one of the most basic tools when it comes to composing & music theory. If you want to change the length of the note you can only do so by changing every note in the entirety of the measure. In the app, the only way to change the length of notes is to do it in the rhythm section. they give you a choice between whole/half/quarter length notes and a variety of premade rhythms. So say in a 4 count measure, I wanted 2 quarter notes of the same note like C and a half note of Dm [C C Dm _] if I choose the quarter note setting it plays every note as a quarter note [C C Dm Dm] and if I choose the half note setting it plays [C _ Dm _]. You should be able to decide the length of each note individually. You also can’t choose singular notes only chords. First and foremost, Music is an art, and the quality of art is based on the tools that you have. this app is is good in theory only and very focused on popular patterns of music. it does not gear towards a true creative artist that wants to make some thing completely unique and innovative from scratch. If they made their features more customizable this could be a very useful tool and a true all in one app. But in its current state with flaws like these I can’t see myself using the app. It severely limits your creativity. You’re better off sticking to your staff paper, notes app, voice memos and a real instrument.

I don’t play any instruments, but I love songwriting, and I’d say I’ve tried every major mobile instrument app and this one is the best, it’s very user friendly and it actually taught me a lot about music theory. I’ve recorded a lot of demos creating this app and for a while I thought it was pretty flawless, I even bought a subscription so I had all of the apps capabilities . Recently though, I checked one of my demos and it seemed pretty off, like something was different. I thought my ears were just playing tricks on me though so I ignored it, but over time all my demos started sounded different from how I recorded them. Like a song would be missing an instrument that was originally there, or my vocal track would be completely deleted. I understand this app is relatively new but I hope this gets fixed soon, because it’s been happening for a while. Especially with my vocal tracks being deleted, that happens a ton. Hope this gets fixed soon. Thanks for reading!