Musicnotes: Sheet Music Player Reviews

by Enpb56

I’m a college student and I’m very short on money but we have to purchase music for competitions. I got Musicnotes hoping it would help me sort my music. Instead, it gave me prices that were HIGHER than the original website. Word of advice: if you want people to use your app, don’t jack up your prices. If you’re reading this just go to the website and buy the music it’s almost $2 cheaper. On top of that, some of the songs aren’t on Musicnotes either. I’ve been looking for a specific song that doesn’t exist on Musicnotes but was quickly found on google that took me to your website. Honestly it shouldn’t matter because it’s probably $2 more on Musicnotes if I could find it anyway.

by Silverfern_nc

I love Musicnotes, except for one “feature”. The company pre-installed around 9 songs. Music like “Big Rock Candy Mountain”, “Hello Ma Baby”, “John Henry”, etc.

The problem is that I am now stuck with at least 9 songs in Musicnotes that I will never sing and I cannot delete them. The best I can do is grey them out. Every time I have to use Musicnotes to scroll through my music sheets, I have to scroll pass them.

Every. Time.

Well, Big Whoopie that I can grey them out. Customer service has not offered any help on this matter of permanently deleting the starter pack songs. I work around this by uploading my sheet music to Musicnotes , which defeats the point of having an app that sells me sheet music and keeps it preloaded. I have dupes of all my music now.

I’m beyond irritated. The starter pack songs are spam to me at this point. I have no idea in what system design meeting your company decided it was a good idea to force your users to have this set of songs on Musicnotes , and they have to scroll through them every time they browse their music.

I want a way to permanently delete the starter pack music sheets, not merely grey them out.

by RealLifeCalls

Probably lose me as a customer. I’ve used it for years but probably won’t in the future. On the order page there are so many selections after you choose the instrument, tune, type of sheets you want and key....I just want to pay and print. Now see options like add pdf, digital, etc and more than a single price and on top of this ads that you can’t get rid of ... It takes too much time to figure it all out. my experience is not good. now it’s telling me that it can’t find the link to actually print the music after I select “print sheet music.” Need some serious streamlining here.

by Queen Eleeza

I’ve used Musicnotes before and have been very pleased with my experience. However, in the passed few days I have been trying to purchase another song and am unable to. I will look up a song and only be given the option add my song to my wish list. For the last 15 minutes I have been signing out and closed Musicnotes then sign in again to try to reload it but I still have no way to buy this song. I even deleted Musicnotes and re-download it. While in Musicnotes Store I noticed that Musicnotes has gotten a lot of updates in the passed week. Maybe the problem accidentally developed in the updating process.

by Syd1464

I love that I can find accurate sheets to music I love. Especially to accompany vocals. Most online music you find is with the vocal melody included and it’s really difficult to find it without.

Two major complaints: anything that isn’t widely well known is impossible to find, the other being, why is there no browse function? Why cant you look through a genre and just BROWSE. You either have to be looking at newly added music, or you have to search for the artist or song.

Also the sheets are expensive. And the extra money for the printed/digital version is kind of ridiculous in my opinion. And you should really be able to get more than a single page preview for the sheets....half the time the first page doesn’t even get through the intro.

I use Musicnotes frequently because it’s so hard to find good sheet music to accompany vocals online. But I’d love it a lot more if they improved a few things...

by Wow2k

I’d give this 5 stars if not for the fact that they significantly increase the price if you purchase music using Musicnotes , versus if you just navigate to their website and purchase it their (and ironically, you can use Apple Pay to buy music off the website). I understand they are trying to pass off some of the Apple App Store fees onto the consumer, but the price hike is so high that it seems like they’re also tacking on a hefty “convenience fee” as well.

My advice—download Musicnotes , but save money by buying the music on the website (it’ll then automatically be available to you in Musicnotes ).

by Electroviolin

I want to start by saying I generally love Musicnotes. I am a violinist and strings teacher and Musicnotes allows me to operate hands free when I play weddings and find some neat pieces for my students. That said, something happened in the last update, and now my first gen Apple Pencil doesn’t work. And I’m mad. I need to be able to mark my music (I’ve been able to mark it before without issue). The apple pencil works on other apps, so I know that isn’t the problem. I will will mark and nothing will show up. The ‘undo’ button still appears as though I have marked something, but there isn’t anything there. Please fix it ASAP!! Thanks!!!

7/17- thank you for the response! Yes, I’ve been putting “draw” feature on. It won’t work for the highlighter or the pen. (I have used both just fine in the past.)

7/18- this is ridiculous! You have asked me whether I have been using Musicnotes in “draw” mode a SECOND time. YES- and it isn’t working!!!! So now not only is my app not working, but the customer service is non-existent! I’m going to be looking into a new system for my music. Extremely dissatisfied.

by Justjenna1

It’s nice to have sheet music digitally rather than keeping up with a ton of pages of stuff. However, marking up music is so difficult, especially my violin music. I spend way too long adding a text box to mark a sharp or flat only to discover that it landed over the wrong note. It is equally difficult to delete the text and start over (I tend to miss the notation I wish to delete and end up creating a new one instead), since there isn’t a way to move the notation. Precision is also difficult with the drawing tool. The lines are so wide, and the tool isn’t very responsive. It’s not such a big deal on sheet music that I use for my voice lessons since I’m a beginner and there aren’t so many notes. On my violin music, however, it’s disastrous!

by Ztirffritz

UPDATE: this app support instructed me to uninstall Musicnotes , reboot, reinstall and login. This seems to have resolved the problem.

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I really want to like Musicnotes but so far it has failed in almost every way that I need it to work. I purchased music for Clair de Lune but it doesn’t work in Musicnotes . It just shows Musicnotes logo on the screen when I try to open it. It works from their website but I don’t want to have to log in every time and download the PDF over and over again. It needs to work in Musicnotes . Some other sample files sometimes work but not always.

by Kaw9389

I updated to the newest version and it takes FOREVER for the menus and set lists to load. Plus, when arranging the music in the order I want, Musicnotes is so slow, I start thinking it crashed.
Today, it crashed as I was about to import more music.

I do not know what is wrong with the software, but the changes/updates you guys over at this app did seems to have affected the speed of Musicnotes . NOT good! I almost could not play the next hymn at church because it took so long for the next song to load up.
Please fix!!! Thank you!

by Not Happy Even For Free

I’ve been an enthusiastic user and booster of Musicnotes for several years. Very pleased with the functionality of it until now. After the last update I can no longer add new files and get duplicates of current files, up to 9(!) copies. Tech support says they are “looking into it.” I’ve been using Acrobat as a back up for now and can’t recommend Musicnotes until they fix it

Bugs above are FINALLY fixed and app is working as it should again. Only 4 because I’m not confident that it will last or the the next update won’t screw it up again.

by LexusGram

I have been using this app for 3-4 years and loving it. I recently had a problem that was making me look around for another music app. The problem appeared at the time of the latest update but I didn’t realize it at first. I contacted this app but didn’t get it fixed. I went to Apple 3 times but all they did was confirm it was Musicnotes not my iPad. I deleted Musicnotes at least 5 times and reinstalled. I downloaded a different app. What a joke. It can’t compare to this app. This evening I decided to use the “bad” this app because it was still better than the alternative. Let’s say I was extremely happy to see the problem was fixed. My music now sorts like it should and used to. I never want to use another app. I can’t think if a thing I want to do that it can’t do.

by Iloveitalianos123

Loving this app and all the perks that come w subscription! I love being able to follow along and this is really helping me figure out my voice with sounds I love! I can find every single song and have it in every key. Sooooooo useful. Thank you!
I also had a question and customer service called the next day! Friend, helpful and fun. Love Musicnotes and the people behind it. :)
Trying to figure out how to gift this membership to friends. :)

by David In OKC

I conduct several choirs, each with their own repertoire. Using Musicnotes enables me to carry one iPad case everywhere I go. It is so much more convenient and schlepping pounds of paper here and there.

I have also used forScore and Planning Center Online Music Stand, and for my purposes, Music Notes Sheet Music Player is the most effective. I'm using an iPad Pro so the pages are the size of a standard sheet of paper, but now I am not dependent upon strong room lighting to see my music.

So far, so good!

by Daniiii.v

I’m an adult and started playing piano in my childhood and I wish this existed or that I learned when it came out!!! I love everything about it. You can print it to have a hard copy, can have it on your screen, there’s a demo so you know what it’s supposed to sound like (I love that because I’m not too good with the more advanced piano theory and faster notes and rests) so that’s amazing for me, and you can slow the demo down to hear the more difficult parts better and play along with the demo to learn, and the price of sheet music isn’t bad at all! Please never stop keeping and uploading old and new popular songs from different genres. Thank you for having something so user friendly for us music lovers!

by Kennysaur

I absolutely love Musicnotes and I’ve been using it in class and practice a lot. One big issue I have though is that marking up the sheet music with the Apple Pencil is a bit unresponsive. It only registers every other stroke. One way to get around it was making my marks with a single stroke. It’s hard when I have to write words but it’s the only way to write while I’m busy at a rehearsal. I know this isn’t exactly a PDF editing app but it would also be useful to be able to reorganize pages and omit certain pages. Other than that, everything is great! I can access my purchased music in all my devices very easily. Importing from Dropbox is also very easy, so I put my PDF’s here too.

by PJC123PJC

this app is amazing. It has everything you could possibly need to learn a piece of sheet music. When you buy your sheet music, you don’t have to buy it in the original published key the song was written in. You can transpose it to another key that fits your voice. I also like that you can change the tempo of the song when you’re practicing it. That’s helpful cuz I was trying to learn a really fast song once, so I started at a slower pace, and gradually got to the faster pace. But the best part about this app is that if you purchase the sheet music for a song marked “SingerPro”, you can play the accompaniment through Musicnotes and sing to it. It’s great!!! Love Musicnotes, and the sheet music is reasonably priced!!!!

by Lovespiano

I’m someone who took up music again after nearly 30 years. I’m not as fast as I used to be turning pages!I discovered Musicnotes and love that you can have all your music in one place and even purchased a wireless page turning petal to turn the pages. The other huge selling feature is that you can write on your music!!! Most any song I look for is on here. It’s so fun and makes me want to run to the piano. I can imagine this is professionals dream app. A real go to if you need a song on the spot. I am slowing creating a library as I work on one song at time, it really has given me something to look forward to working on each day. I give this 10 stars:)

by 2tiger2

I had found an audition song and was looking for music and lyrics. Found Music Notes and noticed it offered transpositions. Originally, I was going to rewrite the high notes. I looked at the 5 transpositions, and saw that each one noted how many steps up or down the different keys were from the starting pitch. Never understood this before and helped me to choose a key that I could sing the song in. Downloaded Musicnotes and now have a ready reference for any song.

I passed the audition for the cathedral choir! Song was “Papa Can You Hear Me” from Yentl, by Barbra Streisand.

by Charlijo1

I am absolutely loving Music Notes. It has fired my interest up to play piano again and I am finding music I never thought I would. I LOVE that I can usually find the music (piano) in easy and pro. Right now I am downloading the easy versions but as I get back into it more I can find my fav music with a pro version to challenge myself more. And I think the music sheets are priced pretty reasonably. I also love that I can play the music on my IPAd to hear if I am playing correctly. Love this site.

by Castroville

Love Musicnotes but when I updated today, when app spends a few seconds loading it instantly crashes back to desktop. I’m using an iPad Pro. The problem seems to be loading my library of 80 downloaded songs. While it loads at the beginning, if I tap on something else, My PDFs or Recently Viewed Songs, I can stop it crashing. And I can bring up Recently Viewed Songs. If I try and load My Library it crashes

Edit: deleted and reinstalled app, that seems to have fixed the problem.

by EvoWake

So I've been using Musicnotes for quite a long time and have spent a bunch of money on sheets. I love that I can import my own PDFS and playing from an iPad Pro is amazing .

My only criticisms would be that it is cheaper to purchase sheets through a web browser than it is to purchase direct through Musicnotes . I understand that they are trying to pass apples fees along to the user and I have no problem with this but they dont inform you anywhere along the purchase process that the songs can be had for less if purchased through another route. Customers want to save money just like you, Why not tell them?

Only other comment is no Apple Pencil support for markups!! Such a missed opportunity. I love to add embellishments or change chords or add notes and it would be SUCH a benefit to have Apple Pencil support whereas currently you just use a finger for "markups" which is good for nothing other than circling things.

by SaraswatiOm

Musicnotes keeps all of the music for my students in one convenient place. They are able to access it from their phones/tablets and use the "play" feature which highlights the sheet music in red while playing a midi file version of the song with a distinct vocal line represented by a separate instrument sound. I use this feature often as a tool for learning for my students that are working on becoming comfortable reading sheet music.

by John Floyd94

I was enjoying Musicnotes. I would spend money on songs and i was learning. I got a new phone and now it won't let me log on to my account. Been a couple months now and i’m still upset i cant learn what i purchased. Learned its because i signed up using facebook on the website so i cant sign into my account on Musicnotes to actually look at the tabs i bought :/