All around fantastic for songwriting.

HOWEVER, it has crashed on me twice, both times were when I was using a feature for the first time; when I tried to record something, and also when I tried to access the song setting. It opened right back up though and nothing was lost and it hasn’t happened since so I have most of my trust back.

My biggest issues with this app though are that it is not very compatible with iPhone or iPad versions, and also that it does not export songs very well at all.

Please allow the iOS versions to sync automatically with each other as well as this one, please. Please. PLEASE. I come up with song ideas on the fly all the time and having the app on my phone is great, but then I just have to redo it all again when I get home to my Mac. What happens is I’ll do more work on the song on my Mac and then I’ll think of more when I’m away from it but then the updated version of the song isn’t on my phone so I have to try to remember and rewrite it all, plus redo the melody recordings again as well…….. HUGE inconvenience. Auto-syncing would be simply phenomenal.

Pertaining to the exporting issue, whenever I back up the songs to DropBox I can only view them by uploading them into the app… I did this from my iPhone to iPad and it worked, but when I try to view them using another viewing app (even one designed to read zipped files, which I wish they wouldn’t export zipped at all…) it doesn’t work at all. ALSO, when I tried to import the songs in my DropBox to the version of this app on my Mac, it wouldnt work at all. So what I did then was exported them from my iOS by email, but then I could only view them within the email AND I lost all the audio recordings too which are a crucial part of the export; I then spent an hour and a half typing in all the lyrics to my songs, and still haven’t gotten around to getting the melodies re-recorded….

So these are two issues that are fairly basic and simple, yet detract GREATLY from the value and functionality of this potentially incredible app.

Overall though, it really is a great tool for songwriting and I enjoy it’s simplicity and effectiveness. The recording ability for melodies is one of the biggest selling points for me. The minor crashes terrified me at first and almost tempted me to get a refund, but for the most part it has been a reliable app for a while now and I trust it enough to keep my ‘goldmine (to me) of ideas stored in it.

The lock code feature is great on iOS versions and should be added to the MacBook version as well!

I really hope people are reviewing and responding to these reviews, I’d definitely like to reccomend this app to more friends but I’d really like to see it reach its full potential first. Thanks a lot, keep up the good work.

MrPearBear about Songwriter - Write lyrics and record melody ideas on the go