NotateMe Now
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Neuratron Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
WILL NOT RUN ON iPhone 3GS OR iPod Touch 4th Gen.
iPhone 5 or larger screen & stylus (e.g. Adonit Jot) recommended for best results.
- Quickly and accurately enter music notation with your finger or stylus.
- Write music on the train, in a plane, by a lake, or just sitting comfortably on your sofa!
- Simple, intuitive interface with little to distract you from your creativity - similar to writing with pen and paper, but with instant playback, editing and a score suitable for printing at the end!
- Includes PhotoScore Now - A free 1-staff version of the PhotoScore Add-In (In-App Purchase) for full NotateMe. Take photos of printed sheet music with your device's camera, so you can play back and edit them with NotateMe Now! Recognizes 5-line staves and most markings including chords, flags, beams, rests, accidentals, articulation marks, clefs, key signatures, time signatures, tuplets, slurs, ties, hairpins and text including lyrics, dynamics and instrument names. Note: Requires 5MP camera & 1 GB RAM - so not for iPad 2, iPhone 4S, iPad Mini (1st gen) or earlier.
- Great when learning or teaching music notation.
- Email MusicXML and MIDI files of your scores to friends or other musicians. Open in desktop notation packages.
- NotateMe Now recognizes a wide range of music notation symbols, including notes (with solid, open, and slanted noteheads), flags, beams, leger lines, multiple voices per staff, chords, rests, accidentals (natural, sharp, double sharp & flat), augmentation dots, ties, slurs, hairpins, clef changes, key signatures. Barlines, clefs, time signatures and triplets are added automatically.
- It works while you write - the printed score updates automatically without you needing to stop and wait.
- If NotateMe Now doesn’t recognize your style immediately, keep at it, as it will adjust. Leave clear space between symbols and make markings clearer with further strokes if any transcription errors occur. If you experience problems, tap 'Help Improve NotateMe' from the Export menu and we will analyze your handwriting to help us improve NotateMe further.
DEVICE REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM RECOMMENDED:
iPhone 5/s/c, iPod Touch 5 onwards, iPad (2nd generation onwards, 3rd generation onwards for PhotoScore Add-In), iPad mini
Screen size - 4 inches diagonal
Writing implement - Finger or stylus
PhotoScore Add-In: 5MP rear facing camera with auto-focus, 1 GB RAM. Good lighting conditions.
Note: It may take a short while for you to become accustomed to aligning parts of musical symbols when writing using a finger, particularly on a smaller screen.
RECOMMENDED:
iPad 4th generation, iPad Air
Screen size - 5.3 inches diagonal
Writing implement - Stylus
PhotoScore Now: 5MP rear facing camera with auto-focus, 1 GB RAM. Good lighting conditions.
Reviews
Incredibly frustrating to use
Stickler for Tuning
I used to use NotateMe on a Samsung Galaxy Note a few years ago, and remembered it being a little aggravating to learn how to write so the app could understand, but basically useable and useful for transcribing before doing the rest of the work in Sibelius. I installed the free version on my iPad Pro, expecting it to have hopefully improved and to work reasonably well with the Apple Pencil, but..... ugh. It’s such a pain! I have trouble writing dotted rhythms because it doesn’t recognize my dots, no matter how big or small I try to draw them. If I want to write 16th or 32nd notes I sometimes have to try over and over and over to draw the beams, because it doesn’t recognize them; or some of the notes under them just disappear for no reason I can see; or extra partial beams get added in random places; or accidentals or extra slurs or extra rests in other voices show up out of nowhere. I have to make note stems absurdly long to get it to work, except that for beamed groups that go between the top and bottom of the staff I start running out of space in the writing area, which is oddly skinny given how much screen space there is available. Sometimes I have to write the same thing six times in a row before I get it to say what I want. I think my handwriting at this point would satisfy any theory teacher I’ve ever had, and the app still can barely decipher it. It also crashes a lot, no matter what I quit out of in the background. And it has stopped playing back from the edit view, and will only play back from the formatted score now. The only reason I give it two stars instead of one is that for music with only a single voice and no complicated rhythms it’s OK. The only reason I’m still using it is that I’m trying to transcribe a Bach violin partita in order to ultimately arrange it for a different instrument and I don’t feel like hunting down another app.
On the fence
Sum Yung Eye
I’m hesitant about spending $40.00 for the upgrade. The basic version has numerous funky glitches; notes and symbols appearing that I didn’t write, etc. good luck getting the app to correctly place a note above or below the basic 5 line stave. It’s a true test of patience. You’ll get used to erasing an entire measure for a silly reason that moving notes around won’t cure. Very frustrating.
Nice idea, but...
MMMMMMMMMMMMM
This app might have potential...but it's just not ready yet. I bought my first stylus to try to use this app, but even that does not ensure any degree of accurate transcription. The app doesn't recognize sharps or flats (instead, it gives you a chord), changes clef arbitrarily and doesn't even recognize notes above the staff. This might be the beginning of a good thing, but I'm certainly not going to invest over 20 bucks in the full version when this version demonstrates how poor the transcription is right now. I can get two Moleskine music notebooks for that price.
Crashes when opening
Miles769
Have not been able to try app, as it crashes upon opening. Running iOS7 on an iPad2. (Deleted and reinstalled, still crashes on startup.)
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Kripster12345678910
I have a iPod 4 and when I got this, it crashes EVERY time! I want to try this so I can show the other teachers and it does not work! I'm sick I it
Crashes before i am able to use it
jellyfish1231
Won't even let me open the app, it crashes every time while i am opening it not happy with this app >:(
No
Bellove
This app does not do what they say. I bought a stylus and it says it is learning but no. I wasted so much time trying to get it to work. You can't write middle C ? Middle c becomes a rest. Back to Finale. Composition is frustrating enough please help us don't add to our frustration. Nice try though.
Yes I like it
Appthinker
I really like this app. It seems to do what it claims to do. I am rather surprised at all the one star reviews ...it could be that they didn't take the chance to "play" with the app a bit. I have several musical apps...I will be going pro on this one. Musical notation ocr? A definite yes to that! I can hardly wait for the promised in app purchases (as a user of the computer programs, I expect great things) thanks
Getting closer
jonbash
This app could be so, so, so cool. Even where it's at now, I could see it being very useful for people that have really great ipad handwriting and write fairly simple music. For contemporary composers wanting to write even mildly complex music, this just isn't going to cut it. It won't recognize quintuplets at all, and it struggles (a lot) to recognize triplets even. I hope they or others improve on the idea, because it really want to like it and use it!
