NotateMe Now Reviews

Still garbage

Visualride

Every time an update to this app comes out I try my best to create a quarter note. It's practically impossible, no matter what method I use, including all the tips that they offer to do so. Sometimes I succeed, but never more than once in a row. Till this most basic note is easily created by finger touch, this software will remain a useless toy.

Crashes repeatedly

?T?T?T?

Despite restarting my iPad and closing background apps, app continues to crash in 30 seconds or less each time I open it.

Wouldn't Even Open

Sakura037

Unfortunately, this app wouldn't even open after downloading it. I tried multiple times and it kept crashing and closing.

Useless crap

TMK pvb

Doesn't work. Photoscore add in does not recognize clean pristine music. A stone tablet and a chisel would work better.

NotateMe Now on iPad 10/21/2015

Hhilde

I have a music degree, was a professional vocal jazz singer for 10 years and choral director for 20 years. I have been arranging and composing for 36 years. This isn’t to brag, just relevant info and perspective toward a NotateMe Now review I am looking forward to writing. Since I started composing and arranging I have loved the idea of notation applications. However, I have found them frustrating and more trouble than they are worth. As a result, I get the final results that I want old school notating on good old fashioned self-made music paper. Obviously with all the disadvantages that comes with it. At least I could be frustrated with my own ability rather than a dumb application. I have had a full sized iPad for about year now and been able to store scores in PDF format and do some pretty amazing recordings on it. So, one more time I took a look at anything new in notation and found NotateMe Now intriguing so I tried this free version. This is my review. The first composition I input took me most of a day, maybe six hours. A lot of that was learning the application intuitively, occasionally from the help page and apparently giving the application enough input time to learn me. The only skill I had trouble with was inputing 1st and 2nd ending, granted I didn’t try very hard yet because I had plenty of other skills to work on. When I looked at the final formatted score all I could think was, “Cool”. So cool that I decided to try inputing another another composition. I input the second composition perfectly in 30 minutes, in bed, in the dark right before going to sleep for the night. I also figured out the 1st and 2nd ending procedures. Really cool now! Not that I like paying nearly $40.00 for an application but that is when I decided to buy NotateMe so that I could get a few additional benefits like it would be kind of nice to print the score among other functions, right? So much for free. Specifically what I like about NotateMe Now. It doesn’t get in my way. If I want to be a bonehead it lets me. Screw a stylus, it was easy to input notation with my finger. I can notate anywhere anytime assuming my iPad has power. It is so intuitive that I didn't need the help page very often and the pacing is so good that I don’t lose my sense of creativity when inputting data. I like that I can draw with my finger and not be stuck hunting for less intuitive tools. That said, the drag and drop feature was also useful and just fine as well. This version of the application is great for quickly getting melody’s stored in digital format so that I don’t have to physically write them down or worse, forget them a year later because I didn’t take the time to write them down. I am now onto the paid version NotateMe. I really hope that after nearly $40.00 I continue to love this notation tool with the added features. I think I might have paid the $40.00 bucks just for this though. That says a lot but when you have lots of existing melody’s and future ideas to store digitally and you know that you can do it without hassle then why not? I can’t find anything I don’t like about this tool and think that as long as you are a musician with sensible theory skills, then the free version, NotateMe Now, is worth the time to try for yourself. I can’t find any of the bugs the other reviewers are reporting so either the application wasn’t working at that time or they are really big boneheads and not just a bonehead like me. Tip: Get you mind off the idea that the application is magic and going to learn you. That may be true to some extent that I am not completely aware of yet. Do use your music theory skills to group your notation/beats into the measures in a logical sensible manner and use some space in each measure. NotateMe Now will have much better success interpreting your intentions that way.

Сера

It-cent

Досить пристойна прога, шукав дитині щоб відтворювати ноти для прослуховування мелодій, а тут ще й з фоток ноти розпізнає і грошей не коштує. Однозначно маст хев

Not worth it!

EastWestTraveller

Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Boo!

Ignore the one star reviews

BroOfMoses

Ignore the children complaining because they didn't take the time to learn how to use the app or query Google for instructions. NotateMe has some powerful tools and features. Tell me how else I could take a picture of music notes and have them played immediately. As soon as I find need for a bass clef or a second instrument, I'm buying the full version.

Crippled features in FREE version don't allow for good experience

Dog Pound Dynasty

Most features are not available in the FREE version so you have NO IDEA if you even want to buy this App!!!!!! How about a time-sensitive FULL VERSION of the App!??!?! Maybe they'd sell more. This app seems disappointing. The initial "LEARN" process is SLOOOOOW and the clunky interface....am I missing something!??!?! I wanna give you guys my $40 but you're making it easy to walk away!!!

What happened?????

El-gato22331

Why did you guys give up on the app? You were supposed to work hard and make it better! SO MANY BUGS! Can't use it any more it's just another frustrating app from the bunch!! Wake up and start fixing it!!!! In the meantime stay away from this app!!

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