Extremely dissapointed – OnSong Pro Review

Edit - now it's saying I have to pay for an upgrade if I want to draw or make annotations on a PDF chart. Unbelievable really after paying $30 for the app. If I had spent $4.99 on this I probably wouldn't be so dissapointed. I was really excited for the key changing feature, and for finding songs/charts on the internet by other users, but for $30 (the most I've ever spent on an IOS app) this has been a big waste of money and time. I asked for a refund but Apple won't do that, so here are a few of the Problems: 1)Nothing imports properly. PDF's all show up garbled when trying to extract text. 2) TXT files - nothing can be imported without large amounts of editing within the painfully slow editor. Metadata often doesn't work for some reason, and I need to manually re-enter it all, or use the metadata editor. 3)The editor is really painstaking. There is supposed a handy 'recent' items at top, but they don't even include a colon (a very common part of their chart format) so I have to dig for it everytime I need it, and I can't believe there is no easy way to just click on the words you want to be a header (or chords) and have them change them. 4)I try to edit my old charts in text editor or word on my computer (and save as text) but nothing looks remotely the same when It gets brought into Onsong, and the whole thing looks messed up and requires a LOT of editing inside the app. 5)Transposing. Why would Onsong transpose an E/G# to a D/Gb when it shoud clearly be D/F#? It uses enharmonic transpostions that are not in the actual chords. I don't know any musician that would write (or want to read) a slash chord using enharmonic notes not in the actaul chord. Overall I was hoping this app would save me a lot of time, but it's just created a lot more wasted time trying to convert and organise charts. I spent 3 hours on two charts last night, and they still don't look the way I would like. The 'internet' search for songs (which I was hoping for) pulls up a riduclous amount of garbage charts with wrong chords etc, and when choosing there is no way to see what you are getting. The import from other internet sites has been just as awful. For $30 this is disappointing. I already have other PDF reader setlist apps (fourscore) and I certainly didn't want to just buy another one. So far it's much faster just to write my own charts in a word or even a text editor and manually change the key myself.
Review by joeldadrummer on OnSong Pro.