Tunebook App Reviews

Perfect for keeping your tunes handy for a quick refresher during practice or at a session. The player is excellent, with a speed control and a choice of instrument voices. Display rendering is very readable. It would be nice if tunes could be organized into playlists, or sorted for browsing. But even without these features, this is a great little app and I'll be using it a lot

I'm new to the ABC music notation format, but now that I know about it I certainly see it's power. This cool little $2 app makes it shine. A feature that I'd like to see added is the ability to just show a chord chart for a tune. I'm envisioning the chords displayed in landscape format with nice, large characters. That way I could hand my iPod to a guitarist or a piano player and they'd be able to read the Chord chart right off the device (without squinting). Cool app.

This app does what it says it will. You upload your abc collections using the built in web server. Then you can create tunebooks and manually attach selected tunes. A bit tedious but it works. I use it for dance tunes. On my screen the music is too small. It would be nice if the app optimized the view for you. And really, to play from it would require a bigger screen. But as a memory aide, a nice little program.

The example screenshots don't show it, but lyrics work well. Multi-voice music displays properly, but only the top line plays back reliably, which limits its use as a tool for choral composers / arrangers.

Very good app for sheet music, in general. You can add your own music (in .abc format), you can personalize playlists and collections, and it has a MIDI player. It does ok with bagpipe music.

App works well and is mature. The ability to search and find tunes on the web is great. But in this day and age I assume that whatever I do on my phone will be the same in my iPad and vice versa. No so with this app. Anything I put in one place has to be manually moved/copies to the other.

Great for tune storage. Easy to access or search for tunes. Easy to edit the ABC notation. Sorting by title, meter, key. The import functions are nice, too, from thesession.org and other places, or from a local web server. All around, a well-done app.

I use this app every and I love it when it works. A massive bug makes it lose edits to ABC tunes. I spent hours tweaking a few tunes last night, and this morning they all reverted to the previous version. Store backups of your edits elsewhere. It’s so frustrating.