YouCompose App Reviews

Real fun app, sorta weird but so many good ideas from it.

I am very happy with the app and the redesigned upgrade certainly makes it much, much better. Simple interface, tons of instruments and it lends itself to some neat creative uses.

@doublebassdog: That's an iTunes problem, I've had it happen with other apps. Contact Apple. If it were an app problem you should contact the dev directly anyway, not in a review. Haven't used this a whole lot yet, like what I see so far though.

This is an impressive app but not all it could be. The transport control is minimal and really frustrating when you want to edit a section and have to scroll all day to find the edit points. This version also has some grit on the audio but no way to adjust the buffers so I don't know if it's the samples or my phone. I think the features are impressive as far as importing via midi etc. but the interface still needs some improving. Maybe it should be iPad-only for better results.

I just discovered ver 3.6 and loaded it on my ipad pro 9.7 music dedicated iPad. I have been looking for a compositional tool like this for a long time. it is just amazing once I downloaded the manual and got into the program. I highly recommend this for all composers, beginners or advanced. The output possibilities are excellent to say the least. I also have it running on an iPad Air 1 also with ease.

Great learning tool for music theory and composing. It would be nice if it included the option to harmonize (automatically) with full chords (for chord instruments) and to include chords on the score sheet (jazz scores). Looking forward to future updates as this app has much potential for all aspiring and professional musicians and composers.

After years of trying to understand composition technique - I have a more than patient source of examples and assistance in creating my own compositions. I have copies of this app on both my iPad and iPhone. I have tried many algorithmic composition tools over the years, YouCompose beats them all! It’s much easier to understand orchestral concepts like hocketing, I can just compose an example of a rich score to illustrate the concept based on my own melodies. The same is true of creating things

It’s good and all but the number of instruments for a symphony is limited

This app clearly is impressive. What it is capable of is beyond my understanding, but I love it!! Well done team, you’ve impressed a very stubborn organist!! The fugue I generated was class-act!! Absolutely stunning. Keeps me extremely fascinated! 💯

I really love the idea of this app, but it needs better note drawing tools in piano roll midi note drawing and modification. It also needs to save the settings you make when writing original melodies. Currently, if you delete the melody, it resets the settings. It also really needs a count in when playing a melody live. In fact, I would really like to see an implementation for melody loops to go beyond a single bar.

This is a great app! A major boost to one’s creativity. I’ve been eyeing this app for a while and finally decided to check it out and i am pleasantly surprised by all the features and capabilities. It is very simple and yet gives you so much room to experiment. MIDI connectivity is great and the selection of in app instruments is great! It won’t necessarily compose for you but it will do most of the work and leaves you in control of your sketches. Great for composing something beyond the m

Used this app for a couple of weeks and loved it. Then... Tried to update it! It never updated. In fact, it stopped in the middle and has been hung up there ever since. I can't use it, I can't delete it, I can't reload it. It's just taking up space on my 3rd generation iPad in never-never land. Anyone else? If it worked I would give it 5 stars.

Your Limited to copy and paste only one melody per track so there’s no mixing around different parts that you may like to use. Extremely Difficult to stretch your notes to the desired length within the segment. Unable to drag segments around wherever you want them. It’s nice for generating short ideas but I wouldn’t use this to compose an entire song as it is currently.