Songwriter Pro: Lyric Studio

Overall I like this app. It’s got a nice, aesthetically pleasing interface that is easy to use. It allows rearrangement of sections of the song, such as verses. It’s possible to group songs into folders (personally I use this for albums). I’ve found a lot of good use in it and plan on using it for a long time. The only drawback that I see so far is a little bug that messes things up when I try to rearrange the order of songs within a folder. For example, if I move song 3 to the top of the list, and then open it, song 3 will not open; song 1 will (which was previously in the top position) even though I selected “song 3” from the list. And when I exit song 1, the list has returned to its previous order (with song 1 on top). Anyway, that’s not that big of a deal to me, but it is a little annoying. Other than that it’s been great for me. The only other suggestion that I have is this: I wish there was a way to have the app automatically play back-to-back the audio from each section within a song - I don’t want to have to press play on verse two when chorus one ends, etc.

I use this as a starting point for a lot of my songwriting. I find it to work very well with my workflow and undistracting when writing (perfect). Some of the features in the ideas tab are nice to have, however not typically utilized by me - still well implemented. The part where I switch off is when I want to layer multiple ideas on top of another. The app is awesome for sketching ideas and the "chunks" of a song, but when you want to begin to layer voices, instruments, etc. to get an idea of the embellishments you desire in a song, it loses its functionality. This is when I turn to another app where you can do all of these things. It would be nice to see some minor mixing/multitrack features implemented when most of the writing of your song is done and you want to enter the second phase of building. This by no means has to be overly complicated, but it would greatly improve this app in my opinion. A lot of the apps that do have multitrack g/mixing are beginning to enter the realm of songwriting/structure building, like Trackd, and it may only be a matter of time before I make the ultimate switch away from this app if it doesn't continue to improve. If the developers are reading this. Please...please at least just allow me to SCRUB audio takes so I don't have to listen to the full clip every time I need to hear it back!

I spent over fifty years keeping a pencil and paper close at hand, and that’s a pain, a nuisance at best. Not to mention the untold melodies lost for lack of a simple and quick way to record them, when they should come to me. No more having to carry bits and pieces of paper around in my pockets, trying to decipher my shorthand, misspelled words written in a combination of Cursive and printing using both upper and lower case letters. If you’re any kind of writer, aspiring or not, do yourself a favor and download this app. If you never know how much it helps you, then that’s a good thing !!!

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TERRIBLE FOR SONGWRITING! If you think you're getting an app like "Master Writer" for iPad, think again. Not even close. So off putting that you can't concentrate on your song. Cant use a external keyboard with it. I can think of more word ideas in my brain than this thing offers. Unless you're a complete idiot and can't think for yourself that you need the VERY LIMITED amount of word ideas this provides, you're better off with a simple pad and pen. This is by no means a substitute for a REAL thesaurus and rhyming dictionary if you're thinking of using this for songwriting purposes. Before you buy this, look at the pictures first and just realize THAT's ALL you're getting. Nothing more. It looks very simple because there's nothing to it. It doesn't rotate and FORCES you to use it in portrait view (which I hate) it's completely useless to me. Needless to say I just bought it and I already wish I hadn't. I can't believe this has THIS MANY 5 star ratings. Must be fake.

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I just bought the pro version of this app. Excited to have finally found one app that I can do my vocal recording idea while the backing instrumental is playing as well. Well I’m FRUSTRATED because I spent money on an app that I am not even able to open up to try out. I TRUSTED that this would function properly but instead it won’t even open. At ALL. I’ll click on the icon, the wallpaper screen would pop up. Then the whole app crashes. I tried it 5 times. Then un installed it. Re installed it. Same thing happened. Closed the app in the background then turned my phone completely off for 20 seconds. Phone turned back on...SAME THING! App crashes. I’m really irritated. I need someone to do SOMETHING about this. I’m not kidding.