Tunebook for iPad

I have been using Tunebook for several years. It keeps getting better and more essential to my life as a musician. I focus on Irish traditional music. There are written versions for many tunes readily available on the web. Locally we play our own versions. So it is very enabling to be able to get a version from the web, customize it to reflect our local version, and then share it with friends. Now days it is very well connected to other apps so it is easy to share via email or text. I highly recommend Tunebook to anyone interested in Irish Trad.

This is a great app. Works just like it says. But there are a few little tricks that aren't obvious. First, there's only one copy of each tune. The Tunebooks are just different views (catalogs) of the full collection. So, you can create temporary Tunebooks for setlists, favorites, or whatever. Just never delete the tunes, or they'll be gone. Second, you can create a new tune manually by using the + button in the All Tunes list. Third, Tunebook appears in the share menu for a text file in any other app. This lets you import ABC files from other apps, cloud servers, etc.

Dump all your paper sheet music and have all of your tunes, and limitless others with you wherever you go. I still see people lugging notebooks full of paper sheet music at all the jams and sessions I go to. Tunebook eliminates the need for that and does much more besides. The built-in player is extremely flexible and provides the ability to hear any tune with any mix of instruments and orchestration, at any speed you like, which is a godsend for tunes with complex broken rhythms or odd meters. Plug your ipad into your stereo and play along with tunes with accompaniment to help you get your playing up to speed. If you don't already know how to work with ABC notation, you can learn all you need to know in a few minutes and the you can use this app to store and help develop any new tunes or songs you write or pick up at jam sessions. It's very intuitive and this app gives you instant access to hundreds of thousands of traditional tunes even if you aren't ABC savvy. I can't say enough good things about this app, if you play music, you need it!

This app is no doubt the best app anyone interested in playing music can own. Tunebook has always worked well, with the ability to import large abc files and sort them according to index, title, key, or meter. Jerry, the app's developer, added a Transpose Key feature in the previous update which I have found to be enormously helpful. The recent update makes this app even nicer. The file management improvements are fantastic. You now longer have to be afraid of clogging up your library with a bunch of tunes that you might not like. Just download them to a tunebook folder, preview them and remove the ones you want to keep, then delete the folder to trash the remaining files. Also the multiple delete and other changes recently made to the app are quit useful. Lloyd

Renders my abc collections accurately and provides a decent playback. I find the edit interface to be easy to use with symbols readily available in a toolbar above the virtual keyboard. Easy access to cloud storage to import collections thru internal browser or start up the program's internal server to upload thru a browser. Easy and quick access to any tune within one collection or across all collections with search function and sorting by key, title or index. I have my collections rendered as PDF files also for use in Goodreader, but I find Tunebook to be much quicker for accessing the tunes. Playback of tunes with parts works correctly if you have i.e. P:ABC in the header of your tune as well as labeling each part in the tune body (P:A etc.). Best app on my ipad.