Fender Notion: Music & Tab
★ 3.6What it actually doesFender Notion is a mobile app for creating musical scores in standard notation and tablature with realistic playback and export, but suffers from frequent errors, crashes during updates, and synchronization issues.
Actually does
- ✓Music streaming
- ✓Note taking80% of reviews
- ✓Гитарная табулатура5% of reviews
- ✓Data export10% of reviews
- ✓Ad-free(bonus)5% of reviews
- ✓Freemium25% of reviews
- ✓Multi-account10% of reviews
- ✓iPad-optimized20% of reviews
- ✓Desktop app5% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠Music player
- ⚠Handwriting Recognition
- ⚠Cloud sync
- ⚠Offline-first
- ⚠Apple Pencil
Common complaints
- ✗Lines overlapping and data loss during updates27% of mentions
«Lines overlapped with each other. All previously written works got corrupted»
- ✗Frequent app crashes and crashes20% of mentions
«The app crashes on startup on iPad Pro. It constantly crashes, impossible to create a score»
- ✗No sound during playback10% of mentions
«I downloaded it on iPad Pro and it has no sound AT ALL, like just not even a piano, absolutely utterly silent»
- ✗Non-functional handwriting recognition (errors, incorrect note detection)15% of mentions
«When writing with a stylus, errors occur and note groupings change unexpectedly, grace notes become regular notes»
- ✗Copy-Paste function stopped working10% of mentions
«After a while it stops copying. I use the program 2 years, it has become impossible to work lately»
What people praise
- ★Intuitive and convenient interface
«Very convenient to use on iPad. Compared to Sibelius — night and day, much more intuitive and convenient!»
- ★Convenient PDF export
«Easy to figure out, easy to convert to PDF»
- ★Powerful free version without ads
«Nothing but positives! If you're looking for a mobile version I recommend it. No ads showing up. Everything is free except for the handwriting version»
- ★Good for writing piano music
«Excellent app for writing piano music»
- ★Realistic playback (claimed, but not always working)