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Demo: Songwriting Studio
Demo Music · 5,715 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "do not download. scam app.. I clicked the 3 day free trail and immediately cancelled it, as I often do so I don’t forget to cancel, and it immediately charged me for a full year subscription. completely dishonest and deceitful. this app needs to be removed." - iangj1990jan
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"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "do not download. scam app.. I clicked the 3 day free trail and immediately cancelled it, as I often do so I don’t forget to cancel, and it immediately charged me for a full year subscription. completely dishonest and deceitful. this app needs to be removed." - iangj1990jan
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"completely"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "do not download. scam app.. I clicked the 3 day free trail and immediately cancelled it, as I often do so I don’t forget to cancel, and it immediately charged me for a full year subscription. completely dishonest and deceitful. this app needs to be removed." - iangj1990jan
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"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "iCloud Unusable. I really want to use this app but the iCloud sync component does not work. I’m using iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and cannot get any reliable sync between devices. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded everything with no positive results. It’s complete…" - JakeUsernameIsTaken
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"music"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Loveeee ittt. Really good im basically a beginner singer now yayy btw im singer kalailey langth havent made music yet but soon im worken" - Kay🩷❤️🩵
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"chords"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "NOT a FREE “free trial”. This app IMMEDIATELY charged me through PayPal for the year subscription despite it saying a three day free trial before going through with a year subscription. MORE OR LESS COMPLETELY DISHONEST. Also, the main function of the app that I wa…" - deecdubbau
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"didn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Huge buyers remorse. The app seems like it could be very versatile at first. I didn’t want an app that used AI to write a song for me, so I looked into this. I foolishly purchased the lifetime usage tier. Spending over 4 hours with it,I can sum this app up as …" - grendelorion
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"song"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Huge buyers remorse. The app seems like it could be very versatile at first. I didn’t want an app that used AI to write a song for me, so I looked into this. I foolishly purchased the lifetime usage tier. Spending over 4 hours with it,I can sum this app up as …" - grendelorion
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"charged"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "do not download. scam app.. I clicked the 3 day free trail and immediately cancelled it, as I often do so I don’t forget to cancel, and it immediately charged me for a full year subscription. completely dishonest and deceitful. this app needs to be removed." - iangj1990jan
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"unusable"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "iCloud Unusable. I really want to use this app but the iCloud sync component does not work. I’m using iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and cannot get any reliable sync between devices. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded everything with no positive results. It’s complete…" - JakeUsernameIsTaken
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"everything"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "iCloud Unusable. I really want to use this app but the iCloud sync component does not work. I’m using iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and cannot get any reliable sync between devices. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded everything with no positive results. It’s complete…" - JakeUsernameIsTaken
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"almost"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "iCloud Unusable. I really want to use this app but the iCloud sync component does not work. I’m using iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and cannot get any reliable sync between devices. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded everything with no positive results. It’s complete…" - JakeUsernameIsTaken
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do not download. scam app.
I clicked the 3 day free trail and immediately cancelled it, as I often do so I don’t forget to cancel, and it immediately charged me for a full year subscription. completely dishonest and deceitful. this app needs to be removed.
iCloud Unusable
I really want to use this app but the iCloud sync component does not work. I’m using iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and cannot get any reliable sync between devices. I’ve deleted and re-downloaded everything with no positive results. It’s completely broken. I contacted their support team about the issue and haven’t heard back in almost 2 weeks. It’s ridiculous to charge $100 to buy this app when basically functionality is so heavily impaired. The songwriting components look great, but this app is not ready for sale and paid subscription. I would change my rating if this was addressed but don’t see any indication that this will be. Disappointing.
NOT a FREE “free trial”
This app IMMEDIATELY charged me through PayPal for the year subscription despite it saying a three day free trial before going through with a year subscription. MORE OR LESS COMPLETELY DISHONEST. Also, the main function of the app that I was interested in trying was buried within the UI, so not immediately apparent on how to locate, and did not do very well at suggesting chords based off of a recorded melody, whether sang or hummed.
Unresponsive and unusable
If this app worked as advertised, it would possibly be 5 starts. However, it is completely unresponsive, therefore, unusable. Tapping on almost anything has no effect. Nothing happens. Deleted and redownloaded 3 times, and no change. Very poor app.
Marketing
This has a awesome first impression and I thought I was finally going to get a free GOOD music making app. But not essentially, Once you try to make your first song it doesn’t let you do anything unless you’re paid.
Gatekeeping notes
It’s absurd. You have to pay to use anything outside of basic chords. I liked the organization of the app. But it’s really not necessary when GarageBand is on every phone
This app crashes constantly
And when it does it loses all of my work.
I can’t count the hours of my life this app has thrown in the garbage. But get it fixed because it has awesome potential if it weren’t constantly crashes and losing everything.
I can’t count the hours of my life this app has thrown in the garbage. But get it fixed because it has awesome potential if it weren’t constantly crashes and losing everything.
Not working on iPhone 11
Will not open application and keeps crashing. I didn’t have this issue 1 week ago.
Sucks
Isn’t free, they grab your info and then charge you for it!!!
Not good
I am a novice song writer and wanted a tool to use while brainstorming. I have already wrote some songs and wanted to put it somewhere without recording on a full setup. Maybe I am cheap but I don’t think there should be a paywall to use 9th or 7th chords…
Disappointed
I use 6/8 rhythm a lot and the default rhythms are 4/4 and 3/4. I'm sure this can do 6/8 just fine. to get this for rhythm is so technically difficult I don't wanna mess with all this. This is a very basic request. Easier just to grab my guitar. If this really made my life better, I could pay but it certainly didn't sell me on the demo.
Huge buyers remorse
The app seems like it could be very versatile at first. I didn’t want an app that used AI to write a song for me, so I looked into this. I foolishly purchased the lifetime usage tier. Spending over 4 hours with it,I can sum this app up as a arpeggaitor with a poor rhyming dictionary thrown in. When you start messing with the advanced custom beat maker you realize you can’t lower the scaling beyond a single octave. You can customize your own notes but only up to 7 and all the instruments(piano,guitar and bass are locked into those keys. It limits your creative options dramatically. Better off using garage band as the sounds here are pretty terrible. Not sure why they even have different price points but I’m sure some college kid who programmed this over a weekend is $100 bucks richer because I couldn’t find more info about it on YouTube before I took the plunge. That’s on me,I know.
Meh….
It’s just generic chord changes then record
Loveeee ittt
Really good im basically a beginner singer now yayy btw im singer kalailey langth havent made music yet but soon im worken
Worst UI/UX - takes the fun out of songwriting
This app has the most convoluted and clumsy user experience of any music app I have ever used (and I have used many). I won't enumerate all the issues like how difficult it is to add chords and how key signature screws up the chords you entered, and you cannot overwrite it... But, basically, this app fights you every step of the way and absolutely kills any creative flow. It is even more disheartening to see they supposedly improved UI/UX in the most recent update. Developers: you might be great coders, but you know NOTHING about UI/UX.
Almost great
Ahhh I downloaded this app because sometimes when I’m not home I like to make music to work on later . Yknow the app seemed really good from what I could see you could add chord progressions and drums loops and all that and it just looks great! Until I had to pay a SUBSCRIPTION to even USE it. I mean seriously everything in this app is locked behind a subscription if I want to be able to flex creativity. If I have to pay for everything once I downloaded the app you might has well have made me pay for it when I downloaded it.
Great idea, but it doesn’t work yet.
I’ve been writing songs for twenty years, and I love what this app offers. But unfortunately, not only is it clunky in practice - its custom chord feature frustratingly so - but in the first ten minutes of using the app it crashed on me four times, trying to just move chord progressions around. I regret spending money on this, and it feels predatory how it doesn’t allow you to see its functionality - or lack thereof - until after you get charged.
Great idea. Very, very disappointing execution.
Great idea. Very, very disappointing execution.
so glitchy and sometimes unusable
please fix the bugs in this app sometimes i literally can’t even open the app with how glitchy it gets and god forbid i close it and try to open it again without it glitching and becoming unusable. also it’s extremely hard to move around the tracks on the timeline area and bring it so a spot in the audio without it trimming on accident or moving to a place you never even moved it to. also maybe some voice effects would make this a bit cooler
Not worth it… Yet
Tried it, not worth it yet. They have preset rhythms that are basic and boring and the system to create your own is overly complicated to the point of making it more difficult than it needs to be. The layout of the overall system is very visually confusing and not user friendly yet. It feels lazy, like they put a bunch of elements together in a hurry and sent it out to publish. This app has a lot of potential but is still lacking many elements to make it both effective and user friendly. Maybe in like 5 more years it'll be worth it.
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)