Use this music notation app to write by handwriting and adjust notes with drag gestures. Includes handwriting recognition, playback engine, and export options.
AppRecs review analysis
AppRecs rating 3.3. Trustworthiness 84 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 20 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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AppRecs Rating
Ratings breakdown
5 star
53%
4 star
0%
3 star
13%
2 star
7%
1 star
27%
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Low review manipulation risk
20% review manipulation risk
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Credible reviews
84% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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Detailed user feedback
72% of sampled reviews provide substantial detail
About MusicJOT
General
• Natural Handwriting Recognition
• Support for Split Screen mode
• Support for Dark Mode
• Supports Apple Scribble
• Support for chord symbols and fretboards
• Export to MusicXML®
• Export to MIDI
• Export as an image attachment
• Staffs limited only by memory
• 128 General MIDI sounds
• In-app sound library purchaes available
• Cut, copy, paste, undo and redo
• Paste Special with filters
• Two voices per staff
• Print to a wireless printer
• Definable Regions
• Custom beaming with beam breaking and joining
• Alternate notes/rests/tools palettes for non-handwriting music entry
• Searchable, context-sensitive reference manual
• On-line tutorial while working in Split Screen
• Auto rehearsal letters/numbers.
Navigation
• Unlimited view sizes
• Scroll, page and presentation views
• Live spacing
• Go to measure #
• Search for specific text
• Change music spacing
Notes
• Drag up/down for pitch
• Drag left/right for duration
• Double flats to double sharps
• Grace notes
• Floating rests
• Half step transpositions
• Octave transpositions
• Tuplets
• Courtesy accidentals
• Cross-staff notes
Dynamics
• Crescendo, decrescendo
• ppp - fff, sfz, fp P
Tempos
• Tempo text P
• Font, size, style
• Beats per note duration
Articulations & Ornaments
• Staccato
• Marcato
• Accent
• Dynamics
• Tenuto
• Harmonic
• Tremolos
• Guitar symbols
• Left hand pizzicato
• Fermata
• Up and down bows
• Roll chord
• Turn P
• Mordent
• Trill, Trill flat, natural, sharp
• Cesura
• Breath
• Pedal on/off
• L.H., R.H.
• Roman numerals (I - V)
• Numbers (0 - 5)
Shapes
• Glissando
• Bend hat
• Dotted line
• Solid line
• Tie
• Slur
• Slur Flipping
• 8va, 8vb
• 15ma, 15mb
• Accelerando/Ritardando
Lyrics
• Free, verse, chorus of unlimited number
• Auto flow into score
• Duplicate
• Find in score
• Span notes, group words, melismas
• Layers
Bars
• Normal, double, solid, dotted, final
• Repeats (playback enabled)
• Show repeat map
• Backwards, forwards, 1st and 2nd endings
• DC, DS, Del Segno, Coda, Finé
Text
• Free form text
• Placement - above/below staff
• Border option for rehearsal letters
• Font, size, style
Clefs, keys, meters
• Change selected only
• Change selected to next change
• Change selected to end
• Mid-measure clef changes
• Keys transpose up, down or none
• Measure duration clipping
• Automatic transpositions
Audio
• Change tempo, volume, pan, gain, mute and solo
• Scrub forwards and backwards
• Fretboards and chord symbols playback
• Create loops with visual feedback
• Playback with or without repeats active
• Change any staffs instrument sounds
• Add reverb
• Set playback range
• Dragging notes up or down to change pitch sounds note(s)
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Reviews for MusicJOT
RandalHu
Much improved; very good now
The first release had some issues, but it is obvious a lot of work has gone into this new version. It is pretty straightforward, and music notion with the Apple Pencil works well. The website has some good, short teaching videos. I’ve only used this for a short while, but I’m very pleased with the product now.
lisa Lynne Kirk
My Thoughts
I'm a beginner so I was nervous about getting enough value from the $49.99 price tag. Feature one is turning my handwritten notes into something recognizable that I can see. Check. Feature two is playing back what I write. Check. Feature three is being able to export what I wrote to other apps/devices in a variety of formats. Check. Support doesn't mind answering my mindless questions about music and the app. Check. I can see - and have read/heard from other users - that there are amazing features that I will be able to use as I grow so this has given me new enthusiasm to write music. Definitely worth the price. Lisallynne Kirk