Staff Sketch Pad 2 4+

What I love so much about this app is its simplicity! While apps that can read handwritten scores are improving rapidly, I don’t always want to be distracted by handwriting recognition stumbles when I am in composition mode—I need to be agile and quick when I sketch out music early on… I want to “stay in the zone” and scribble, unfettered by tool ribbons and macros.

Your app gave me what I was looking for: a straightforward digital pencil and manuscript paper notebook with unlimited pages and use of my own templates, all with no additional “overhead”… I can then email PDFs of my ~1 to 15 line sketches straight to my orchestrator from the app. No more paper or scanning needed, no eraser shavings falling into the piano! 😄 Nothing else nails this role so utterly well.

Staff Sketch Pad 2 is for composing, not engraving, just the way I like it!

This has been working well for my needs as a music ed student, but I’ve noticed I’m not able to name my file folders for some reason. Not sure if this is a bug or I’m just too dumb to figure it out, but I would really like this feature so I can organize between dictation practice, assignments, notes etc. I can name each individual piece, just not the folders. I would also absolutely love a layout option with half staves and half normal writing lines (left and right side) like a descant for theory note taking!!

Recently I also experienced a bug where somehow all of my writing was slid over going off the page and disappearing when I re opened the app, basically deleting all of my notes. This was actually super inconvenient since I had to get the notes back from a friend and write them all over again, which is why I took off a star. Super weird.

Edit; this happened again with a mini composition assignment and actually screwed me over so bad. It’s like it gets stuck in landscape mode while in portrait, but stays that way regardless of orientation, making it impossible to access notes all slid off the page and no longer on the staff. Can’t risk the glitch happening again so I will be switching apps. ):

This is the best music notation app for people who love to hand write. I’ve had issues with my files being deleted off of my iPad but this app makes sure they’re not deleted. You can export straight to PDF and email it to yourself. The copy, paste, and moveable text feature is so handy and time saving. This app is perfect!