Songwriter Pad™ - Songwriting for Android

Trouble shooting is non existent with the developer. I’ve attempted to contact them several times to no avail. I was trying to migrate 107+ song from my old app and Mobile to the new Mobile and app. All songs disappeared and I’ve attempted to contact the developers numerous time through several channels with no luck. If this issue can be resolved I’d be happy to re-post with a better result but at this time I’ve lost years of creativity. We were told to back it up to the cloud and we did that. Please someone help resolved this issue. Jim Parker Jim Parker music.com

I don’t normally rate apps, but wanted to share my experience as I’ve used this app now for several months. This app is wonderful for songwriters - when arranging you can shift things around and backup different lines (phrases) to try new ones. The rhyming section is not without flaws (everything listed doesn’t rhyme) but there’s still a great list of words that do so it’s still very helpful. The ability to with a few clicks backup everything to Dropbox is great. (I’ve heard people fuss about the app locking up and them losing input - this has not been my experience, but if I had to guess, those people either didn’t backup, or didn’t backup properly - early and often) I could go on as it has many great features, but the bottom line is, is that it’s a great app. Not perfect, but well worth 5 stars. If you want a perfect app, quit crying about the work of others and build one yourself. This app deserves more recognition than it has received. Thanks dev.

WILL THE BUGS EVER BE FIXED? I’ve had this for years now and there are text problems, copy and paste problems, font problems....it’s like buying a car with no tires and no engine! I wrote an earlier review thinking this was going to be really good but it's not that great. Very buggy - cut copy and paste doesn't work properly with a line or a paragraph. Rhyming dictionary is awful. Try to rhyme "hate" and get a word like "choose." THE ONE THING it's fairly good for is having a finished set of lyrics to email to yourself with a uniform font and date. Except, the fonts are messed up and when I email it to myself, apostrophes change to hieroglyphics. These days I start with paper and pen, and when I almost have the finished song, I use this app to get a clean copy. I am going to switch to Google’s “Notes” app instead of this piece of trash.

Sync creates issue with text import, doesn’t sync correctly between my desktop version and this version. Also chord names split the words depending on where you try and set them, the full screen view is not full screen it is a window in the app. No refund so hopefully these issue get resolved. It is too much work to get through this app.

I like this app because unlike MasterWriter, you can sink in the cloud, allowing me to work with Mobile or my Android. The problem is the tools. The logic in the rhyming dictionary is so inconsistent, often times just wrong. I haven’t tried the recording options so I can’t comment of those features. The rhyming phrases features need a lot of improvement to earn anymore stars from me. I hope the developer improves the app.