TONALY: Write & Practice Songs 4+

Absolutely Brilliant (two suggestions, though)

Hats off to the developer(s). This app is so well thought out and designed. I’m absolutely in love with it. A great tool for learning, songwriting, and deconstructing popular songs for making your own arrangements.

One thing I’d really like to see added is more in depth archive options when you save songs. I’m in the process of building out covers I know and would love the ability to tag songs to a genre, artists, etc. and be able to type in a search bar to jump right to it. It would also be nice to be able to add custom text fields above song parts. If I could just type in the first line of lyrics for versus, choruses, so on that’d be awesome. Then this app will be dang near perfect! 🤙

There are options to export out to PDF lead sheets so you could still use this app as a tool for building a good archive system yourself, but the app design and functionality is so beautiful I don’t wanna leave it.

Developer Response ,

Awesome! Thanks for your review! I'll keep your suggestions in the back of my head for future updates! Stay tuned!

Fun and super helpful for writing songs!

Great little app, very helpful for composing and actually hearing chord progressions back for those who don't have relative and perfect pitch. The only thing is that I would love for more customizations of the chords, namely inversions (even in combination with four note chords) and different rhythms that aren't 4/4. Right now, the root of the chord is always on the bottom. Inversions add a different color to the chord and are very widely used in songs and compositions. Some chords in the context of a certain progression just aren't the same sound without inversions. As for rhythms, it would be helpful for more control over how many bars a progression is and how many beats are in a bar. Right now, it's always 4 beats to a bar. Either 4 or 8 bars. I don't think adding different time signatures would be incredibly difficult nor adding custom length of bars any amount between (2-8). Also, adding chord changes within a bar would be awesome. That would add more complexity, sure, but the app for have so much value for making fully realized chord progressions for a song or composition. Other than those things, a solid app with lots of potential for improvement. I'm sure the inversions and rhythms features can be included in a future update.

Developer Response ,

Hey wckreation, thank you for your detailed feedback! The latest update of the app includes a more flexible song structure, as well as different time signatures! Enjoy!

Pretty confusing so far READ BEFORE YOU BUY

Not happy there was no trial before purchase, but I guess it makes sense from a business standpoint. I would not have purchased. I’m always looking for helpful tools and this will not be one. You can jam with the chords under “scales” but you can’t record there. In fact, I don’t see a way to record even in “songwriting” . Instead, you need to tap the first measure and select a note, tap the next measure and select a note and so on. If you don’t tap the next measure you just keep changing the note for the first measure. I was hoping for an intuitive app for songwriting that exports midi, which this certainly is not. When I write a song, I don’t strum one chord once per measure, so this midi info is useless. I’ll try downloading this onto an iPad to see if it works any better, but I don’t have high hopes with no sign of a metronome on iPhone. The “instructions” online for this app are just videos online of the developer playing with an older version of the app. If your charging money I think it’s part of the job to record new videos to match the app that is currently sold to consumers. Why aren’t the “scales” automatically matched to the “songwriting” key?