Lyric Notepad 4+

I have been loving this app. Everything needed to build my songs all in one place. The greatest app I’ve ever had.

Unfortunately, twice now I have had songs which suddenly wouldn’t stay open anymore. I’m working fine on lyrics and suddenly it throws me out of the app. When I go back in, I can open and edit any file except the one that shut down; as though the file is somehow corrupted.

The first time it happened, after trying a dozen times at least, I just opened a file with a new name (note: it had to be a TOTALLY new name or it would behave just like the corrupted one) and reentered the lyrics because I also had them written elsewhere.

But this time, I was building this song from scratch in the app. Now I can’t get it to open for one whole second. Can’t get a screenshot of the lyrics. Can’t quickly select any options from the menu. It’s just totally unavailable to me and I’m heartbroken. It was an emotional song I had to spill out and now I don’t know what I wrote. Very sad.

This is an amazing app! I would’ve already rated it 5 stars before I even found out about the measure mode! And I really like how it has the syllables next to each line. The way it colors rhymes is a really nice touch, and the search bar has helped me so much! I’ve even used it countless times unrelated to the song I’m writing because it’s so much easier than looking the stuff up! My only problem is that it sometimes freezes for a few seconds (but whatever I type while it’s frozen still shows up). Another thing that could be improved on (but doesn’t really matter much) is that it doesn’t know the syllables of numbers. That does make sense, I imagine it would be incredibly tedious and time-consuming to program every number. Plus, it’s impossible to predict how someone will pronounce the numbers (ex: 695=six ninety five/ six nine five). Overall, this app is AMAZING. It’s got everything a songwriter/poet could want!

Edit: I got a new phone and the app won’t open. There’s about a 100% chance that the tens of hours of work I put into this app are gone, and when I open it it only shows me the beginning animation of the pen scribbling a line before closing and going back to the home screen. The most devastating part is that I can’t use the app anymore, because I need it more than ever right now. Still 5 stars; I loved this app while I could use it...

After nearly 3 hours of freaking out and nearly having a breakdown over the iOS16 glitch where you can no longer access the app, I’ve found a solution (although this won’t be a solution for everyone). If you download the app on an iMac desktop (not a MacBook laptop), you will be able to access all saved files from the app lyric-wise. You won’t be able to access any of the saved voice recordings, but that’s not much of an issue for me since I can remember what melodies I used when I see the lyrics I wrote down. If you don’t have an iMac, I’d recommend finding someone who does, logging onto your iCloud account, downloading the app, and saving your work so that you won’t lose it again. This app was great and I have literally all my music on it (tons and tons and tons of songs), but it’s time to retire this app and move onto something a little more secure, as the developer has clearly abandoned his work, and there won’t be any updates or fixes that’ll allow us to enter the app from our phones.