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Symphony Pro
  • Price
    $14.99
  • CategoryMusic
  • First releasedJanuary 7, 2011
  • Versions5 archived
  • Installable4 of 5
  • AvailabilityStill on the App Store
  • SellerXenon Labs, LLC

RequirementsCompatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 11, 2024
     
433 Ratings

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Symphony Pro 6 is a complete and intuitive app for writing music notation on iPad. It allows you to compose music for just about any size ensemble, from piano, symphonies, band, lead sheets, chord charts, guitar tabs, and more.

Starting Version 5, Symphony Pro now offers handwriting recognition as the only in-app purchase: Perfect with Apple Pencil, and works great with touch or capacitive stylus

GETTING STARTED

SP provides all of the key options to begin your work. Import a score via MusicXML, MXL, MIDI, or SP file from your computer, or from apps like Dropbox, Mail, iCloud Drive, or Safari. You can base your project on a template, or start a blank score and add additional parts later.

EDITING

To add notes, choose Pencil mode, and tap anywhere on a bar to begin editing right away. You can quickly specify note properties before or after placing notes. By switching to Select mode with one touch, you can also transpose, erase, cut, and paste multiple notes/tracks.

With an on-screen instrument, a QWERTY keyboard, or Core MIDI compatible keyboard, you can quickly enter notes & chords in step entry mode. Record a part in real-time with on-screen instruments to transcribe into notation.

Versions 4 & 5 take greater advantage of the iPad touchscreen. With shortcuts and contextual menus to edit note & bar properties, many of the commonly used editing commands are right at your fingertips.

SP supports a wide range of notational elements for your composition. Including dynamics & articulations, time & key signature changes, clef changes, pedals, and repeat conventions. Edit chord symbols, lyrics, and annotations using the iPad’s standard keyboard.

EXPORT & SHARE

When you’re finished, print out your score with AirPrint, or export it as a PDF, MusicXML, AAC, MIDI, or Symphony file. Share files via email or directly to another computer or iPad via Dropbox/iCloud Drive.

KEY FEATURES

• Introducing Handwriting Recognition for Apple Pencil & touch • Starting Version 5, Handwriting is the only In-App Purchase to enable the complete app • Now download SP on your iPhone • 24+ professionally recorded and sound-designed acoustic instruments, free out of the box

Earlier features offered free, to existing & new owners

• 114 built-in instruments for playback, and auditioning the notes you entered • Create in standard music notation or tablature • Edit with an on-screen piano, QWERTY keyboard, or a MIDI input device • Dozens of shortcuts & gestures to edit & navigate • Reduce your score size, range, or combination of parts for viewing & editing* • Print directly to AirPrint • Up to 48 instruments, 100 staves, 4 voices/layers per score • Record a part in real-time with clicks at the beat with optional emphasis • Backup & sync your scores with iCloud* • Import MusicXML, MIDI, MXL, or Symphony files • Export as a PDF, MusicXML, MIDI, AAC, or Symphony file • Large selection of articulations & dynamics • Multi-measure rests, including automatic rests • Grace notes • Customizable noteheads & note colors • Chord symbol, lyric, and annotation tools • Edit the properties of multiple notes and rests simultaneously by multi-note select • Copy/Paste function supports partial & multi-bar/staff select • Unlimited undo/redo • Customizable stem directions & note beaming • Transposing & concert pitch score option • Change tempo or clef anywhere in score or bar • Stream audio or share your screen wirelessly with AirPlay • Advanced document management • Create your own custom project template or use a built-in one • Customizable part groupings for SATB and instrument families • Customizable chord symbol, lyric, and annotation font • Loop playback feature • Auto-save support

* Previously paid, but now free upgrade in Version 5

For More information, please visit:

• http://www.symphonypro.net • http://forums.symphonypro.net • Facebook page at www.facebook.com/symphonyapp • Learn about the iPhone-only app: bit.ly/symphonyiphone

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1.1
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
January 28, 2011
95.8 MB Install Download
1.2
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
February 7, 2011
95.8 MB Install Download
1.3
Requires iOS 3.2+
97.7 MB Install Download
1.3.2
Requires iOS 3.2+
Non-Retina
May 2, 2011
97.7 MB Install Download 1 more copy ›
Symphony Pro 1.3.2 (iOS 3.2) · 97.7 MB Install Download
2.3.1
Requires iOS 4.2+
This version is no longer available on archive.org
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Bundle Size Over Time

Bundle size over time95.8 MB — January 28, 2011. 95.8 MB — February 7, 2011. 97.7 MB — May 2, 201124.4 MB48.9 MB73.3 MB97.7 MB95.8 MB — January 28, 201195.8 MB — February 7, 201197.7 MB — May 2, 2011Jan 2011May 2011

Chart History

Top Paid · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #231 (January 15, 2011) · 2 archived captures · Jan 2011
Top Paid · Music · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #9 (June 25, 2021) · 26 archived captures · Apr 2011 – Sep 2021
Top Grossing · Music · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #48 (June 27, 2021) · 18 archived captures · Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Top Paid · Music View chart ›
Peaked at #200 (August 25, 2021) · 1 archived capture · Aug 2021

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 10 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
February 5, 2011 1.1 — 9 $12.99
February 1, 2012 — — 237 $14.99
November 21, 2013 — — 489 $9.99
December 7, 2023 6.3.3 ★ 3.8 409 $19.99
December 11, 2024 6.5.2 ★ 3.8 433 $14.99

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Unusable. Look elsewhere if you’re going to pay $25
     
by Analoguemarty · March 21, 2024

This is the first time I’ve felt compelled to write a review for an app, but after dropping $25, it seems worth the time. Bought the main app along with the $10 add-on for handwriting recognition and it just simply doesn’t work. Maybe it’s user error, but I literally cannot select the correct bar and staff I want to write in with the display going wonky and zooming in and out. Once I finally get the correct staff selected, when I go to write (you know the thing you have to pay an extra $10 for), it lets me write one note and then fails to allow me to write any other notes for a chord and fails to recognize a sharp symbol. I tried five times just now to write a simple D and F# in the bass clef and every single time without fail, it got the D, interpreted the # as a staccato marking and didn’t even let me write the F. All I’m trying to do is write down some basic ideas and the user experience SEVERELY limits the usability for such a simple action. Not gonna lie, feeling pretty ripped off right now. Hopefully someone else can avoid the mistake I made.

Clunky and not intuitive.
     
by FlootSquid · April 6, 2025

Feels clunky and not intuitive. Too many sub menus and difficult to navigate. Feels like a chore to create using the stylus and lacks the efficiency of keyboard inputs/commands so writing is a painstakingly slow process that’s not enjoyable. The program requires a steep learning curve from other software. A regrettable purchase overall.

Finally updated Jan/Feb ‘24
     
by pseudonym58 · February 24, 2024

I have not yet had time to put the latest version of this app through all of its paces, but I wanted to make sure to adjust my review in light of the fact that the app has been updated at least twice in the past two months. I’m happy to see the developers are still active, fixing bugs.

Extremely unintitive
     
by davideh · January 8, 2026

I had great difficulty getting to needed screens and finding help to run the software. There are much better options out there.

Handwriting
     
by Dan_W_98 · November 5, 2024

Handwriting recognition is MILES ahead of StaffPad for half the price… very happy with symphony pro

Wont even download....
     
by Strizbiz · October 24, 2025

smh

Urgent folder problem!!!
     
by Nikolay Ovchinnikov · February 16, 2025

I’ve been using this application for 6 years, and I really love this app. However, recently, the application started to delete the folders that I created in this app that help me organize all the scores. Those folders contained a lot of scores that I wrote myself; they’re about 50 of them. So about 1 week ago the app deleted all the folders, and it took me a tremendous amount of time to create the folders again and put all the scores inside those folders. Today, this problem happened again, and I am afraid to fix this because it’s gonna waste my time, and I know the app will delete them again. Please fix it !! It never happened before for all those years. Another thing, is there a way I can upload all the scores to an Internet cloud, so in case my iPad breaks or gets stolen. I would be able to recover all the scores. This is literally all my life in this application because I have been constantly writing scores for like 6 years so far and, as I already mentioned, there are about 50 scores that I wrote. Thank you for your answer!

Promising but not there yet for guitarists
     
by armsfullofronan · February 15, 2026

Total bummer that handwritten mode is still not yet supported for tablature. It would be a game changer. Was really looking forward to this promising app but it is a massive oversight to not have this feature.

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.