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Planning Center Music Stand App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Planning Center Music Stand app received 33 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Planning Center Music Stand? Can you share your negative thoughts about planning center music stand?
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✓ New Update —Less Features + More BugsWith the new update, when I chose annotations from the same song in a different key then try to make edits on the current file it also imports annotations I erased months ago on top of the annotations making the annotations I spent a lot of time on in the past useless. I can’t erase part of a line anymore-only the whole thing. It says pixel erasing is not available in annotations. I do like the ruler. How can I get the last version back? I don’t have an apple pen and this version is horrible on my iPad Air 2. Added request: Please bring back the ability to copy in one song and paste into another for drawings. It is still possible to do with text annotations but not drawings..Version: 4.4.11
✓ 3.5 stars, a glitch and a requestI’ve been using this for a month, there is 1 glitch and there are a few things that would make it more useful. The glitch that needs to be fixed: When I open the app and choose the pdf song versions I need, there needs to be a save button. When I exit the app and return, it usually changes them. I have to have this ready to go prior so others aren’t waiting to start worship. The requests that would make it more useful: 1) when zooming in on a 2 page song they nearly always needs to be zoomed at different levels but the program won’t allow it so it would be helpful it it could be zoomed by the individual page; 2) sometimes more than 1 version of the same song is needed. For example, a keyboard player may need written piano music (like for an intro, bridge, instrumental, etc.) in addition to the chord sheet. There are a few ways around it but it’s a pain (like adding the song more than once in each version but there again, close the app and it doesn’t remember it and you get 2 of the same thing or something else you didn’t want. Plus adding a repeat song to the list confuses others). I’m glad to have this app though. I keep detailed notes on my written music and my copy gets lost often when others file it, so this way it is saved and I don’t have to fumble my paper each week!.Version: 4.3.11
✓ Apple Pencil issuesLove this app, but making notes in the music is terribly cumbersome and seemingly light years behind any other app regarding Apple Pencil integration. The recognition of the pencil movement is imprecise and the inability to use the double tap to engage the eraser is frustrating. This will be a 5 star app for me when this is addressed..Version: 4.3.2
✓ Not for a working musician who needs to make notesYears ago, this app was ok. Subsequent updates have made it worse, while apps like Unreal Book continue to advance functionality without adding bugs. At some point, Music Stand removed the ability to zoom with 2 fingers while in annotation mode, which adds steps and takes time. None of my other apps of similar use are like that. They are smooth and streamlined for professional musicians who need to work quickly. This one is not. The last couple of updates have been pretty buggy as far as the app taking way too long to "think" while making annotations. Or even turning a page in annotation mode. Meanwhile, I have none of these problems with similar apps. This latest update seemed like an improvement until I started working with it for a bit. It is actually worse. I’ve never had this app work so slowly as it does now. I spend so much time staring at a loading screen while I could move on to other things. The writing tool just flat out doesn’t work half the time until I exit the app and return. I am unfortunately tied to it with various church gigs, but even then, if I can avoid using it, I do..Version: 4.4
✓ Lots of current bugsThere’s way too bugs on the current patch, it use to flow so smoothly..Version: 4.3.5
✓ This is a great app, but it has a reoccurring glitch that is driving me crazyThis app is very useful when I’m on stage playing, but when I draw in notes and hit done, sometimes my notes disappear, and I have to draw them all over again, and other times,when I erase things that I drew in, and hit done, it puts them back, will there be a fix for this for the iPad? I’m running the latest version of iOS, using an iPad Air M1 processor I have been experiencing this issue, throughout the last several updates to iOS, and it has not improved..Version: 4.5.0
✓ Trouble with Music Stand refreshing with updates1) I often experience issues with Music Stand refreshing on my iPad after a plan has been updated on the computer. 2) Program sometimes freezes during worship service and will not advance to the next page. I love the program 80% of the time, but it has been less reliable over the past year. I’ve used it for many years..Version: 4.2.3
✓ Not saving notesWhen saving notes it gives a 404 network error, no matter if it’s on WiFi, hotspot, or otherwise working networks. This makes it impossible to save notes. This has happened with multiple people over several weeks on different devices..Version: 4.5.0
✓ Edits won’t saveWhen I try to write on the chart I get an error and the edits don’t save. Far as I can see the app is up to date..Version: 4.3.15
✓ Good AppI have been using planning center for years 5 to 6 years I think. Music stand is extremely handy for having all the right info in a consolidated place for everyone. It’s great live. I use a Bluetooth pedal to change backs and toggle the metronome for our in-ears. (I’m not a backing tracks and que sort of person.) It is perfect for that. As I flip music the metronome goes with magic. My one suggestion that would put this thing up to 5 is if the metronome started on the next measure when you change songs. Right now when you go to the next song it hiccups so even if your playing the song at the same tempo you can’t go straight into the next song smoothly. Somebody at planning center let me know you guys are working on that and I will hark this the greatest app ever or at least since flappy bird and vine..Version: 4.2.2
✓ Notes Continually Bengt DeletedThe ability to have all my notes disappear from a chord sheet is highly unwanted....please fix.Version: 4.5.0
✓ Music stand deletes annotationsI have reached out to planning center about this with no response. My annotations disappear between devices and sometimes while editing/saving annotations and I loose all my notes for my music. Is there a way to fix this?.Version: 4.4.2
✓ Update Version 4.5.2 Has Messed Me UpI’ve been using this app for nearly 5 years. It’s been great ... until tonight. This morning the app worked as usual. This evening at worship team practice, two of us in the band could not open our apps after multiple attempts as well as after troubleshooting our iPads in all the expected ways. This update has made it so that we are not able to use the app at all. Revert, please?! Help!.Version: 4.5.2
✓ Music Stand: constant saving annotations crashesHi again - I’ve been mostly happy with Music Stand - currently on a 2019 iPad Pro running iOS 13.6. Sadly, saving annotations is yet again leading to the spinning wheel of nothingness - with annotations frequently not saving. It seemed to get fixed in the last update, though that appears to have been short lived. :-(.Version: 4.3.8
✓ Constantly fails to save Apple Pencil EditsLove that it imports files and makes them editable, but it regularly loses my pencil edits with a HTTP Error Not Found 404 error. Frustrating after working through an entire song just to lose my notes. :-/.Version: 4.4.1
✓ Annotation SavingBeen using Music Stand for over 5 years. When it works it works great, but here are times when it delays saving annotations made with Apple pen on iPad Pro... very frustrating... not sure it’s just pen. Band mate said he had issues with app freezing on him too and he is not on an iPad Pro. This issue is intermittent..Version: 4.1.6
✓ After latest update the program won’t even openI don’t know what you guys just did, but we have 6 different iPads at my church, and we use Music Stand every day and love it. As of today, all of the iPads simultaneously can’t open music stand anymore. The app crashes immediately while trying to load. Please fix this. Our iPads are older and do run on iPadOS 12.5, but that’s above the minimum system requirements you have listed. We have other devices that aren’t crashing, but after the last update many of ours don’t work now..Version: 4.5.2
✓ Please improve Apple Pencil supportOverall the app works fine and does what it needs to do. I do like that it saves notes that I can see next time we play a song. With that said, the Apple Pencil support is just awful. It does not focus solely on the tip of the pencil, meaning the rest of my hand making contact with the iPad while writing is marking up other areas of the screen. The eraser function is not easy, and the actual marks on screen lag significantly behind the pencil. It is really quite painful to make notes, especially with my iPad on the stand...Version: 4.3.5
✓ Newest update is terribleThe most recent update freezes constantly and loses annotations. Use unreal book instead..Version: 1.4
✓ Metronome bugThis app used to work perfectly but I’m running into a major bug. I trigger the metronome with a midi pedal, line 6 helix. It used to be that you didn’t need to click the metronome icon and have the module at the top of the screen, now it won’t work unless you do. Even worse when I have the metronome open and try to start it, I’ll press my midi switch and I get a blip of noise and it turns right back off. This app has great functionality and I would love to give it a five star review if these bugs are fixed..Version: 4.3.3
✓ No customizationIt seems odd that I can use a dark theme on the plans screen, but not while viewing music why can't I change fonts, colors, or font sizes? super basic stuff.Version: 4.5.4
✓ App keeps crashing on our iPads.Usually they are kinda hard to connect to each other during practice and then during service 3 of them disconnected and screwed up the band. Love the app but not reliable. It keeps getting disconnected. And when the leader tries to upload a list on the fly it won’t sync with the others. So the whole band is all trying to communicate on stage to figure out what song is next. It’s embarrassing..Version: 4.2.3
✓ Great, but missing…I love the ability to change keys with/for guitar. Over the past week, I have noticed that the Disable Sleep on Idle stopped working with this app… I don’t know why it worked, but it would be nice to have the option in the settings, so I don’t have to manually need turn it on and off manually through the Display Settings. Please?!.Version: 4.3.15
✓ AhhhhIn choir practice now and for some reason the search bar isn’t showing up. They updated the song list but it isn’t showing up on my iPad. I went to search for the song but the search bar isn’t showing up…..Version: 4.5.0
✓ New Annotations (pencil kit) can be disabledPlease leave access to the older annotation tools. -Update: Thank you for the settings info Oh... To be able to toss a measure of tablature onto a chart to capture a unique passage would be a great addition for future updates..Version: 4.4.2
✓ Issues with saving my notesI use the tools to write myself reminders on the music, but when I click done for it to save, it will oftentimes say “error saving” and then it deletes ALL of my notes. It’s MADDENING!!! PLEASE fix this. I had to leave my iPad on airplane mode ALL of this week for our Christmas program JUST so my iPad wouldn’t delete my notes. When music stand connects to the internet, it deletes a lot of my notes. VERY frustrating. This didn’t’t happen until about 3 months ago, but now it happens nearly every time I make a new notations on the music charts themselves..Version: 4.4.10
✓ Good app BUT..........As a guest musician I just wanted to edit out the non musical items (it's called music stand for a reason) and have only to songs we were doing on the screen, well when I deleted the temps I did not want, it changed the whole service on Planning Center, well this messed up the schedule. Why can't we just be able to make changes on music stand only? I didn't want to change the whole service because I'm not the person making the schedule. Can we have an option for this? Rod terrell.Version: 4.1.5
✓ Loved it but now issuesHere recently the app wipes out the attached music when I put together my set list, which obviously is an issue. Any move or change and it removes the music from the song in the set. If I uninstall and reinstall it fixes it temporarily but then goes right back to not working right. Before this issue I loved using the app..Version: 4.4.10
✓ Cannot open app without WiFiThis app would not let me enter the app unless I have access to WiFi. It just shows me the login page instead of the music sheet. In cases where I don’t have access to WiFi like at retreat centers, I won’t be able to access my music at all. Also metronome does not have midi out, which makes it useless and we have to use a separate metronome to do syncing with pulse synth.Version: 4.3.3
✓ Not freeYou have to buy the app after the 30 day trial..Version: 3.0.9
✓ Good, but...I really like the functionality, in particular the ability to add my notes as overlays on sheet music. However, I regularly get validation errors, https errors, etc, when I hit the Done button after adding the notes. Instead of letting me retry saving it, all of my notes get deleted and I have to redo it all. Very annoying..Version: 4.3.5
✓ Feature requestsI use this app every week and I have a couple of questions and features I’d like to see. 1: Forced on screen keyboard. When will Planning Center figure this out? It's a hassle to turn off my Bluetooth foot pedal every time I sign in and you can’t type annotations with a foot pedal active. Please give an option to force the on screen keyboard to display while Bluetooth keyboard devices (like page turner foot pedals) are connected. 2: Am I missing something or is the saved user function no longer in this version? I see the switch to “save login details” but no place to access saved users. Forcing everyone to log in every time is a big waste of time on shared devices. Thanks!.Version: 4.1
✓ Not user friendlyGood but not user friendly. You need to do a LOT of things on desktop just to get started. You need to get all the apps from PCO to manage things. You need to google instructions just get your head around it. Apps have bugs. Apps are not straightforward to use. Again it is good once set up but NOT user friendly..Version: 3.3.7
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