About Touch Notation
Touch Notation is a powerful musical score creation app that allows anyone to enjoy writing music using touch gestures. In Japan, Touch Notation was selected as one of the ‘App Store Best of 2014’ apps, and held the No.1...
Touch Notation is a powerful musical score creation app that allows anyone to enjoy writing music using touch gestures. In Japan, Touch Notation was selected as one of the ‘App Store Best of 2014’ apps, and held the No.1 spot in the iPad Paid App index for music apps for over two weeks. Up until now, musical score creation software has relied upon dragging individual notes from a palette onto staves. By contrast, Touch Notation allows musicians to draw directly onto the score using a finger or touch pen, and have their work immediately appear as beautifully written notation, then played back using the app’s 30 built-in instrument voices. - A wide-range of functions accessible from a cleanly designed, intuitive user interface. - Ability to enter musical expressions for adjusting tempo and dynamics. - Layout functions such as page breaks. - Convenient transpose feature for raising/lowering the pitch of the entire score. - Output scores using Air Print, or save to Dropbox in PDF, SMF, MusicXML, and ScoreMaker formats. Touch Notation allows the following musical symbols to be entered by hand: - Note, Rest (including dotted and double-dotted), Long Rest, Beam, Tuplet (Triplet) - Grace Note - Accidental, Tie, Slur - Accent, Staccato, Tenuto, Fermata - Trill, sfz, Arpeggio, Pedal, Senza - Metronome symbol - Crescendo, Decrescendo - Dynamics symbols (ppp~fff) - Octave symbol - Repeat brackets - Repeat marks (D.C./Fine/D.S./Segno/Coda/to Coda) - Clefs (Treble Clef/Bass Clef/C Clef/Percussion Clef) - Key signature - Time signature - Bar lines (repeat marks) - Abbreviation Lyrics and other musical expressions (‘Dolce’, ‘Tranquillo’, etc.) can be added using text input, while comments and memos can also be written freehand directly onto the score. * Drum notation is supported, but other types such as rhythm notation and tab notation are not supported. * Older devices may experience stuttering when playing complicated scores with many simultaneous notes.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Touch Notation since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-28 00:47:17.
The latest version is 1.2.6 and it was updated on 2026-06-24 09:56:04. See below the changes in each version.
Touch Notation version 1.2.6
Updated At: 2026-06-03
Changes: Version History This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
Minor fixes 1.2.6 Apr 3 Minor fixes 1.2.5 Jan 9 - Fixed a bug that the size of the file created by PDF export may become abnormally large.
- Fixed an issue where natural input might be mistaken for lyrics input.
- Various other bugs fixed. 1.2.004 06/15/2021 Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing. 1.2.003 01/20/2020 - Added the ability to input lyrics.
- Added layout functions such as page break.
- When spacing with no measure selected, the vertical position of the staff and lyrics is now automatically adjusted.
- Various other bugs fixed. 1.2.002 12/26/2019 - Added the ability to input lyrics.
- Added layout functions such as page break.
- When spacing with no measure selected, the vertical position of the staff and lyrics is now automatically adjusted.
- Various other bugs fixed. 1.2.001 12/20/2019 - From this version of Touch Notation, the supported OS is iOS11 or later.
- Fixed an issue that prevented handwritten videos from playing correctly in the Help function.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some settings and properties such as tempo and font size to change to the minimum value when closing windows under iPadOS13.
- Various other bugs fixed. 1.1.003 10/30/2019 Added link to an online video on the handwriting input page.
(This countermeasure is necessary, as the videos embedded into the help pages no longer play on iOS 12.2 or later.) 1.1.002 05/22/2019 - Added support for entering and editing drum notation.
- Added 5 new score templates that include drum percussion.
- Added support for entering grace notes.
- Added support for writing abbreviation symbols.
- Added ability to resume score playback using a > gesture
- Various other small fixes. 1.1.001 03/19/2017 - Improved recognition accuracy when writing certain numbers and symbols.
- Various other small fixes and improvements. 1.0.106 07/12/2016 Improved accuracy of handwriting input when using iPad Pro + Apple Pencil. 1.0.105 02/25/2016 Fixed unexpected app termination when touching the main edit screen when Touch Notation is run on the iPhone 6s/iPhone 6s Plus. 1.0.104 12/04/2015 Maintenance update for iOS9, fixing unexpected app termination when performing the following operations:
- Selecting 'Score Settings'
- Entering expressions or editing expression properties
- Entering chord names or editing chord names 1.0.103 10/01/2015 - Ability to enter power chords (like Bb5) with a sharp/flat root.
- Ability to enter note tuplets that span the top and bottom of the staff.
- Various bugs fixed:
+ Some automatic accompaniment chords were not played correctly.
+ Exported Music XML documents did not export correct chord name.
+ Enabling Core MIDI without selecting a device would cause the app to terminate.
+ Changing the device orientation, then returning to the Library screen would cause the app to terminate. 1.0.102 06/19/2015 - In-app purchases to add new features to Touch Notation
・Core MIDI Output
・Chord Name & Automatic Accompaniment
・Handwritten Font
・Sound Set: Full (total 10 sets)
・Sound Set: Individual (Piano, Guitar, etc / 16 sounds in each set)
- English language localization
- Built-in synth now features adjustable reverb
- Various bug fixes 1.0.101 04/16/2015 1.0.014 12/12/2014 1.0.013 10/24/2014 1.0.010 10/10/2014 1.0.009 09/07/2014 1.0.005 08/25/2014 1.0.004 08/14/2014
Touch Notation version 1.2.5
Updated At: 2026-01-09
Changes: Minor fixes
Touch Notation version 1.2.004
Updated At: 2021-06-15
Changes: Jun 15, 2021 Version 1.2.004
- Fixed a bug that the size of the file created by PDF export may become abnormally large.
- Fixed an issue where natural input might be mistaken for lyrics input.
- Various other bugs fixed.
Touch Notation version 1.2.003
Updated At: 2020-01-20
Changes: Jan 20, 2020 Version 1.2.003
Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing.
Touch Notation version 1.2.003
Updated At: 2020-01-20
Changes: 20 Jan 2020 Version 1.2.003
Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing.
Touch Notation version 1.0.106
Updated At: 2015-03-20
Touch Notation version 1.2.003
Updated At: 1970-01-01
Changes: 2020年1月20日 Version 1.2.003
Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing.
Touch Notation version 1.2.003
Updated At: 1970-01-01
Changes: 20 de jan de 2020 Version 1.2.003
Fixed an issue that prevented lyrics from outputting when exporting to PDF or printing.
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