Fakebook Pro: Real Book and PDF Sheet Music Reader
The best sheet music reader for gigging musicians. PDF, chord charts & setlists!
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The best sheet music reader for gigging musicians. PDF, chord charts & setlists!
The Fakebook Pro is the best sheet music reader, the go-to gigbook with transposing chord charts, free downloads of PDF, ChordPro, iRealPro and most other popular music notes formats. All the songs you need, in the pocket - leave the music binders at home. Designed for the gigging musician, Fakebook Pro features smooth page changes, instant search results, easy to use setlists. And it is the most reliable and stable sheet music reader app available, no strange permissions, no in-app purchases and no internet access needed at the gig.▶ Includes 1600 preloaded real book jazz standards, pop and rock chord charts that you can transpose to any key.▶ Import most common music and lyrics formats, including PDF, ChordPro, OnSong, iReal, abc, guitar tabs.▶ Full screen sheet music and optional two page view. Perfect on your music stand. ▶ Automatic cropping optimize music scores for your reader, tablet or phone.▶ Automatic chord chart scaling, keeping a constant number of bars per line for easy music reading.▶ Edit chords and lyrics in the app. The easy-to-use editor allows quick fixes as well as adding new songs from scratch.▶ Scale and zoom each music or lyrics page separately, with simple gestures. ▶ Create and store setlists, mixing chord charts, PDF music notes, lyrics pads and sheet music any way you want. Song book gig manager!▶ Spotify and YouTube links to reference recordings as well as quick music title, composer and lyrics search makes Fakebook Pro the perfect practice tool.▶ Mark, draw and annotate on any song, regardless of music format. Only possible with Fakebook Pro!▶ Built-in metronome, stores and recalls tempo for each song. Perfect for both practice and gig.▶ No creepy permissions - Fakebook Pro plays nice.▶ No in-app purchases or upgrade fees - buy once and you are free to use Fakebook Pro on all your devices.Playing piano, keyboard, bass, trombone, recorder, banjo? Are you the ultimate guitar pro? Singing lead vocals? Or in a choir? Leading a worship band or first chair violin in an orchestra? Weekend warrior, doing real book jazz standards or only original music? Fakebook Pro is the ultimate music score reader for you!The Fakebook Pro sheet music reader app is compatible with AirTurn, PageFlip, Coda Stomp and iRig wireless pedals as well as other Bluetoth input devices.Note that the 1600 transposable chord charts are free and included in the app purchase, other scores, sheet music, notes, lyrics pad, guitar tablature are downloaded separately. Fakebook Pro imports music files from other apps (e.g. in PDF, ChordPro, OnSong, iRealPro and abc formats, guitar tabs and bass tabs). Batch scripts (free from https://www.skrivarna.com) automatically download and index PDF collections, e.g. most popular Real Book, Vocal Book and Gig Book for score music binders. Import images or take pictures of song books, music scores or lyrics pads with the device camera. Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box and other cloud storage supported.Transposing chord charts, PDF music book indexing and free sheet music downloads - all in one professional app - at the current price you should get the Fakebook Pro Real Book and PDF Sheet Music Reader now!3.2:- Transpose with b or # preference.- Immersive mode.- Optimizations.3.1:- Double tap screen to go to next song (single tap still moves to next/previous page).- New control to make photo or PDF black & white and increase contrast. - Metronome tempo now shown in list and music header. 3.0:- Automatic chord font scaling.- Double tap (two or three fingers) to reset zoom or font scaling.
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Transpose function has glitch. When selected, it jumps to next tune in list making it necessary to load the tune before the one you want to transpose 🤨 worked fine in previous version
About the only thing wrong with this is a lack of a user manual or help function. Yeah, everyone just intuitively knows how to work every piece of software - sorry, not me. I can figure out a lot of it by trial and error, but it would be very handy to have at least a short reminder available to find all the functions. For example, I am simply not able to find the procedure for switching song lists. I can find the place to CREATE a new one, but not how to use it. Maybe it's just me?
Not really sure how this app is anything different than any PDF reader. If there's some kind of unique functions in the thing, it's sure not simple to find. I'll return to just using Adobe PDF reader. UPDATE 5 yrs later: I got a little more familiar with the commands and format. I like the ability to quickly search for words "within" song titles. ie search "Love" you'll get songs that start with Love, as well as songs with "Love" in the middle of the title. But what's still a little wonky is the file handling. Backup, restore, download, all seem to be hit or miss. Sometimes it simply loses entire libraries and returns to default tunes. All of this might simply be an Android problem. I hope the monster bugs disappear.
Crashes constantly now when calling up charts. Used to be reliable, not any more. Reinstall didn't fix. Uninstalled and bought another program.
Would rate zero. No notes, all chords.
Great app. Use it for 3 years already and am very happy with it. However, I have an issue transferring database from one device to another. Could you please give users a bit more info on how to do that? I created a database backup file and transferred it to a new device, but when I'm trying to replace the stock database with it, the app just hangs and nothing happens. Is there another method I should try?
Dear developers everywhere: I don't know why it is so hard to make an app to do something so simple I've gone through probably every single PDF app on play store. All we need is the ability to bookmark specific pages across a variety of PDFs and place those bookmarks in a single location that is accessible so that when I click bet bookmark it takes me to the PDF with that specific page number we also need the ability to name those bookmarks and organize them in to separate lists.
Love the app for what it is. Contains all the real chord charts and some pop charts. The ui is what keeps this from being 5 star. Could use a bit of tidying up and redesigning for convenience sake. Other than that, love it!
Doesn't auto index local pdfs.
I love this app for creating (and keeping) set lists for gigs thanks to the Playlists system. The app has been updated regularly since I started using (around 2019) and chart editing has greatly improved. I wish there were Undo options, when editing a playlist or a chart. But the weakest point for me is the tempo selection: it's quite difficult to enter the tempo accurately via the provided slider. And when opening a chart I wish there was a quicker way of launching/stopping the metronome.