What Users Really Think About Beam Music

Catastrophic reliability issues - constant crashing, extreme lag, and data loss make it unusable during live performances when musicians need it most

"always crashes & never lets me play my music. ALWAYS AT THE WORST TIME TOO. i can't even open the app right now it's so bad it crashes immediately."

"It is extremely laggy to the point where I cannot keep up with my director because my page won't turn in time."

Let me see my own music in the files app. My band only uploads the music on here and I want to mark it up on a platform that won’t magically erase it all.

For the most part, this app is great. Not much lag, live mode works well, and it doesn’t crash all the time like the last app I used. The big problem is with music markings being deleted. It’s been happening a lot the past few weeks, and we’re pretty sure it has something to do with opening/switchin...

Mid sucky app. If I could give it zero stars, I would.

the updates to make it stop crashing every two seconds have now made the entire program laggy beyond belief. sometimes i keep tapping and tapping and the screen is just frozen, which is very frustrating when trying to make a quick note or change the zoom or really anything. also i hate the new verti...

Always crashes when you need it the most, but has good features like setlists to switch music quickly, vertical scrolling, and the ability to write notes in music

The app is laggy and slow, no good for a pep band that needs to pull up music quickly. It wasn’t always this slow, so I have no clue what happened to make it how it is now. Even when pulling up pre-downloaded music on airplane mode the app is slow, so it’s not a network issue. The new portrait mode ...

Last year the app worked fine but recently there have been updates that has ruined its quality. It is extremely laggy to the point where I cannot keep up with my director because my page won’t turn in time. It also uses way more battery than before. This causes the phone to become hot, which leads t...

I march in a college band, and we recently swapped to Beam from FlipFolder and it’s been rough. Beam just doesn’t have the quality of life that FlipFolder did. The biggest things being that there’s no way to annotate music in a live sessions, so if a section leader needs to write something in they c...