We analyzed 43 negative reviews from the top 5 Rehearsal Score apps on the App Store. Here's what users hate most.
Ranked by frequency — how often each complaint appears in negative reviews.
42% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"Crashes constantly, takes an eternity to load"
"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."
23% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The app is laggy and slow, no good for a pep band that needs to pull up music quickly"
"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"
19% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The big problem is with music markings being deleted. It's been happening a lot the past few weeks"
"I want to mark it up on a platform that won't magically erase it all."
16% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"I have a code to put in for a show but there is no place in the app to enter the code."
"i have an audition coming up that i need tracks for but i haven't found anywhere to put my track codes in."
7% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The playback stutters for the first 1-2 seconds of random tracks."
"It randomly stutters when the tracks are started, throwing off the entire tempo of the performance."
5% of negative reviews mention this issue.
"The app drains battery very quickly."
"It also uses way more battery than before."
Design and usability issues driving negative reviews.
Users struggle with basic navigation - can't quickly flip pages, must swipe endlessly, and zoom settings interfere with page turns
"Why is there no proper and easy way to quickly change pages. All I can do is endlessly swipe and just drag the music around in hopes that it will eventually decide to change the page."
Pre-downloaded music still loads slowly even in airplane mode, defeating the purpose of offline access
"Even when pulling up pre-downloaded music on airplane mode the app is slow"
Users cannot figure out basic functionality like where to enter codes, making the app unusable from the start
"This app is so complicated and confusing that it is unreliable. No one has time at a rehearsal for this."
Users trying to work around app issues by screenshotting music get white pages instead
"I tried to screenshot my music so I don't have to worry about lag and crashes but now when you screenshot it just gives me a white page"
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