Reflow - Score Editor26.5.3 - App Store

Reflow is a tablature and notation editor for guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and vocals. Write tabs, compose songs, import Guitar Pro and MIDI files, and hear everything played back with realistic instruments.

Trusted by thousands of musicians for over a decade.

Instant Web Share
- Share any score as a web link - one tap, no account needed
- Recipients get a full interactive player with audio playback and cursor tracking
- Speed control and loop markers in the web player
- Links expire after 7 days

Import Your Files
- Open Guitar Pro 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 files (.gp, .gp5)
- Import Standard MIDI files with track mapping and quantization controls
- Import MusicXML files
- Access thousands of tabs shared online

Tablature & Notation
- Guitar, bass, banjo, ukulele, and any stringed instrument
- Bends, slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, harmonics, and all standard techniques
- Lyrics with auto-advance - press Space or Hyphen to chain syllables across beats
- Standard notation stays in sync above the tab staff
- Custom tuning support

Virtual Instruments
- Interactive piano keyboard - tap to enter or preview notes
- Interactive fretboard - see note names, tap to enter notes
- Scale overlay - display any scale on the keyboard or fretboard

Drum Notation
- Full drum kit mapping on a standard percussion staff
- Custom drum mapping editor - assign any MIDI note to any staff position
- Enter beats with keyboard shortcuts, numeric keypad, or tap input

Chord Diagrams
- Built-in library with 89 chord types and voicings
- Add diagrams above any beat
- Chord names display automatically

Multi-Track Scores
- Combine guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and vocals in one score
- Solo, mute, and adjust volume and pan per track
- Realistic instrument sounds across 128 instruments
- Rack view with per-track controls and custom track colors

Edit While It Plays
- Edit your score during playback - hear changes in real time
- Add notes, adjust dynamics, switch instruments without stopping

Audio & Practice
- High-quality instrument sounds with instant playback
- Loop / A-B repeat - drag markers to loop any section
- Adjustable playback speed from 0.25x to 2x
- Metronome, precount, and playback tracking
- MIDI input from external controllers

View Modes
- Continuous vertical scroll - modern reading experience
- Page view with Fit Page Width
- Free zoom and horizontal scroll

Export & Share
- Instant Web Share - temporary web link with interactive player
- Export to MusicXML, GP5, GP7, MIDI, WAV, M4A, and PDF
- Open your scores in Dorico, Sibelius, MuseScore, or Finale
- Print your scores directly
- Bundled sample songs to explore and learn from

Keyboard Shortcuts
- Full keyboard support on Mac and iPad with hardware keyboard
- Works on all keyboard layouts - AZERTY, QWERTZ, and more

Privacy First
- All data stored locally on your device
- iCloud backup and sync
- No account, no login, no tracking
- Works fully offline

One-Time Purchase
- Free to try - all features available in evaluation mode
- Evaluation watermark and 10-measure export limit
- Purchase once to remove the watermark and unlock full exports

Download Reflow and start creating music today.

Version History Stability and fixes

This update focuses on reliability and polish.

- Restore Purchase now reliably recognizes an existing purchase
- Time signatures no longer overlap in some notation fonts
- Chord names keep their accidentals, inversions, and symbols after reopening
- Clef octave markings are preserved when you save and reopen
- More reliable PDF, audio, Guitar Pro, MusicXML, and MIDI export
- Fixed several rare crashes 26.5.3 Jul 21 Measure numbers

Reflow now numbers your measures. Turn them on in Score Style and choose how often they appear — every system, every measure, or every few bars — then align them to the first beat or the barline. Drag any number to reposition it, and set where the count begins.

Improvements
- MusicXML export now carries your measure-numbering setting
- Fixed a rare crash when importing certain MusicXML files 26.5.2 Jun 11 Effects that sound right

Harmonics, slap, and pop now play back with higher-fidelity sounds. Natural harmonics ring clean, pinch and artificial harmonics keep their electric edge, and slap and pop use dedicated bass voices.

Tap, Slap & Pop on the page

These articulations now appear above the staff as T, S, and P — and their palette buttons light up when active.

Improvements
- Tablature ties no longer repeat the fret number; tied notes are joined with a tie
- Glyph Browser icons are clearly visible again
- Easier-to-read text in the bottom editing palette
- Fixed an effect's sound applying to the following note instead of its own
- Fixed the editing toolbar stretching off-screen on iPad — rows now wrap and scroll to fit 26.5.1 Jun 2 Chord Diagram Designer
Build chord shapes visually with auto-fingering and barre detection. Tap frets to assemble a grip; Reflow suggests fingerings, identifies barres, and saves shapes to your library for reuse.

Tool Palette Refresh
Sharper glyphs across the palette with baseline-aligned captions. New buttons for Tap/Slap/Pop articulations, Stem direction, Shift Slide, and Flatten/Split/Join Clip. Custom icons for Time Signature, Key Signature, Clef, and Simile.

iPhone Cursor Control
Choose Joystick or D-Pad per orientation, with adjustable joystick sensitivity. Landscape defaults to D-Pad.

Improvements
- Fix crash opening documents whose score metadata was empty
- Fix crash on playback when a tablature note lacks a string assignment
- Fix palette crash on iPad in some screen layouts
- Fix chord-diagram barres not rendering on the score canvas
- Speed Trainer: start rate now applies on the first iteration
- Selection capsule: full pill is clickable 26.5 May 13 Fixes and Improvements
- Fix crash entering notes on a standard staff with an out-of-range line
- Fix crash compiling MIDI when a crescendo ends past the last bar
- Speed Trainer: start rate now applies on the first iteration
- iPhone: cursor control preferences (Joystick / D-Pad per orientation, plus joystick sensitivity). Landscape defaults to D-Pad again.
- Selection capsule: full pill is clickable
- Quick Tips in the New Document dialog are now platform-specific
- Hardened a few latent array-subscript crashes 26.4.1 Apr 23 Speed Trainer
Loop a passage with gradual tempo increase. Configurable start tempo, target, step size, and loops per step, with optional count-in between loops. HUD overlay shows current tempo on the score. Tap the hare in the playback bar.

Score Themes
Six built-in themes: Classic, Dark, Sepia, Midnight Blue, Solarized Dark, Solarized Light. Switch from View Settings — all open scores update live. Print and PDF always use Classic.

Guitar Pro Parity
Full round-trip with Guitar Pro 5 and 7: shuffle/swing feel, bends, slides, harmonics, legato, palm mute, let ring, staccato, accents, dynamics, ghost notes. Fixes silent data loss on legato and let ring from GP5 files.

Tremolo Bar
New whammy bar symbol with segment-based pitch control. Import and export via Guitar Pro, rendered as "w/bar" with target pitch, played back with MIDI pitch wheel. Edit via inspector stepper or toolbar button.

Image Export
Unified PNG / SVG / PDF export with one sheet. Choose score theme colors or the default, transparent or paper background, and which systems to include.

Reflow Library
Save and recall your presets: Score Styles, Drum Mappings, Tunings, and Track Presets. Menu button in every dialog title bar. Track presets appear in "My Library" when adding instruments.

Improvements
- Free Clips: pitch lines inside clip blocks, clip color fix in arranger, cleaner borders that account for stems and beams
- Clip editing consolidated into the inspector popup
- Loop plays the selected measure range
- Split beat preserves clip metadata on both halves
- Export sheet auto-tucks options once the image is ready 26.4 Apr 22 Rhythm & Voice Tools
New Rhythm toolbar category: change note values and dots on existing beats, not just future input. Voice selection, dotted/double-dotted notes, and tied notes all in one compact strip.

Free Clips
Bends, grace notes, tuplets, and manual beaming now preserved in clips. Clip sync detects structural changes automatically.

Inline Beat Text
Tap Text to type directly on the score — no dialog. Attach text to notes or beats with precise positioning.

Design Mode
Full Design Mode now available on iPad and iPhone. Drag system handles, adjust staff spacing, fine-tune layout on touch.

Cleaner Layout
Split top bar for more score space. Keypads hidden when not in tab mode. Evaluation badge hidden in landscape. Flexible toolbar adapts to small screens.

Improvements
- Gray out inactive voices in the score
- Measure tool: instant tap-to-select, drag for range
- Copy/paste works in measure mode
- Better inspector: updates instantly on selection change
- Redesigned paywall with feature-specific slides
- 2300+ new translations across all 10 languages 26.3 Apr 16 Multi-Line Lyrics
Add up to 5 lyric lines per staff. Tap to enter the active line, long-press to pick a specific line. Each line auto-advances independently.

Score Style
Fine-tune your score's appearance: page size, orientation, scale, staff line thickness, beam spacing, barline weight, fret number scaling, and more. All changes are live.

Selection Clarity
Selected notes are now shown in full orange, with related objects on the same beat in muted orange, so you always know exactly what's selected.

Purchase Fix
Fixed an issue where some users were incorrectly shown as unlocked. Purchase status is now verified with the App Store on every launch.

Improvements
- Friendlier evaluation experience with redesigned paywall
- Numeric keypad support for fret entry in tab mode (Mac)
- Undo/redo support for Score Style changes
- Fixed an audio thread issue on note preview 26.2 Mar 27 Instant Web Share
Share any score as a web link — one tap, no account needed. Recipients get a full interactive player with audio playback, cursor tracking, speed control, and loop markers. Links expire after 7 days.

Loop / A-B Repeat
Set loop markers directly on the score. Drag A and B markers to snap to any barline, even across systems. Real-time loop update during playback.

MusicXML Export
Export scores as MusicXML (.musicxml) for use in Dorico, Sibelius, MuseScore, Finale, and other notation apps.

Improvements
• Dynamics display: repeated markings suppressed, rests hidden
• Guitar Pro 5: tied note frets now import correctly
• MusicXML import: better tie handling, tablature fret/string support
• Export sheet: Web Share is now the default, last format remembered
• Sample library: all 29 samples regenerated with correct scaling 26.1 Mar 24 Reflow is now a one-time purchase! Existing and past subscribers get a lifetime unlock.

New in v26.0:

- Guitar Pro 7 and 8 import (.gp files)
- MIDI file import with interactive track mapping and quantization
- Lyrics with auto-advance (Space/Hyphen to chain syllables)
- Harmonics: natural, artificial, pinch, semi, feedback
- Virtual piano keyboard and fretboard in the bottom panel
- Scale overlay on keyboard and fretboard
- New audio engine with better instrument sounds and instant playback
- Continuous vertical scroll view mode
- Inline editing for title, lyrics, rehearsal signs, and beat text
- Per-note velocity, offset, and duration controls
- Tools palette with variant popup buttons for all editing tools
- Redesigned interface with floating controls
- Track Settings with per-voice rendering, custom colors, drum mapping
- Export dialog: GP5, GP7, MIDI, WAV, M4A, PDF
- Keyboard shortcuts work on all layouts (AZERTY, QWERTZ)
- iPad hardware keyboard: note letter keys, Shift to chord, dotted toggle
- 29 bundled sample songs in the Reflow Library 26.0 Mar 20 With this release, we’re improving user experience and fixing some issues.

- Added: Play entered or modified notes instantly for audio feedback.
- Fixed: Playback volume was sometimes too low.
- Fixed: Changing duration of selected notes outside tab mode. 25.0 10/30/2025 With this release, we’re improving user experience by adding the possibility to drag notes to adjust their pitch.

- Drag notes up or down on the score to change pitch
- Drag tablatures notes up or down to change string
- Use the up and down arrows on keyboard to change pitch 24.0 06/04/2025 This maintenance improves user experience and addresses some bugs.

- Fixed: Document saving could fail if created from iCloud Recent section.
- Fixed: Random crash at startup sharing subscription between Mac and iOS.
- Fixed: Tied notes sometimes display the wrong pitch. 23.3 05/18/2025 This maintenance improves user experience and addresses some bugs.

- Added: Option to hide the standard notation staff for tracks with tablature.
- Added: Display the rhythm in tablature.
- Added: Display a TAB clef for tablatures.
- Improved: Prevent the dots from being drawn on the staff line.
- Fixed: Grand staff spacing issue.
- Fixed: Display double dotted notes.
- Fixed: Move the selected tuplet groups with drag gesture. 23.2 11/06/2024 This maintenance improves user experience.

- Improved: Tap to change active track in the arranger.
- Fixed: Keypad validation for tempo and midi program. 23.1 11/04/2024 Welcome to the Reflow 23 update,

In this release we’re introducing MusicXML import, including support for the compressed MXL format.

This new import is part of the core features and available to everyone free of charge. The MusicXML format is quite complex so feel free to contact us at mail@reflow.app with attached files that you could not open correctly so we can advise and potentially fix and improve our importer for non compatible files. 23.0 10/26/2024 This maintenance update addresses some bugs and improves user experience.

- Fixed: Drum notes input using alternate keypad
- Fixed: Crash with neutral clef found on standard track in some legacy files
- Improved: Enable copy/paste on tick range in select mode 22.1 10/09/2024 Welcome to the Reflow 22 update,

This new release introduces hairpins (crescendo and decrescendo) and some UX improvements. Here’s the changelog :

- Added: Crescendo and decrescendo (Hairpins)
- Added: Use the toolbar in select mode
- Added: Create beaming and tuplets in select mode
- Added: Create slurs and segments in select mode 22.0 09/04/2024 This maintenance update addresses some bugs and improves user experience.

- Fixed: Tweaking coordinates of automatic beaming is now working as expected
- Fixed: Beaming and stems attachment issues
- Fixed: Moving beaming or slurs can be undone
- Fixed: Manual beaming coordinates are now saved correctly 21.3 08/10/2024 This maintenance update addresses some bugs and improves user experience.

- Improved: Scroll only one axis when centering on playback cursor
- Fixed: Drums template was using a wrong bass drum mapping 21.2 08/08/2024 This maintenance update improves stability.

- Fixed: Issue with horizontal mode staff placement 21.1 08/05/2024 Welcome to the Reflow 21 update!

This release introduces an exciting new premium feature: Custom Fonts. Now, you can personalize every aspect of your score's appearance by selecting your preferred fonts, enhancing readability and matching your unique style. 21.0 07/30/2024 This maintenance update adds some UX improvements.

- Added: Select a template when creating a document
- Added: The MIDI note 35 for drums is displayed on another staff line for double bass pedal drumming. 20.3 07/18/2024 This maintenance update adds some features and UX improvements.

- Added: Create slides from note to note in inspector
- Added: Press spacebar to toggle playback
- Fixed: Paper size on opening legacy document 20.2 07/11/2024 This maintenance update addresses some bugs and improves user experience and stability.

- Added: Set the alternate endings (volta brackets) in inspector
- Improved: The Note inspector has been redesigned for clarification
- Improved: Draw time signature change for the first system in page
- Fixed: Potential crash with tied notes between two systems
- Fixed: Offset initial barline with repeat start to prevent overlapping
- Fixed: The alternate endings were not rendered
- Fixed: All the metadata fields are now drawn on score
- Improved: The inspector in portrait mode now takes roughly half screen space 20.1 07/03/2024