Fakebook Pro Real Music Reader

Skrivarna Software

About this app

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!

Ratings and reviews

Overall this is a fairly good program. For what it costs. If I were wishing for additional functionality, well ... I have a list: 1st, make that "included" database with hundreds of (mostly) handwritten tunes with minimal information OPTIONAL. 2nd, failing that, make it easy to REMOVE that extensive database except one at a time, which takes essentially forever. 3rd, write an extensive help file, even if only on-line. 4th, maybe even publish the source code so that someone else could help.

The user interface is awkward. I have fakebooks in PDF form, each PDF containing hundreds of scanned pages for each book. The app reads these in ok, but provides no scroll bar or index to access the content. I can bookmark individual pages, but I'd have to create each bookmark by hand. That said, using fakebooks on the author's website works well using the PDFB indexes supplied there. Check to see if the Fakebooks you need are there.

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.

What's new

* Compatibility updates and small bug fixes.