Ableton Note

• Price: $6.99
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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.2 672 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Changing the game.

   This app has changed the game. I haven’t touched anything else on my I pad, my vast arsenal of hardware synths, samplers are getting neglected due to the ease and speed of using this app. Once you get past the tiny learning curve you will start to discover features you thought were absent but are in fact hidden in the UI. Each instruments clip can be automated independently! This blew my mind. Saves so much time/work when you import your project into Ableton live. Importing your whole project into Ableton could not be any easier. Just save your project from Note to Ableton cloud and everything is there. Grab the complete project file from your Ableton browser from Ableton Cloud onto your current project and it’s all there fully automated ready for production. If you get creative you can work outside of Ableton Live as well as an instrument, or for loops. Connect to an interface and record your projects/clips into logic syncing time with Ableton link. This is the fastest workflow I’ve ever experienced and my vote for best music making app for 2022 and all time. A must have! My number one recommendation is please please pretty please with cash on top, add midi controller support. Oh please now MIDI out to complete its perfection. Would love to live sequence external gear/vst’s with this super fast workflow.

   figet speener · 31 Jul 2026

2. 4/5I Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎧😩💕

   Easy to use, intuitive and quite nice visual aspect, it would seem that it could be better than FLMobile but I consider that there are 3 things that hold back its true potential to be better than FLMobile (which I have and use) and I wish that these recommendations could be heard!. 1. Manual draw notes and visual midi editor: It's really frustrating to have to record and record to get a sound right, it would be easier to just take that sound and drag it to a specific note on the midi piano (all already quantized to our shape). In other words, like in “Live” if we could have a visual midi piano in which we can capture notes just by pressing said note, add loops and that their duration depends on the duration of the note placed on the midi piano, that would be great. 2. Moving the pad rack or midi piano: If we could have the option to move on the midi piano or the pad rack itself to select the 8th we want, that would save us a lot of time! It would also help a lot if we could activate the option to see the labels or name of the notes on the piano or rack (C,D,E, Kick, Snare, Clap, etc...) 3. Add more than one effect or plugin: maybe for performance reasons this is not possible but if it is not, it would be great to have the opportunity to add more than one effect to individual pads and sound kits, like “ I want to add max 5 or 8 effects or effects plugin (reverb, sat, EQ) at the same time in a single sound and also to the sound kit.

   Kin007gmans · 31 Jul 2026

3. 5/5The best app for creating music, only one issue w it and easy fix

   I love it especially as an addition to Live on my Mac. I’ve been using Live since about 2009 and version 7 (I believe?) through current version 12 and it’s the best DAW for many reasons IMO. And I use Note now every day to create and record ideas (usually when I should be working) and easily move from Note on my phone to Ableton on my Mac (when I’m done for the day and home from work;) and I never have an ideas fade away before I can do something w it anymore!! BUT… the only gripe I have that seems like an easy fix/addition: no step sequencer for drums etc! It seems so obvious I started to wonder if I just didn’t know how to access it. Please add this feature. I’m sure it will cost money for that feature but I will gladly pay amd im sure other will too! Make it the PERFECT music creation tool instead of just the BEST as it is already;) That’s all and thank you for what you do…

   Ryan 4.20 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Fun to play with!

   For 5 years I have been enjoying the ever increasing functionality of Ableton Note. A drum pad on the solid phone screen is less than perfect and there are fewer sounds than in Ableton Live. Playing on the screen I’ve gotten very used to. Since the upgrade to MIDI compatibility it can be controlled by any other device and vice versa though at that point I would probably just use the laptop. The above is particularly true because midi editing with my fingers on the touchscreen of the iPhone is a delicate and tricky process. I have much difficulty sometimes with selecting and adjusting notes- often does something I am not attempting. I have had a lot of fun with this product and would recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning or making beats on the go. That said, I have come close to breaking my phone in half in fits of rage during the editing process. Much love Ableton, thank you for this great inexpensive product and for constantly improving it. **Should have mentioned the endless features and functions of this simple phone app. It is about as simple or complex as the user wants to make it. I am still learning about it all the time even now, and it keeps getting better!

   Yamileh 182738 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Beware this app will erase your work

   I read a review when I first downloaded the app, and I didn’t understand what he was saying until it happened to me. Beware! This app has a major flaw in saving data if you have connected your device to ableton cloud. If you have connected your device and already saved a copy it will automatically erase all work you have created, when you connect to the Internet and open the app. Abelton, this is rookie behavior and should be corrected immediately. People are losing hours if not days of work because your developers are moving like amateurs when it comes to making sure that the save does not erase any current work we have created. We expect more from you. I am completely disappointed. I have been using abelton for at least seven or more years and this is the most disappointing feature I’ve ever experienced. I lost so much work and time all I could do was quit using your app out of anger and frustration. Abelton, I have never given you a bad review because I always enjoyed your products. And the truth is I was enjoying this app until it erased days of my work. this is just poor programming. Step your game up.

   Judah0763 · 31 Jul 2026

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