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Welcome to Reflow

What Reflow is and what it writes, on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

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Greensleeves open in Reflow, the standard staff above the tab, the tracks down the left edge and the playback bar at the bottom.
A score open in Reflow, the standard staff above the tab.
Greensleeves open in Reflow, the standard staff above the tab, the tracks down the left edge and the playback bar at the bottom.
A score open in Reflow, the standard staff above the tab.
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What Reflow is

Reflow writes tablature and notation for guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and voices. You write the tab and Reflow draws the standard staff above it at the same time; it plays the score back with its own instruments while you edit it.

It works offline, and your scores are files you keep where you like. Reflow’s own files end in .flow; it also opens Guitar Pro and MusicXML files, and exports to them, to MIDI, audio, PDF and pictures.

On iPad and iPhone, you write with the keypad on the screen, a hardware keyboard or, on iPad, the Apple Pencil.
On the Mac, you write with the keyboard: the numbers are frets, the arrows move the cursor.

Start with Your files to see where your scores are, then Starting a score and The editor.

Free, and the unlock

Reflow is free to download, and you can write as much as you like with it. Until you buy the unlock, a one-time purchase:

  • you can add tracks to a score until it has two;
  • an export holds the score’s first 10 bars, and exports and prints carry an “Evaluation Copy” watermark;
  • an “Evaluation Mode” badge shows in the editor.

The unlock lifts those limits and adds the Studio Rack (Audio Units on each track), clips in the arranger, Design Mode, and style sheets with their other music fonts. The articles about them say so under their title.

Help in the app

Where your scores are listed, ? at the top right opens About Reflow: the version you have, and Docs, which opens this help, and Contact, which writes to us.
Help › Reflow Documentation (⌘?) opens this help in your browser, and Help › Contact Us writes to us.

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