Almond

The app is good for what it wants to become, however, there are glaring errors, too. For example, look up the key signature for A major. There is a nice picture of a treble clef and there sharps, F#, C#, and G#. But then Almond goes on to claim that the parallel minor is F-sharp minor… oops! I think they meant “relative” minor. Look up the definition for Relative Minor and you get “the major key whose tonic lies a minor third above its own” definition… no mention of them having the same key signature! Over all, it is a good idea for an app, however the errors are annoying and should be corrected.

Nobody has really left any feedback, so I thought I might. Almond is an excellent pocket guide to music. Anyone in a music theory class should deffinately look into this, it's proven very helpful in my class. But there're just random words that aren't listed in here. The creators could really look into making sure this data base has as much as possible, and not leave the consumer without their desired definition, and 5$ poorer. Another feature that would absolutely make this product nearly flawless, is a search engine in which you could not only type the word, but the definition itself , and the word your looking for will come up. I if that feature were added, then u have no complaints, excellent product for any studying musician. P.S. I agree, Almond is kind of a cool name, very original, but also extremely Misleading. I found this APP on accident!!

I decided to go ahead and give Almond a try, despite the lack of reviews. I feel like I got my money's worth with the program, but there's certainly a lot of room for improvement here. What I like: * Almond includes a good range of musical terms. * The definitions are clear and concise. They don't go into a huge amount of detail, but there's enough there to satisfy. * Links to Google and Wikipedia from each definition make it easy to delve deeper. * The interface is clean and easy to use. * The illustrations are a nice addition. What I'd like to see changed/improved: * The full definitions are placed halfway down the screen. Because of this, if you set the font size to medium or large, on longer definitions you end up with a scrollable box that's both annoying and flawed in its implementation. This really needs to be fixed. * More and larger illustrations. * An integrated mini-browser, so you don't have to leave the app in order to view the Wikipedia entries. * Sound! This app would be so much better if it included sound. That's the whole benefit of having a software-based music dictionary - you can include sound to illustrate the terms. If the developers added sound to this, I'd happily pay three times the current price. I also wonder whether the name and program icon deter potential buyers. I'm sure many people have no idea this is a musical dictionary and pass it by when browsing the App Store.