Hymnals 2

The app is ok. A bit clunky. I never in a million years thought I would say this, but GIA needs to look at what OCP does. They sell you a locked PDF. You can open the PDF in Apple Books or any other PDF app. It has clickable links in the file to go to songs from the index it back to the index. Its way more simpler and easy to use. You can easily bookmark with a regular PDF file, this gets a bit clunky creating a service file. GIA - please take a look at what OCP did, and there will be no reason to maintain a clunky, poorly written app.

I hoped that upgrading to the Hymnal 2 app would help bring about a smooth way to use my iPad for masses. At first the app looked great and everything worked fine. However, in the middle of mass, I suddenly could not access the search button to find a song. That tool bar just wouldn’t come up. I was totally at a loss and had to revert to physical books. This happened on multiple days - with WiFi working just fine. Not acceptable at all. Very disappointed.

I use Hymnals 1, which is effective yet tricky and overly sensitive to accidental page turns. A double tap would be better…hint. I tried Hymnals 2, but it runs SO SLOW that it is really not useful, because it takes 5 seconds to open files, which means when you have an accidental page turn (see above), you’re going from memory for about 10 seconds until you get back to your other music. Please improve the page turn gesture, and make this app faster.