# SimpNote Lite

> Song Write & Notate Music

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1272559770](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1272559770)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1272559770`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** 炯龙 吴
- **Category:** Music
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (73 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.9.7
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-21
- **First published:** 2017-08-20
- **Size:** 74 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simpnote-lite/id1272559770)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://179music.com/index.php/privacy](http://179music.com/index.php/privacy)

## Description

SimpNote Lite is a lightweight Chrome extension for composing with numbered notation. Create songs, generate music sheets, input rhythm and pitch, add lyrics, and apply expressive notations like legato, appoggiatura, and tritone.

Play back with adjustable tempo and instrument options, transpose, and export to MIDI or image. Share or print your work, and customize sheet design with background and font settings.

## Rankings

- #155,087 — Overall

## Review summary

Users broadly praise SimpNote Lite for reliability, usability, and score playback. However pricing concerns, feature gaps and learning curve, and several notation/UI bugs limit satisfaction. Improvements in pricing flexibility, richer editing/annotation features, and bug fixes would raise overall user sentiment.

### Pros

- Long-term reliability and high user satisfaction (e.g., '用了快四年，算是很好了' indicates lasting value).
- Generally easy to use and well-liked, with multiple positive comments such as '很好用' and 'Very good'.
- Audible/visual score playback capability ('还可以听到乐谱'), providing a pleasant score-reading experience.
- Strong user endorsement with five-star and 'highly recommended' sentiment.

### Cons

- Pricing concerns and desire for free sessions or trials ('很差，软件都要钱' and 'free sessions' request).
- Incomplete feature set and a learning curve due to lack of documentation; missing annotation tools and editing options (e.g., change duration without retyping; advanced transposition).
- Notation and UI issues reported (meter/time-signature label errors, lyric input errors, and extraneous text after updates).
- Some limitations on notation details (e.g., appoggiatura/semitone capability).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1272559770)