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I appreciate that there is a 7 day trial for this, BUT I think the $99 (for a year) price tag is a little greedy—especially when the developer(when introduced in the app) writes about his love of music and wanting to help others feel the same and achieve their musical goals. Despite the high price I am willing to pay because I am a singer and I’m trying to learn piano. It means a lot to me to be able to recognize notes by sound and to read music. Since installing the app a few days ago I have been encountering an extremely frustrating glitch that is both frustrating and discouraging. I open the app, click on practice or learn and the app immediately closes. The only fix that I’ve found for this is to uninstall and reinstall the app. As you may agree this is RIDICULOUS. Am I going to want to practice knowing that when I try, the app will close repeatedly until I uninstall and reinstall? The short answer is no, and I’m certainly not going to pay $100 for this aggravation. It’s extremely disappointing too, because the app itself is great and deserves 5 stars. I hope the development team sees this review and I hope they fix this extremely annoying glitch because I can’t take it anymore. If it gets fixed I’ll stick with it. Please fix!

The few minutes that I used the app aren’t really enough to review the app performance, but the dark pattens used to try to get me to subscribe are worthy of a negative review. Using the app constantly pushes you into paying for the pro model; this isn’t a bad thing by itself, but the methods used to persuade are very misleading. First, “asking” for pro upgrade consists of a full screen modal dialog which does not provide a method of closing until the user has scrolled to the bottom. Second, after closing the dialog a second dialog opens with a big button to upgrade. There is no obvious way to close this. The user needs to click on the payment button to proceed and then cancel out of the next screen. Third, most of the features in config are pay gated, but the user isn’t informed until an attempt to change the value is made, which starts the full cycle listed on my first point above. Additionally, there is no monthly payment option, and the upfront costs are very high. This isn’t really “dark” but it’s definitely a barrier to entry. It wouldn’t be nearly as annoying if you didn’t feel so pressured into upgrading. Please don’t support these bad practices by buying into them.

TLDR: Complete and disgraceful money grab. I really want to like the app as it can be a great resource for musicians. However, the $99 per year price is absolutely absurd for an app that should just be a $5-10 one time purchase. This is, in my opinion, a predatory move on the developers end. They are hoping people will start the 1 week free trial, forget to cancel it, then charge $99. For $99 per year there should also be many more features such as choosing separated intervals, arpeggiated chords, different instrument sounds, rhythmic practice, and more specific customizations overall. In my opinion save the $100-$200 you would spend over two years and buy a cheap keyboard. You will get much more use out of it.