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I like to recommend this app to my music students and recently had a student who wanted to use it to practice reading music for ukulele. So I figured I’d try out the custom exercise editor and pay the small fee. I want to set the range to be C3-C4 which is a standard range for an instrument like ukulele. The only way to get access to C3-F3 is to make the bass clef the lower clef. Which means for any instrument like guitar where you’d read everything lower but still relative to treble clef it will be confusing. So instead of being able to recommend the app and just suggesting the small charge I have to find something different for my students to use. Really unfortunate because the base app is great but this limitation seems really silly considering you can literally set the instrument to guitar.

But in practice, the app was really buggy in this mode. More than half the time the app would answer the question before I had even made a sound, and tell me that I had gotten the question wrong. Also, on a number of the questions where the app did function correctly, in that it”heard” me and identified what note I sang, it would use the incorrect enharmonic equivalent of the desired note, i.e. after asking me to sing a minor third above B-flat, identifying the pitch I sang as a C-sharp instead of the D-flat that would have been correct. I was looking for something to use with my high school students, but it’s hard enough helping them to understand spelling intervals… This app could potentially confuse them more, unfortunately.

This app has some fantastic functionality which gives it great potential as a learning tool. But it really needs someone with advanced training in music theory, singing, and education to work on the actual content. I unfortunately can’t recommend this to my voice or theory students until the errors and omissions are fixed!