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by John Hurt's Ghost

I cannot give this app a good rating. It does not give you a grand staff option so notes are often falling on little lines drawn above or below and it just doesn’t give you a look that you will typically see when you play music. When you press a note, it makes the sound of the next note it would like you to press. This is just horrible for ear training and I’m flabbergasted that they have not fixed this and/or there is not a big outcry from app users. You can remedy this by muting the sound on the app and running a piano app in the background. Also the fact that you cannot do landscape mode is a big hindrance unless you can work through Bluetooth (not sure if that’s possible, but my keyboard cannot do it so it doesn’t matter). So your headphones and lightning adapter make it difficult to keep the iPad steady. To top it all off, it crashes nearly every time you play a round on a iPad 6. I just cannot figure out for the life of me why this gets good ratings. I bought an app that’s half the price that gets everything right except landscape mode. Avoid this. It’s overpriced, poorly implemented and underdeveloped.

by A_bearded_nerd

The premise of this app is great. In just a few short sessions I feel that I’ve made a ton of progress in learning notes on the staves. Unfortunately the interface of the app is a little clunky and leaves a lot to be desired where design / graphics are concerned. The only functional additions I would like to see implemented is an option that lets you display both the piano keys and the letters of those keys at the same time. Currently you can either guess the notes by letter OR key on the piano, but not both. The other improvement I would recommend would be since the staves cover three lines above and below the main staff, I would love to expand the keys / letters to include the entire range of octaves being quizzed. Last, I would love to have both treble and bass staves on the screen at the same time rather than switching between the two.

by Hyena2009

It’s the best note-teaching app I’ve had, but I would have given it 5 stars if it didn’t have as much ads. Every time I do a session, once it finishes it gives me an ad. And it’s not like the ads have any variety either. They are all for “Simply Piano” or something like that. And this piano thing isn’t even an app that JSplash made. There are adds EVERYWHERE and I can’t get a break from them. Good app, though. Learned all the notes my teacher told me to learn in 10 minutes. Not bad of an app. It rarely glitches, too. It’s pretty nice.
In conclusion, it’s a good app, but get the ad-free version.