This app is amazing!
Sometimes frustrating
Easy to follow courses and exercises for those coming to the piano for the first time.
A nice range of familiar tunes to start you on your journey.
Progression is great.
Content generally good.
Cons:
This is probably the only real downside, but it is close to a dealbreaker - NOTE RECOGNITION IS OFTEN VERY POOR.
I have noticed it particularly when playing notes an octave apart, and particularly F in the mid octave range and above.
This makes lessons very frustrating when you are trying to smoothly play along to a piece and it stalls at a note because it hasn’t recognised you playing it. I quite often have to bang the keyboard, or tinkle it between the high F and the F an octave lower for the software to recognise it has been played.
It is really annoying, and really brings me out of the flow state I’m trying to achieve with the concentration required to learn.
I’ll persevere with it, but if I had noticed this issue during the trial period I would not have forked out so much money for it.
If it were not for this issue I would give flowkey 5 stars, as otherwise it is useful and enjoyable.
Response from developer
Thank you for your detailed feedback and for highlighting both the pros and cons of your experience with Flowkey. We’re pleased to hear that you find our courses and familiar tunes helpful for your piano journey. We’re genuinely sorry to learn about the issues you’re facing with note recognition, particularly with notes an octave apart. We understand how frustrating this can be, especially when it disrupts your practice and concentration. The accuracy of note detection can indeed be affected by various factors, including the type of piano and its settings, not to mention if MIDI has been used or not. We encourage you to reach out to our support team at support@flowkey.com so we can offer further assistance and work to resolve this issue. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we’re committed to improving the user experience.
Frustrated
Anyway so I didn’t fight it and gave the app a month to try to win me over. I tried all the introductory lessons and was on my way to some beginner Bach lesson. The problems arose when the app started jumping around the piece. This happened multiple times. Last time this happened I was in wait mode where it waits for you to play a section correctly before continuing. It’s a cool idea but for some reason it wouldn’t read my notes and would start jumping around the score. (My Bluetooth/MIDI works fine in my other piano apps/DAW interfaces.) This went on for half an hour and and made it really hard to focus on learning/memorizing. In frustration i started just playing random notes and then it started registering them as if I was playing correctly??? I kinda laughed and just said im done, and unsubscribed. I did not have this problem with it’s competitor.
Best of luck Flowkey
Response from developer
Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your feedback. We understand that your overall experience was far from optimal and we would like to apologise for the issue encountered issue. However, as it is stated in our terms and conditions, choosing a monthly subscription does not give access to a free trial but charges the monthly fee immediately; the free trial is available only by choosing the yearly plan and the charge takes place after this period if the user has not canceled the free trial beforehand. We apologize if this information has not been clear enough at an earlier point. Of course, we regret also the fact you had technical issues with the note detection, but since your issue might have different causes, we always recommend getting in touch with our customer service at support@flowkey.com: colleagues can help you sort the issue and let you have an overall pleasant piano learning experience!
Amazing
BEWARE OF THIS APP!!
Doesn’t recognize the keys when I press
Diminishing returns… part 2
Response from developer
Thanks a lot for your feedback! We are sorry that you found out that some previous functions, like the search filter, are no longer available; we can totally understand how disappointing this must have been and we apologize for the inconvenience caused by these changes. We appreciate your detailed feedback and we will make the developer team aware of your suggestions! Thanks again for having tried our app!
Disappointed
Me cobra dos veces
Very easy to follow the notes and play along with either hand or both hands
Otherwise love this way to learn at your own time and learn to hear the notes and how it’s played before you start. What is should should like. Love the way the iPad can hear the notes as you play and it will only move forward when you hit the right notes.
