flowkey User Reviews

flowkey – Learn Piano

flowkey GmbH

Education

Music

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

🎓

This app hasComprehensive lessons and courses for beginners to advanced players

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This app hasWide selection of songs across different genres and difficulty levels

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This app hasAbility to isolate and practice specific sections of songs

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This app hasFlexible learning pace with options to slow down or loop sections

👀

This app hasVisual aids like hand positioning and note highlighting

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This app hasResponsive note detection and feedback

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This app hasMotivating and engaging learning experience

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This app hasCloud sync to access progress across devices

Negative highlights

💰

This app hasExpensive subscription model, especially for the yearly plan

📜

This app hasLimited sheet music availability, making it difficult to practice independently

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This app hasInconsistent note recognition and MIDI support, especially on non-digital pianos

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This app hasLack of navigation options to easily jump between sections of a song

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This app hasFrustrating when the app gets stuck or jumps around during lessons

🔍

This app hasOverwhelming amount of information on the screen at times, especially for beginners

🎨

This app hasDesire for more customization options like background and song selection views

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Dishonest App

This seems like a scam-y app. They charged me before my free seven day trial finished. I started a 7 day trial and the next day they charged me for the month. Pretty dishonest.

shonajoy

2 years ago

Response from developer

We are sorry if there was a misunderstanding regarding the free trial. It is only available in combination with the yearly plan. If you sign up for a monthly subscription, it will start directly without a free trial in advance. However, you can contact the Apple support regarding a refund if you don't want to continue with flowkey. Calling them works best :)

Good but could have improvements

Overall It’s a good app to start learning piano, the courses teach you all the basics in an easy to understand way, there are many beginner friendly songs and you can learn at your own speed. It’s a really quick way to just learn some songs or as an aid to learning piano. Some improvements that would make it even more useful:
- The ability to download the songs as printable sheet music
- A more in depth course about music notation
- More information on the sheet music (fingering, dynamics, pedals etc)
- Built in metronome!
- Ability to change the layout (no visuals/ on different parts of the screen)
These additions would make the app so much better as it has a lot of potential.

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lilpilcat

2 years ago

Only goes so far

At first, I really enjoyed this app. I learned a few song parts and techniques on my digital piano, which I’m quite happy about. Unfortunately, I’m unable to progress with the app anymore. During the courses there are sections where it asks you to play along as it displays both the musical notes, as well as a video of actual hands on the keyboard (to show you which keys to press.) It moves forward AS it hears you play the notes. So helpful!! Until suddenly it won’t pick up the notes I’m playing. I can’t get through two bars without it getting stuck. There’s even a mic sensor that shows that it’s picking up the sound, and I’m playing with the volume all the way up so I’m not sure what the problem is. Not only that, when I sent a message and asked if there was a solution I was told to buy more cords and stuff. Thank goodness the app was a free trial or I would’ve wasted my money.

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itsjustjess2

2 years ago

Very good app!!

I recommend that everyone who wants to play piano download this app!!

cicim0nkey

2 years ago

Response from developer

We are so happy to hear that! :)

The D does not work

When i press D it said try again and its not just D its D,C,E and f

suck,it

2 years ago

Response from developer

We are sorry to hear that! Seems like you're having troubles with the tone detection. An acoustic instrument could be slightly out of tune or tuned differently, so our note detection has problems recognizing the notes you play since our app is tuned to standard pitch. If you have an electronic instrument, we highly recommend our MIDI option. To use the note detection via MIDI, please connect your instrument via MIDI to USB cable (or a regular printer cable, if your instrument has a so called "to host" jack) with your laptop or tablet. If you use an iPad/iPhone, you also need a Camera Connection Kit which will serve as adapter, since the USB end of the cable is too big to fit in your iPad/iPhone. Once your instrument is connected with your device note detection will work via cable which is much smoother and more reliable than via microphone. Would you give that a try? If you need any further information, feel free to contact us via support@flowkey.com.

It’s ok

When I first payed for my yearly subscription, I thought that this app would be fun and help me a lot as a beginner. I was wrong. I feel like they cram to much information into the screen when you choose to play a song. For example, they show someone’s hands and the notes at the same time, which in my opinion, for beginners like myself is an overwhelming feature. I like to see the whole sheet of music and work at the kinks but the thing just keeps on going and going, which makes me feel rushed. I payed $110 for this and it’s so far been a waste of money. One thing that might be helpful to update this app is (if you pay money for this) to be able to print out the music sheet or have an option to just see the music or hands.

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happy-O7

3 years ago

Little annoyances but otherwise good.

Not sure what happens after the free trial month, but at the moment it’s not giving me whole songs.
My other couple of annoyances are, it would be great to swap the layout by choice, with keyboard below the score.
Plus ability to add some notes to along the music, eg if want to play parts as crescendo, or add peddle at particular points etc.

Really wish this technology had been available and affordable decades ago, would have made learning so much more fun :)

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Ness963

3 years ago

I like flowkey. Great way to learn piano for beginners

I’m a beginner. I’ve tried all the piano apps on a trial basis: simply piano, yousician, piano academy, Skoove, Pianote, flowkey. I settled on flowkey because it’s a much more gradual and progressive learning tool. For example, yousician often goes from an easy piece, then suddenly to a ridiculously harder piece. The harder piece invariably has note durations, tempo and rhythms that have not been previously taught in the app. Flowkey steadily presents the learner with gradually harder lessons and pieces. It repeats the content in the lessons until you get it. I like flowkey so far. 😊

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0ld12stringer

3 years ago

Good just needs a few things

I’ve had this app for a year now. It has plenty to keep me engaged. I started with a basic knowledge of treble clef and reading music from playing sax. A few things I wish this app had: 1. It makes you take your hands off the keyboard to touch the iPad to advance to the next lesson or part to be learned. That is a pain. They should just make you push a piano key to move on. 2. Needs a way to highlight measures you have trouble with and a way to write in accidentals or notes to yourself (like you could do if using paper music). 3. I would like to see a song that I have learned just static, like a piece of sheet music. Instead it always has the music measures scrolling like a video game and I don’t think that function can be turned off. So is it worth the $? Yeah, I guess so. It is fun. It’s at least a ton cheaper than private lessons however for someone not very gifted like myself I think I’d still need real piano lessons to actually be able to play piano.

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