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

🎹

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

🕰️

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

🕰️

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

Top reviews

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Could be so much better

I love this app and hate it at the same time. What I love about it are the selection of songs and some of the basic learning tools. I also love being able to see the fingering as the song is played in the upper half of the UI. Here's what I hate: I hate the fact that you cannot ever see more than four measures at a time. (At least on my 10.5 iPad Pro). I also hate that if you pause to look at the notes, you get the overlay which makes the notes hard to see. I want to be able to see more measures or at least give me a page view of the music. The UI is also inconsistently presented. On some songs, there are fingering numbers, and on other songs they are not there at all. Also, there are only two speeds - super slow or super fast with nothing in between. This app has HUGE potential, but because of its shortcomings, I most likely will not re-up my subscription.

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Final Cut Guru

5 years ago

Terrible Midi Function

Really excited about the app but the midi function is awful on the iPad as there is no option for midi sound like on a Mac. It was recognizing my playing through my speaker until all of a sudden it didn’t want to recognize my A note. I switched different sounds and it was all the same. Then I wanted to try the midi function. Works perfectly fine when I use GarageBand and sound comes out great so I know it’s not on my end but when I try and get sound out of flowkey nothing comes out. I read online that you midi controller requires an audio out but that’s kind of ridiculous since many midi controllers don’t have that option (I own 4 from various companies and price points) Please fix this or I may need to switch apps.

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anaischants

5 years ago

Won’t let me buy premium

Whenever the premium tab pops up, it won’t let me scroll down.
Great app though love it.

heheneusnakajsj

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi there! Sorry that you have troubles with the premium upgrade. Is it possible that the payment method that is assigned to your Apple ID is expired (or did you block in-app purchases that are above a certain limit?) If you keep having troubles with the upgrade, please get in touch with our support team: support@flowkey.com They will be happy to help!

Stole my money doesn’t work!

flowkey is the worst app I ever had. It doesn’t work offline, yet they want 20 € a month! they take days to respond via their customer services, told me to try for a refund at the istore directly instead of issuing themselves, did I this within the 14 days from download after they wasted days of my time waiting for their lame responses then istore declined refund point blank. VERY ANGRY! can’t use app, wasted days of my time, arrogant, selfish people, they care only about money not music. you can lean piano without their expensive rubbish. There is software that works with a full offline licence for a fraction of their extortionate subscription tariffs. Its companies like this who just con people online. Disgusting behaviour. Real musicians don’t act like this. Will be speaking directly to Apple in person about this. Action against this company WILL be escalated. Con artists. Cyber criminals dressed up as musicians. Avoid at all costs.

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Dan_77466

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Dan! Sorry to hear that you are so angry. We try to help each user as fast as possible. But yes, due to the Corona situation, our support team needs about two days to reply to messages at the moment (but we're catching up!). If a subscription was bought via Apple iTunes, then only the iTunes support is able to refund payments. So I also highly suggest to call the Apple support to get further help with the subscription. I'm sorry that it wasn't clear that an active internet connection is needed to use our app. And I understand that it's very frustrating if you need an app that works offline. I truly wish you would have had a better user experience with our app. If there is anything else we can help you with, please get in touch again. As I said, we're doing our best, to reply within two days.

Already the best, could be better.

I LOVE this app. They have the best pop songs (very important to me) and they keep the app updated regularly. I tried many piano learning apps but this one was the best. The UI is great. I like being able to loop any section I want, scroll back and fourth, and use a midi keyboard if I want. I keep buying the yearly subscription and it is totally worth it. One improvement I would love to see is an option to remove or add the hands from/to the view (while learning a song) if you would like. I actually put a piece of paper over the hands part of the screen when I’m trying to learn how to read the sheet music, because my brain wants me to just peek at the hands because they’re easier to read. This option would help us learn how to read sheet music. Then we could add the hands back to the view whenever they were desired.

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Nickname4567574765

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi there! Thanks so much for your positive feedback! I'm happy to hear that our learning features help you to learn they songs efficiently on your own. And yes, we do our best to grow our song library each month. I will also forward your suggestion to hide the video to our product team. I can definitely see that this would be helpful - especially when you really want to focus on reading sheet music. And we're always open for suggestions to improve the learning experience for our users. :)

Sucks

This sucks

djopakp

5 years ago

The key re doesn't work

It doesn't work well so i can't practice!!!

Dhtgjufjyfytdty

5 years ago

Plz write bass chords (ie. D7th etc etc) on the music sheet

Thank you

Stirvine

5 years ago

It doesn’t listen to your piano properly

I was stuck on the same note for five minutes hitting the key over and over again, the apps listening capabilities are useless

Asomerthenu

5 years ago

There’s a catch!

The billing plans are clearly set up to try and rip off people who sign up and don’t stick to their practicing which puts a sour feeling in the mouth before you even start. There are also way to many prompts to tap start. Whenever I’m ready with my fingers in the right place I have to move them again to press another ‘start’ button. I won’t be going further than the free trial. All that aside the actual follow along playing is quite nice.

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