Fretello Guitar Lessons User Reviews

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opened up a whole new world

I played a bit of guitar when I was a teen and then took a 20 years break. I came across Fretello as a friend of mine started to learn with the app and O was blown away how organic his learning process was. So I picked it up and start to play again. all I can say amazing! get the app and never look back!
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Response from developer

Hi there, It's great to hear your feedback. Thank you for your kind words! I'm glad that you enjoy using our app. Keep on rockin'!

Good and so so

I like it. It’s pretty fun too do and the comments saying it’s bad are wrong. The only problem is that when I try to tune my guitar it always goes to a different string. So I can’t do the lessons

Atleast tell us upfront...

It's paywalled, everything of any meaning is paywalled, quite expensively at that! You get 4 BASIC lessons, then it's £15 a month. Once again, another subscription service. I'll just learn guitar the original way....

Response from developer

Hi Luke, Thanks for your feedback. You can try all of the app's content completely free of charge by starting a free trial. You can also explore some free content without starting a trial at all. I do understand that it can be frustrating to pay for an app. However, we are dedicated to providing our users with realtime feedback, tailor-made practice plans, and interactive guitar lessons. We are working with certified guitar teachers to provide high-quality content which requires a whole lot of resources.

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It’s not that good

Response from developer

Hi there, Thanks for your review. We value your feedback and we would appreciate it a lot if you could tell us why you weren't happy with our service. Feel free to fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/YVYJNgdCTVa5vkyd7 or send us an email to support@fretello.com.

Bad

Too much for what it really is is. A beginner or an advance musician would be oblige to pay and if you don’t only one exercice is disponible.

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback. I am sorry that you are not satisfied with our business model. While some of the content is available completely free of charge, you can try all of the app's functionality for a limited time for free. Also, our team is working hard to provide more free content as we speak. All of our content is created by certified guitar teachers. While I understand that it can be frustrating to pay for a service, developing and constantly enhancing a product like this involves a lot of people and resources.

Doesn't seem to work right now

Anything beyond the first 4 basic "lessons" requires a subscription and trying to subscribe hits a "Something went wrong. Please try again later..." message.

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback. Our developers fixed the issue with the latest update.

Wants your money! Don’t try unless you want to buy

I downloaded to try. You know free app with in app purchases. Well it’s free to download and then start a free trial. Which is enough time for them to get your info and then charge you. This should just be a $120 app to download. I canceled to free trial to avoid the subscription. They still tried to charge me. My bank flagged the charge and we denied it. Then when we got a new bank card, activated it, fretello keep trying until it went through! I don’t have the app, I canceled the subscription, not sure how they can get away with thinking they can still charge me. DO NOT DOWNLOAD UNLES TOU WANT TO PAY!!!
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for your feedback! I understand that it can be frustrating having to pay for something that you did not want to use in the first place. However, we do send out an email before the trial period ends to remind you to cancel the trial on time. I understand that such emails can be overlooked easily. All subscriptions and payments are processed by your app store. If you need any further assistance, please feel free to reach out to support@fretello.com. We're happy to help!

Before use...

Before I use this app, it said it is free unless you use pro version, but it says I have to register and all this other stuff, and I have been reading some other reviews and it says you have to pay.
Is this app really free?

Good app

Been playing for 4 years now and are learning how to piece together the scales needed to write my own music. So far this has been the most helpful thing as where to start. Thanks !

2nd try and disappointed

I tried the free trial and now unpaid for and month and already got disappointed. The app hasn’t nice way to practice but there are a few bugs a huge lack of content.

- very slow app
- just work in my iPad it doesn’t sync with my iphone
- the scale practice repeats the same scales all the time I already made the same exercise more then 70 times it just keep repeating the same scales. Also there is no written or video explain how the scales works as you “progress” in the exercise
- lack of music, there almost nothing!
- there are only the introduction, not event a beginner level of trading, of a few practice topics, you are not able to go to the next level as a guitar player all the exercises.

I really liked the way you can practice scales with the app, that’s why I gave it a 2nd try and only 2 stars, but I totally regretted since there is no more content =( I should have bought a book!
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Response from developer

Hi, Thank you very much for taking the time to give us feedback! We really appreciate it and it is essential for us to improve the experience for our users! To solve the issues described it would be very helpful if you could provide us with more information about your device. We would appreciate it if you could send us an email to support@fretello.com. Regarding the other points you mentioned, I just wanted to give you some information from our side: the progress sync works in all the cases but in the Practice Tab, it only works on the sheet level. In any case, we are working on this and the full sync is coming soon. You also do not need to keep practicing the same scale all the time. You, as our user, can customize what to practice; we do not force you to stick to the same scale forever :) Let me know if you need any assistance with customizing the sheets. We are always happy to get feedback on our choice of music. Send your suggestions of artists or genres to the email address above and we'll see what we can do. We're still a quite small team and our goal is to provide high-quality content. This is why it might take a while to add new content, but we are updating our songs every month. Stay tuned!

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