Ukulele by Yousician User Reviews

Ukulele by Yousician

Yousician Ltd

Education

Music

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasHelps beginners learn ukulele basics like chords, strumming, and tuning

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This app hasStructured lessons and practice sessions that build skills step-by-step

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This app hasWide library of songs to learn, including popular and recognizable tunes

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This app hasGamified learning experience that makes practice feel like playing a game

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This app hasAccurate tuning and note detection, provides real-time feedback

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This app hasHelpful instructional videos for techniques and lessons

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This app hasAllows users to adjust song speed as they progress

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This app hasMotivating to see progress and achievements in the app

Negative highlights

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This app hasMost lessons and songs are locked behind a premium subscription paywall

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This app hasFree trial or limited free access is very short, not enough time to fully evaluate

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This app hasNote detection can be inconsistent, sometimes doesn't register correct notes

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This app hasLimited selection of free songs, majority require premium subscription

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This app hasDifficulty progression can be too fast, jumping from basic to advanced too quickly

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This app hasNo option to switch between ukulele types (soprano, concert, tenor, baritone)

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This app hasSubscription fees are considered quite expensive by many users

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Low G? Don’t bother…

I have heard great things about this app and was excited to use it with the new Uke I purchased… Well it was failing from the beginning! I was trying to tune for the app and it wasn’t accepting my G as in-tune… first let me say, while I’m new to the Uke, I am a musician so I have a trained ear and beyond that I have a separate tuner that assured me it was, in fact, in tune… then the playing started and again it would not recognize anything on that string! So I messaged them and was told Yousician was basically set up for Soprano and Concert Ukes only… Tenors with a Low G tuning we’re out of luck and Baritones don’t even bother… I mean I get why Baritones would be problematic since their tuning is entirely different but the app can’t adapt to an octave on one string?!? IT’S THE SAME NOTE JUST AN OCTAVE LOWER! This just boggles my mind… I’ve enjoyed the Guitar app so far but honestly I’m so put off by this shoddy situation I’m tempted to cancel them entirely.

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J-P-C-MT

3 years ago

Response from developer

Apologies for the troubles you're having with note recognition. Would you mind reaching out to us via contact.yousician.com? Please provide more info on the setup you're using in your request and our support team will answer you shortly! Thanks!

More access

I really like the app, but can you please give non-membership users full access to the tutorial?

boratis

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review! If you want to experience Yousician without interruptions and limitations, we recommend to start a free premium trial. You'll then unlock all the features and can also cancel any time before the trial expires if you feel like Yousician may not be the right tool for you. More info available here: https://yousi.co/free-trial

Expensive but worth it

Expensive but if you think you can make yourself use the app every day whilst you’re learning it’s well worth it. Really clear and easy steps. I love being able to adjust the speed of the song too

may58915891

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hello! Thank you for your positive feedback! Keep on rocking :)

Good but bad

It’s an amazing app to learn the basics and about 4 songs but if you want to learn anything else, you have to get premium and it’s really fun and simple at the start but all of the other songs that are on the gallery require premium

Jiboo <3

3 years ago

Response from developer

Could you please reach out to our support team so that they could help you to troubleshoot the issue described? You can do that by visiting contact.yousician.com or via Social Media on Facebook (https://m.me/yousician), Twitter, or Instagram. Thanks!

Horrible Pay to Use System

This app used to have a system where you could use the app for a small amount of time each day. Now EVERYTHING is paid. After completing the most basic of basic tutorial, EVERYTHING is behind a paywall. And the prices are so prohibitively expensive that I can’t even consider paying for it. The tutorial wasn’t even long enough to judge if it’ll be worth it as I move along.

Hope I can find a different app because this one is unusable now.

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PhilomathMac

3 years ago

Disappointed

I’ve been using the free option in Yousican because 10 minutes practice suited me. Going longer than that I found myself getting frustrated and I got worse.
Hadn’t practiced for a bit. Came back to it this week to find I had to install the ukulele specific app to continue. I managed one practice session and got the advertising message at the end of the 10 minutes. All good, I’m used to that.
I went to use the app the following day and all I got was the advert, couldn’t do anything with the app.
Yesterday was the same, so I’ve sadly had to uninstall what is a really good way to learn an instrument.

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JennaP1967

3 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the review! To get the full app experience, it is suggested to start a free trial. Please note that you can cancel it any time before the trial expires if you decide that the app is not a good tool for you. If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out to us via contact.yousician.com.

I hate this app

This app NEEDS help it doesn’t teach u anything it won’t help u remember any of the keys. The worst part is NOTHING is free you need to buy everything and it’s so expensive. The app may free but you need to buy everything. This app needs to be improved I thing they should take down the app and redo everything because at this point it’s making me not wanting to play the ukulele. And I want to learn a song before I go to ukulele lessons but it won’t let me do anything.

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Kai Kai shai

3 years ago

Really bad tuner

my uke was in tune on the last note but the tuner said that is was out of tune

♡Eevee♡

3 years ago

Response from developer

Hi! We are really sorry to hear about that. Please visit our Help Center to find out how to best tune your ukulele with the app: https://yousi.co/UkuleleTuning If you need any further assistance, you can follow the link at the bottom of the article to get in touch with support

Pro mode

Overall a good app except in order to get to level 2 out of 10, you have to spend money.

Ordinary Clashers YouTube

3 years ago

Response from developer

Fine for basics, mid to higher levels of Melody/finger strum need more

The instructional videos are plenty for the basics however when entering into the more intermediate Melody and finger style plucking, there is a lack of instruction. For example, the dual finger alternating plucking (hard to master) or placement of fretting fingers when playing Melodie’s that have subsequent notes in the same fret but different strings.

It leaves students to be frustrated in their own devices. I think for a premium price, there should be more instruction/help videos for learners having difficulty beyond ,” just slow it down”

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Shawmish