# Bees Keys - First Piano Lesson — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Bees Keys by Joshua Callahan, rated 4.60/5 from 593 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bees-keys-first-piano-lesson/id1608004053/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bees-keys-first-piano-lesson/id1608004053.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 481 · 4★ 50 · 3★ 23 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Bees Keys? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Fun and engaging for learning piano keys - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 👍 Great for beginners (kids and adults) - 👍 Helpful for piano students and teachers - 👍 No ads, kid-friendly - 👍 Visually stimulating and cute graphics - 👍 Free to use - 👍 Reinforces note and key memorization - 👍 Good for practicing and testing knowledge - 👍 Effective for refreshing forgotten knowledge **Cons** - 😐 Can be boring for some - 😐 Lacks advanced features - 😐 Very basic functionality **Most requested features** - Create a similar app for reading lines and spaces on the staff - More features and improvements ## Newest reviews (17 of 30) ### 5/5 — So good! *2025-09-18, version 2.3* This game is THE BEST! My family loves it as much as I do. I now recognize all the keys, sharps, flats, basic keys, all of it. It it so easy to play FIVE STARS. (Leave a developer response please 😁 ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2024-09-15, version 2.3* Great for learning the notes on the piano! ### 5/5 — Review *2024-08-28, version 2.3* It’s a fun creative way to help you learn the piano. ### 5/5 — Piano lessons *2024-07-21, version 2.3* This is the best piano lessons ever more people should get this piano lessons, the piano lessons get it ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-05-11, version 2.3* This game is fun for people that are beginners playing the piano. It teaches you notes and it teaches you like the letters of it. I just know I have my babysitter over and her name is Cora. ### 5/5 — Thumbs up *2023-11-03, version 2.2* Very engaging ### 5/5 — Easy and fun for all ages *2023-10-01* Easy to use and fun, no ads, great for young children to navigate and anyone learning keys on the piano. Would love to see more apps like this. ### 5/5 — Love it *2023-08-15* Simple and straightforward. Will be great for helping my beginners learn the key names. ### 5/5 — So fun! *2023-06-06, version 2.1* Beautiful graphics, easy to use, my students love it! Can’t believe it’s free :) ### 5/5 — Excellent FREE Music Education App! *2023-06-02, version 2.1* Bees Keys is a very fun, engaging, and visually stimulating music letter reinforcement game for piano students. I am a piano teacher and use this game with students for a little extra fun during lessons. My students love to try out the different test speeds. When piano student parents ask me about apps I recommend, this is always in the list! ### 5/5 — Great for beginners! *2022-03-19, version 1.0* I’ve always wanted to learn the piano but couldn’t seem to memorize the keys! At one point I used a pencil to mark which keys were which. I love this easy and fun memorization app!! Great for beginners (young and old)!! ### 5/5 — Fun! Simple! Easy to use *2022-02-25, version 1.0* I definitely was one of those people that took piano classes as a kid and the completely forgot everything I learn. I don’t currently own a piano right now but wanted to get back into learning. So I came across this app that has been helping me remember the keys. It was very fun, simple, and easy to use! ### 5/5 — Great for kids! *2022-02-24, version 1.0* The app is very very simple and would be a great homework assignment for a young piano student to get fun practice in between lessons. ### 5/5 — Easy Note Review *2022-02-22, version 1.0* This a great tool to use for a quick play to test your young beginner piano student on the notes and names! No ads and cute animation. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2022-02-22, version 1.0* This is such a great app for beginners! It’s a cute, fun way to keep your kids entertained while helping them memorize notes! Definitely recommend for teachers and parents helping their kids to learn note identification. ### 5/5 — Cute and effective! *2022-02-22, version 1.0* I get that this is probably an initial app release and I’m sure more features coming soon, but for what it is, it’s simple, intuitive, and the idea is perfect for kids! Cute little bees :) ### 5/5 — Bees Keys *2022-02-16, version 1.0* What an awesome app to let your beginner piano students use to learn their keys! It’s fun & educational! Thanks to the developers for thinking of this idea. Can’t wait to see any future updates on this :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrible *2025-09-22, version 2.3* Sooooo boring ### 4/5 — Fun Game to learn notes *2025-08-15, version 2.3* Simple,Fun wish it did more ### 4/5 — Basic Memorization *2022-02-16, version 1.0* This is a very basic app to help with Key/Note memorization. There is a lot that can be added to improve the app, but there were no issues in using this app. The fact there are no adds AND free is the biggest reason to use this app over many others. ### 5/5 — Piano teacher *2026-09-03, version 4.0.1* My students and I love this app! ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-22, version 4.0* 10/10 ### 5/5 — Super fun way to learn *2026-08-21, version 4.0* genuinely, a nice way to start learning where the keys are. So many different options in settings to test yourself. Plus, the game is very cute. ### 5/5 — Perfect app for new pianists! *2026-08-14, version 4.0* My students and I love this app! I’ve been using it for years in my studio. The new updates are great too, so glad it’s coming out for Android also so more people can use it! ### 5/5 — Best game ever *2026-06-01, version 3.0* This game is so much fun it’s like a digital piano you can learn songs in the car and practice or try to see where they are on you can switch and learn do re mi fa so la ti do and you can try to test and see if you know where there like a quiz ### 5/5 — Simple, clear, fun! *2026-05-28, version 3.0* Great app for practicing your keyboard familiarity. ### 5/5 — Helpful app for teaching keyboard geography *2026-05-27, version 3.0* I like how simple this game is for my piano students ## Most praised reviews (3 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — From a Music Teacher *2026-05-18, version 2.3* Great app! I appreciate that there are no ads so it truly is kid friendly. Please consider creating a similar app for reading lines and spaces on the staff!! I use this app with several of my students, it really helps fill the gap when they start to forget their notes. ### 5/5 — Learning piano keys *2026-03-21, version 2.3* Love it ### 5/5 — Brilliant! *2026-02-17* Super simple and a fantastic way to get those piano keys embedded in my brain! I practice with it in little ten min sessions and I’m only on day 2 and already it’s made a huge difference which translates into real measurable progress and speed increase when sitting at my piano! Im so glad I found this! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*