Fender Play Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.5% of reviews
Neutral10.5% of reviews
Negative experience38.0% of reviews

~ Based on 534 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Fender Play

Is Fender Play Safe?

Fender Play: Learn Guitar appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Fender Play is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 60,611 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 60,611 App Store ratings for Fender Play.

Is Fender Play Legit?

Fender Play: Learn Guitar appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fender Play is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

No more Metallica????

Without warning all the Metallica content disappeared. Will not renew my subscription.

6 string or bust.

Kind of a jumbled mess. My friend and I have both experienced the app and it is great for them as a 6 string guitar player as a bass player I have learned more from YouTube and a $5 book at my local music store.

They talk a big game about having the rights to so many songs. Yeah but you don’t have the lyrics you have extremely stripped down versions of songs. Again a quick google search and I can find tabs better than what they are selling with the option to edit the backing to my choice and at the speed I can comfortable play at until I master it.

This app crashes like it gets paid for each time you have to close and open it. Don’t even think about switching your screen to say check a text or even look up what they are talking about in a lesson your play-along with because it will simply stop working.

Here is an idea Fender how about for your play alongs with the instructor you actually have the tabs scroll as you play that way you can actively in real time see your mistakes and correct them by rewinding the video instead of jumping between two separate videos hoping the app doesn’t crash?

Also why as an electric instrument player are you teaching me how to turn on my amp on after 20+ lessons of playing? I don’t mean edit your treble, mid, and bass to create new interesting sounds I mean how to flip on the power switch. Kind of sounds a bit disjointed doesn’t it?

The over all lesson structure feels like it was made by a hung over college music intern slapping together videos with Ai support after being out partying all night and this was their final project before they switch majors.

Bottom line is that if you are a 6-string player you will have a great time and made to feel supported, anything else you are going to feel like the rejected middle child from an app you are paying for. You are better off spending your money on a different app instead of something this sloppy.
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🚩MAKES YOU PAY AS SOON AS APP IS OPENED

You can’t use this app without a subscription

Didn’t know were many songs were

I just started playing bass and I was trying to search for basic songs like seven nation army but it was like it wasn’t on there

8.0 Feedback Mode Mess

Everything was working fine until the 8.0 release. Now previous scores are wiped, new 100% scores are shown as 1%, and some lessons cannot hear the notes at all, or claim that the wrong bass string(!) was played or the beat was off. There’s a lot of 0% scores from new lessons for me moving forward. I’m waiting for them to fix this mess which they do not openly acknowledge. Support explains the moving of Feedback
Mode, and advises to reinstall the app. What a crock!
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Update screwed up the feedback mode

The latest update added feedback mode to practice mode. First problem is that it doesn’t record my score. The bigger problem is that I can no longer use AirPods for listening to the track and iPad microphone for listening to my playing. It is all either iPad or AirPod and AirPods only hear voice. Notes aren’t recognized. This is a colossal screw up by fender.
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8.x Launch Is A Disaster

Launch of 8.X is a disaster! It deleted my progress history, high scores, and won’t even grade my performance any longer. I hope that Fender fixes the app soon.

Monthly bills

Doesn’t mention anywhere that it’s a monthly paid service until after you give them your information

Zu schwer für Anfänger

Die Lieder sind zu schwer für Anfänger und es gibt nicht viele coole Lieder.

Fender = BAD

Corpo is not Rock and Roll. Suing in bad faith because you failed is what losers do. Leo was a master, Fender is a business and does not care anout you or your music.

I am deleting this app

After all the mess Fender is creating about the Strat body shape, I am not buying or using anything from Fender

Sign in

Cant sign in or sign up

Gute App - leider kein Apple TV

Mit dieser App macht es Spaß, Bass zu lernen. Es gibt immer abwechselnd Video Lektionen und den Übungsmodus. Leider gibt es keine Apple TV App so wie bei Masterclass. Man muss alles vom iPhone oder iPad aufs Apple TV streamen. Mit einer echten Apple TV App wäre das Paket komplett.

Doesn’t work!

Despite everything being up to date, app closes automatically after silly entry survey. Utterly useless! Canceled subscription!!

iPad app doesn’t work

I have a subscription, and I’m able to access it via the app on my iPhone. But I can’t successfully launch the app on my iPad - I’ve deleted and reinstalled and that doesn’t help. Any assistance would be great. Thanks - I do like the content and find it helpful

What a waste

I downloaded this after using the Gibson app, because there seemed to be a better song list. After trying it, there is no live feedback or gamification of any of the songs. I don’t know why I would pay 150 a year to get tabs and video lessons only. I can get what this offers for free in tons of other resources. Oh well.
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7.4.5 will not work, closes every time

Downloaded nestest app version today on iPad OS 26.2.1. App thinks I am a new user and goes through the startup questions. On the fourth screen, “What path interests you right now?” the app closes. Have uninstalled and reinstalled, rebooted the iPad, tried multiple times but not able to start the app beyond those four screens. If this does not get fixed quickly I would like a refund.
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Video issues

How difficult is it, in this day and age, to get full screen videos to work properly? If you play a video on full screen and then click X the video either starts from the beginning or plays two sets of audio at once. Annoying because it’s otherwise a decent app and course, but we are paying for this….
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Badd

Owner you own me an opoagy
Because u took my data and deleted from my screen

Nice app but missing audio interface support

Overall, nice app. The parts of the app that rely on the microphone are twitchy though. I wish it supported my audio interface (Focusrite Scarlett = super popular) so that the guitar input would be noise free. Yousican support it, so have been using that app more as a result. Happy to share more, if needed.
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