# Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer — user reviews > 141 indexed App Store user reviews of Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer by Fretboard Hacking LLC, rated 4.80/5 from 806 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fret-pro-guitar-notes-trainer/id1519679458/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fret-pro-guitar-notes-trainer/id1519679458.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 705 · 4★ 55 · 3★ 15 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 19 ## What do users think of Fret Pro Guitar Notes Trainer? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Efficient for learning notes - 💡 Helpful for memorizing fretboard - 🎓 Effective training method - 🎨 Clean and simple design **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 🐛 Note recognition issues - 🔁 Repetitive note practice - 🔇 Microphone problems - 🤔 Limited free version **Commonly reported bugs** - Incorrect note recognition - Microphone issues after app relaunch - Inconsistent progress tracking **Most requested features** - Add custom tunings - Allow selecting specific notes/areas to practice - Incorporate solfege and scale degrees - Provide progress tracking across devices - Add metronome functionality ## Newest reviews (18 of 141) ### 3/5 — Obviously not for banjo *2026-07-18, version 3.9.0* Subscribed because it said it was for banjo also. Then it said it needed to set it up and that I should play “5th string/5th fret”….. on a banjo. ### 3/5 — Consistently does not recognize notes *2026-07-02, version 3.8.0* I'm in a quiet room, tried recalibrating several times - the app even recognized them in "audio settings", but when practicing consistently doesnt recognize G3 (and sometimes other notes), otherwise it's a great app. ### 3/5 — Sensitivity *2026-06-21, version 3.8.0* Just so-so, even after adjusting from normal to sensitive, especially on the thinner strings. ### 4/5 — worth the upgrade, but some bugs worth acknowledging/ ignoring *2026-06-12, version 3.8.0* sometimes when you let a note ring out, the next interval will pick it up and flag you. mic sometimes flags correct notes. mic sometimes does not pick up notes unless you play loud or face your guitar toward your phone head-on. most of my frustrations with the app revolve around the app either not picking up enough sound, mixed frequencies messing with the detection, or being too sensitive to notes that ring out. don’t quite understand why it won’t recognize the correct note sometimes tho. overall good tool for learning it you stay on top of it and know when to move on (you will prob not master most of the notes because of mic issues). ### 4/5 — very helpful *2026-06-07, version 3.8.0* this app is extremely helpful for learning the fretboard! the only issue i’m running into is on the fourth string, the app consistently tells me i am missing B and C, even though i am playing the correct fret and it has no issue recognizing notes below those. there is very little noise and recalibrating did not help ### 2/5 — I want to love this *2026-06-05, version 3.8.0* This app is so good but I think there must be a bug because I get every note right but my progress bars go down and now I can’t progress! This literally could be the most helpful app in the world if you just fixed this ### 2/5 — Great App may need algorithm work or improved feedback *2026-05-17* Overall I love this app because it is exactly how I’ve been trying to practice the fretboard but it takes away two important time lags in that it tells me where new notes are and helps me randomly play one. I am however currently stuck and I am not sure why… the app says I am playing all the notes correctly and gives no indicators that it is picking up extra noise but at the end of each practice most of my progress bars actually go down? If there is a timing element or if the app thinks I’m playing the wrong note then I feel like that should be given as feedback at the end. It tells you during the lesson if you play the wrong note though so is there a hidden aspect I don’t know about or is the algorithm struggling for some reason? Edit: I’m reducing my rating. I love this app as a concept but it’s been a couple days and it’s just not useable. None of the progress bars go up, I can’t get past the A string despite playing the notes all correctly, extremely well, and at a quick consistent tempo. I’ve read similar reviews with the EXACT same issues that don’t haven’t seemed to be addressed so until it’s fixed I have to abandoned the app because it no longer serves as a learning tool. ### 3/5 — Kinda bad *2026-04-09, version 3.8.0* Barely picks up the proper notes. No matter how much I use the recalibrate feature to fix the microphone it does not help. ### 2/5 — Liked it at first *2026-04-08, version 3.7.0* I liked the idea of the app at first but once I did the free trial, it seemed I only had one exercise I could do which was learn all the notes on the fret board. I was hoping to be able to jump around between that and scale exercises, but it seems you can only gain access to those features later? I dunno it seemed pretty limited for 6$ CAD /month service. Not worth it IMO. ### 4/5 — Bring back some old features *2026-04-05* I started using this app in December and throughly enjoyed it as it was allow me to learn my bass board. Sometime between February-Now is when I’m assuming that the major update and redesign released. I’m writing this review but I see that the dev actually responds to feedback which I am extremely grateful for. One feature that I truly miss is the ability to see your progress on notes without pressing “practice”. I used to be able to see my note progression per string, however it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. Unfortunately you can only see your note progression after each round and even with that, it’s only limited to the notes practiced in a round. I hope in the next update you can bring this feature back as it was extremely useful to me. ### 3/5 — Decent app *2026-04-03, version 3.7.0* I am using the app, it seems good. I wish they would change from using the tiny "12+" for indicating below 12th fret. They need to change background color or automatically change fret numbers to 12-22. Im constantly wrong because im in wrong position not wrong note ### 4/5 — great app, missing one thing *2026-04-01, version 3.7.0* great app, does what it should do but notifications are a must. i want to practice my notes daily but often forget, being able to have the option to have prompting notifications on the days of the week you select would be a great update ! ### 2/5 — Disappointed *2026-03-28, version 3.7.0* I really want to give this app a good review but it doesn’t seem to function properly. I will get all the notes correct on a round and yet my progress goes down. I understand that it may be partially based on timing of the note, but I have not been able to progress past the A string after 4 days. Also, the app consistently marks the 6th string F note as wrong ### 2/5 — New major update made the app hard to use *2026-03-12, version 3.2.0* The new update is making the app much more frustrating to use now. It constantly tells me to recalibrate now. There’s a very bad lag now navigating through the menus and when switching notes. I hope these issues get fixed cause I enjoyed using this app ### 2/5 — New version has removed critical features *2026-03-12, version 3.2.0* I’ve been using this app every day to try to learn the notes of the guitar. Today I opened it up and it had a new version. It seems cool but it’s missing two critical features - I can’t find a way of restricting it to specific strings. Now it’s introducing notes on strings I’m not ready for - it no longer shows the answer if you get it wrong a few times. Without this feature the app is really hard to use for me ### 4/5 — Near perfect *2026-03-11* This app drills you by telling you what note to play, then listening verify that you play it. It’s exactly how you want to drill yourself to learn the notes of the fretboard. It has all the right options to focus on certain strings and to use sharps and flats. The design is clean, clear and perfectly suited for the task. There’s only one problem, and it’s a big one. At first it asks you to find a variety of notes. But after a while, it stops asking about certain notes. Perhaps it is trying to focus on the notes you keep getting wrong, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. So you find yourself being drilled on notes you know, and not learning the other notes you don’t know. It would be great if there was a button to clear the training history, so it would ask about all the notes again. Or add an option so it doesn’t try to focus on missed notes **Developer response:** Hi, Thanks for the review. You’re right that the app tries to focus on notes that you get wrong or notes that it takes you a second to find. However, each round should consist of a few notes that you are working on and a few random notes that you already know. It’s possible that you found a big, I will look into it! ### 4/5 — Thanks *2026-03-08* …for not asking me to let you track and view my every move on my phone. Other apps request permission to collect all data from your phone all the time which is sleazy. If I open the app once and see that I am being asked to “agree to these terms and conditions”, I will return here, reduce to 1/5 stars. It’s already enough that you DO track certain aspects of my activity. Hence 4/5 stars. Haven’t tried app yet - I’m sure it’s just fine. They’re all the same really. But collection of data is a “Satanic practice”. Ask me once and you get deleted. **Developer response:** Hi! Thanks for your thoughts and for the review. I completely agree! I also despise the tracking prompts that are so ubiquitous. The only “tracking” that FretPro does is so that I can get an aggregate sense of how the app is working for people in the wild. I hope you like the app and find it useful. I’m actively working on improving it. If you ever have any other thoughts, feedback or questions, please feel free to send them my way! - Ryan 🙏🏻🎸 (support@fretpro.app) ### 4/5 — Great idea, decent execution *2026-03-05, version 3.2.0* Overall a fun app, have only tried the free stuff so far but a couple of annoying things i kept running into that tweaking slightly would make the app even better! Note tracking was good but when you play a note it immediately switches to requesting the next note and tells you it’s incorrect because you’re playing the last note requested. Might be cool if it buffered the next note slightly but i guess that could annoy people who care about being timed more than actually learning Also if you’re supposed to be playing an octave of an open note it doesn’t distinguish if it should be the 12th or 24th fret, it only gives you the generic 12+ symbol. So again I’m being told I’m making mistakes when it’s really just information not being communicated clearly. Don’t know an elegant solution to this, having a 24+ symbol would king of just be telling you exactly what fret to play and kind of defeats the purpose. Maybe labeling fret 0-11 as octave 1 12-23 as octave 2 and 24+ as octave 3 could mitigate this issue? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-05-19, version 3.8.0* I’m so disappointed I really wanted to use it but it does not pick up my guitar for some reason and I’m in a quite room only sound is my guitar yet it does not pick it up ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-05-08, version 3.8.0* Not sure if it’s user error but for some reason it’s not picking up the notes I’m playing? ### 1/5 — New update ruined it *2026-04-23, version 3.8.0* I used to love the simplicity of the app and how I could play past the 12th fret. Not I can’t and my mic stops working g if I adjust the settings. The bots also take longer to appear than the voice announced, things I did t worry about before ### 1/5 — This should be free *2025-12-15, version 3.0.1* Why is this 5$ monthly? At best $1 one time purchase ### 1/5 — Expensive. *2025-08-20, version 2.4.1* I’m sure the app is helpful and could expedite my learning but at $7cad / month I’ll just learn on my own. ### 1/5 — Fret pro *2025-07-16, version 2.4.0* It was trash don’t recommend ### 1/5 — Doesn’t Work *2025-05-12, version 2.3.7* I have tried everything to try and get this app to work properly for me. ### 1/5 — Audio detection broken after first note *2025-03-16, version 2.3.3* Not usable ### 1/5 — Just doesn’t work *2024-10-15, version 2.3.0* I’m playing the correct note. My guitar is tuned correctly. The app doesn’t care. Wasted my time. ### 1/5 — 40 dollars for unlocking the app... *2024-04-24, version 2.3.0* 40 dollars is too high of an ask for this basic of an app. Or you can do a monthly payment, like every other app asks for nowadays. Monthly payment doesn't even makes sense for this type of app, it's greedy. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Something is Working *2026-06-24* I decided I want to learn all the notes across the guitar fretboard. I am practicing on guitar as mush as possible, but throughout the day I am also getting in mental exercises with this app (I use it without the guitar). It all seems to be working. I am really seeing the fretboard now and the patterns of notes. This app is exactly what I wanted to have. Something simple and fast to practice. And I think it’s really helping me because I definitely can find notes much better than before and am about 80% to knowing the whole fretboard without much hesitation. ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2026-06-20, version 3.8.0* Thank you Ryan for creating this. It’s improved so much over time truly a blessing ### 5/5 — Teacher approved 👍 *2026-05-20, version 3.8.0* A friend recommended this app to me for teaching students the notes on the fretboard faster. I give it to all my students and as long as they put in a few minutes with it every day they learn so fast!! Great app !! ### 5/5 — Simply incredible *2026-04-15* This app is absolutely great . From the different amount of stringed instruments you can select, to the different tunings you can select as well (and learning notes via different tunings definitely can feel like a mountain to climb) . I’ve had no issues with it thus far, and can easily see myself incorporating this into my practice regiment . If anything, I do catch myself yearning for slightly longer rounds (you can get so into it, it can feel over so quickly), yet there are no complaints for how the app is currently . Definitely an app for our modern times to pick up to feel more comfortable on the fretboard . **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! I’m really glad it’s working for you! -Ryan 🙏🏻🎸 ### 5/5 — Update is frustrating, I see what they are gong for, used to be great. *2026-03-26, version 3.6.0* I have used this app for the better part of six months almost daily. I loved it. However the update as it is right now, unfortunately is a miss. I do like what they’re going for. Though constant recalibration and trouble recognizing notes, are a huge draw back for me right now. I hope the dev keeps working on fixing these issues because I really enjoyed using this app. ### 5/5 — Great app and developer *2026-03-24, version 3.5.0* Get it if you want to learn the fretboard! You only need to do 10-15 mins a day consistently. Also the developer Ryan is incredibly on top of bugs and issues so you’re supporting the right people by purchasing. ### 5/5 — subscribed but still can’t save *2026-03-24, version 3.5.0* update: updated rating but just fyi it ended up being that it ignores purchases unless you create a fretpro account….then it unlocked string filter saving app is really amazing if you invest $15 in a usb to 1/4” cable to connect your guitar. would be nice if there was a setting to tweak how quickly it listens for the next note however. a slight delay maybe milliseconds would clean things up quite a bit but might vary by device ### 5/5 — BEST APP *2026-03-13, version 3.2.0* best app out there for learning your frets. easily worth the money for the pro or just practice with the free options to start ### 5/5 — Absolute Gamechanger *2026-02-25, version 3.0.1* It’s like flashcards for your fretboard. I’m geeking out over this. It’s perfect. Choose what strings to study, if you want accidentals or not… It says the note out loud so you can just keep your eyes on your fretboard. ### 5/5 — Learn the notes easily! *2026-02-10, version 3.0.1* Wish I came upon this sooner. It’s excellent --- *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 2026-09-07.*