# Pianista — user reviews > 176 indexed App Store user reviews of Pianista by Pianista company Co.,Ltd., rated 4.08/5 from 325 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pianista/id1171622506/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pianista/id1171622506.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 188 · 4★ 58 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 36 ## What do users think of Pianista? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🎼 Excellent classical music selection - 🎨 Beautiful visual design - 🎮 Unique and challenging gameplay - 🕹️ Responsive and intuitive controls - 👍 Therapeutic and relaxing experience **Cons** - 🔒 Requires internet connection to play - 🕰️ Slow energy/lives regeneration - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 🔊 Loud and distracting miss sound effect **Commonly reported bugs** - Music cutting out or going out of sync - Inconsistent note registration and scoring - Facebook login issues and lost progress - Crashes and freezes on certain devices **Most requested features** - Add more composers and music pieces - Implement a practice mode with adjustable speed - Allow offline play or sync progress across devices - Improve league scoring and difficulty balancing - Reduce prominence of accuracy text during gameplay ## Newest reviews (15 of 176) ### 4/5 — Great, amazing, spectacular, yet some minor things. *2025-03-27, version 2.4.3* Verily, this distraction of time exceeds expectations! However, a minor negative characteristic. A characteristic so minor that once executed, joy fills me and you. Indeed, the uttermost limit of speed.. ‘tis low! 3x? Please, laughter I shalt give, but this is ridiculous. I find myself pressing notes ahead of time! It matches my speed not, and this issue prevents me from further progression in ‘Tour’. Also, I find myself befuddled to know that Dimitri Shostakovich isn’t in the game! Appalling indeed. Verily, I cannot pardon such nonsense. ### 3/5 — Fixes *2025-03-04, version 2.4.3* the loud noise when missing a note is off putting and beyond distracting The streak counter makes it difficult to see notes ahead of time and caused nothing but frustration The notes where you slide from one lane to another are easily mistaken for simple tap notes. (Literally just make it either a curved line) ### 3/5 — Wish the packs weren’t so pricey *2025-01-30, version 2.4.3* I love the game it’s really fun but at some point I finished the 50 songs in the standard pack and so I thought of getting another pack since I had no more new songs to play. And so I bought one. But what bummed me out is that each pack only has about 5 songs and each pack is $5 usd. Which is about $150 for the whole collection😬. The last update was like two years ago. Honestly I think the dev just doesn’t care anymore about the players at this point, there’s so much potential in this game but the carelessness is why this game is hidden away. It just feels like this game hasn’t moved anywhere. ### 2/5 — We need more composer and repertoire！！！！ *2024-12-07, version 2.4.3* where's the Wagner，Schumann and Ravel？please add them！！ ### 4/5 — Fun! *2024-10-26, version 2.4.3* Great game! Could you please add an option to make the accuracy text (Marvelous, Excellent, Good, etc.) be smaller? It's so in-your-face and distracting, especially because it's in the middle of the screen! Also maybe a toggle for the miss sound. Otherwise, great! ### 4/5 — Unable to make purchase *2024-10-17, version 2.4.3* Can’t make in app purchases I recently started playing the game and wanted to buy Prestige for all the amazing music packs but the message “Can not purchase” pops up. My friend wanted to buy it too but got the same message. I guess the app doesn’t allow purchases anymore, which is very disappointing. I’m sure the game developers are missing out on a lot of revenue. ### 4/5 — Pay to win *2024-09-21, version 2.4.3* I get they need to make money but the progression is not good because of this pay to win ,still great game really good levels ### 2/5 — Help!!! *2024-06-29* I’ve been addicted to this game for around 8 years but now I can’t access my account that was connected via Facebook. When I tried to log in via Facebook, it said “Feature unavailable: Facebook login is currently unavailable for this app since we are updating additional details for this app. Please try again.” I waited a few days but I still get the same response. I spent money on this game, passed majority of levels, and unlocked every piano besides 2. Please help me get my account back. It would be heartbreaking to lose 8 years worth of progress on my favorite game 😭😭😭😭😭 ### 4/5 — Cannot Log in from Facebook *2024-06-22, version 2.4.3* As of yesterday, (21st of june 2024), I cannot log in from Facebook. I do not have access to 7 years of progress, and that does not sit well with me. All my bought stuff is inaccessible. I have emailed pianista support to merge my fb account to my apple-id account, but have not gotten a reply. I still give this app 4 stars because it is therapeutic, and has helped me through many things. It is one of the best apps in this genre. So please, fix it.. ### 3/5 — Decent *2024-05-23, version 2.4.3* I just wish the combo break sound were not so jarring and didn't cause the music to fade out temporarily. Currently it is quite distracting and makes it difficult to hear the music. I would also appreciate longer songs as it seems everything in the standard tour is quite short. ### 3/5 — Moonlight sonata 3rd movement *2024-04-06, version 2.4.3* I love this game and I’ve gotten to the master tour stage but I’ve been stuck on moonlight 3rd movement. Why is this level specifically so hard. I have about 3 songs left until I beat the tour stage but I might just delete it. It’s been a good 2 years that I’ve had this game but the lack of updates is weird. ### 2/5 — Scary sound when missing note *2024-02-27, version 2.4.3* The sound is very unpleasant and scary. First, there is not SYNC option for personalization. Then, the missing note sound effect is very unpleasant and frustrating and cuts off the music, which the amazing classical music is the only reason why I play this game. ### 4/5 — Don’t play this game if you are a string player !!! *2024-02-02, version 2.4.3* There are things I like and things I don’t like about this game:: Dislikes:: *No pieces by Shostakovich?! *On the hardest normal levels and technical levels, the game is very fast, this isn’t my problem, but if you play with thumbs you can get muscle problems that, if you are a string player (saying this as a violinist) can make you feel pain while playing your instrument, so watch out. *Sometimes even if you get full combo with 100% accuracy on a league, you can still be beaten by the bots because their piano is a higher level. *Paywall for some pieces. Likes:: * Quite a large variety of pieces. * The league is very fun, I just worked up to Grandmaster II * Great concept for a game, I’ve never played any games with classical music before. *The colours of the interface. Overall I do like the game but it comes with some problems. ### 4/5 — Love this game and all but…. *2024-01-20, version 2.4.3* I think it needs an update with how repetitive it’s getting. Don’t get me wrong, I adore it ### 4/5 — Lost data again! *2023-12-14, version 2.4.3* I love this game. Been playing for several years. I think I lost all my data again. When I start it up it just brings me to the "sign in as a guest" page. It happens every time after update the apps…. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — payment bug *2025-04-21, version 2.4.3* purchased prestige but never reflected in my account do not purchase in this app！！！ ### 1/5 — Loved it till I paid for 7-day prestige and didn’t receive it *2025-04-14, version 2.4.3* I paid for the 7-day prestige and I was really charged on my card for it and I didn't received it. Tells me there was some erreur but I was still charged, I’ve check with my bank. And if I try to purchase it again, it tells me that I already have it when I clearly don’t even though, again, I was charged for it. So, what are y’all gonna do about that? ### 1/5 — Can’t purchase anything *2025-04-05, version 2.4.3* So the only reason I am giving this a 1 star is because I cannot purchase any jewels or in app purchases. Furthermore, I have to wait 25 minutes to gain 1 life despite the fact that I cannot purchase any more jewels to play more. ### 1/5 — 😡 *2025-03-01, version 2.4.3* Can't even buy prestige, takes money and doesn't give you it ### 1/5 — No sound *2025-02-20, version 2.4.3* There is no sound that plays and no way to figure out how to add sound. ### 1/5 — Payment *2025-02-04, version 2.4.3* Paid for prestige, tried paying three times, each time the payment went through but prestige isn’t activated, scam. ### 1/5 — GAME ABANDONED BY DEVELOPERS *2025-01-03, version 2.4.3* 0/10. ### 1/5 — ANOTHER PAY TO WIN GAME *2024-12-13, version 2.4.3* Don’t even bother downloading ### 1/5 — Fun game but predatory payment model *2024-02-25, version 2.4.3* You basically have to “rent” full features of the game for one week at a time. Leaves such a bad taste in the mouth after playing such a promising game. Just let me give you money once for the full game instead of this predatory jerk business model! I want to give you money but now I’m leaving a one star review instead. ### 1/5 — Sounds missing *2023-10-28, version 2.4.3* Im so sad, I don’t know why but there is no sounds anymore. Like at all … all my other app are ok, I tried to restarted, reinstalled, etc but still can’t play cause there is no more sound ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best piano game! *2025-03-26, version 2.4.3* 10 out of 10 best piano game to exist perhaps ever ### 5/5 — Super fun *2025-02-11, version 2.4.3* Such a fun well made game, it should have more players!!! ### 5/5 — PLEASE 🙏 *2024-12-27, version 2.4.3* Bro PLEASE ADD CARDS OR SMTH INTO THE GAME 😭🙏 it will make this game even better trust. Like imagine seeing anime Beethoven. It will complete my life as an unemployed highschooler. I know this game was last updated like 3 years ago 💀 but PLEASE CONSIDER THIS REVIEW 😞. Thank you for your time bye 😼 ### 5/5 — Help!!! (Update: It’s fixed 🥳) *2024-07-05, version 2.4.3* I’ve been addicted to this game for around 8 years but now I can’t access my account that was connected via Facebook. When I tried to log in via Facebook, it said “Feature unavailable: Facebook login is currently unavailable for this app since we are updating additional details for this app. Please try again.” I waited a few days but I still get the same response. I spent money on this game, passed majority of levels, and unlocked every piano besides 2. Please help me get my account back. It would be heartbreaking to lose 8 years worth of progress on my favorite game 😭😭😭😭😭 Reupdate: The pianista team reached out to me and fixed the problem. 😃 Hands down best rhythm game 🙌 ### 5/5 — Underrated game *2024-06-30, version 2.4.3* I’m very surprised this game doesn’t have more downloads and reviews. ### 5/5 — I love this game but there’s one problem… *2023-05-28, version 2.4.3* I absolutely love the game and it’s very addictive. But there’s this one bug to when I see a lot of notes coming at once and when I click one of those notes they seem to not count and it ruins my streaks. But overall addicting game. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2022-07-05, version 2.4.1* Great gameplay ### 5/5 — beautiful *2022-06-26, version 2.4.1* amazing, jaw dropping, outstanding, wonderful, magnificent, exquisite, i’m in love. marry me. ### 5/5 — burger *2022-06-24, version 2.4.1* Terrible game, I love this game, the keys are terrible, I love the music, game is overall bad. But it’s just so good and funny ### 5/5 — Please update the app can’t sign in through Facebook anymore *2022-04-28, version 2.4.1* Love the app, but I’m unable to sign in through my Facebook anymore after having accidentally signed out. --- *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 2026-06-10.*