Random Roots Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: Random Roots - Music Trainer
Rating: 4.76335 (131 reviews)

Random Roots - Music Trainer

Anton Schwartz

📚 Education

🎵 Music

Customer Experience

Positive experience86.1% of reviews

Neutral8.3% of reviews

Negative experience5.6% of reviews

~ Based on 36 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Random Roots

Reviews of Random Roots are mostly positive: the Music app is rated 4.8/5 from 131 App Store ratings. What users like most: flexible and well-thought-out, great for musicians by musicians. Top complaints: subscription model is a con, subscription fee feels unwarranted. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

👍Flexible and well-thought-out
🎶Great for musicians by musicians
🎹Excellent learning tool for keyboard skills
💡Versatile for ear training and dexterity
🚀Accelerates learning and internalizing music
✨Simplifies complex musical concepts
🎯Allows targeted practice
💪Builds musical fluency
✅Tracks progress effectively
🎧Useful for vocal practice
🌟Highly recommended for jazz chords
🛠️Well-built practice utility
💯Indispensable practice resource
💡Innovative approach to learning keys
🌟Super resource for practice
💯Fantastic practice tool
👍Intuitive and easy to use
🚀Helps internalize musical vocabulary
🎶Great for scales and chords
✨Makes practice enjoyable and addictive

Negative things

💰Subscription model is a con
🤔Subscription fee feels unwarranted
💸One-time fee preferred over subscription
🚫Auto-renewal is a deal-breaker
📉Limited updates and use cases for subscription
🤷‍♂️Subtle utility not always apparent
😵Random octave jumps were annoying (now fixed)
📉Chordal harmony not audible (in older reviews)
💥Crashes on launch (resolved by reinstall)

Is Random Roots Safe?

Random Roots - Music Trainer appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Random Roots is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 131 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

93.9% of ratings point to a safe experience

2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns

3.8% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 131 App Store ratings for Random Roots.

Is Random Roots Legit?

Random Roots - Music Trainer appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Random Roots is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Exactly what I needed to make sure I know things in every key

I’ve been looking for a way to have something throw keys at me at random for a long time just to make sure I wouldn’t only be able to play something in a certain context. This app is great for that, and it’s amazingly flexible and well thought out by a musician for musicians.

WWombatista

2 months ago

Awesome Learning Tool

I’m a woodwind player and have studied jazz theory. I’m using Random Roots to learn keyboard skills. It’s an extremely well-thought-out learning tool that I use to create my own exercises to learn piano chords. Note that it also comes with tons of pre-built exercises. You can set the tempo or use a Bluetooth foot pedal to advance the chordal roots manually. It allows you to select all 12 keys, or just the keys you want to work on, and keeps track of your progress. Easy to use, flexible, intuitive, and motivating. I’ve owned a piano keyboard for many years and with the help of this app, I am finally starting to learn how to play basic chords. Note that it’s not a piano teaching app, but a tool to help you drill scales, chords, or whatever you are working on at the moment. I don’t write reviews often, but I think this app deserves 5-stars!

TDThe Sax Doc

6 months ago

Excellent App!

This is such a good app! It’s simple and easy to use but so incredibly versatile. Great for ear training and tonal dexterity.

MMyFriendsCallMeBumpy

a year ago

Cool utility but sub $ unwarranted

This is a cool practice utility but I think requiring a subscription to “unlock” all 12 keys is an odd choice for a simplistic tool with limited updates and use cases. A one time fee up front seems more in line with what is offered.

SStudioj075337

2 years ago

Just what I’ve been after!

Great app, a lot of thought has been put into it. Brilliant for practising jazz scales and will be good for getting students started on their major and minor scale practice. Great value for money, really impressed.

FPfrustrated of padbury

2 years ago

Absolut Top zum Üben in allen Tonarten

*****

KKarljuliusB

4 years ago

Great tool for ear training and learning your fret board

This app is great, but I do have a few things that I want added. First of all, if we can manually select the highest and lowest notes in a range to play along with, that would be amazing! I use this to practice my four string bass and the E string doesn’t get enough love. I’d love to set the lowest note to an E and the highest to whatever I’m trying to learn. Second, if there could be a way to see the not being played depicted in major staff instead of just the key, that would be so so nice. That would add a whole aspect of sight reading as well as ear training.
Other than those two minor things, I love the app and it’s been a huge help.

NONutmeg Oliver

4 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the comment! Do you know that you can adjust the range of the notes played, in settings? The app wasn't designed for the user to play in unison with the sounded note, so I'm not sure how that would help you. But perhaps you're using it in a new, creative way? In any case, you can't set the exact range of the roots sounded, but you can move the range up/down and make it larger/smaller if those help. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

It’s very good, but

Please, stop the subscription model. I’d pay $5 for this app, but I’m not subscribing.

Qquartertonelow

4 years ago

Super Resource

Very useful and helpful, this app saves a lot of time. It provides practice options and ear training capability I don’t know how I could have managed otherwise. Far better than flash cards as you see, hear, and finger in real time. For me this is the most valuable single practice resource to learn the mechanics of music. If you need to work on chord tones, scale degrees, or learning in twelve keys, internalizing any of that, this is fantastic. Very thankful for this!

SFSelmer Fudd

4 years ago

Fantastic app!

Anton's app is incredibly helpful, no matter what instrument you play. As someone who kept procrastinating and putting off this phase of my learning, I can say I am incredibly grateful an app like this exists. Incredibly user-friendly, with a ton of options for flexibility. If you are like me and maybe not sure where to start, Anton even includes some basic exercises to get the new user going. I started (painfully slowly, I might add!) with those and worked my way into making my own gradually harder exercises. Every day is a new challenge. It's been a rewarding and extremely humbling process. Well worth the money. Thanks Anton!

CChrisCaltag

5 years ago

Good but ...

A well built tool for getting comfortable playing in all keys. But I think most potential purchasers of the app will fail to see its subtle yet profound utility. Perhaps more explanation would help.

Oh and please remove the random jumps to different octaves! It’s just really annoying.

PS: The new version of the app allows one to limit the range of pitches in such a way that the octave jumps are no longer there. I have updated my rating to 5 stars accordingly.

PSS: This app has been a big part of my ear training success. There are two things one needs to be able to truly play by ear: (1) The ability to automatically play in real-time what you hear in your minds ear; and (2) Good stuff in your minds ear. This tool has helped me accomplish 1. Wow wouldn’t be great if there was an app to develop 2! Nudge nudge ...

MMusezak

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback, Musezak — I'm glad that Random Roots has been so helpful in your ear training! What you're referring to as random jumps is a behavior I added based on user feedback. When the roots were only played within a fixed octave, users would come to associate each particular key with a particular timbre/range of the note they would hear played. I added some slight variability in the range to counter that unwanted effect and make the learning less context-dependent. But, as you point out, it's now fully user-adjustable in the app. :) As for helping you have good stuff in your mind's ear: I completely agree that that is essential! Luckily, I think that can be accomplished much more easily without an app than (1) can—namely, listen incessantly to great music. :) And sing along, internally or out loud. But if you have anything particular in mind, email me through the app! Best wishes!

Excellent trainer for Jazz piano chords

I was desperately seeking an app that would help train my hands to memorise rootless piano chords and this turned out to be perfect. My progress had been very slow using flash card apps because there was no metronome setting or soundoff of the root. This app turned out to be perfect for what I needed once I figured out how to use it, which wasn’t very difficult. The randomness of displaying the root is not actually random, but very conducive to helping you identify the chords relative to each other. I highly recommend it if you’re looking for an app that helps train your jazz chords. I can see that I will be using this for more advance training of progressions and riffs.

VVandonz

6 years ago

Awesome!

Great practice tool!

Ssenotaur

6 years ago

Been wanting something like this for a long time

WWombatista

6 years ago

Amazing!

Wish there was an option to randomize scale degrees.

SStevenRoy969

6 years ago

Very nice app

Looking forward to using it more to aid my piano learning.

TTomkilla03

6 years ago

Crashes on launch until I reinstalled

Enough said

SSuperShoeDiva

6 years ago

Amazing app, lousy contract terms

This app is well designed and would be of benefit to anyone looking to hone their theory through practice; however the only way to unlock the full functionality is by signing up for monthly or annual auto renewal - a practice I cannot support.

Developers - if I’m mistaken, let me know and I’ll fix my review (five stars) and tell all my friends. This app is amazing and I very much want to support your work. Happy to subscribe for a year, it’s the auto renewal that’s the deal-breaker.

Ssteph.shar

6 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your frank and level-headed feedback. I’m Anton, the developer, and I can relate to your frustrations. The auto-renewal is simply an Apple policy. But the subscription model was a conscious choice. It was my answer to the question of how to minimize the negative financial consequences to me as a musician, of developing an app that I felt needed to exist… and providing the supply of downloadable materials for it, etc. Unfortunately, it takes a great amount of time and, even with a thousand paid users, it provides me with only with the tiniest fraction of an income. If I compare it to my private music teaching, each annual paid subscription costs the user less than five minutes of a lesson, which I think is a pretty good deal for the user. Of that, Apple still takes a portion. Please forgive me sharing all this, but I want you to know that this is something I’ve given a lot of thought to. It was a high priority of mine to minimize the app’s barrier to entry—which is why there’s an unlimited trial period and a negligible 1-month subscription price. I would LOVE to figure out a way to price the app differently and still be able to afford to work on it. If you have any ideas, I’m all ears - please contact me through the app or through antonjazz.com. Thanks again for your input!

An essential practice app!

This has quickly become part of my practice routine. Love the user provided exercises. The features are many and enjoyment abounds :D

Ttawntron

7 years ago

Nice app but...

Would be great if it showed the diagram/graphic of the chord for beginners. Beginners have to learn to remember what an E chord looks like versus a Em chord on guitar. Or what a full G chord looks like versus a Gm chord on guitar.

LLescaart

7 years ago