# Simple Music - amazing chords creation keyboard app with free piano, guitar, pad sounds, and midi — user reviews > 106 indexed App Store user reviews of Simple Music by Keynote Star Inc, rated 3.90/5 from 100 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simple-music-amazing-chords-creation-keyboard-app-with-free-piano-guitar-pad-sounds-and-midi/id392986789/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simple-music-amazing-chords-creation-keyboard-app-with-free-piano-guitar-pad-sounds-and-midi/id392986789.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 47 · 4★ 24 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Simple Music? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 💡 Innovative concept - 🎵 Great for beginners - 🎶 Inspires creativity - 🎧 Good sound quality - 🎹 Intuitive piano interface - ✨ Makes users feel like a musician - 🚀 Fun and absorbing - 🌟 Valuable for music production - 🎯 Helpful for songwriting - 💡 Simplifies chord concepts - 🎵 Great for jamming - 👍 Very musically intuitive - 💡 Fresh take on music creation - 💯 Outstanding and playable **Cons** - 💸 Expensive for full features - ❓ Confusing instructions - 🚫 Ads block content - 💰 Forced purchases - 🗑️ Unintuitive layout - 🤔 Difficult to understand - 🪦 Limited functionality without payment - 👎 Annoying pop-ups - ⚠️ Bait and switch tactics - 😩 Frustrating user experience - 💸 High cost for additional instruments - 📱 Sync issues between devices - ❌ Not intuitive for guitar - 🎹 No real piano keyboard option - ⏳ Features promised but not delivered **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on launch - App freezes when saving - Purchased features disappear after reinstallation - Help bar won't disappear - Blue help bar obstructs keys - Battery drains quickly - Advertisements block app usage - Sync problems with purchases - No sound output - App closes immediately upon opening **Most requested features** - MIDI recording - Chords playing on different instruments - Ability to extend notes like an organ/synth - Option to turn off page swipe temporarily - Videos for tutorials - More in-depth usage guides - Sync purchases across devices - Save recordings locally (e.g., to GarageBand) - Notation function - Greater sustain option for sounds - Real piano keyboard option ## Newest reviews (12 of 106) ### 4/5 — I *2024-07-24* I love it ### 4/5 — Works as a kids toy. *2023-09-10* I love the concept of a one chord pad. But I can’t figure out how to extend the notes to play it like an organ or synth so that pretty much makes it useless for my songs I need one for. ### 4/5 — Still starting out *2023-07-23, version 3.1.2* Just a beginner… but fun ### 5/5 — Love this *2018-07-20* Very nice. ### 5/5 — Love it *2018-05-27, version 3.1.2* For a song writer it is great for ideas ### 4/5 — Good, like it...but... *2017-11-30* This is a very interesting music app with a novel concept where the non-chording notes are (re)moved to give you a 1st, 3rd, 5th key sequence side by side. Your fingers can fall on naturally to form a C, hop to a G, etc. without the need to span unused keys. Okay, what’s missing? Courtesy for one. I’m here because a pop up forced me here “at my convenience.” That wasn’t nice. I was just starting to get a feel of playing and boop, I kicked out. I’m pretty sure I paid for some of the instruments I no longer have, so that wasn’t nice either. But the upgrade price includes new stuff, so I’m not too torqued. It’s not like I ever learned to use the Jamaican xylophone, or the main instrument for that matter. Why not? Well, it requires me to go into settings to turn off the page swipe, which is on Apple for making that hard to do. With it enabled, the instrument cannot be played with 4 fingers without bumping into the page swipe. Bad behavior, and I don’t want to turn off the swipe. So, the miss is that the app does not provide a means of turning off the swipe temporarily. That could be as simple as a button that takes me to that setting to turn it off then back on when I’m done. That is missing and puts me off the instrument. Otherwise, highly recommended for those who don’t swipe. H ### 3/5 — Good but Disappointed *2017-11-17* For years now on this app one of the toggles when you press it says its coming soon. It’s been over two years and no update and that shows that you guys aren’t dedicated to making the best app you possibly can. It’s easy to use and i like it. I hate on the bottom right corner there is the toggle that brings up other apps and it’s in the way right on one of the keys so I always press it and it’s annoying. Also I would like to get ride of the button that brings up the how to use the app part that you have to press the next button a over and over to close it. I think there should be videos instead showing how it works and more in depth ways to use it more effectively so you could create at least a melody, even with little to no experience. ### 5/5 — Wonderful app *2017-09-29* Wonderful app ### 5/5 — I like it. *2017-06-29* And I've used it since it was released. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2017-06-14, version 3.1.2* Love it ### 4/5 — Robert ALLOTT *2016-07-31* Simple Music is a very graceful way to either play with music or seriously compose with music ### 3/5 — 👍🏻 *2016-07-31, version 3.1.2* i love it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Mauvaise plaisanterie ? *2025-12-02* J’ai acheté Simple Music Pro en 2015, l’app n’était plus mise à depuis des années. Elle réapparaît avec le même logo, le même ratio 4:3 d’il y a 10 ans avec zéro mise à jour de fonctionnalités ou d’ergonomie et en plus il faut que je repasse à la machine à cash pour utiliser cette « nouvelle » app ? Vous êtes sérieux là ?🤬 ### 1/5 — 왜 3900원을 결제했는데 21000원이 빠져나가나요? *2019-05-17* 왜 3900원을 결제했는데 21000원이 빠져나가나요? ### 1/5 — Wasted my money *2018-09-04, version 3.1.2* Very limiting. Paid for full app, didn’t get much! Where’s the embellished chords? Deleted. ### 1/5 — Annoying *2018-08-16* The blue help bar won’t go away. I click and click but it just stubbornly stays put. If I can figure out how to make it go away, I will give an accurate review! Now a new nuisance. They force you to rate. Well here’s your rating. One star because you won’t let me use the app without rating. ### 1/5 — Drains batteries *2018-06-20* This app consumed 61% of my battery running in the background doing nothing ### 1/5 — Advert blocks app *2017-12-25* The advert asking me to rate the app and buy other apps won’t let me use this app long enough to form a positive opinion about this app. ### 1/5 — Not usable *2017-03-31, version 3.1.2* Full app may be okay but this version is not usable. Pop ups all the time. Unable to verify if it is okay to see if I want to purchase. Will try something else. ### 1/5 — Плохо *2017-01-13* Почти Сразу вынуждает покупать другие предложения, Реклама не удаляется.... ### 1/5 — You better have money. *2015-07-29, version 3.1* I hate this, you can barely do anything without paying money. So, if your just looking for a tiny piano, here you are. Because EVERYTHING else costs money. ### 1/5 — Don't delete if you got it free!!! *2015-02-24* When I couldn't change back to notes C, D, E, etc. after using sol-fa scale, I deleted the app and reinstalled to reset it. All of the nice features that had been bundled with the original purchase (was it free through Apps Gone Free?) were gone. Stupid app would not honour my original free acquisition with all the bells and whistles that I had. Sorry folks, I'm deleting this one. Dumb pop up window dogged me at every push of a feature button. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cool app *2025-06-21* I’m really enjoying this app ### 5/5 — Fun fun fun *2025-03-07, version 3.1.2* Easy to use and fun to play ### 5/5 — Simple Music *2025-02-12* Its very good , helps in playing but only when needed , thanks ### 5/5 — I liked it *2023-08-07* Seems really handy for making good music! ### 5/5 — SimpleMusic *2022-09-23, version 3.1.2* Great job, I'm beginning to learn my lessons, thats good💘 Good until now, but how to go on Email? Yes c) Good, until, now, again, no problem, catching notes now, thank you My iCloud is not working on this App, I want to join that list on the black colour , simple music pal page again, thank you ### 5/5 — Excellent et complet ! *2022-06-14* Le son, les notes individuelles, les accords, l’enregistrement, la sauvegarde et l’exportation des enregistrements ! Bravo à toute l’équipe ! 👏👏👏 ! ### 5/5 — Gamechanger *2020-10-29* I sometimes get in my own head when producing music, this app brings things back to the basics, where im playing with music instead of working on it. Makes it very easy to come up with ideas that are harmonically strong, and do things I don’t know how to do with my theory knowledge alone. Just makes writing music more intuitive and fun. I also like exploring how harmony works with this app. It’s simple but incredibly valuable ### 5/5 — Amazing - Feature request *2020-08-24* Amazing app, I can’t thank you enough!!! A feature request is midi recording, it would be good to have the chords playing on different instruments. I already like the instruments, it’s just something in my mind. ### 5/5 — Absolutely perfect piano app *2019-09-11* Can’t recommend this high this enough. Perfect. ### 5/5 — Very creative app. *2018-10-11* If you play an instrument or not you can sound like a pro with this app. It’s really great. --- *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 2026-09-04.*