# Singing Stairs — Music games on a fire escape > Music games on a fire escape (iPhone/iPad app by Josh Greenman.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/singing-stairs/id6797679567 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Josh Greenman](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793655460) - Category: Education, Music - Price: $0.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 34 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-14 - Data updated: 2026-10-31 ## What is Singing Stairs? Singing Stairs is a building at night, cut from paper. Every lit window is a music game, and the residents are the notes: eight letters, from C up to high C, who stand on the fire escape and sing their own pitch. The higher the landing, the higher the note, so the building teaches the one idea every musician starts with. Fifteen games: PLAY: The playground, where the slide, the swing, the ladder and five more pieces of equipment each carry one musical idea. Paint the sky, where a finger drawing across the night is sung back, higher on the screen for higher notes. Song time, where she plays real songs by tapping the letter that glows, the words lit syllable by syllable. Make a tune, where she writes her own song on a grid and hears it forwards or backwards. SING: Sing together, where her voice moves a star up and down the fire escape as she sings. Sing it back, where she hears a note and sings it. LISTEN: The mystery singer, Higher or lower, Up or down, Happy or sad, How many singers, Echo clouds, The band and Drum talk: pitch, the shape of a tune, major and minor, harmony, memory, the sound of four instruments, and rhythm. AT BEDTIME: Goodnight, stairs. A lullaby, and the letters fall asleep one landing at a time. There is no score, no timer and no wrong answer. A miss plays what she tapped next to the right note, which is the comparison that trains an ear. Every note is a real recording: the Salamander Grand Piano, and violin, flute and harp from the VSCO-2 orchestra. Everything works offline. No accounts, no advertising, no purchases, no links out of the app, and no data collected. The two singing games listen while they are open and work out the pitch on the phone; nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. Settings sit behind a grown-ups gate. ## Is Singing Stairs safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Singing Stairs. ## Is Singing Stairs legit? Singing Stairs has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Singing Stairs is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-10-30 A new look. Singing Stairs is now a building at night, cut from paper. Every lit window opens a game, the front door leads to the residents, and the letters sing from the landings of the fire escape: the higher the landing, the higher the note. The lettering is new too. Reading text is set in Andika, a typeface drawn for children learning to read, with the a and g they learn to write. Octave and instrument now hang on the washing line at the top, so a small child's first taps open a game instead of changing a setting. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-15 New game: Paint the sky. Draw on the night sky with a finger and it sings what you draw. Higher on the screen is a higher note, and every drawing sounds good. Easier for younger players: - Sharps and flats now start off, so the staircase begins with eight big letters. Turn them on from the home screen or the grown-ups corner. - Games is now a short press-and-hold, so a stray tap doesn't end a game. - In Song time, the next letter glows in its own colour and hops. - The ladder and the monkey bars climb to any rung you tap, singing each one on the way. The singing games hear quieter voices, keep listening through the phone's own microphone when headphones are connected, and no longer mistake the app's own note for your singing. Also fixed: the seesaw's higher note now rides higher, the swing waits to be pushed, the win fanfare is in tune, How many singers uses chords where every voice can be heard, and Song time stops singing when you leave the game. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-14 No release notes. ## More apps by Josh Greenman - [Vital City: NYC Policy & Data](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vital-city-nyc-policy-and-data/id6793655458) All apps by Josh Greenman: https://appshunter.io/developer/6793655460 --- *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 2026-10-31.*