# StaffWars Live — user reviews > 104 indexed App Store user reviews of StaffWars Live by TMI Media, LLC, rated 4.40/5 from 873 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/staffwars-live/id1071622918/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/staffwars-live/id1071622918.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 638 · 4★ 106 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 20 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of StaffWars Live? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for practicing notes - 🚀 Great for improving sight reading - 💡 Customizable to different instruments - 😊 Fun and engaging game-like experience **Cons** - 🐛 Note recognition issues, especially for certain instruments - 🐛 Problems with bass clef and transposing instruments - 🔧 Difficulty settings could be improved - 🔧 Occasional crashes and bugs **Commonly reported bugs** - Notes not registering correctly - Bass clef not working as expected - App crashing on launch for some users - Misalignment of note graphics **Most requested features** - Add support for more instruments, including piano - Implement a speed/difficulty slider - Add an option for the grand staff - Improve bass clef and transposition accuracy ## Newest reviews (12 of 104) ### 2/5 — Witzig, wenn es funktioniert *2026-06-03* Leider verändert sich das Tempo nicht mehr. Also die Töne kommen alle langsam rein. Der Anreiz fehlt, da es nun zu leicht ist. Wenn es wieder funktioniert gibt es fünf Sterne. ### 4/5 — Tiny bug…hopefully *2026-01-23* When playing bells, the note Bb registers as A# and will not be accepted as the “correct” answer (even though they are enharmonic and SHOULD be accepted as the correct answer.) ### 4/5 — 4 stars *2025-01-30* Helps me with my notes, but sometimes it does not hear them correctly, and it marks them wrong. All in all amazing app. ### 3/5 — Good for practice but difficult for the settings *2024-11-01* And if you don’t have a good microphone it can be hard to use ### 2/5 — Notes hit clef *2024-08-19* The app accurately recognises the notes I’m playing on my keyboard as they appear on the screen. However, the notes moving along the clef often don’t explore and end up crashing into the clef sign. Kind of defeats the purpose of the whole game. Should be free if it’s so faulty. ### 2/5 — Only Treble Clef Works *2024-04-23, version 1.70* It only works with treble clef! Even if you select bass clef, the notes it displays (and hits) are actually treble clef notes. What a joke. I want a refund. ### 3/5 — Great App, Just Really Hard *2023-12-17* Okay, okay, yes, this a good app for practicing your notes and getting better, but, once you get over 30, it gets REALLY HARD you try to think what the note is, but, when you found out what the note is, 30 + you already missed a note, and, once you get to 40+ you only get 5 seconds, and it’s really hard to concentrate, this app also made me mentally in pain, and I believe that “ I cannot do this “ and caused me cry, please make this app a LITTLE bit easier, it’ll help a lot. Thanks! ### 2/5 — The app recocnizes any tones in bass clef *2023-09-30* Bass clef has an error ### 5/5 — Great for everyone *2023-07-29* I love it,but in settings you have to change to treble cleft ### 5/5 — Fwest’s Reveiws *2023-05-31* Really great. I’ve gone from a basic trumpet player to quite good in a few weeks. ### 5/5 — STAFF WARS!!! *2023-05-26* Staff wars is a great game to play and to help you learn your notes in a really fun and easy way!I recommend it very very very very much !!!🤪 ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-05-02, version 1.70* Definetly worth the money ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Very unreliable *2026-08-17* The app is supposed to listen to the notes played on a real instrument, but it barely works. I was getting maybe 25% note recognition on a piano that’s in tune. It seemed like I had to play the notes really loud for it to hear anything, but even then it was unreliable. This makes the game unplayable. ### 1/5 — This app is a scam *2026-05-31, version 2.21* This app is not worth a penny it takes so long to recognize a note. The game is very boring and only held my son's attention for five minutes. He did not learn anything. It's a fine tool if it was free, but since it was three dollars, I would not purchase this game. ### 1/5 — Underwhelming *2026-03-18, version 2.10* Horrible, works terribly, I thought I could get better disappointed at how low quality it is. The setting stopped working. Please fix it. I am currently deleting this app. ### 1/5 — It’s too hard *2025-02-26, version 1.75* It’s too hard ### 1/5 — How does it work no quality of good and no of the Hindi language *2024-07-18, version 1.75* Bad ### 1/5 — Seems glitched *2024-05-04* I am trying everything with the settings and it will not pick up the sound and it will keep me on score 0 no matter what I the notes explode only when they hit the clef which is bad. **Developer response:** You need to choose the correct instrument and clef, that is why there are so many choices ### 1/5 — No slowing down option for beginners *2024-01-19* Just gets faster and faster. No help for which note to go to on the scale ### 1/5 — Fehlerhaft *2023-03-22* Töne werden ab und zu fälschlicherweise als korrekt gewertet. Außerdem explodieren ab und zu willkürlich Töne. Ich hätte es gerne für meine Schüler benutzt, aber so lernen sie falsche Noten! Bitte fixen! ### 1/5 — Piano teacher *2022-09-20, version 1.70* I play correct notes before they reach the clef but the notes still explode at the clef. I named lots of correct notes earlier and the game counted those. I don’t know what to adjust for success. I tried googling for help with no luck! Very frustrating! ### 1/5 — Sensors Don’t Work *2022-01-25, version 1.70* Sensors don’t always detect key ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Book3 *2026-06-25, version 2.21* StaffWars is a good note reading exercise. ### 5/5 — Staff Wars is AMAZING!!! *2026-05-12, version 2.21* Staff wars is an educational game for any age.It tests your capability to understand music notes.Staff wars is not just educational, but it is fun for all ages.I have really enjoyed playing this game. ### 5/5 — Hi *2026-04-01* This game is very fun and I recommend using this website For children because it helps them memorize all of their notes and how much they read ### 5/5 — Staff wars fan review or something *2025-10-28* This app is a great app it was a great investment so that you can sight read it really helps I really recommend it 👍👍👍👍🥁 ### 5/5 — :) *2024-09-28, version 1.75* me :) ### 5/5 — awesome app for my trumpet *2024-09-02, version 1.75* this app is awesome for my trumpet. ### 5/5 — Topp *2024-04-22* Funktioniert am Klavier sehr gut. Um in den Bass Schlüssel zu kommen muss in den Einstellungen Bass clef eingestellt werden. ### 5/5 — Amazing game *2023-11-04* For those who don’t know how to play piano on this, it’s the Trouble Cleff or one of the Cleffs it’s very good to play on the clarinet piano guitar violin. This is my only way of practicing and whenever I forget how to play an instrument of mine, I do this game and then I go to my music book good at the game with this certain instrument of mine. P.S.for those add haters there’s no ads because it is for learning and only learning music and I really think it’s an amazing game. You guys should really get it. It’s worth the money to. ### 5/5 — L P *2023-10-30* Great game! ### 5/5 — Best note reading app! *2023-09-18* I went from not being able to read music to having familiarity and increasing my speed and fluency in a week. This app, including the original one, are fun and work! I still have a long way to go, but this app helped me overcome a big hurdle. --- *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 2026-09-02.*