tonestro User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience59.4% of reviews
Neutral12.3% of reviews
Negative experience28.3% of reviews

~ Based on 431 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is tonestro Safe?

tonestro - Music Lessons appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for tonestro is 89/100.

This assessment is based on 2,101 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

85.3% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 2,101 App Store ratings for tonestro.

Is tonestro Legit?

tonestro - Music Lessons appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for tonestro is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Pour les très débutants seulement. For complete beginners only

Je me suis malheureusement abonnée pour un an, pour la clarinette. Je déconseille fortement cette application trop coûteuse (217,30 C$).
Le concept est attirant mais que de belles promesses. Cette application est conçue pour les très débutants de moins de 6 mois de pratique et qui ne savent pas ou à peine lire la musique.
Il n’y a aucune partition complète, que des extraits, et en plus tronqués. J’ai complété l’ensemble du cours (niveau 2 avancé, 29 très courtes leçons) en moins de cinq heures et impossible de progresser à un autre niveau.
Le service à la clientèle: IA. Réponses rapides mais inutiles. On me suggère d’attendre qu’ils développent leurs cours dans le futur mais n’offrent aucun remboursement.
Excessivement décevant.

Unfortunately, I subscribed to the one-year plan for clarinet. I strongly advise against this app, which is far too expensive (C$217.30).
The concept is appealing, but it is mostly just a series of attractive promises. The app is designed for complete beginners with less than six months of practice who can barely read music, if at all.
There are no complete pieces of music, only excerpts, and even those are cut short. I completed the entire course (Advanced Level 2, consisting of 29 very short lessons) in less than five hours, and there is no way to progress to another level.
As for customer service, it is AI. The responses are quick but completely unhelpful. I was simply told to wait until they develop more courses in the future, but they refuse to offer any refund.
Extremely disappointing.
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Response from developer

Bonjour Suemamou, merci pour votre commentaire détaillé. Nous sommes désolés que tonestro n’ait pas répondu à vos attentes en tant que clarinettiste plus expérimenté(e). Nos leçons sont volontairement organisées sous forme de parcours structuré et commencent par les bases. Mais tonestro ne se limite pas à ce parcours : dans la section Chansons, vous trouverez de nombreux morceaux de différents niveaux de difficulté, y compris des contenus plus exigeants pour les musiciens avancés. Vous pouvez également participer au Challenge hebdomadaire et vous mesurer à des musiciens du monde entier. 🎶 Nous souhaitons également clarifier votre remarque concernant notre support : notre service client est composé de vraies personnes. La technologie peut nous aider à traiter les demandes plus rapidement, mais ce sont bien des membres de notre équipe qui s’occupent des demandes concrètes. Nos musiciens et spécialistes logiciels travaillent à plein temps pour créer de nouvelles leçons, chansons et fonctionnalités et pour améliorer continuellement tonestro. Premium comprend, en plus du parcours structuré, de nombreuses chansons avec des accompagnements de haute qualité, des exercices et un feedback interactif sur la justesse et le rythme – disponible à tout moment, 24/7/52.

Very helpful customer sevice

I had a few question about navigating to the post performance screen which seemed to only appear for less than a second after I finish, sent in my question and didn’t expect a response.

Well, I got a reply the next morning. They asked for a follow up screen recording, I sent one and the next day I received a detailed response which solved my problem — Use the “X” in the upper right to examine the annotated sheet music and then use the provided “Start” button to try again.

I love the app and their very responsive customer service.
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Débloquer une progression

Bonjour. Joueur de flûte à bec débutant , je me trouve bloquer au niveau 2 parce que je n arrive pas à obtenir la 3ème étoile sur # la lettre a elise#. (Mon meilleur score est 79,5) . Le morceau est évalué comme difficile dans l onglet # chansons# (niveau expert). La requête auprès de mon professeur n aboutit à rien, il suggère de continuer jusqu’à obtenir mon étoile. L un d entre vous aurait il un conseil pour passer au niveau supérieur. Merci. Eric
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Response from developer

Bonjour Eric, merci pour ton retour détaillé 😊 Nous comprenons bien que cela puisse être frustrant de voir ta progression bloquée à cause d’un seul morceau, surtout si « Für Elise » est encore un peu trop difficile pour ton niveau actuel. Écris-nous à support@tonestro.com en indiquant ton User ID et en précisant que tu es bloqué au niveau 2 sur « Für Elise ». Notre équipe pourra examiner ton cas plus précisément et t’aider à poursuivre ton parcours d’apprentissage. 🎶 Nous te conseillons également de travailler les passages difficiles plus lentement et par petites sections. Avec un score de 79,5, tu es déjà tout près du but ! Nous espérons que tu atteindras bientôt le niveau suivant et que tu continueras à prendre plaisir à apprendre la flûte à bec avec tonestro.

Professora de Flauta Transversal

10

A scam

Charged me for a free trial

It’s ok

It’s a good app just costs sooo much money and you can’t even learn the saxophone without having to pay. I liked the app free but I don’t want to pay to learn an instrument.

Good app, needs more free songs

Its good but buying all the songs with premium is a bit too much money for 1 year…we need more than 5 songs that are free so people that need practice but don’t want to spend money can enjoy this. I recommend that you make at least half the songs free so people like me can afford to learn and play without having the play the same 3 songs everyday. Maybe premium should only give you the lessons and lock only a little hit of the songs instead of all of them and the lessons. Overall, pretty good app. Needs more free songs
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Response from developer

Hi BIGG, thanks for your detailed feedback 😊 We’re happy you overall like tonestro! We understand your wish for more free songs. Besides free songs, tonestro also offers the first lesson for free and the weekly Challenge with 5 freely playable songs, which brings regular variety. 🎶 With Premium, you unlock many more songs, structured lessons, video tutorials, exercises, and interactive feedback on pitch and rhythm. You can also join our weekly Challenge and match with musicians worldwide. tonestro costs only a fraction of a music teacher and is available 24/7/52, so you can practice flexibly whenever it fits your schedule. Our musicians and software specialists work full-time to provide a high-quality learning opportunity, especially for people who do not have easy access to personal lessons. Premium allows us to maintain tonestro, create new content, improve features, and keep developing the app. If you have specific song wishes or more ideas, contact us at support@tonestro.com. Since you overall like tonestro, we’d also be very happy about an upgrade to 5 stars 😊

Je viens de télécharger l’app

Comment donner un avis je viens juste de télécharger l’application

Response from developer

Bonjour 9Marcoussis1, merci pour ton retour 😊 Les avis nous aident beaucoup à améliorer tonestro, mais bien sûr tu dois avoir assez de temps pour découvrir l’app tranquillement avant de donner une évaluation définitive. Prends le temps d’explorer nos leçons, chansons, exercices et le feedback interactif sur la justesse et le rythme. tonestro est conçu pour t’accompagner pas à pas dans l’apprentissage de ton instrument. 🎶 Nous serons ravis de connaître tes impressions après que tu auras testé l’app plus en détail. Si tu as des questions ou des suggestions, tu peux aussi nous écrire à support@tonestro.com.

Good

Good

Charged after cancelling

Cancelled the subscription after the free trial. I do not have access to the premium content but still being charged for it. Tried going through support but are really giving me the runaround and refusing to refund.

What the heck

They want a review before I even open the app fully. So it gets a one because so far I’m not impressed.

Aula 1

10

Me gusta

Mi opinión es de 10 de 10

Not free

I need to enter my credit card before I can use it in trial period. False advertising

Misleading

App does not do what it states will do and will charge you a yearly premium of $149.99 even though you stated monthly transactions. They will not refund

Buns

Dont recommend thought it was free but it has a paywall

Bad Programming

I purchased this app through the Apple App Store. I wanted to upgrade my subscription through the App Store and it failed. There may have been an option to purchase through the app because (which I thought would go through the App Store, I was charged through the App Store once and then 7 attempts were made on a separate card not recorded by Apple. 2 are pending. 9 attempts total outside of the App Store. It seems this should violate App Store policy to charge outside of the App Store. Bad programming in the app. Buyer beware! The app is not that great anyway.
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Response from developer

Hi GiGilovebunnies, Thanks for your detailed feedback 😊 Subscriptions and payments can be processed through the App Store or Stripe, depending on the option selected. Before any purchase is completed, the price, duration, and payment terms are shown and must be actively confirmed. If you tried to upgrade an existing subscription and several payment attempts or pending charges appeared, we’d like to take a closer look. Please contact us directly at support@tonestro.com and send us your purchase details, User ID, and information about the payment attempts shown. Our team will gladly help you check and clarify the case. 🎶 tonestro offers structured lessons, songs, exercises, and interactive feedback to support you step by step while learning your instrument. Your feedback helps us improve both the app experience and the information shown during the purchase process.

Impossible to Use

The concept is great, but it doesn’t work on my iPhone. Keeps saying it can’t hear me. Help center is worthless. For example tuning section says my note is dead on, but the song I need to play the same note only for won’t recognize it. It keeps saying it can’t hear and to reduce background noise. There is no background noise. Landscape mode makes no difference. There is a microphone setting in theory but no at to find it.
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Scam

App did not do what I needed even though it said it had specific benefits I was looking for. Plus after trial they charged me an annual fee which I did not want and won’t refund me. Do not buy!

Worst app ever

The forces you to be perfect and you must pay 25 mouthly for dog water teaching