Piano Sight Reading App Reviews

I cant see how this simple interface helps with sight reading. Pretty much as helpful as looking at picture of a keyboard with the notes scribbled on it. Needs more options.

This is one of the best gifts I received from this years birthday. I owned this cool app as a birthday gift from my JUILLIARD CUZ. It is so cool and so neat. Just a few days, I believe I have improved a lot. Even my piano tutor was amazed and suggested me to use it as the extra exercise to improve my sight reading skill, lol... Thanx CUZ, U always have the best taste.

I like this app in terms of its accuracy and versatility. The grand staff combined with key signatures almost can simulate any possible note you want to practice. But it can be improved in the aspect of ear training. I wish it can give the option to disable the challenging note display on the grand staff so that I can really use my ear to find the right key. Overall, it is pretty neat and useful if you are serious with learning piano music on iphone.

I hesitated first due to the price but I think it worth to spend that money after I played several rounds. This app has met my expectations and I am very impressed by the intelligent feature on accidentals which I didnt find on any other similar apps. No regret for me. Except my 5 yrs old daughter is not very fond of it because she doesnt like black and white. Maybe the next version shall include a feature to change the background color with pink,lol...

its very useful if you are a piano student and want to improve the sight reading speed

two thumbs up.

As an amateur musician, I love to collect all kinds of music related apps. This one is the REAL DEAL and way above the rest. Very professional in the aspect of piano music note simulation. And it is truly useful for me on piano sight reading speed and accuracy. I would highly recommend it to my close friends and students.

Just like some of the previous reviews described, it is a very helpful and well designed fine application which can benefit many piano students. I owned this app for a couple of weeks and I still like to play with it every day.

This app is great! I love that it has the grand staff (and you can limit to treble or bass by setting note range) and full 88 keys so it trains key placement along with sight reading. Also all accidentals, and statistical tracking of your results :) Some improvements I would like to see: give users the option to practice notes from random key signatures, with the range of keys to use being selectable by the user (like keys with +/- 3 sharps/flats, or even sharps only, or flats only). Improve the icon. Also FYI, it appears to not show up in the app store (on phone) when only searched for "sight read music", luckily I decided to search for "grand staff" and thats when I found this app :) maybe update your search terms somehow? Overall great app, 5 stars Update: appears that the app is showing sharp/flats even though they are not selected in options, would like to see that fixed :)

Other reviews have said it all. I would just like to see the option of sight reading different chords ( multiple notes at once) to help get a feel for sight reading actual songs.

This app does pretty much exactly what it says: it helps you with sight reading. Sadly, that doesnt make it worth its hefty price point. Unless its on sale, save your money and go with another app store offering.

It has potential but the way it works is it plays a note and shows it and asks you to find it on the keyboard. If you hit the wrong key, instead of sounding that keys note it plays an unsettling beep noise which doesnt aid you in finding the right key at all. Then when you hit the right key it makes the noise of the next note it wants you to find, which is just confusing. Until they change that this app is useless.

I first learn this app from one of my students and then I purchased one too. I want to see if this can be a good alternative method to help some students to improve their sight reading skills. After playing it awhile, I decided to introduce it to my students because this app almost can simulate every possible piano music notes you need to know. In the mean time, I especially like the feature of customizing the delay to display a hint which is very useful for the music beginners. It may need some effort to figure out how to utilize it but it is worth to try. After all, it is long journey to learn and play piano and I just hope try something innovative to get there faster.

When I started using this I barely could read music. When I first tested myself with this app, I was less than 25% accurate & it took me over 15 seconds to recall which note associates with what key. After using this app every day for a couple of weeks, Im now 100% accurate & my time is below 4 seconds. Not where I want it to be but Im improving, noticeably, & enjoy the rate at which Im learning; be it as a beginner. My ability to look up from my piano practice & read then process what I see, so that my playing doesnt stop or slow down, has improved radically. Love this app!

The option to limit the number of keys to be quizzed on only works occasionally. The option to turn off incidentals doesnt work, making this a useless app for the beginning student.

The improvement I want to see most, from this or any other sight reading app: please make it show more than one note at a time, in a phrase that makes musical sense! And please also include chords to play! If youre like me, its not that hard to pick out isolated notes, one by one (C! G#!). But what is hard is playing a series of notes (or a musical phrase) in the bass clef, or picking out a chord on the bass clef. You could just make it so that if a chords is shown where the notes should be struck at the same time, the player should just arpeggiate the chord (play one note at a time). 1. For me, its a waste of time to switch octaves on the keyboard. Id like an option for it to disregard the octave and just say if you got the note right. 2. Id prefer the "zoomed in" keyboard to have 2 octaves displayed instead of just one. So if it gives you a descending series of notes like C-B-A you can descend from C instead of having to switch to an octave lower and leap up to B. 3. When you strike the note on the keyboard, it should play the note you just hit, and show the note you played on the staff next to the "quiz note" - in green if correct, or red if incorrect. I dont have perfect pitch, but its still really disorienting to play one note on the keyboard and hear a different one sound, because it has automatically advanced to the next one. 4. You should be able to choose the range of notes on a staff or on the full keyboard. With just the sliders, you have to keep jiggering with it to get the range you want. 5. There should be an option for it to switch key signatures randomly instead of practicing an entire round in the same key.

I would recommend it to others since it works and I m very pleased to see the improvement from my young students. However, I am just curious why it cannot recognize the well tuned real piano sound. It would be perfect if it can do that. App creator, can you add this feature?

I dont buy a lot apps but I bought this because I learnt it first from another student and she seems always pick up new song faster than everyone else. After read all others review, I decided to get one. It totally worth it and it does help!!!!

Good GUI, useful and compact options for practice!

Im glad I came across this app, because as time has gone by Im finding it PERFECT to teach me how to read music and recognize notes faster. I highly recommend it to any music student or anyone interested in reading music.