EarForge: 30-day Ear Training Reviews – Page 2
5/5 rating based on 23 reviews. Read all reviews for EarForge: 30-day Ear Training for iPhone.
EarForge: 30-day Ear Training is paid iOS app published by Patcharapon Phasukdee
This app has potential!
lavenderlily3
This is a really good app for people who have perfect pitch to practice developing it. Also, it is good for people who want to develop very good relative pitch. HOWEVER: There is no way to turn off the note names under the piano keys, which I find HUGELY ANNOYING. It’s cheating to have them there. For those of us with perfect pitch, we do not need those note names there. It isn’t necessary. So, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE find a way for us to turn them off if we don’t want them there. I know it is possible to do that! And, it would be helpful also to those with relative pitch to have the option of turning them off to challenge themselves and test themselves. In a college or music conservatory ear training class, we are NEVER given any note names in melodic dictation. All the class gets is a key signature(which is not necessary for people with perfect pitch). Then, the teacher plays the melody while the students write down what they hear. There is advanced dictation called harmonic dictation and that starts out with just the melody and bass parts played and students write that down. By the end of of the year, students are taking 4 part harmonic dictation in both major and minor keys, and writing the chord progressions in proper Roman numeral, etc form. Also, please create an option to change to Roman numerals and proper inversion symbols and other advanced chord symbols such as the N6(Neapolitan 6th) chord that classical musicians use for the chord dictation. Music theory majors in classical studies use those. Jazzers and other non-classical musicians use the other type that you have used. Thank you for taking the time to consider my requests! I hope to see them added! Great start to this app! It has a lot of potential! I will give it 5 stars if the things I mentioned are added. Thank you!
Too many ads!
ThisNicknameisAlreadyTakkken
This is my second review. First one was a 5 star cause I love this app and recommended it to so many people. However, recently there has been too many ads in between of the quizzes that makes focusing very hard! I understand the company needs to make some money but I’d rather pay for the app instead of watching those annoying ads and use the app for free! Please fix this or offer a payable version without advertisements!
Good but clear bugs
dook3
It’s a good start and I’m enjoying the app but there are several very obvious bugs, such as the replay button in chord training not working properly, and the letter buttons before taking a chord quiz making no sense. Hope the developer goes through and plays with everything before releasing an update. The start-up is kinda laggy and there’s no way to permanently bypass the welcome bear. There are obvious ways one would want to extend the features and it’s hard to imagine why the developer wouldn’t just put in a tiny more effort to include them. Why stop at a 4 notes/chords limit? Why not allow for chords in different octaves, or on different instruments?
Ads every few seconds. Shame on you.
Noah42
Downloaded during “free” discount. Only to find incredibly ad ridden app. Lame.
Great for anyone
IAAguilar
It doesn’t waste time in teaching you new things or blocking the minimal things to learn
Payment structure changes constantly.
SparklyNL
Paid for the app originally for no adds. Then even with paid app the developers added back in adds. Now they are looking for a “pro” subscription to give back the features that were originally in the paid app. Very disappointed. Even if they wanted to do a version 2.0 but let me keep the original app I would have been happy and maybe even bought the new app. Other apps have done this for transparency. But this removed features just to change more.
Bait and switch
Cambienta
I bought this app - with no ads - only to have ads added back in and be informed that I must subscribe for my purchase to work. I bought this app less than a year ago. I’m all for the move to subscription services, but this is a dishonest way to do so. Edit: actually, this is a violation of App Store guidelines, under 3.1.2(a): “If you are changing your existing app to a subscription-based business model, you should not take away the primary functionality existing users have already paid for. For example, let customers who have already purchased a “full game unlock” continue to access the full game after you introduce a subscription model for new customers.”
Wonderful concept
Danny patz
Not sure about value for money as I’m still using the free app. But it doesn’t seem too expensive for a year’s worth of musical training.
Encrusted with lengthy ads
TimothyLegg
Be prepared to wait and be bored. You will spend as much time watching distracting videos as you are practicing. Just isn’t useful. Lasted less than 5 minutes on my phone.