Skoove: Learn to Play Piano Reviews

Best but needs improvement

Dgdg87

I think this is the best piano tutor app out there, but it needs work. The inability for it to properly recognize notes is frustrating and interrupts flow and learning. I purchased the cords to hook up my keyboard to my iPad, so hopefully that helps, but there is no work around when playing my acoustic piano, so I'll have to play my keyboard when using this app, also frustrating. I would also like to have more control of the sheet music in the lessons. I would like to press pause and then be able to scroll through the sheet music. Right now when you hit stop it takes you back to the beginning of the sheet music automatically. At least allow me to pause it where I'm at and practice and repeat the current notes at my own pace, or have an option in the lesson to review all sheet music and scroll through it there. For what it is and the need to purchase cords, $5 a month should be the max for a subscription.

Good but wish you didn’t have to pay

Palumbos05

I think this is a great app to learn how to play piano and I absolutely love it! But I don’t like the fact that you have to pay so much money for it?? but that’s the only thing I don’t like about it

Cancel subscription

Tzu98

My subscription will expire on 7/26. I’m not interested in renewing this subscription. This happened once last year with auto renewal and I wasn’t able to stop the payment. I was told I authorized this auto renewal when purchased the app. Can you please help me to make sure this is canceled and will not charge my account for another year? Thank you Terence

Does not work with Midi input

Borfswitch

This app is unusable in its current state. The microphone mode does not consistently pick up the notes I play, and if I use a midi cable the app seems to think that I am holding down every key I press, causing it to fast forward through the notes instead of waiting until I play them. I’ve tested using a midi cable with other apps and had no problems. I contacted Skoove support about this issue, but so far they have not been able to resolve it.

Great Idea, Very Poor Execution

monkey111672

The title says it all. This app would be wonderful if it weren’t so fatally flawed in its design. Honestly, I’m giving it two stars because I got it as a free trial through the purchase of a keyboard. The app is rife with errors. It often doesn’t recognize when keys are hit and there are notational errors in a few of the tunes I’ve played. I definitely would not pay money for this app until it can perform as advertised.

Do not get the 7 day free trial on iTunes if you have a 3month trial from amazon

Boo621311

I signed up for the 7 day free trial on iTunes trying to sign up for the 3 month trial. I was excited to use skoove with my new piano and missed that that the amazon code is only redeemable on the website and does not override the 7day trial with apple. I was charged $100 for a yearly subscription. Apple said talk to skoove and skoove said sorry, that’s between you and apple. This is my first experience with skoove and and apple, and so far I’m wishing I had not gotten either.

Poor app

Bloopdeedoop

It’s a cute app but you won’t learn much more then what you can learn from a $5 Alfred’s Piano Library book. I immediately began with the advanced level to see just how advanced it was and the “advanced” level is what you learn on page 10 in any primer level book. Do not waste your time or money. Use YouTube it’s free AND it’ll actually teach you. This? Not so much. -A full time piano teacher of 25 students

Annoying

pomodoroman

Skoove becomes annoying very quickly. It has a great defect that made me stop playing with it just a couple of weeks after subscribing. Skoove does not allow you to browse through the scores, so that you are condemned to boredom in the “learn the keys” sections because you have to play note by note very slowly so that the software recognizes what you play before it takes you to the next “page.” In the “play on time” sections you have to go at whatever speed is set for the piece you are practicing (no tempo settings) and, worse of all is that you cannot practice each page because if you stop, it takes you back to the first one. The reason for this one star review is that, since I am using the app at least 5 updates have been released and these issues are still there despite fixes being requested by a number of users.

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