Learn Piano – OKTAV

I had seen the advertisements for the app and was excited because I really want to learn how to play and to read music the correct way, not just with numbers and tape. I opened the app and readily accepted the seven day trial, thank goodness. When I went to the bottom Tab after downloading, it has a learn tab but everything under the learning I had to unlock for an additional one year sub $250 or $40 a month? I don’t see any learning activities that start from the beginning and don’t cost anything in addition to the $250 that they already want me to pay when the trial is over. there’s really no explanation as to how the app works or where you’re supposed to begin or what’s even occurring within it. The dashboard has a start tab, but when you click it, they’re just songs that you chose that you would like to learn or that you already know, and those songs are just playing they’re not even showing you how to play there’s no lessons that I can find that include the subscription that I am supposed to pay $250 for. Not recommended for a beginner or a new player.

I like it a lot. It’s the best piano app I’ve tried thus far. I would really like to see the app be able to scroll at the speed I’m playing. I also hope they enhance it so that the scrolling follows the music for standard songs (returns to play a section again as directed by the score), not just the interactive songs. As I said, I enjoy the app and it’s really good. But some tweaks, like mentioned above, would be great!

First of all, I love Oktav. I recently got the yearly subscription and it’s an incredible help for me learning to play. But unfortunately I’m forced to use the Oktav website in Safari on my iPad, because for me the app is absolutely useless without landscape support. It already works when displaying music / book content, so why not for the main UI? There was another review from a year ago that asked for the same, and the feature was supposed to be put ‘on the roadmap’… Well here we are after a full year and nothing happened 😞