Note Flash Music Sight Reading

I like that it provides a full range of notes to practice and can take input via MIDI. Having said that, these are not discrete exercises, just one note after another ad infinitum, so it’s kind of boring. Also the orientation is fixed so you can’t turn your phone upside down if you need to in order to accommodate a MIDI cable. (At least the orientation doesn’t change on my iPhone Mini.)

After a few days I decided to try the contact us option within the app again. It worked. I was able to reach out to the developer. The app is now working as it is designed to function. My one suggested upgrade would be to add midi and Bluetooth capabilities. A big thank you to the developer! Previous one star review that I upgraded to four-star. I had no intention of writing a negative review until after attempting to contact them through the app. However the contact us link in the app is not functioning. I also tried the app support link right here within the App Store. That particular app support link takes you to a non-existing Twitter account. So I am left with no choice. My first disappointment was the free version offers nothing. They would be better off giving you the full version for two weeks, or something like that. However the app is only four dollars so I went ahead and purchased to experience the full version. The app is not picking up the sound of my keyboard. Therefore it is stuck on one note and wont switch to a new note. The microphone option is turned on within the app. I have also restarted my device which is a 2018 iPad. Hopefully the developers respond to this feedback so that I can have the problem resolved or a refund. Then I would be happy to upday my review. The app is useless as it is.

I think this app is a good idea and I do enjoy it. It’s nice how you can customize which notes you want to work on. There is a bit of a problem with accuracy. I purposely pressed the wrong key a few times to test the accuracy of this app and it did fail to catch these mistakes a lot. My daughter came in the room and coughed and it went onto the next note as well. There were a few times that it would catch mistakes but not as often as I would have expected it to. I would like to point out that I am playing on a piano that was just tuned by a technician two weeks ago. I do like the app and I think it’s alright for people who already know their way around the piano and just want to become faster with their sight reading, but if you’re a beginner and you’re just learning I wouldn’t suggest it.