Name: flowkey – Learn Piano
Rating: 4.7 (13531 reviews)

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flowkey – Learn Piano

flowkey GmbH

Released: 2015-08-21

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Version 2.66.0

Free 0%

Version 2.66.0

Released: 2015-08-21

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#58 in Top Grossing Apps > Education

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#62 in Top Free iPad Apps > Education

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#28 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > Education

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Description

Learning piano has never been easier! Play your favorite songs and learn all there is to know about notes, chords, and the proper technique. Works with your real piano or keyboard, acoustic as well as electric. Ideal for beginners and advanced pianists.

DISCOVER THE NEW WAY TO LEARN PIANO:

- Play your favorite songs – hundreds of songs, from classical to pop, at your disposal

- Practice effectively with learning monitoring via microphone or MIDI connection

- Reach your goals with interactive step-by-step instructions on reading music, chords, improv, technique, and more

- Develop the correct playing technique with high-quality video tutorials of professional pianists

flowkey is endorsed by some of the most famous YouTube pianists as well as teachers and musicians worldwide. Join the movement now and become one of over a million pianists and experience flowkey through 8 songs and selected courses, free of charge.

GO PREMIUM TO BECOME A PRO

You can download the flowkey app for free and immediately gain free access to selected songs and course content.

For full access to all songs and course content, you will need to purchase a flowkey Premium subscription. You can access flowkey Premium content on all your devices.

Your subscription options are:

1 month flowkey Premium subscription for £18.99

12 months flowkey Premium subscription for £109.99

Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.

Once your subscription is renewed, you will be charged the same amount as during the first purchase through your iTunes account. Your membership renews itself automatically unless you cancel no later than 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage your subscription in your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. This is also where you can cancel your subscription and turn off the auto-renewal option.

If you cancel your subscription, your access to the full library of flowkey content will expire at the end of the subscription period.

SUPPORT

We look forward to your feedback! Contact us with your questions, comments, or concerns through: feedback@flowkey.com or directly within the app under “Support & Feedback”.

Have fun learning piano!

Your flowkey team

What's New in Version 2.66.0

Now is the best time to learn something new! We have improved the learning experience and added inspiring new songs for you. This version also contains bug fixes and improves the app performance.

Your flowkey team

Seller

Name

flowkey GmbH

URL

http://www.flowkey.com

Information

Developer

flowkey GmbH

Version

2.66.0

Size

62.3 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 14.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.7 of 5 (13,531 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2024-02-13

Songs disappear

I have been enjoying the app for nearly a year despite the fact that I have repeat some notes several times frequently as the app won’t recognise them via the iPad microphone.

Recently though the songs on my favourites list started to disappear without even the app upgrade. It is very frustrating and my child was very upset when one of his favourites vanished.

Will have to consider my options before the subscription is up for renewal. Shame

2024-02-10

Terrible , JK

It’s ace! I love it my kids enjoy it and have learnt many songs as well as me from simple to impossible it’s fun. No adds and no money this is what I recommend to anyone it’s amazing. Tysm to everyone who made it pls add more songs. Anyway ty u deserve 5 stars

2024-02-05

Rubbish

I can’t get through to Yamaha on the phone even after trying many times. Flowkey keeps saying 7 days trial but Yamaha say 3 months.

What is the point of any of it if you can’t get through to any live people.

I am going to delete the Apps they are a waste of time!

2024-02-02

Prices are outrageous

But the app is a TOTAL 5 star

2024-01-23

It’s lagged

2024-01-21

Piano

It has made me feel that I can also play the piano instead of my sister showing off all the way

2024-01-21

James

Perfect

2024-01-18

Enjoying the app

It is verry usful for my piano I love flosky

2024-01-03

Excellent app to get you started

I really enjoyed using flowkey as a beginner. Lots of really nice to play, straightforward songs to get you on your journey. Even better when you link up your device to your keyboard to get feedback

Also excellent customer service when I had an account issue. Thanks so much Gabriele!

Would recommend!

2024-01-02

Great

It w ours be helpful to have captions too

2023-12-25

Angry with pricing

Better songs for free and cheaper premium price

Good for beginners tho I guess

I’m not a beginner tho 😡😡😡

Overall Expensive, Some errors, Good for begginers

2023-12-24

Diminishing returns… part 2

Before is my review from a while ago. Absolutely nothing has changed! Actually that’s not true. As someone else pointed out, they’ve (inexplicably!) removed the ability to search songs by difficulty… I won’t continue my subscription after the present period. Original review: I’ve been a subscriber for a couple of years and have found the app helpful. However, the instructional element is paltry, offers no integration with the “play-along” pieces, and shows no signs of being supplemented meaningfully. Perhaps this is because it’s supposed to be used with a teacher, but I can’t afford one so no help to me. What I’d like to see, then, I’d a serious rethink/redesign that incorporates theory and lessons alongside practice pieces. If someone else comes up with that (or already has done!) then count me in (and out, respectively)!

2023-12-18

19£ bro

I got it and it was £19 there is much better options and most of the notes I played it was not working

2023-12-17

Bad

I don’t have the brain cells to do this

2023-12-05

Too many clicks

The app is ok and I feel progress along the way so you do learn. However it is annoying how many times you have to click: play, continue, skip repeat and not sure what but there is definitely too many clicks on this app

2023-11-16

Piano

I had just finished my subscription for simply piano and I thought I would try another app so I decided to look at different apps and came across this. Within a few hours I had gotten the hang of it and continue to play from day to day good app👍🏼👍🏼

2023-11-15

Never played a piano in my 60 years

Just completed my first lesson on Flowkey. It was easy to follow and very encouraging. I am keen to progress and find out more.

2023-11-13

Very pleased

Downloaded app as part of trial from Yamaha. Had issues with some of the lessons stopping and they appeared not to be picking up notes. Contacted Flowkey and they responded within 24 hours. Pleased to say seems issue to have been solved. Will now be happy to continue with subscription. Great learning tool with lots of rewards so can see progress and this makes me want to learn.

2023-09-18

Very good

A little less hand holding than simply piano, but I quite like that. I also like that we can see the piano players hands much more easily on this app, because knowing how to reach keys or position my hand for certain chords is difficult if you haven’t got a teacher there beside you.

2023-09-15

Great way to learn

Enjoying learning to play the piano

2023-09-05

Not the best, shamefully boring

I wrote a detailed review that never got published so I’ll keep it simple. Some apps you enjoy and stick with them while some apps can cost you a lot of money and you get bored very quickly. This is a quickly boring app that I wouldn’t bother with. It works well with midi and is nicely designed but there is no reward or feedback for a sense of progression. I paid an annual subscription for this and now regret it as the courses are poor.

2023-09-05

Stupid

6 FREE SONGS? WHY IS IT 100 A YEAR TO ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING

2023-09-05

Outstanding app to learn piano

Absolute beginner when first used Flowkey. My playing has improved so much and now feel comfortable in finding chords, and playing music. Recommend this to anyone - it’s brilliant

2023-09-05

A good selection of music to learn

Flowkey has a good selection of music to learn, it is easy to use. A good app.

2023-08-28

No end of trial notification

This thing ripped £109 from my account after 7 days (the 7th day was a bank holiday). There is no way on earth I would’ve paid £109 for this app. I would’ve take a month tops.

No warning that trial was ending they just took the money. I thought Apple had stopped slowing this kind of behaviour .

I won’t use this app and have asked Apple for a refund. If this review is still here, you’ll know I wasn’t successful and not to trust this developer.

2023-08-28

Good but…

I just wish I could play all my favourite pieces, my sister is a piano pro and I wanted to show her I could play well too. But the pieces I like are all premium please change this but other wise good game please change bye

P.S. If you don’t get rid of this I’ll try some other app and delete this one maybe even give up piano and continue flute (I’m already pro at)

2023-08-24

It is so good🤩

It is for free I love is so much . Best piano app 🪃🎹

2023-07-27

Don’t bother! Waste of time….

After downloaded the app, you have to answer a number of questions. And then asked you to log in (register). Otherwise, can’t even able to see what the app looks like. Don’t waste your time!!!!

2023-07-22

Nice concept and range of songs

The concept and the pieces are good … BUT please get rid of that big play button that covers all the player’s hand and that repeat button that covers the current notes …

2023-07-13

Why you are the best

Hello flowkey! I just wanted to say thank you for making this app.I’m only 9 and I love your music! My mum also plays it and she helps me with the tricky songs like interstellar fur Elise thank you so much!!

2023-07-04

Very few updates

The app is very good for learning piano, but unfortunately there’s only monthly updates and only about half a dozen songs. Not had an update now for about two months.

2023-07-03

App doesn’t work any more

I’ve been using this app for a while and it used to work OK, but now I can’t even load the app because it claims I don’t have an internet connection. I’m using the same device to post this review, so it clearly does have an internet connection. It is absurd that this app has zero offline functionality and totally unacceptable that it refuses to log in. The price of a subscription is extremely high. Make sure this app works before paying for a subscription!

2023-06-08

Annoying

When you tap the keys on the piano the app doesn’t hear them and you have to keep pressing the same note till it hears it.

2023-05-30

Why I love this app so much(was not told to do this)

I love this app so much because it helped me and my five-year-old daughter Dylan piano. She loves piano so much. She has classes at school but since is the summer break she doesn’t really play as much that’s why we download this last night it’s so good, I do recommend this football ages that’s why I love it.

2023-05-23

So difficult

It doesn’t teach you or anything it just shows you symbols and expects you to play it

2023-05-16

A good app overall

I enjoy the app and it’s helping me pick up piano again after many years of not playing at all.

There’s a few features I think would really help.

1. Hide the keyboard. I don’t always want to see it, I’d love to be able to just remove it from view.

2. Metronome. Once I know the piece I like to play without the audio, but I’d like a metronome to help me stay in time with the scrolling sheet.

3. Option to have the notes labelled on the music. They’re listed on the keyboard but I don’t always want that on. It would really help to have it on the music if wanted.

4. I can’t see a way to note errors in the music.

2023-05-01

Not hearing the note

When I play wait mode it’s not hearing the note and we are trying to fixes it

2023-04-12

Slowly but steadily playing at last!

Self taught musician playing professionally over 50 years (now retired) I’ve been attempting to play sight reading piano on and off for over 60. To me, it’s like a left brain mathematical thing and I could never get it. But, finally, with Flowkey it’s working. It seems to appeal to my creative right brain in helping to learn this mysterious language and play the music. Flowkey is the best app of its kind offering a more traditional musical approach. And so very affordable compared to private music lessons. Thanks Flowkey 😍

2023-03-24

Be honest

Tell us you get nothing but a few days for free, then it becomes insanely expensive. Check the price of subscription and then decide.

2023-03-17

Doesn’t work

Doesn’t detect usb wired midi keyboard (other apps do). No option to enable it either.

If you change lessons midway through, the previous one’s audio continues to play over the current one..

Was expecting it to be great, very disappointed. Luckily didn’t pay yet.

2023-03-03

iPad

I have set it up using the correct cables so it hears my piano more and doesn’t stop. It still does it. This is very irritating please fix

2023-02-15

Need to update song library

On the whole a really nice app. I like the way you can focus on one hand at a time while learning the song.

My main criticism is that the song catalog doesn’t seem to have any of the more modern pop songs I have searched for and this is the main reason I’ll be looking for an alternative

2023-01-13

The fundamental problem for me

So this is an app with a great user interface.

I love that you can see human fingers at the top of the screen as you play. I’d prefer if, as well, there was finger numbering on the sheet music - much easier than stopping and working out where the screen hands are.

However, the problem for me is the arrangements. You are not being taught the piano part of a song. You are being taught the piano cocktail lounge version of the song.

Take “Don’t Stop Me Now”. Fantastic piano rock. This app won’t teach you that. It throws the piano part away, and turns Mercury’s great vocals into piano notes, which sounds cocktail lounge awful.

There is a place for that, obviously. But at least also have it that we can also learn the original piano parts of great songs that have great piano parts.

2023-01-09

Way too expensive

I downloaded the app as someone who already plays piano but wants to learn more well known songs. As soon as I logged in I realised it had a premium membership but I decided to skip knowing it’s too much money and I probably wouldn’t need it. Almost everything in the app needs the membership. I only have a very limited amount of songs I can play and I can only play them at begginer level. The membership is too expensive for me so it’s really annoying. Unless u have enough money to pay don’t download

2023-01-03

Cannot search for songs by difficulty level

Loved this app until they decided to remove the ability to search for songs based on difficulty. Now you have to browse through every song and see what colour of dots it has.

2023-01-01

Lack of family sharing is a deal breaker

I bought an electric piano this Chrismas for me, my partner, and our daughter to learn on. Flowkey feels like a great app for learning (I used the 7 day trial) but the lack of family sharing for such an expensive app/subscription is a deal breaker so we'll be looking elsewhere.

We don't want to be tied to only one of our iPads and purchasing three subscriptions is out of the question.

2022-11-27

A good app…when it works

Really enjoyed this app while it worked but ran into technical problems a few months ago while using my tablet. Thoroughly checked there was no error on my end and while the technical staff where very polite they did not resolve the problem

2022-11-12

noice

wwo cool

2022-11-10

Just freezes, can’t do any of the courses.

Please sort this out asap

2022-11-08

Easy start

First lesson easy

2022-11-04

Amazing app

I haven’t played the piano for thirty years and within two days of using the app I’m already able to play two songs with both hands (beginner mode!). Having the feature of practicing left/right/both hands along with a wait option is really useful. As is the ability to just focus on a chosen section of music.

2022-06-26

Good idea, terrible UX

For such an expensive app, their design is rather poor.

Selecting a large chunk of a song takes forever, and then one accidental double tap erases everything without any warning or confirmation it’s been like this for ages.

Another great example is how this app auto-plays songs when you click them in the main menu (their latest redesign made it worse). The world realised it was a bad idea for non-player apps to auto start playing sounds ages ago, but the news haven’t arrived to these guys yet.

It’s ok for beginners, but under no circumstances should you buy a long term subscription (like yours truly unwisely did recently): learning a piano is a frustrating enough experience without these problems. Learn the basics and switch to normal sheet music, it’s less frustrating.

2022-01-22

I like flowkey. Great way to learn piano for beginners

I’m a beginner. I’ve tried all the piano apps on a trial basis: simply piano, yousician, piano academy, Skoove, Pianote, flowkey. I settled on flowkey because it’s a much more gradual and progressive learning tool. For example, yousician often goes from an easy piece, then suddenly to a ridiculously harder piece. The harder piece invariably has note durations, tempo and rhythms that have not been previously taught in the app. Flowkey steadily presents the learner with gradually harder lessons and pieces. It repeats the content in the lessons until you get it. I like flowkey so far. 😊

2021-12-21

Poorly supported

Flowkey claim that the app supports Bluetooth MIDI, but it doesn’t. Or at least, neither of the two BT LE MIDI keyboards I’ve tried work or work properly. Flowkey’s response? Take your pick from (a) it does work, (b) it sometimes works or (c) it’s only qualified to work with one specific Bluetooth adapter. Irrespective, they’ve showed no interest in either fixing the app or clarifying its description to make clear what does and doesn’t work.

Otherwise the app is useful, if ultimately rather inflexible. You can’t look at any of the scores except in the app’s screen scrolling format, nor can you annotate the pieces you’re working on. And the number of pieces arranged for all learning grades is often quite small - e.g. in the Jazz genre most are graded as suitable for advanced players.

So — an interesting novelty, but one that doesn’t in my view justify the high subscription prices (I say this as a subscriber) especially given the poor standard of product support.

2021-10-15

Good but really annoying that the music score can’t be printed

It’s a really good app that I enjoyed using at the beginning. I learnt piano when I was a child so I was not a complete novice but I needed a serious refreshment. The way the app works is great even though the micro functionality doesn’t always work very well which can be a bit annoying. But what I find the most annoying is that I can’t print the music sheet. I’ve always been someone who likes to write on my sheets, and visualize the whole page when I’m playing and not being able to do it is really annoying. The annual price of the app is high enough that we should at least have access to the library and be able to print the sheets. I don’t think I’ll renew my subscription next year because of that.

2021-07-31

Really cool

I am using this app with full features for the moments. The support when needed has been really good and almost immediate. The functionality has also been great and we are very surprised how well has been working and really enjoying the app. The lessons are great but I am disappointed with the choices available for learning songs. I wanted to practice perfect day by Lou Reed and there was none, Chick Corea too and there was none. I hope they keep adding more songs from different artist as I don’t find it much choice in relation to what I would like to learn. It would help to have a wider repertoire of songs to learn.

2021-07-14

Immensely enjoyable - one area for improvement

I’m a complete novice and have enjoyed this app immensely. There’s a wide variety of pieces available to learn, many of which have been excellently arranged.

My only criticism is the app does not always pick up when the correct note has been played when using “wait mode”. I appreciate this will be a very difficult thing to get right every time, particularly if a piano is slightly out of tune. However, a simple mitigant to the problem would be to introduce a voice command (e.g. “next”) which would move the app to the next note. For novices like myself, this would improve the learning experience enormously, as I’m heavily reliant on the wait mode to learn the pieces. Having to manually move the notation along by scrolling left / right is frustrating. It also means I lose my hand position on the keys (probably not an issue for a good player but difficult for a beginner).

That said, I absolutely love this app.

2021-04-20

Flowkey and why I like it

Flowkey gives you a chance to learn the piano in ways that are new. It has songs that are suitable for children over 5 years, as well as old classics that parents\grown-ups might like to learn. It sorts all the songs into categories, which is useful if you want to find a certain song, and it also gives lessons on chords all round. It gives you a choice of to play the right, left, or both hands of the song, and a video that shows a person playing it.

2021-02-19

Get a MIDI cable

Can only say great things about this App.

To counter some of the poor reviews:

If you want to learn piano (or dust off cobwebs), the cost of lessons are no match to this app. £100+ a year, comes down to under £10 a month. Good luck getting that for 30 minutes with an instructor...

Get a MIDI cable to USB-C and all the ‘sound not picking up’ issues are moot. If you are learning the piano, it should be part of your ‘starter kit’ (if you don’t have a Digital Piano, disregard)

Anyways, Good and Bad below.

Good:

The library is extensive and good coverage of easy and complicated songs

Intuitive function (with MIDI Cable and iPad), easy to follow and the loop feature!! Makes it so easy to repeat and learn

Bad:

Changing of sheet music with no indication/warning. I’ve been more than ⅔ along on a song, and all of a sudden all the notes and order changes

2021-02-16

Better ways of learning out there

I tried Flowkey for a month and didn’t continue the subscription because....

You can’t print out the score to practice the song or play the song without the Flowkey app. There are other online learning courses that allow this.

There is no metronome, I queried the support team on this and after a few days I got the reply that this isn’t planned as the songs are recorded without a metronome. Again most other online systems have a metronome to enable you to build up speed while learning the songs.

The focus is in learning songs. There is some content on the basics but this is very dry. I have found the other online systems are focused on teaching piano and teaching songs.

The system is very dry, you are reading off a screen. I found this isn’t great motivation. The online learning systems with videos from real people is a better way of learning for me.

On the positive side, the Bluetooth Technoloy integration is good. This is better than most online systems. Their range of songs and genres is wider than the other online learning platform I decide to stick with.

If they allow the score to be printed I would try this again for learning songs after I have learnt piano.

2020-12-01

Already paid, cannot restore purchase on iPad

Well this is a great app to use with a major flaw. I’ve purchased premium but cannot restore the purchase on my iPad. It seems like you can only use it on the device you purchased on. This is ludicrous and completely against the Apple way of sharing apps across devices and even with family sharing. It’s a shame because it works well on the phone, but I want to use it on my iPad. I’ve contacted support, but it’s a 2day turn around!! Really? In this day an age. Suffice to say either the developer resolves this ridiculous issue quickly or I won’t be subscribing any further.

2020-10-04

Comprehensive system

I got a 3 month free subscription with my Yamaha keyboard and that gave me enough time to explore this piano tuition app and decide if I wanted to extend. I did. What is important to me is the right combination of song-lessons and technique. Flowkey has a very good technique section which I’m half-way through, including scale-drills which any piano player will tell you are absolutely essential.

The choice of songs to learn is very good - there must be 100s to choose from and what I particularly like is that you can choose a song at beginner level and then return to it at intermediate and higher building up your skills with many of the songs. I’m about to moved from Claire De Lune beginner to intermediate and you appreciate the extra phrasing as you progress.

The pace of the lessons is very good. And the note-monitoring when practicing a piece is good - especially if you have tour device plugged into the back of the keyboard with a purchased cable.

So for me, a complete novice at piano, this is an excellent choice and I look forward to learning many many more songs whilst also building my technique.

Well done developers for putting this together!

2020-06-06

David Bowie writes...

Ahem, by that I’m not being immodest, it’s just that I am an Absolute Beginner... Starting out at age 48 to play the piano with no musical ability whatsoever, I heard about Flowkey and thought it might be what I needed. It gets you up-and-running in no time, and building up competence/confidence in equal measure. Two days in, with about 30 mins a day, and I’m having a reasonable stab at a Beethoven number over a few bars; this is the type of learning I need. I know I have to be patient and diligent, and this app helps with both, although I feel it tries to push you on to continuing a little before it should, and when more consolidation might be in order. That’s it for now; will update this review when I’ve done a bit more. Oh, why not 5 stars? I feel I’m learning more by ‘feel’ than by knowledge, and I don’t know which notes I’m playing/reading as yet, although a breakthrough might be about to happen...

2020-06-03

Good app but some flaws

It’s good app however there are some flaws which are frustrating. I got three months free with my keyboard which is good. I am doing the beginners course. When you learn a song to play with two hands and you play 2 chords together it doesn’t recognise both of them and you have to keep pressing the keys numerous times. It also skips to the middle of the song and I keep having to play it back. Its good for the three month trial but doubt I will be subscribing to it if the don’t fix this bug.

2020-06-01

Disappointing

The app itself is very good for what it says it will do. It guides you step by step through the learning process. I am however extremely disappointed to find out that I have been charged over £100 for the use of the app. I was more than happy to pay monthly for it’s usage as this is what is implied when you are shown the billing page. What I found however was that I have been charged this lump sump all in one go! It’s almost as if this is the default option. Be warned that if you use this app for longer than 7 days and do not change your billing option then you will be hit with a hefty bill. Very disappointed with the lack of clarity around the payment. Otherwise it was a good app.

2020-05-04

Good and not so good

Love the variety of tunes as an adult returning to piano playing, certainly more confidence boosting to play tunes that I can recognise and that aren’t out of a children’s book.

It frequently doesn’t pick up when I have played a note however, which really ruins the tune and experience. I have actually returned to the book method and I think my playing has improved as a result of the book. So now I use the app for a little play and muck about as opposed to using it to learn to play the piano. I don’t think I will be renewing my subscription.

2020-04-25

Stole my money doesn’t work!

flowkey is the worst app I ever had. It doesn’t work offline, yet they want 20 € a month! they take days to respond via their customer services, told me to try for a refund at the istore directly instead of issuing themselves, did I this within the 14 days from download after they wasted days of my time waiting for their lame responses then istore declined refund point blank. VERY ANGRY! can’t use app, wasted days of my time, arrogant, selfish people, they care only about money not music. you can lean piano without their expensive rubbish. There is software that works with a full offline licence for a fraction of their extortionate subscription tariffs. Its companies like this who just con people online. Disgusting behaviour. Real musicians don’t act like this. Will be speaking directly to Apple in person about this. Action against this company WILL be escalated. Con artists. Cyber criminals dressed up as musicians. Avoid at all costs.

2020-04-20

Fantastic. Mostly!

Fantastic. Mostly. Except when it doesn’t “hear” you play and it makes you repeat something over and over even when you’re playing all the notes correctly. A little frustrating. Especially when you don’t want to overemphasise any notes! Overall though very happy with this app. Much better in my opinion than another well-known app as you can pick and choose where to start or what courses to practise. Great if you played for a long while when younger and just want to get back into it again. Thanks Flowkey! Lots of fun

2020-04-18

Needs an option to remove hands

It’s a really good app and I pay for a member ship because it is amazing for sight reading and if ur in lockdown cuz of civic it is amazing, as you don’t need a teacher as much. Although if you are using it to sight read it can get annoying as I catch my self looking at the hands for help instead of trying to read the music. It would so much better if there was a seething to remove them or turn it in to a big sheet of piano music. All in all thou would 100% recommend x

2020-04-15

Lots of potential - not there yet though

Flowkey is great for helping to learn how to play, but one of the most useful tools on the app is the ‘wait’ mode, where Flowkey waits until you’ve played the correct note before it continues. When it works, this mode has really helped me improve my note reading however it is very prone to mis-hearing the note and detecting an incorrect note as correct and a correct note as incorrect. Unless this is improved, I’m not yet whether I’ll continue to use the app as it is quite frustrating.

2020-04-13

Overall a decent app

I like Flowkey; it’s expensive but good. It has a good function called Wait mode, which teaches you the piece once you hit the correct note.

The main problem is that it does not recognise all the notes that I play so I have to bang the ‘F’ key as loud as possible (and other notes, especially when the left and right hand are play simultaneously) multiple times before the sound is recognised, which ruins the flow of the piece. Weirdly it doesn’t have that problem with most notes.

2020-04-06

New subscriber

Just finding my level at the moment. I’ve found the beginners level of Mama Mia which is just right for me but I’ve also found the intermediate level which I hope to be able to master eventually.

I’m finding the programme enjoyable but challenging. Not quite got my head around changing the speed of the music .

Hope to spend many happy hours with flowkey during the lockdown.

Joan

2020-03-10

Great but...

Firstly you barely get any songs for free and the ones you do like imagine by John Lennon it isn’t even the full song, I know it repeats a lot but all the parts should be included even if they repeat, the end of the chorus is missing and also it is very expensive and well a lot of songs pianists would want to play are not on there 1500 songs is a lot but really I think there should be daily updates with new songs and members can request new songs and I would also like the songs to be finished, even listening to some they are not finished like Chopin Fantasia, that is almost 7 minutes long the recording definitely isn’t that long, otherwise it is an amazing way to learn new songs just a bit disappointing

2019-12-09

Great resource for intermediate and advanced players

I recently purchased flowkey and am thoroughly enjoying it. It has a vast selection of songs at a level that suits me. I love that you can adjust the size of the sheet music in proportion to the video and I personally find it helpful in developing my music reading. But I guess that depends on how the player chooses to use the app, I force myself to look at the sheet music and only use the video to learn the fingering.

The only thing that would make this app 5stars for me would be the ability to print the sheet music which would avoid having to scroll to the the bit I want to practice each time.

Thanks Flowkey, great app!

2019-11-26

Very poor note recognition

I've cancelled this within the first few hours. Terrible response to iPad mic, simply doesn't recognise the notes and therefore the exercise hangs despite being played clearly, with the iPad on the top of the piano, music stand. Casio Privia at A=440.

Also, perhaps a niggle but why are the count ins not consistent? Sometimes there are 4 Beats in, sometimes just 3, and on the quarter note rest exercise in Chapter 1 there are 5. This will be extremely confusing for beginners.

And as for the slowed down exercises. Whose idea was it to time stretch the audio file? It's an awful sound! All the artefacts of poor time-stretching make listening to it hard on the ears. Either pay for a far better algorithm or actually play it half speed, please!

So far then, some good points, and it works far better via midi, which I think you ought to acknowledge and recommend to buyers. Your poor excuse (and stock automated response to the issue when raised by others) about different tunings doesn't stand up given the huge advances in pitch recognition software from Antares, Melodyne and others.

We'll see how well it copes with more polyphony later...going to give it until the end of my paid month and take stock then. Playground has been recommended by some, but dissed by others so we'll see.

2019-11-26

Not happy at all!!

I just downloaded your app and was suggested to have a 7 day free trial premium and after that 7 days I would pay £109 for a year. I tried out the app for about 3 minutes and decided that I did not want to use it.

I then cancelled my subscription and checked that my bank account had not been charged with anything. But unfortunately you have charged me £109, this is unacceptable as I was told that it was a 7 day trial with no payment. I would like my money back please because this is completely out of order.

Edit: Thankyou for getting back to me. I have now got my money back.

2019-11-22

Good for learning songs

This app is perfect for learning songs. However, the one problem I found was the microphone and it also moved the music on before I played the notes. Also, I wouldn’t recommend this to a beginner because this app doesn’t teach you the notes and rhythms. In conclusion, I think this is an app if you have patience and a bit of experience.

2019-11-06

Needs updated to become Piano Teacher

I got 6 months free with a new Yamaha keyboard. Like everyone else I struggled with the microphone interface and eventually gulped and bought the Apple camera connector (£50) and used the MIDI interface with my iPAD. Even then you need lots of broadband bandwidth and a powerful iPad. It then works brilliantly but it’s expensive. I’m a complete novice and think Flowkey is an excellent App but it needs enhanced. The courses are unstructured, overlapping and tedious. Flowkey could become a virtual piano teacher but it needs to feedback views of your performance, set targets and not let you move on until you have passed an exam. I think a premium subscription would only be worth it if the courses are completely rewritten. Otherwise it’s an expensive sheet music app. I asked Flowkey if they had plans for a real update but no response. Good app, probably the best around but very pricey and is missing a market opportunity.

2019-05-12

I like the support.

I like the support I get when using and needing help with flow key but what I wish I could do is practise the course pieces without the note recognition and also with a static music sheet instead of always having a moving timeline. Maybe this is something they could look into.

If it was just about support and learning I’d give this 5 stars but I really feel I need the option above to practise more and with ease. My whole family feels the same way about it.

2019-02-21

Disappointed, has potential but problematic to use

I was excited about this app, and particularly love the variety of music available. I’m about grade 5 standard so there are lots of tunes to tackle which I love. However, in common with other reviewers, I find it is often slow to recognise notes played meaning you have to stop and replay notes, sometimes several times, in order to progress. I also agree that it’s frustrating not to be able to see ahead further in the music. Overall, the whole stop start nature of using it has put me off. I have a free trial at present, but cannot see myself wanting to pay to subscribe unless it is improved in functionality.

2019-02-15

Can’t view far enough ahead

I bought a months subscription to see how this was. I am around a grade 8 player, but wanted to get a bit of inspiration and try put some new pieces, now that most shops don’t hold much music in stock. I thought there was a good selection, but I found it particularly annoying that I couldn’t view more than 4 or 5 bars at a time. Sometimes in a piece you need to see the whole phrase to be able to anticipate what’s coming up. It would be great if there was an option to see a page of music for the more accomplished pieces without the hands.

2019-01-21

Gentle Pace

My first introduction to the keyboard, thanks to my complementary course courtesy of Keyflow, allowed me to experience and remember certain key positions.

I found the tutorial selection of music pieces to be memorable and having a memory of the teaching piece allowed me to try harder to mimic the melody.

If I had a complaint about the method of teaching then it would be the waiting for the green tick to acknowledge my progress. Some of the periods which left me waiting for the tick seemed to go on for quite a long time and this had the effect of loosing my concentration even whilst I was very eager to learn. If my enthusiasm to learn led me to go too quickly through the tutorial and my iPad had difficulty in keeping up then I apologise, but at the same time I would urge you to extend the program so that the course can take account of faster pupils.

Kind regards Ray.

2018-11-16

Impressed

I am in my 50s and decided to buy a piano. I started using this app and have so enjoyed learning. The courses are helpful. The beginner tunes are great fun. I feel as though I am really achieving.

My only frustration is that when I am playing the correct notes the app or iPad does not hear them so I end up having to play them a couple of times.

I will continue to buy into the sessions as I am still really impressed. Have just bought my first sheet music and can read them.

2018-10-14

Enjoyable, but bugs to iron out

I bought my daughter a digital piano so she can practice more at home, as the keyboard is no good now she’s on Grade 3. I thought I’d try out the free subscription for Flowkey, and after one session, I was hooked, and practice everyday! I’m a complete beginner and can play some simple songs already.

I gave it a 3 star rating, as often, when playing chords (and single notes too at times), they are not recognised, and I have to play them over and over to progress through the tutorial piece. This isn’t so bad with single notes, but with the chords, I have to play each note individually, which rather defeats the object!

2018-10-03

Fantastic way to learn!

I am now in my late fifties and always wanted to learn the piano, so a year ago I started lessons once a week at my home. I couldn't make the fixed appointment work with my lifestyle, so I cancelled a few weeks ago and signed up to Flowkey.

Wow! I love everything about it - play songs I know and like, play along with the instructions, slow it down to a speed I can manage, go over it as many times as I want and most importantly- play when I have the time.

I really think I have made more progress in 3 weeks than the year I had lessons and it's certainly cost me materially less.

I have one key that doesn't pick up well on my piano, so I may get a keyboard as well, but it's nothing that has deterred me or really slowed me down.

The support is also amazing - quick and super helpful, so if you have always wanted to play, but never knew where to start, I highly recommend Flowkey.

2018-09-10

Wish it worked right

I cannot use this app as it plays no sound when i use my midi keyboard. It connects just fine, i hear the lesson voice and same keys and chord sounds, but then on my turn to press it waits, i press the right key it moves onto the next in silence! Play me the sound back!! I cannot learn in silence and without feedback when pressing the keys.

As u say i am using a midi keyboard that pluds direct via cable into the iphone, it cannot be hard to play a sound when i press a key. Other apps do it.

2018-07-10

Great app

I thought this app was pretty good. The only problem is is that it sometimes doesn’t load the song and whenever I click on a song to learn it, it quits me out of the app entirely. This can be fairly frustrating, but after a few tries it works. There are still some bugs and minor issues to this app but overall it’s very educational and it has access to some of my favourite songs.

2018-07-02

Great balance of theory and playability

If you think that learning the piano is like being slowly tortured, with memories of sitting for hours at a keyboard, practicing scales - think again.

Flowkey has a great mix of theory and easily accessible hints and tips that had me playing in no time. It’s almost 30 years since I treated myself to a piano, determined to learn. I was hopeless. But my kids came along and learned to play it, self-taught through apps and videos..!

I could find nothing that had that balance I needed. Something that understood the itch to get playing, but acknowledged the need to learn the basics at my own pace.

Then I found Flowkey. I love it. I can choose a variety of practice pieces and never get bored by repeating things over and over again. It actually makes me want to practice.

Anyway, enough of this review. I have chords to learn!

2018-05-09

Exciting!

I'm 40, bought a Yamaha p45 for my partners birthday and it came with 3 months free subscription to this app. I didn't know at first and thought it was a bit pricey, but having installed it and now played with the full version a whole night, I'm sold. Fun, surprisingly easy for someone that NEVER played in his life, and addictive too. I feel young again and that's not a small thing to say 😜

I'll easily pay for this app once out 3 months free run out

2018-03-08

A great way to learn to play

I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano and this app is great. It’s starts off slowly and builds on what you have learnt (I’ve subscribed to get more/longer lessons). I have found that it has trouble sometimes picking up notes especially when playing chords and notes together, so I bought a usb cable to connect my Roland digital piano to my iPad(via an iPad camera connector). Since using the cable it’s picked up every note perfectly. I look forward to my 30 minute lesson every day!

2018-01-01

Flowkey

The lessons are very clear and well thought out. The main problem is that the programme does not pick up the notes you play all the time so you end up having to play about every fourth note a couple of times to get it to register. This is fairly annoying. It also cannot cope if you play anything other than very slowly. It would help if the practice sections just had the tune played at normal speed, with sound so you can play along until you get it right. Playing mega slowly and repeating notes several times is just plain annoying.

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Songs disappear

Terrible , JK

Rubbish

Prices are outrageous

It’s lagged

Piano

James

Enjoying the app

Excellent app to get you started

Great

Angry with pricing

Diminishing returns… part 2

19£ bro

Bad

Too many clicks

Piano

Never played a piano in my 60 years

Very pleased

Very good

Great way to learn

Not the best, shamefully boring

Stupid

Outstanding app to learn piano

A good selection of music to learn

No end of trial notification

Good but…

It is so good🤩

Don’t bother! Waste of time….

Nice concept and range of songs

Why you are the best

Very few updates

App doesn’t work any more

Annoying

Why I love this app so much(was not told to do this)

So difficult

A good app overall

Not hearing the note

Slowly but steadily playing at last!

Be honest

Doesn’t work

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Need to update song library

The fundamental problem for me

Way too expensive

Cannot search for songs by difficulty level

Lack of family sharing is a deal breaker

A good app…when it works

noice

Just freezes, can’t do any of the courses.

Easy start

Amazing app

Good idea, terrible UX

I like flowkey. Great way to learn piano for beginners

Poorly supported

Good but really annoying that the music score can’t be printed

Really cool

Immensely enjoyable - one area for improvement

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Get a MIDI cable