Piano Sight-Reading Trainer

Tried a grade 5 “workout”. The exercises are designed like: give you 30 seconds and read the whole piece (around 8 bars). Then the score disappears and the questions are like: how many accidentals are there in the piece, how many times does the rhythm of bar 1 reappears, what is the highest note in the piece. Gosh! You tell me THIS IS SIGHT-READING exercise? This is more like a visual memorisation exercise! It loses the point completely! Regretted downloading this. Simply a waste of money.

“Please listen to the rhythm”… Silence.

I haven’t been able to use it yet as no sound. Reading through the reviews it appears that I can only use sound through headphones?! I’m a teacher so how can I work through this with pupils if we can only listen through headphones? Very frustrating as the app wasn’t free and currently is no use to me…

Rip off app is called piano sight reading trainer you have to pass training levels before you can unlock the sight reading trainer level

I purchased this app with great intention. However, there is no way of listening to the sound? How am I supposed to answer questions on a rhythm being played back to me if I cannot hear it??

There is no sound when you run the rhythm part. Not sure if anything else works, but just asking for a refund as without sound it’s pretty useless

I am a teacher, and I thought it would be good to look at this for my students. Not only is the app quite clunky to use and not particularly intuitive, the entire premise is flawed. The rhythm matching is ok - but limited. A more holistic approach to it would help. The pitch matching is just awful. It requires you to memorise the entire passage, then asks you questions on it. This doesn’t match in any way with the way most people sight-read music. It would be so much better if it could listen to you at the piano, something like Simply Piano, and judge that way. I don’t really think this particular method would ‘train’ anyone to sight read music. More focus on relative pitch would be good too, rather than memorising note ranges. The whole experience is sadly disappointing and I would advise spending your money elsewhere.

I read the reviews and bought anyway. I’m a piano teacher and thought I’d find enough in it across the different levels it was worth it. There’s no sound which makes it useless. Also there’s a timer on everything which I think would stress out most pupils. I’ve requested a refund.

Absolute waste of money as the app won’t play any sound making it impossible to complete the exercises. Happy to amend review if fixed or developer contacts me with a solution.

I paid £5 to download the app only to find that the sight reading option is locked.