Violin Scales Trainer Lite

Does nothing except waste 5 mins of your life trying to make it work.

Pretty rubbish app, there are so many more better ways to practise scales. Don’t get this

Terrible app. Try one of the others; scalebook, scaletracks or smartscales, all much better. I use them all with my students.

Had to delete as draining battery even when not in use

What a disappointment - and a con! What’s played does not match the written music (e.g. 3 octave arpeggios at grade 5 are written as two octaves, whereas 2 octave chromatic scales for grade 3 are played as three octaves). Generally a really lazy app, nothing more than a way to scam customers. And such a shame - it’s a great idea but clearly ABRSM just can’t be bothered to even try and do it properly. Don’t waste your money!

Unless you pay, all you see is a demo on C.

This app has crashed and been reinstalled several times on both apple iphone 6, and 7. When it does work, it is quite laborious. The record function wasn’t effective at helping improve. Most disappointing.

Disappointing! Paid for the full version but still cant use and keeps asking for money. Cant access what I've paid for and cant see how to chase up.

Really enjoyed some of the features but prompting to purchase full app EVERY TIME I return/go to the scale trainer window really puts me off.

I liked the idea of this app and quickly downloaded and paid for the full version.( iTunes doesn't recognise this so can't review full version!) Not sure if ABRSM will read this but here goes. There is a fault in the function whereby it will not play example scale but keeps you in endless loop cycling choice of separate or slurred. This only breaks if you move the speed bar. Actually this fault seems to have righted itself-so maybe me. The play with band I thought was a useful tool but I don't find it long enough; there needs to be at least another bar between playing scale and reading next instruction. Pupils aren't quick enough to play scale, recover(when it goes wrong!) and read next instruction. The ability to record their scale attempt and compare to demo is excellent, much better than me telling them😳 This could be improved if there was option to see written scale as they record their attempt. Also if the demo had a count in they could play along with it-would help with tuning and if you could stop playback of demo so they can attempt small sections that would be very useful. Keep having to select separate or slurred is a pain Btw. I really look forward to an improved update. Then I will recommend to pupils. Price is a bit steep for grade 1's!