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Simply Guitar - Learn Guitar
Simply Ltd · 355,200 ratings · ★ 4.6
4.6
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 31 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"guitar"
9 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been pla…" - Alfonzo Rickson
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"play"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been pla…" - Alfonzo Rickson
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"string"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been pla…" - Alfonzo Rickson
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"playing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been pla…" - Alfonzo Rickson
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"free"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "bad, Not free!!" - Antsa Antsa notiavina
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"help"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been pla…" - Alfonzo Rickson
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"song"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I was playing for 3 days and then I got excited to "play" my first song but then it told me you need a membership and it said you could get a 7 day free membership but I needed to put in payment method but for what so you can scam me? so ev…" - Travis B
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Worst guitar app EVER! I Ned course 1, fine, any other course, I had to pay membership. It only helped me tune my guitar, play 1 string, and an Em chord. If I could give it 0 starts, I would Ps: no, I'm not that new to guitar, I've been playing since September 2025 and this is the worst app form all the apps I've ever seen. I
bad, Not free!!
Just want tune guitar
this might just be the worst app oat
this app was bad but it do not hit the note and it don't have puppet for John Michael Howell
this app is so inaccurate im playing the right cord and its STILL counting it wrong. this app is not even close accurate
I have the yearly family subscription, but it tells me I am not connected to the internet...when I am..... might be straight trash.
it does help it seems like a good teaching app but only if you pay if not its a waste of time
This is bad doesn't work for me
I was tuning my guitar with the app tuner and the tuning was wrong I tuned it so far that I broke my string (I'm a beginner)
I was tuning my guitar the first string but it kept saying too low and the string broke waking me with the string
don't do electric guitar
you have to pay monthly just to learn and unlock more courses which is why I only learned like 6 things .I don't recommend to rookie guitar players like me.
installing for free but had to pay to use it. you could have informed in advance.
it didn't help at all
for people that don't have much money or money is tight. I do not recommend for you have to pay which is never mentioned in any ads. good app to learn but bad for the ones who don't have much money that they can use on whatever they want instead of needs.
I was playing for 3 days and then I got excited to "play" my first song but then it told me you need a membership and it said you could get a 7 day free membership but I needed to put in payment method but for what so you can scam me? so even YouTube videos are better then this 1 star I'm also uninstalling this
I download this app indierd by my dad to play guitar it taught me a small amount of things to play a song and when I try to play the song it tells me to pay monthly which I can do or afford all the time so I was very upset and deleted the app
sucks
it crosses money 💰💰 don't buy it get something else
hiç biseyi duymuyo
You have to buy stuff to do a song
would be 5 stars but they asked to review before the tutorial was even done. the, like everyone else, they want you to pay a subscription. I'd rather just buy the product.
Nah.
none of it would even turn on.
couldn't get to the tuner without giving personal information
I was tuning my second string and when I played it it broke. compared to other apps they said it was perfectly tuned. STUPID
I've constantly heard about how bad this app is, but never really gave it a second thought until now. I understand having subscriptions for extra features, but the key word is EXTRA, not mandatory. if you are going to make a guitar learning app, don't lock almost every single course behind premium. in the only course I was able to do, it kept repeatedly being unable to pick up what notes I was playing, I particularly chords. this hasn't been an issue on other apps I've used. overall, just bad
it's good but keeps giving me an error and won't let me play my first song without premium and I can't move on without it.
help me retune but then it wanted payed.
This is a game. The free sample is the most help you're going to get. I would highly recommend JustinGuitar instead. Far more features and actually focuses on teaching you. The play-along feature does not show the next chord coming up, when you make mistakes it takes you back to a random spot. Essentially Guitar-Hero. Seems like it was made by developers who read a book on how to play guitar.
Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)