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Note Rush: Music Reading Game
Thomas Grayston · 2,302 ratings · ★ 4.3
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Top complaints - extracted from 12 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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"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Does not respond well. The app wasn’t hearing the keys I played, even if I played them several times." - Vitinavitina
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"notes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Broken. Does not identify notes on my tuned guitar. Terrible." - Randy Xyz123
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"note"
4 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Broken. Does not identify notes on my tuned guitar. Terrible." - Randy Xyz123
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"guitar"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Broken. Does not identify notes on my tuned guitar. Terrible." - Randy Xyz123
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"doesn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t work solely on iPad , need instrument. I bought Note Rush through App Store, very dissatisfied with it. The marketing of app implies its helps with music note recognition , but in no way does the app state you have to have a musical instrument to connect it to, I just wanted to…" - italiagirlkaterina
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"work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rip off do not buy. This is a good app looks like fun and it works well, but it’s only for one device. Only if you try to add it onto any other devices, you have to buy it do not buy waste of money." - starr1/88764563859
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"play"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Does not respond well. The app wasn’t hearing the keys I played, even if I played them several times." - Vitinavitina
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"bass"
3 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Double bass?. Bass guitar?" - reviewsareawasteoftime
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Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Does not respond well
The app wasn’t hearing the keys I played, even if I played them several times.
Broken
Does not identify notes on my tuned guitar. Terrible.
Rip off do not buy
This is a good app looks like fun and it works well, but it’s only for one device. Only if you try to add it onto any other devices, you have to buy it do not buy waste of money.
Doesn’t work solely on iPad , need instrument
I bought Note Rush through App Store, very dissatisfied with it. The marketing of app implies its helps with music note recognition , but in no way does the app state you have to have a musical instrument to connect it to, I just wanted to practice visually recognizing notes on ledger lines on on my iPad. App doesn’t allow that. Must have musical instrument to connect to. Very misleading app ad.
Meh it’s fun but it even my teacher said it was wrong
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so bad but sooooooo good
Really a waist of time.
ALL YOU DO IS JUST CLICK NOTES AND GET HIGH SCORES! There are lots of better uses of our time
It is to glitchey and I play the right nots and it says I was wrong.
So please make it better.
Range limited for no reason
Kids who want to start reading musical theater etc. should be able to make a level going down to E1 or up to A4 in bass clef and down to E3 or up to C7 in treble
This app doesn’t work
The sole purpose of this app is to recognize the note that is being played and it doesn’t do this very well at all. I’d sit with my son for minutes while hitting the same correct note over and over all the while the app wouldn’t recognize it.
Cannot get it to calibrate to digital piano
I have a Yamaha digital piano and when it asked me to play middle C I pressed the note, but it doesn’t recognize it. I’ve tried both grand piano settings and electric piano settings, and it doesn’t recognizing any of those through the microphone as middle C. Basically it makes the app useless.
Double bass?
Bass guitar?
2nd edition broke note detection for bass
Short version: updated to 2nd edition and now it can’t detect notes in the correct octave for bass.
Long version: I teach bass guitar at a public high school and I hadn’t updated this app in years, so I was on 1st edition. It worked flawlessly on that version (was build 155): just play middle C on bass and everything was great, very accurate even in slightly noisy classrooms.
Read about 2nd edition and figured it was worth the upgrade. Now the app asks you to play F instead (4th line Bass clef), but the app won’t detect it (I’ve tried at home in a silent house out in the woods…nothing, and yes the microphone is enabled, you can see the meter moving as I play).
Only when I play F an octave higher does it “work”, but now you have to play everything up an octave from written pitch, which obviously makes it useless for teaching kids. Can you PLEASE restore pitch detection for those lower frequencies, either permanently or as an option in settings?
This app is 5 stars when it works…but until it starts to work again for us, I can’t rate it higher than a 2.
Long version: I teach bass guitar at a public high school and I hadn’t updated this app in years, so I was on 1st edition. It worked flawlessly on that version (was build 155): just play middle C on bass and everything was great, very accurate even in slightly noisy classrooms.
Read about 2nd edition and figured it was worth the upgrade. Now the app asks you to play F instead (4th line Bass clef), but the app won’t detect it (I’ve tried at home in a silent house out in the woods…nothing, and yes the microphone is enabled, you can see the meter moving as I play).
Only when I play F an octave higher does it “work”, but now you have to play everything up an octave from written pitch, which obviously makes it useless for teaching kids. Can you PLEASE restore pitch detection for those lower frequencies, either permanently or as an option in settings?
This app is 5 stars when it works…but until it starts to work again for us, I can’t rate it higher than a 2.
Sentiment summary
82%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)