Simply Guitar - Learn Guitar App Reviews

Simply Amazing.. So I just want to say that this has taught me so so much. I bought the year unlimited access. So much more worth paying 160 for a year of practice (on your terms in your living room.) than paying that or more for one lesion in person. To the people saying they need to fix the mic bc it doesn’t pick up. I had the same problem. However, this is why they tell you to use headphones. So the mic picks up better. You are using a phone. Keep that in mind. Well, I plugged my amp in and out the phone on top of it and have had zero problems since. I suggest this. Pick a little guy up for 40 or 50 bucks. The amp won’t be too loud but your guitar will sound better and the app will pick it up perfectly. I would suggest this app to everyone. Also if you buy it you can add different profiles so others can learn too. Superb app guys. I can’t thank you enough.

Doesn’t even pick up most of my cords. I get it I’m new to guitar but like… I’m playing it in the right timing the right minger and hand placement I’m doing everything right and it just won’t pick it up. Even my guitar coach tried and he’s been playing for 15 years and still barely anything was getting picked up. I’m not trying to diss the app and the people who made it but it has a lot of problems that didn’t show up until after I paid the membership??? Like it was working amazing before it was picking a lot more sounds up and then I paid the membership and it just all of the sudden decided to not work well anymore?? Especially the tuning it doesn’t pick up 5th and 6th string it took my way longer to tune my guitar then I regularly would. At one point during a song after it made me restart 3 times because it wasn’t pick up any notes I just stoped playing and moved to a different song to see if it was just that song not working properly just to see that the new song I clicked on didn’t even require me to play any notes because it was picking up notes from the background music from the app??? Like what… how are you gonna tell me to play but when I don’t you magically pick up notes anyways??? How does that make sense.

Good, but a couple sad problems. The app is good overall, I figured I’d give this a try to play my sisters guitar. Just got to the last part in the first course and now I have to a pay a subscription to play the rest? I get that it’s a really really nice app and can’t just have anyone try it without something to pay for, but I mean, I was really excited to play this guitar and learn everything about it and such but I can’t. It kinda makes you realize that “Play any song straight away!” Is kinda a scam? Because some people aren’t going to pay just to learn through a guitar app that from what I have seen through a couple others reviews, is kinda buggy. I mean, taking in the fact that the app can’t really recognize the right tune on a guitar, I had to retune my whole guitar twice just to get it “right”. I was very disappointed when I saw the subscription menu to almost anything I touched. I can’t even use the rest of the app because of the subscription.

Very helpful app. I noticed a lot of the reviews are years old so I was going to give my two cents for anyone looking now. I started using simply guitar about a week ago and I love it. Sometimes the sound recognition can be a little off but overall it works pretty well as long at your phone isn’t too far away from your guitar and there’s not a lot of background noise. This app has helped me so much. You can change the speed of every lesson I’ve done so far. They encourage so much repetition to help learn cords and riffs and break down riffs into multiple parts to help you learn them better. They have practices for all songs so you can practice before actually trying to play it. And to anyone that starts struggling, you can always go back and reinforce some of the earlier lessons and it makes moving forward easier. I like to go back to a song I enjoyed from the beginning and compare to how hard it was to play the first time so I know if I’m improving and it’s been amazing how much easier it’s getting and it’s only been a week. Lastly I’ll say to anyone considering this app, remember, playing any instrument is a matter of repetition and practice practice practice. Nothing is going to be a magic wand to just teach you, it has to be done enough to become muscle memory and that takes a lot of time. So have reasonable expectations and you’ll learn so much from this app. Anyway, I wish you all the very best in your journey to learn. You can do it! Don’t give up!!!

Simply don’t!. Ok, I should first of all mention that I have been playing guitar for about 5 years so this was more of a tool experiment, although I was looking to find maybe some practice exercises or maybe learn theory, since I used yousician when I first started playing and I did pick up quite a few things from that app (from the free trial and one month subscription later). Anyhow, using the app was frustrating from the start, the interface, the sound recognition and mainly the incredibly slow tempo they use even when you’re “playing the actual song”, I see how it can be motivating to be able to “play” a popular song or a riff from the beginning but how can you expect anyone to actually learn or get better if you don’t push them? Also the theory is very poorly explained and as far as strumming, at least, there are to courses or tools that actually help you get better at it, add that to their off tempos and in best case scenario you’ll end up playing a couple riffs with a band of turtles. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to invest their money in this app, so my advice: take the free trial and run!

Great app with major problems. Such a great app I truly do enjoy using it to learn. This being said, there are 2 major problems which are the fact that I can’t control the speed of the levels. I’m not a prodigy so being able to slow the pace down to practice finger movements while being able to see the notes go by without constantly failing would be so nice - either let me set the tempo to what I’m comfortable with or make a practice mode. The other issue is that the app doesn’t really know when you hit the note or not. The registration is terrible and I stopped halfway through a song to see the next 4/7 notes pop up green even tho I’m not even playing. Other times the opposite happens and the app just refuses to acknowledge my notes, either because I’m too far forward or behind because this app doesn’t let me practice finger movements. This has so much potential but I have lost my mind at some points trying to use this which makes me wonder why I’m spending 9.99 a month when instead I could get free lessons online

Worth the money. I have been playing guitar for 13 weeks now with the app and I love it!!! It is fun, interactive, and very easy to learn from. Because they incorporate so many songs to play throughout the courses, I feel like I am actually getting somewhere instead of just playing chords or notes at random. I also have to mention how much I adore the freeze features. This company and app understands that there are some weeks or seasons in life when even the most committed players just need a break or are just too busy to practice. Because the freeze keeps my streak, I feel motivated to get back into practicing and learning. This is soooo much cheaper than in person guitar lessons and it truly is an absolute joy to use. Thank you to the creators and everyone who worked together to create this great resource for those wanting to learn how to play guitar.

It was ok but... So this app was pretty helpful but sometimes I’ll be doing the right thing and it says I’m wrong or not playing it and also sometimes it says I’m playing two or three notes at once so it passes me through the course when I haven’t done it or the opposite happens and it just won’t work so I strum the whole guitar and it passes me. Lastly, the reason when I’m done with this review I will be deleting this app. I finished a course and it won’t let me do anything anymore, not even play the song the course was for because it says I have to pay for premium which I can’t spend money on apps. It would be nice if I could still do something even without premium. Thank you for taking your time to read this and I hope that you take this review into consideration to change a few things. I also understand because it is mobile it’s harder to pick up sounds and register them correctly but please try and change the having to pay to continue the app.

I really like this app. I love this app. One hour of practice and I learned 4 new chords and more about finger positioning. I think it is very good and will probably pay the 9.99 a month when my free trial is done. My one problem is that it does not include the question “are you using a pick or your fingers” at the beginning. I think that would be fine for someone who has never even picked up a guitar or has never really done anything with a guitar but I did guitar lessons for about a year but than two years ago I moved and stop playing. However in the year where I actually did do guitar I learned to use a pick. I only ever use a pick and it would be really helpful if I could have had the option to say that I only use a pick so I can get tricks for how to position a pick instead of my thumb. But other than that I think this is a great app especially for anybody who is brand new to guitar or has not played in a while.

Fine, but disappointing.. I’m currently taking a guitar class, and was hoping to use this app to keep my skills sharp for when I eventually finish said class. After finishing most of the extremely easy steps, it was time to finish the first lesson by playing this particular song that I got to pick from a list of 4. However, instead of playing the song and moving on, it wanted me to sign up for some premium subscription before I could do anything ( without the option to decline and play the song anyway.) I understand as a developer, premiums and memberships are a way to make money, and that’s important, but when that subscription prevents people from being able to learn using your app, it gives you a bad representation. All in all, if you want to charge money for people to use the app, I’d suggest you just have the app itself cost money, and allow people to continue on with the lessons without needing premium. While I would like to give a better review, as it does actually teach you some guitar skills, this barrier is a major turn off for me. Hopefully one of the devs reads this, but If not, I hope this helps someone decide whether or not to download this app.

Great app for beginning acoustic guitar. First, I paid for the subscription and I think it was completely worth it. I have finished all the lessons in a little over 4 months. Without a doubt I am a better guitar player now than when I started. Second, I rarely experienced any of the issues most people have reported. The app was very good at detecting what chord I was playing, detecting if I played it wrong, and was very good at detecting individual notes. When it came to Barre chords, which was by far the most difficult part, it would detect I played the chord correctly even when I could not finger the cord very well. The tuner worked fine, but I have a tuner in my guitar too. There are two reasons I don’t give it 5 stars. The mechanics of the app still need a bit of work. There is no way to get to a song unless you scroll through all the lesson groups to find it. There should be an alphabetized directory of all the songs available. It is slow to load initially, and it’s just clunky in a lot of places. Finally, I have completed all the lessons and there is nothing after Barre chords even though it shows a line as if there are more lessons. I have cancelled the subscription because of that.

Great app but the tuning app and the money they want for a member ship it out of this world. This was a very good app and I would love to give it a five star but honestly it deserves a 3 star so I got this app a few days ago and finished a course then it got to the part where I do the song and it pops up for the member ship around $120 dollars I think for 1 year!! No way to much money for a little app… now my biggest problem the tuning app! I used the tuner app the first time I got the app and it worked very well actually got it in tune nicely made it just sound beautiful oh well like 10 minutes ago I tried to make sure my guitar was in tune so it sound good when I play so… I tried the first string and it was telling me too low, too low, too high and so on so forth then ‘pop’ too my surprise my first string broke!!😡 and yes usually when something bad happens people tend too blame it on something else but if the app didn’t tell me to lie to high or whatever I would instead of writing this review I would be playing guitar.. I was having a lovely relaxing night until this happened😡😡😡😡 thank you for listening.

Not as good as Simply Piano. I love Simply Piano, and have renewed my love of the instrument. Simply Guitar, however has many more intonation issues. It rarely recognizes notes played correctly on the 6th string, and frequently has issues with the 5th string as well. Since many of the songs are playing the base line, it becomes quite frustrating. I now understanding rock guitarists smashing their guitars! Seriously though, I have tried electric and acoustic guitars. I always tune before, and sometimes during the lesson, and the errors persist in the lower register. I have found a solution to one of the chord issues. When I played the same chord in rapid sequence, it didn’t register the second one. If I deaden the strings between, it helps, but really interferes with the sound I want. It is also extremely difficult in situations with quarter- and eighth-note timing. I’m sure developers are making improvements as time progresses, so I hope to revisit this review later with an improved score. Despite the issues, it is still worth the money for both programs. Also, response time is quick and courteous when asking questions.

Really. I am rating this a four star because it will not let you finish the first stage without paying but everything else is nice it is just a bit hard to make it hear the sound of the guitar and one time I did it I had to do it ten times before it had counted it once I also had my case off like it had said to do I was as close to the phone that I could get so I am definitely taking the one star I took for those two reasons it did teach me a few things before it had tried to make me pay honestly though I wish I was able to get farther than I could and I can’t pay without my parents permission and we are trying to build our house so I can’t buy it and so I barely learned any thing at all so I was kind of annoyed also it said to get in a comfortable position while I was playing the guitar and the only way my phone could hear the guitar was if I was in an uncomfortable position and also super hard to get my hands on the string plus it was not letting me even play my first song so it is not as easy as advertised. And that is the end of my rating

Pretty good but I have a problem.... I’m a new user. I’ve wanted to learn the guitar for a while and as I was playing I felt frustrated. Granted, I’ve never played before and I’m the furthest from an expert but while playing I became frustrated with the way the lessons run. It’s effective but once I approached an outsider who already knew how to play the guitar and showed me what I was doing wrong I continued only to run into more frustration. I’ll keep going but most likely with less help from the app. I’ve taken the case off my mobile devise, placed it really close, and more that I thought I could do with random incorrect marks but while (with help of previously mentioned guide) playing the correct notes in a semi-correct way for someone who’s not comfortable yet I still got counted as incorrect. I was on time for most beats and thought I was doing fine but I’ve become frustrated with this app. Maybe try and find new ways to guide such as options based on possibilities where the player could be struggling? I’m not exactly sure but I’m sure there should be some better way to fix these issues or guiding beginners. I do like this app though, it’s gotten me into guitar and maybe I’ll continue in the future. But for now, I’m frustrated.

Just want a free app. It only teaches you two chords, and then after that you have to pay just so that you can learn one song! I just don’t understand why the app only gives you two chords and then you have to pay for the rest. Why can’t it just be free? When your about to download the app it doesn’t say that you have to pay that’s why I downloaded the app but then after I went through only about 10 minutes for each chord to the song and I have to pay! It’s outrageous! I thought that you only had to pay for good song like songs that are hard and you could have the other songs free but when I went to check, it had all the songs that you had to pay for! Let me tell you I was so mad! This app wasted all my time please don’t download! The app is such a rip off don’t download you have to pay for everything after you only learn two chords for free! Thank you for taking your time and reading my review! The overall of this review comes to say, do not download the app you have to pay for everything, but only two cords are free. Just DONT DOWNLOAD the app.

Too unforgiving, relies on mic too much. This app is ok. But it’s extremely unforgiving with the tuning of the guitar. I’ve used the tuner app (which is slightly off of my clip on tuner, but whatever), and it has a very hard time considering my 6th (E) string as in tune. Playing the thickest two strings on my guitar has a lot of variance, so it doesn’t hold the note on exactly the correct frequency. When I pluck it, it starts out high and gets lower as over time. Because of this, the app simply doesn’t acknowledge when I play certain notes. It *never* recognizes when I play open strings, which is pretty annoying. This gets even worse as you play up the neck unless your intonation is PERFECT (which is nearly impossible), or you’re constantly adjusting the tuning in the middle of playing a song. I assure you, my guitar is in tune, and I’m playing the chords. This app just won’t let me progress and just play through a song. Really disappointing. This app really needs to be much more forgiving about having perfect pitch on a guitar, especially for a beginner app. I’m simply not going to buy a $15,000 guitar and have it professionally tuned and intonated before every practice session.

Can’t Praise This Too Highly!!. This guitar learning app is simply amazing. I am 62 years old and re-learning to play after a 36 year break! I remember nothing. It’s like I have never played before. This app is actually fun. A very Small learning curve to get started. I am 62 not 42. 😎 but a highly responsive support team had me up and going in a very short time.(minutes) It actually has me giggling inside when after learning One simple chord it has us “jamming” along with a pre-recorded song. What a hoot!! I can see this being very motivating to kids and teenagers too but it’s fun also for senior citizens (me) Every time I do something right the app makes a fun sound and gives me a check. I’d play for hours if my fingers did not start hurting. Speaking of that…once I did not practice for several days (over my hurt fingers) and someone reached out to me to ask what was up??!!! Amazing!! I explained I am waiting to switch to nylon strings…..but in the meantime it got me to pick up and at least do 5 minutes per day…..until I get my new strings. I am only motivated to learn to play chords to a rhythm so I have a portable instrument to sing to. I play piano but it’s not very portable….even a “portable” one. 😎. Guitar is perfect for such portability. I feel confident with this learning app I’ll be able to learn to play to at least an advanced beginner level…which is my goal. Very Well Thought Out! Kudos!!

One complaint. Hello, before I write this review i need you to know I know how to play over five instruments, all without using a simply app. And I already have a complaint about this app. When I first got the app it was amazing, I loved how they immediately taught me how to play chords, however I didn’t love the fact they rushed me into songs with little to know information. It was just 6 minutes ago I got frustrated with “Can’t help falling in love with you” because they rushed me into the song, I felt like they didn’t teach me enough about actually being able to have my fingers run through the strings and the chords faster. They had me play them but they didn’t have me play them faster or how to transition quickly. I wish they would add a quick unit before they rush you into these songs so they know you can play the chords and strings up to beat with the song. The least they could have done is given me a metronome. Other then that this app does teach pretty well and in an interesting way, but all I need is for it to slow its roll because some people are slow learners and need to take it steady.

Good but there needs to be a change in the songs.. I am not here to write about how the song selection is bad I am here to talk about how you play them. First the songs for tabs are way to easy you have to advance super far to get to the hard ones. So it is easy or it is way to hard. Also the easy songs when you play the tabs it does not really sound like the song. If I were to turn off the music and asked someone what song I am playing and they say oh that’s twinkle twinkle little star and I am like nope thats somebody that I used to know… so while the app is really good and it helping me a ton and with out the app I don’t think I could learn guitar. I feel like some of the songs need to actually sound like the song I am more talking about the easy to hard songs. Also add some songs that are not over played or 2000’s songs or just rock. Add some new good sounding stuff. Dirty head, Harry Styles NOT watermelon sugar.

Well made, unavoidable flaws. This app is really well made. If you’ve read other reviews, you hear a lot about the app not reading cords correctly. While it’s true, sometimes it’s reading is off, it’s mainly because of the reverb. Your phone hears all the reverb after the note you play, and can read it as wrong. So it can be minimized by playing concise notes, and keeping your phone really close to your guitar. But this app is really well built, with well thought through courses and easy to understand videos. It makes learning interesting and let’s you enjoy the guitar even when you’re a beginner. Would highly recommend. (The only request I have for the app makers is the tuner. I had to get my own tuner because the one in the app glitched around a lot. One minute it would read the string as tuned and the next it would say it’s too high/too low. Not a big problem as it’s not too difficult to find a good tuner, but just for feedback if you want to improve the app)

Great for beginners, still some problems though. I like this app and it really helped me out with guitar basics and techniques, but there are some problems. For starters, the sound recognition can get really annoying sometimes because you’ll be playing the chords or notes correctly but it can still say that you were wrong, such as playing an E chord and an E7 chord simultaneously, the E7 always says I’m wrong so now I have to mute my strings before each of those notes (just an example). Another problem with this app is the glitches, if you complete a lesson and you press skip too fast, the app will glitch and will act as though you haven’t done the lesson yet and you have to start all over. To be honest it wouldn’t be a big deal to me if it wasn’t for how tedious and repetitive the lessons get, which is my last but not least issue with the app. The lessons don’t even go at full speed, and you can only do full speed and even 120% for songs…in the training section??? It really doesn’t make any sense at all. And for the repetitiveness, especially for the chord lessons, it’s just unnecessary and with it not going full speed it is so draining.

App cannot detect the guitar even at full volume, and the tuner is unreliable, do not use the tuner.. 1. Awful at detecting the E and A strings, even at full volume. For instance, the guitar tab said to play 5th string 2nd fret, which is b. I played this and the app would not detect it forcing me to rewind to try again. This happened multiple times and I gave up to try again the next day. 2. The tuner does not work, it is completely inaccurate. I forces you to tune your guitar at one point, I just cheated for that because it would not detect the low E string properly, saying “too high”. Once you get to this point, please use a piano or keyboard and play the notes there to bypass this, it will still say too high or low but eventually it will work. luckily as a musician I have my own RELIABLE Tuner/metronome which showed my guitar was perfectly in tune. Other reviews of musicians with less experience have snapped guitar strings because of the awful tuner, please use a different tuner or reliable app. Memorize what each string sounds like so you know when you’re too high or low, then use met to fine tune it. 3. I’m playing on electric guitar, however the app thinks I’m playing acoustic. I’m using a pick but the app thinks I’m finger picking. It doesn’t teach you how to use a pick either, I don’t know if I have to change settings or what, because I already chose electric guitar in the app.

Subscription???. I think this app is pretty good and it helps to have $$$ if you want to learn from it however. I got through 80% of the first course and I was pumped to be able to learn my first song however as soon as I clicked on the next lesson for the song it just went to and ad about premium subscriptions. I had learned tuning and 3 frets and ONE CORD but then it wouldn’t let me go further with paying with the non existent money I have and frankly the amount is WAY too expensive I just want to get some ****** but I can’t impress nobody with my one cord I learned it is false advertising. I was expecting a premium subscription to be like different songs but NOT the whole app. Dear SimplyGuitar I hope you are ashamed that you are trying to prevent people like me from getting any women with their guitar skillz that they are relying on you to develop how would you like me to take away all your charm or your thing just attracts women/men to you if you don’t pay a monthly subscription for $75! I could just get a Netflix account with that bank but I don’t have that BANK!! I recommend changing so more people with use the app :( #bagel

It’s fine but it’s frustrating. The app is nice! It really helps you learn chords, how to position your fingers, how to tune your guitar, and more! Thing is, there are a lot of flaws in the app, especially when it comes to receiving sounds. Sometimes when I try to tune the sound, it gives off different responses and I never know if my guitar is in tune or not! Not only that, but when strumming, it usually gets marked red and it keeps making me think I’m doing something wrong. Because of this, I try strumming louder, even if the phone is directly next to or in front of me. Because of me strumming louder, this caused blisters for me to form on my fingers, simply to just get all of the notes to blue and receive perfectly. Even I, a beginner guitarist, know that I should not be able to strum or hold my notes so hard to the point where I have blisters form all over my fingers only to get all of my notes blue. I’ve even asked my brother, a person who’s played guitar in the past, if it was normal to have blisters only for him to respond with, “No, you’ll only be causing unnecessary damage and pain to your fingers.”. Overall, the app is nice, and I’m happy I get to learn trending songs! I just hope you fix your sound system.

Not enough content but what is there is good for beginners.. There remain issues with sound detection, especially the 1st string and the fact it will credit you notes even if you didn’t play them. It is a good app for just starting out and works best with headphones. While subscription for a year looks like a good deal, it is very likely you can finish all or most of the lessons within a month or two though that would depend on how much time you give it. The lessons are well done but can be very slow on tempo for certain things that are pretty easy. It is less expensive than in person lessons and you can do them within your allotted time. As a player of a few months I did learn some things and felt the trial was worthwhile but ultimately didn’t subscribe as I was able to finish half of the content within the week and so did not see the value in paying for multiple months on something I will finish in a few weeks.

Tuning. First of all it’s a good enough app if your a newbie and don’t have a experienced teacher but you made my tune my strings all wrong for more difficult songs you usually have to tune strings into different ways depending on your preferences my teacher does it much much deeper then you and yes. I already have. Gutair teacher who is much better then a app I just downloaded it it try it out I have been playing with her for more then 3 years but afte the first 2 I moved and when. Got back I almost forgot everything I could still play a lot so we basically started over I’m currently playing at book 2 and playing really good songs the best part is because of my adhd she listened to me better then. App and when. Had problems she listened and explained It to me if I missed some crucial detail it was in real time she was on a buggy zoom call and yet she showed me more in 30 minutes then this app showed me in 2 hours just get a Gutiar teacher if you don’t have the money then use this app but if you don’t have the time for one THE WHY DO YOU HAVE THE TIME TO PLAY A STUPID APP

It’s ok, but the E Em cords cannot be picked up on songs, just lessons. I’m beginning the learning process on guitar. In the beginning this was a blast, I even decided to pay the full year subscription to keep going seeing that I noticed significant progress. Then the cords lesson began. During the lesson E cord registered through without a problem, then I noticed the app would hear the E string on the 3rd and 2nd fret. I’d play them anyway not to cheat myself, but then it would lag in play and skip forward registering the E cord 3 times when I’d only strum it once. Once the app would catch up (I’m on home WiFi so cell service isn’t the issue) all sounds registered perfectly. Then the song would come into play, from the very 1st note, and not making any hand/finger changes the app would say I’m playing them wrong. I would go to other sites, even call a buddy to see if if he can here if I’m playing the cords right. So I’d go back to tuning, and cord lessons. They would register, go to the song, the E cord will not register. At this point the frustration of this app is more than I want, and I’ll go it alone. It would be a great app, but it doesn’t replace face to face learning.

It wasn’t helping that much. I picked up the guitar a couple months ago and basically just played around with it. I learned how to play the beginning on Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd by ear before I downloaded this app and also started taking lessons. I finished a few courses before I started taking lessons. I felt that the app took too much time teaching you chords but not enough time explaining how to do things, such as reading tabs or sheet music. The songs were very rushed into. The app advertised that you’d be able to pick the songs you want to learn, but it costs money to do that and in the courses, they make you play specific songs (some of them I didn’t have an interest in playing). After I started taking lessons, it was a lot easier to read tabs and music, and my teacher made it clearer how to hold, pluck, and play the instrument correctly. If you want to learn guitar, I recommend to get actual lessons than to download this app.

The courses are basic/underdevelopment. Finished the courses in 2 months. I thought there was more to it, besides the many practice drills. I think the courses are not as progressive as they should be. Many times it was frustrating just doing the drills without knowing how I was improving. The drills have only background songs. They still need to add a lot more teaching lessons. I was enjoying learning to play the chords and strumming but it ended quick. I even had to check if I was paying premium. 10 minutes will definitely take you a life time, I played at least an hour for 4 or 5 days a week. I was invested in learning but disappointed in the program. The app is good. The visuals help a lot but I should be able to pause the screen and scroll to see the notes to practice. They don’t have pdfs to download. I should be able to skip levels and do any level I want to try. You can only advance if you finish each level. The app is not 100% accurate picking up the tune of the guitar but it is fairly good, not bad. I should not need join the Facebook community to be part of it. It should be part of the app. Unfortunately I have cancelled this membership and joined another online program that is helping me make significant progress.

Fun App But….. So I’ve been sharing the Simply Apps with my girlfriend (she uses the Simply Piano App) over the last month or so and it has been a lot of fun and brought ME back to the basics of electric guitar. The reason I haven’t given this app 4 or 5 stars is because of two simple reasons. Number one being that the audio recognition is not that great. I know I am playing the notes and chords correctly but the app has a hard time picking up on that sometimes which can be frustrating (My girlfriend has experienced the same issues using Simply Piano). Second reason is that I am currently and have been playing electric guitar. Going through the earlier lessons with an electric guitar is fine but as you progress and teach you “plucking” methods, it can be a bit difficult trying to pluck the strings while your pickups are in the way. All in all, it’s a decent app, you do learn some very basic and needed techniques but as you progress, you need to break out the acoustic and that’s if the app even recognizes the correct notes you’ve been playing for years…(again, same with Simply Piano)

I like you but it’s one thing I wish It had this. I love simply guitar talk to really get up I highly recommend it I’m just one thing I wish I had ukulele lessons only because it says you have to have six strings I only have for him so I was really hoping if I can get some help on that but overall it’s a really good app if you are new to guitar if you’re kind a like a Vance we just want a little bit more help either way SimplyGuitar it’s really good highly recommend it to anyone but that’s just the thing is like it requires six but I don’t reallyHave a guitar that has six strings all I have is for him so I was really hoping if they could make lessons for that and if they do please show me where all because I really need to understand where it is because I really need help on that and I’m really trying to learn how to play I’m over it really good app really good app have a nice day

Solid three.. I really want to like this app. After 17 weeks of use, I’ve definitely learned some chords and plucking techniques, but I’m disappointed with how it skips around. By now, I thought I should be able to strum a whole song, even if it’s just a simple version. For the first 14 weeks, I was playing consistently 3 to 4 times a week, with each session lasting between 10 and 30 minutes. However, in the last three weeks, I’ve lost a lot of momentum and interest, playing only once or twice a week out of obligation. It would be much more enjoyable if I could actually fully strum some songs by now, even simple ones. With this app, I feel like I’m only getting bits and pieces. There’s a large library of songs to learn, but it mostly involves playing very simple chords without incorporating strumming rhythms or a cohesive way to play the entire song. Often, it’s just about hitting the right note on every fourth beat. They mix in some plucking techniques, but by now, I feel like I should be able to play something like ‘Sweet Caroline’ by a campfire. I think the app would be greatly improved if it offered more structured lessons that guide users to play full songs, even at a beginner level. As it stands, I feel like I’m not progressing towards playing real music, which is frustrating. I may need to find a new app that provides a more comprehensive and engaging learning experience.

Joy tunes. This app. Is great and should get 5 stars. It is solid,need to work at this program. Any complaints are with the user, not joytunes! The program for guitar playing has taught me a lot in a short time. This system is structured and laid out to make it useable for students. New DO NOT USE THIS APP. IT IS SHORT WITH NO IDEA WHEN THERE WILL BE MORE. THIS IS ACCORDING TO SIMPLY GUITAR. SAVE YOUR MONEY GET A BETTER TEACHER. Refunds are questionable, so is simply guitar.I call them a scam,cheat,ripoff and other names. Waste of time. You pay way too much for this joke. You are better-off taking Gibson’s course. They teach you how to play completely. Their course is complete and informative, you can really learn to play and has more tools to use. You will have to apply yourself. You need to work at it’s not hard but follow their method and it works. It’s cheaper then simply guitar. No way should this course get any stars. This course is not complete and does not teach you properly . It is a waste of time and money. Your money and time. You’re better off with Gibson or Fender these are complete courses and will teach you how tow play! Good luck

Bad. I really loved this app. In the beginning, I really enjoyed playing with this app. It taught me so many good things and there were no ads. It was great. I learned smoke on the water, but every time I tried to play the end of smoke on the water it kept on making me redo that whole part of the song, and I wasn’t enjoying myself when I finally finished the song. Then, to my surprise, it asked me to pay so I could move on. And if you already know the basics and you want to skip to chord learning you have to go through the basics even though you already know them. It also cannot hear anything you play at all and it will make me replay a note about ten thousand times. In summary, don’t get the app if you want to learn. The people in the ads obviously already know how to play guitar, and they put inaccurate proportions of how long it took the people to learn a song. I’ve been playing for 4 hours and I just learned a “simple” song. I’m genuinely mad about this.

I love to app as well but need help too!. I have tried everything to learn the guitar but I just couldn’t get passed my E,Em and Am cords! When I heard about SimplyPiano and what it did for my friends I wished that I had one for my guitar. When I saw an ad for SimplyGuitar I downloaded it immediately. I was so happy that I could play for more than ten minutes a day and that it would actually listen to me. When I got to the E cord I was excited to finally get passed the E,Em and Am cords for the first time in years, but every time I played the E it would say I was wrong when I knew I was right because that was one of the few cords I could actually play! To be honest I was kinda frustrated with myself and thought it was something I was doing wrong or I was tone deaf. I decided to go back to my other app and play E. It said I did it perfectly. I love this app and I want to continue to use it but I can’t if I can’t get passed this lesson. Other than this detail I believe this app is amazing and is the best way of learning guitar that I have tried. You really have ability to change the game for so many more people than than the people that reach out to you. You guys are really amazing at what you do and I can’t wait for you to make more apps in the future.

Thinking about getting this app?. If you’re thinking about getting this and are looking at the reviews to see what the people say (as I often do) then you’ll want to read this: This app has a subscription that you have to pay to get all the lessons. It will teach you: how to tune your guitar, everything you need to know about frets, and the Em chord. Afterwards you need to pay a premium subscription for any more lessons. This is not me complaining about this as it makes perfect sense, I’m just informing anyone who was thinking about downloading the app about it so they know about it. I myself will not be paying the subscription because I’m an unemployed teenager with no money to spend and I’d feel bad asking my parents to pay for it. They’d say no anyway. I am rating it four stars because the little bit I could do for free was very useful and pretty entertaining. The videos were informative and humorous, but deep belly laughs level but they made me chuckle. So I bet that the rest of the app is great but, unfortunately, I will not get to experience it. Cool app, if u have the money or are willing to pay the subscription I fully recommend it 👍

Happy so far. I decided fairly quickly to give this app a go above others to aid me in finally learning to play guitar and I’m so happy I did. I was immediately draw in: it is fun, helpful, challenging but no so much so that I want to give up. I’ve been playing for a few weeks now and just got to the D chord section. I love that with almost every lesson you get a song or two to practice either a chord or strumming pattern or what have you. It has a feature where it listens to you play and offers correction and here lies the flaw: it often seems to be incorrect in its detection of whether you’re playing a chord correctly or not. This can be amazingly frustrating. But as you see I’m still giving this app 5 stars as this isn’t a deterrent for me. Other people have mentioned the cost and no it’s not cheap! I splurged on this app because I think it’ll be worth it. My gf has played guitar for years and years and she’s impressed with this app and the progress I’ve made. I even asked if she thinks I should add in person lessons at some point and she said the app seems adequate! I don’t know how many more lessons are left but I’m hoping to learn as much as I can and so far, the cost of the app is cheaper than real guitar lessons and I’m very happy and having fun as I go. Recommended.

Disappointed. It’s incredible that they charge the same for this as simply piano! I looove simply piano, so I had high hopes for this app. I took the week free trial, and I was quite disappointed. First of all the chord recognition is quite poor. Sometimes it wouldn’t recognize a chord which I knew I was playing right, and other times it would recognize it when I knew I was playing the wrong chord. For some songs you were literally playing the same chord over and over and over, I would be playing it correctly, but because they were close together on the app, it didn’t recognize it so it would send me back in the song and I would have to play that chord several additional times. My poor neighbors! Also, there are not nearly as many lessons on here as simply piano, so I can’t imagine doing it for a year, which is 120$, and the 3 month is half that price! I would consider buying the 3 month if the price were more reasonable. Paying half the price for a quarter of the time. Simply put, the product is not nearly as good as simply piano, so why would you have the audacity to charge the same price?!!

Amazing app but…. I’ve been using Simply Guitar for a bit now, and overall, it’s been a great experience. The app is super beginner-friendly, with clear, step-by-step lessons that are easy to follow. It feels like having a personal guitar teacher right in your pocket. The best part is the real-time feedback – it listens to your playing and lets you know if you’re hitting the right notes and chords, which is really helpful when you’re just starting out. However, there’s a bit of a catch. You get to enjoy about 60% of the first lessons for free, which is awesome, but once you get past that point, you have to pay to unlock the rest. It was disappointed when I realized I had to subscribe to keep going. But overall I think Simply Guitar is worth trying if you’re serious about learning to play. Just keep in mind that you’ll need to pay for a subscription after the initial free lessons if you want to continue improving your skills. :)

Causing nervousness panic and not helping at all.. I just recently started learning with this app and completed about 3-4 of your courses. Ukulele was my first instrument and I took a lot of time to practice my chords and get them to not mute. And for guitar it’s the same experience cuz I do take lessons and I’ve realized that. When I try to learn new chords I take my time to make sure all my fingers are in the right place and stuff and after 2 seconds then your app makes the chord appear red and it doesn’t count and makes me start over and then it happens over and over again. This is not very helpful for people with busy schedules, it wastes their time. For me I just try to quickly play the chord and it mutes and still appears red. Also, when you give tab lessons. I JUST tuned my guitar before play and when I played the 5th and 6th string it just DOESN’T pick it up. I’ve tried pick and thumb, yet it just doesn’t work. Simply Guitar is allowing me to progress slowly in stuff I could master faster if you come up with a better method. PLEASE fix these errors so my precious time does not have to be wasted and so other users who want to feel comforted and take their time can do so. If you are worried about idle users why don’t you just make a pop-up that says “Are you still there?”

Good for the rich. This app was very helpful and useful at the beginning. While I was using the app I was very impressed and over joyed with the amount of information I was learning. As I moved on to almost finish the beginning course I went to play the song and a thing popped up. This page showed that I could only go on if I payed about $20 a month. I am a kid and asking my parent for this is quite difficult. They got the guitar hoping it would be a one and done thing and that they would not have to pay for lessons. Due to this new information I was quite upset. The app is very good but due to the fact that I am unable to pay for premium the app is no longer needed. I only wish that they could add an option where the app can be used on a free side. If not then they should just make you pay for it instead of making you do premium. I believe there should be another alternative way that both premium and non premium could use the app. Other wise people who can’t buy it are left with nothing. This app is very good and will be if you are able to afford it. As for me I have to delete it and look for a new one that doesn’t need money for the continuation of the app.

Y’all are liars this app if great. So I knew I was getting a guitar so I need an app or something to learn how and I saw this and so like a smart person I read the reviews first then download. I saw that people were complaining about the subscription ( nothing in life is free, get over it) and I also saw people saying that the app couldn't hear them play, people are so quick to judge on an app like what if it’s your device that has the problem because I tried this on my iPhone and my iPad and the app seem to hear me just fine on both of my devices. All I have to do it purchase my subscription and that’s it, which I can afford if you can’t afford a subscription then maybe you shouldn’t have bought a guitar in the first place. So far it’s great app I have nothing to complain about just people need to make smarter decisions when purchasing apps look at the reviews before you purchase something thank you

Hi! I love this, but I’m irritated of one thing…. This is my FIRST review ever. I never thought I’d care enough to make a review, but here I am! I absolutely love(d) this app ❤️ but I’m stuck on ONE level for the past weeks or so… I’ve been playing it for DAYS, but any mistake I make, it unnecessary sends me back all the way to the beginning. When I need to play a few more notes, ONE mistake, and it sends me back 5+ notes than I need to. I’m not sure if it’s me, but I’ve been trying to get past this for so long. I eventually quit for a while, and decided to try it again, hoping it will get better, but it unfortunately didn’t. Plus, even though I’m exactly placing my fingers right, every single note is wrong. I tune it more, and it’s still wrong ;-; anyway, besides from that, I’ve been ADDICTED to this app honestly, but ever since that level I’ve been hesitating on touching my guitar again. This app deserves a lot of stars though, but I really hate when it happens, I LOVE and dislike you Simply Guitar!~

Amazing app but I have some requests. This app is amazing. I downloaded after I bought my first guitar. I had no prior knowledge or experience with the guitar and I feel like I have learned pretty quickly with this app. A few things I would like to see in the future are more song options and the ability to customize the Chord Switching Trainer. I think it would be useful to be able to practice switching between any chord I wanted. I also would like more song options. I was born and raised in the South so I would love the option to learn some songs from people like Jimmy Buffett, Allan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, and some more Lynyrd Skynyrd. Some other artist I would love to see are Train and Jack Johnson. Something else that I would love to see would be some Christian songs for those who would like to play in the church band on Sundays eventually. If those things were added this would be a definite 5 stars!

I tried.... So I just recently got a guitar and I was so excited to learn how to play it. I saw an ad for simply guitar and I downloaded it. I learned a chord and tuned my guitar in just about 15 minutes! It was so great! Now i would give it more stars but then this happened... I finished one full lesson and was so proud. It took me only about 25 minutes. I tapped to continue to learn more guitar and then it said I couldn’t move on without getting a subscription. I looked how much money it was for a subscription for 3 months and it was $60?!?!!? I have an app on my phone and I have a subscription for $60 by for a year. And I got it for Christmas. Me and my mom got an account and it still wouldn’t let me move on. I am really disappointed in this app. But if you are rich and have $160 for a year than go ahead. Now if you have enough money to buy the subscription it teaches you amazingly. You get to learn fast and easy. If you don’t want to pay a billion dollars just to play the guitar then please don’t even waste your time. I am trying the app yousicion and it has been working perfectly. It is no money! I’m really disappointed in this app.😢 bye.❤️❤️

Good but bad?. I selected electric guitar for me, it started out fine but soon it wasn’t registering anything I was doing no matter how hard or soft I strummed the string. I tried using a pick and then my finger, nothing. I tried re tuning it through the app, it picked that up just fine but when playing along, nothing again. I tried using the app both with and without headphones, I tried putting the phone on my lap then in my desk, I tried using an amp and not using one.... NOTHING. I can not explain the level of frustration and there are no helpful resources for troubleshooting this online that I could find. I had to switch to acoustic which was fine until I got to “using two strings at once” lesson. I’m playing just fine but the app is only picking up one string, I’m strumming both strings and it’s ringing out the way it should but the app is just failing to do its job..... on a final note I’m on iPhone 10, I turned off noise cancellation because I figured that may have been the issue but again not helpful. This is how customers are lost, you just can’t substitute a real life teacher unfortunately.

It’s $15 and doesn’t recognize when you are playing. If this happens you will need to you, what fixed ours was deleting and adding it back. Then we had to start the process over of tuning but thankfully it wasn’t that much off. Not sure what caused the glitch but that is what we did. There are a few things I’d like to see improved. One being that you can go back to what you were learning. It doesn’t seem to want to all the time. I have to make sure all my background apps are closed before we start a lesson as well. Which that’s fine but the not being able to practice a lesson over again with ease is not awesome. Old post: So we thought this would be cool. Read some reviews and the first day it worked really well. My son went back to redo the stuff he learned and it was glitchy. I’ve shut down other tabs, made sure it was the only one open, turned off all background sounds, shutdown the phone a few times. Closed the program down, reopened, tried to go over other programs on it and still it will not pickup the sound. The guitar was tuned to the apps specifications. I’m a little miffed. This was supposed to be a nice way for him to learn. He is upset. One star for frustrations.

Good App, Needs improvement. I really like this app, but there are a few things that are very annoying, first off when you start playing it asks if you want to join a premium membership or whatever and it seems like it’s one of those memberships you can be fine without it. But later on in the first course you have to get the membership to even continue playing, I find it really annoying that it tells you that you don’t need the membership then it turns out you do need it. I just find this really weird and aggravating. Like if you’re going to charge me just charge me, don’t mask it until I’m far into the course, it makes you want to buy the subscription because you want to finish the course. Anyway, my only other problem is that it rarely if ever registers my 5th and 6th strings when I play them and it can get really frustrating. But, despite those problems it isn’t a bad app, I learned a lot from it.

Great! BUT…. This is a great app for beginners. I purchased the premium membership through a Christmas promotion and was using it consistently. I would have given it 5 stars but there are still improvements needed. For some strange reason the app has issues recognizing the 6th string and sometimes the 5th string. I have tried to trouble shoot per the directions in the app but the issue still persists. This issue makes it incredibly difficult/ pretty impossible to progress through the lessons. I am left rapidly/ frustratingly strumming the 6th string in hopes that it will be picked up by the app. I paid for the year subscription and its sad to think I may have wasted my money if I can’t progress through the lessons. Other than that the app has great potential and I can see if being the top app for guitar lessons. I just wish these issues would be addressed. On another note. I would love to see some progress report on the user profile. Perhaps a calendar to show how many days / total time practiced. It would be nice to see.

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Terrible app. I do not recommend simply guitar, it has been telling me to tune my guitar when I already tuned it and know that it is tuned perfect, I used a tuner to tune it from a professional guitar shop. And then when I play a note to “see if it’s tuned” even tho I know it is, it says it’s to high or low. But then I stop playing and there is no noise, the app still tells me it’s to low or high. So the app isn’t even telling u correct information. Also I believe the app isn’t teaching people correctly as I didn’t realise it was telling me to play something and it was still moving and saying stuff like “great job, your doing amazing” I just wanna play guitar it shouldn’t be this hard! If I were you I wouldn’t down load this app your better off just doing lessons or finding a better website then waisting time on a app that isn’t going to give you correct information.

Not a great app. I play guitar and take lessons with a great teacher and I do not recommend this app. I got this app to 1 greater my knowledge of the guitar and 2 better my technique. This is not a great app I have been playing the guitar for years and said that I am good at guitar but it only gave me the basics ( e.g how to tune and how to hold a guitar ) both of these were not very good it didn’t correctly show you how to hold a guitar and only limits your abilities. My last point is that whenever I tried to go to a class that I could actually learn things it said that I had to pay $150 annually! That price is crazy and a lot more then what you should be paying on a beginners app. I strongly recommend for you not get this app and either use another app or get lessons privately or with a group.

Please notice me!. So, I downloaded this app I had heard so much about after we finally got a guitar. My sis played for the first lesson (no premium) But we weren’t able to finish it because it said we have to pay to play the song! I mean cmon she got so excited for it. Like could you have a premium option and a normal one? So the normal with just a few songs to play and learn instead of having to buy all of them? And a few lessons free with no subscriptions or payments? Thank you. 😊

Half half. This app is amazing but when I started progressing through the levels the app didn’t pick up the string 4,5 and 6 so it made it very hard to progress through and the fact that you have to pay to play is very irritating and annoying because your other app (Simply Piano) was amazing but this one just didn’t reach that point and I love it it’s just very irritating you HAVE to pay! Also it is very expensive! I wouldn’t say this is the best app you have made and I would definitely not call this app amazing! -sorry

Great app!. This amazing app helped me a lot, I downloaded the Yousician app but you need a subscription just to use it! That’s one reason this app is really good, you don’t need to pay at all! Also the app helps a lot and understands what you need to learn you can even make the song go a different speeds to practice, and then when you think you have done it alot you can try doing it at normal speed! I think you should download this amazing app I haven’t had it for so long but I think it will really help me and you! Good luck guitarists!

Your joking right?. I downloaded the app happy to learn guitar only to relive you need to pay after four lessons so the only thing I was able to learn was Em (which I already new). Apparently I can’t do ANYTHING unless I pay $30 a month and $360 a year, I expected it to have songs locked and a few things you can only learn with premium but for everything to be locked is like saying: ‘congrats! You learnt your first cord! Now give me money or your not learning the rest.’ It’s annoying and I ask that you make it so you can actually play a song or two without having to pay that much, even if it’s the most basic songs. I do not recommend and think this app is a complete waste of time.

Membership Pricing is absurd for the quality of the app.. The app is advertised as a decent way to learn guitar, but quickly hits you with a $30/month membership price tag before you even get to a single song. To put this into perspective: other educational sites, such as Duolingo, charge half of that for premium features, whilst also keeping all of their course content free, with occasional ads that do not intrude into the material. Compared to this, SimplyGuitar is built around hooking people in for the initial few lessons, then instantly hitting them with paywalls for everything. And for an app that tries to charge $30/month; both the note recognition is wildly inconsistent and the tuning isn’t very accurate, which seems to suggest that it has been designed without taking into account variables such as echoing. “Simply” put, this app is a cash grab targeted at medium/large families that have disposable income. It’s obvious that they try to play off “Family” features as a good deal, when in reality the service is horrendously overpriced for its quality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the reason they charge so much is to pay off the licensing for all the songs that they have paywalled. Or so they can spam other sites with even more ads.

Ok for a someone who has never touched a guitar before. Veeeeery basic and slow. Some of the “harder” levels seem easier than the easy ones making getting through them a chore just to get to the next round. They are obviously still building up lessons and haven’t got very far yet. Shocked to be up to the latest release and we still haven’t covered anything but a single basic strum. App has so much potential though and I like being able to follow the notes as you play in real time. I’m not sure if it’s just my phone (iPhone X) but some notes it really struggles to pick up especially the lower notes on the E string. This makes getting passed some levels really challenging, not because they are hard but because the app just won’t pick up the notes. Because of this I will now be deleting the app.

It’s good. I loved the app at first, but then after the first few lessons it asked for a subscription, and it’s actually quite a bit. Sure for some people it isn’t, but it’s annoying that with every amazing app you need a subscription just to do literally anything else. Other than that, it sometimes needs to be a little clearer, but I still get what it’s telling me to do. So overall it’s a good app I guess. Just the subscription really gets on my nerves

How much per a year???. I originally gave this app a 5* and was about to share it with my family until I saw all the reviews. People were complaining about the high price of just $100 a year. I wish it was that cheap. Seems the price has gone up a touch to $240 a year or $50 a month. At those prices I may as well be paying for a face to face teacher who can instruct me exactly on where I am going wrong rather then a video. I bought a book for $20 with all these basics and taught myself so far. I get to keep the book. But the app I only get to keep my progress only as long as I keep paying. Don’t get wrong me. As I mentioned above, I loved the first few lessons even though I am well passed the basics. I thought that finally I had found a great app that could help my young grandchildren learn more then I could teach. Guess I was wrong. Just another app with all the promise and following letdown as most do. $$$$$ Shame. 😓thanks anyway.

Frustrating and inflexible and expensive. I enjoyed the first few courses, but now after you have taken my money the course quality has decreased. The guy teaching the chords is glib. “It’s just muscle memory” as he rushes through everything and you’re left going “what”… There is not enough embedment for you already know. We all know repetition , repetition is what gets you there. So each course adds like you’ve already mastered yesterday’s content and that’s not the case. It would be so much better if there was a recap to start your session each day instead of manually having to do it yourself. Also song choice is far from ideal. I hit the I want to learn classical guitar but I’m just doing the same as everyone else. I don’t want to hear rock songs in my practice. There are not many options here. Another Annoying thing is the the chord trainer exercise as it never hears your chords, even though you know you’ve played it correctly, because it works in in the intro. And there is the money. Why do I have to fork out $AU100 to find out how the course works? The course is frustrating enough without knowing you had to pay through the nose for it. Perhaps it needs to be rebranded “simply expensive piano”.

Great app but expensive. Don’t get me wrong this is a great app but after your first course it won’t let you move on unless you edger a membership so if your like me half way through grade six Maybe give this one a miss like today I just finished my course and I can’t move on because I can’t get a membership so maybe take away memberships for younger users of the app and make everything free because for people how want to learn guitar this is a great app but people don’t have that type of money to spend on a app. I hope you consider the younger users on this app and take away memberships and things you need to pay for. It’s an amazing app tho 💜

Great, but..... So, I am an 11 year old boy who really loves guitar. My old guitar teacher didn’t teach me much and didn’t really care about his students, and what he taught me in a year (chords) this app taught me in the first 10 minutes. I really loved this app, and I knew it would be so much fun, but the thing is, after you’ve learnt all the basics, you need to pay. Not only that, but it doesn’t come cheap. For 3 months it costs 36 dollars! I know, that’s pretty cheap for guitar lessons, and you get to ask questions, but obviously I can’t pay yet. I recommend this app to people who are more willing to pay this amount of money to the app, because I will tell you this: This app is amazing.

Don’t bother. Okay I would just like to say that the layout is amazing and the overall concept is superb. However it is crazy expensive after 3 minutes of free practice. I sent a Five star review because I was still in the 3 minute trial period and I had so idea I. Would be charged 33 dollars a month for this app. I know that people need to make money and I appreciate the amount of work that went into this app, but the amount of money they expect is just insane. I will delete now and I will only re download if the pay is taken down to at most 50 dollars a year. The amount of people who would download the app would make up for the many people deleting it because it’s over 150 dollars a year. This is simple math. I’m not trying to be mean but I feel a little cheated. Why can’t an app as amazing as this go out for the good of the community??? Please make it cheaper and maybe I will download again. Again would like to say I appreciate the work, and it would be a five star review if itt t was cheap. PLEASE FIX THIS

Feedback not accurate but good. I really love this app, it can teach me so much. But there is one problem. This app is simply amazing and teaches us a lot but the feedback isn’t good. When I first tuned the guitar it caused me and my whole family that tried a lot of stress. Also for the chords, I have to stretch my fingers a lot, the sound was muffled and I got the cord wrong no matter how hard I stretched my fingers. I am upset about this but the app teaches us a lot and it is very good.

Love it!. I love this app! Congrats! Although it is expensive, I think it is definitely worth it. The songs are good and it easy to use and learn with. However, there is one problem. The app has trouble picking up certain notes, such as ‘open’ and Em7. I have to spend a few minutes tweaking my amplifier until it registers the notes correctly. Other than that, pure awesomeness!

DONT GET THIS APP. Well first of all I was loving the app it was tuning my guitar and stuff than I went through and I was at the end of the lesson and I was about to play the song after I changed all my tune btw I was working on another song that I made but I thought to try this out so I was going good and it says get an Adult to swipe right and it’s a payment plan and it was expensive but that’s not the only thing again I’m not fully blaming the app but I lost the chord tune for my song and there now tuned for a song I can’t play it was wayyy to much to get 😡 also when I was practicing playing while the app listened I accidentally played the wrong note and it still ticked it so I think it’s teaching properly don’t so waste ur time with this app

Not as good as it sounds. Too expensive and the app doesn’t even recognize that I’m playing the right chord or note. I’m so surprised that it has all these old songs that no one likes sung by random people, yet it doesn’t even have a simple song like happy birthday for example. We should be able to keep the special songs on events like Christmas, etc. and not have to wait ages and ages just to get that song. Oh yeah, and the “funny” “sarcastic” ads don’t make it better. Sorry to break your hearts, but your ads just make me want to skip then actually download it now, because at this point you’re basically trolling us. Just stop it and be better.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G but just one problem. I was able to play notes and it’s much easier the lessons are great! Highly recommend, but paying is really expensive get me. That’s really expensive just learning guitar for lessons, Lessons fine Songs and chords? Not fine SimplyGuitar is great and all but you should make it free songs and chords are not really valuable as lessons U have great teachers I get that.

I really wanted this app to work!. I’ve been waiting FOREVER for RockSmith to come to iPad but since I was still waiting I was really excited that there was what looked like a great alternative. I love the concept of this app and yes it’s expensive but that didn’t deter me either. What’s so frustrating is that it doesn’t pick up that you’re playing the string during practise and you can’t progress. My guitar is definitely in tune - I checked with an external Fender tuner too. I can’t justify going past the free trial if I get stuck in a practise loop and can’t progress the lessons

Simply the best I’ve looked at all the other guitar teaching apps. Simply guitar is the most amazing app I’ve ever found in my entire life it’s even better than simply piano although I’ve never played some piano but I’ve seen it by my son and I think it’s even better so I’ll just have to wait and see until I try both but I’m not sure if I try both so it’s a C but seriously folks SimplyGuitar is our family favourite happy 2021 and here’s to rock ‘n’ roll

About the App. Hi there! Here’s what I think and some facts about it: The prices for this app well, if you get the app SimplyPiano and purchase a one year subscription it includes this, so it’s actually not too bad as you can access both of those apps with all premium features! The courses and beginner courses are great, you can learn the basics and also tune it with the app Yep, it’s perfect for all ages and has a wide variety of activities which is in my opinion, a great feature. The songs options and chords and all that is a great thing if you get premium, but I’d recommend getting a subscription on SimplyPiano or (I think) in this app too will give you access to both apps with the premium features which means you don’t have to pay twice, just log in with the same account you made the purchase on and you’re all set! A great app and I’d definitely recommend checking SimplyPiano as well, even if you don’t think it’s for you. An issue would probably be the tuning part… I don’t want to tune it before I start because it was already tuned but didn’t recognize anything at all! It’s a MUST step, so I was very disappointed to find it didn’t work well, and for 179 dollars a year isn’t the worst because you can access both SimplyPiano and SimplyGuitar! ==========================================

Great but expensive & it has hearing problems. So when I downloaded it it was amazing it taught me how to tune it and all that stuff but then I realized that even when I played my guitar perfectly and the right noise level it did not hear me and when I got to th first song called “WE WILL ROCK YOU” I clicked on it and it said a subscription and it said 3 months for $97:99€ 6 months $145:99€ 12 months $195:9k€ like I’m a lil kid and my parents can afford that but it’s COVID and my parents have not been able to work for OVER 5 MONTHS they can NOT afford losing that much money so if you can PLEASE! put down the price at least $20-$30-$40 down please

My future career. I’m a 12 year old kid who’s in high school who said his job was gonna be a mechanic, but I found out that I am good at music so I saved up money for a guitar, I have music lessons but I wanted to be better so I got this app. It is sad to see that this app gave me one lesson and the easiest cord ever, once I finished they said I could play any songs I want, I looked but there was just a free subscription trial for 7 days but 7 days wasn’t enough so I looked at getting the yearly program, but it was to expensive and I grow up in a family with only like $50 in the bank every week but lucky we live in a mortgage free house but we still have trouble with just shopping.

Great Customer Service!. I needed to cancel my subscription so I wasn’t being charged. I went to the help sign and a person helped me cancel my subscription. Took two minutes to figure out and then was done. Thank you for putting so much time and effort into customer service!! I only had to wait about 20 seconds between each message. Thank you

So disappointing. What a rip off. This app is actually has lots of potential. It is like having an online lesson with someone. It’s intuitive and steps you through a logical flow of learning. What is really disappointing is that there is very limited content and I’m talking about the paid version. I signed up to a 12 month subscription (paying $150 aud) after doing the 7 day trial and after 2.5 weeks I have completed everything it has to offer (which is not much). That was doing about 45mins a day. The app doesn’t have the content to even teach you the basic chords. For example, it doesn’t teach you the B, D or G chords, which are common chords needed in a lot of songs. It also only teaches you one basic strumming pattern. I feel absolutely ripped off, paying a lot of money for a 12 month subscription when there is only a few weeks of content. Before writing this review I sent an email to simply guitar asking for a ‘please explain’ and hoping they could change my subscription to a 3 month subscription and give me some money back, but never received a response.

This app is the best guitar app I have ever used although very pricy.. I absolutely love this guitar app and I think it teaches you amazingly on how to play guitar with very simple steps and amazing videos. That is although until you have to pay for a subscription which is very expensive. I understand the company needs money but the price may need to be put down a bit. Besides from that awesome app, best I have ever used or experienced and it teaches you so fast!

Simply tuned :S. I will start by saying that it is a well designed app and great menu system and good tuner. Also the guy that’s in the videos seems like a top bloke and can deliver a punch line. Gave me a few giggles that’s for sure. Now my gripes are simple. Playing some chords during parts where you have to strum don’t get picked up easily enough so you feel like you are playing it wrong or not strumming at the right time. It happened to me and it left me on some parts of a particular song for longer than 10mins. I persisted until I got to the end, but by gosh was I already feeling a little dejected. For the times were it works were you pick up the rhythm it’s great and can be a blast to learn, but for those inconsistencies where it doesn’t (even though it picks up your strumming during practice) it take the fun away slowly and starts to burn at you slowly and then makes you start to question weather you are play the right sound or even doing the right things. I love my trial time and enjoyed the moments of video time with the dude that though me some string and how to walk on them, unfortunately that’s were I will love and leave it. Maybe it was my cheap Alpha Guitar set purchase at $198 Aussie smackeroos! Maybe… P.s I might also consider coming back if it’s not a $190+p.a sub. Yours truely A Beginner with a cheap Guit.

Pretty expensive. Now a company has to get money so of course there are stuff to pay for. Joytunes had made 2 games or whatever you would like to call it, simply piano and simply guitar. My advice is to make the apps more cheaper so then with both apps you would make more people who then would be able to afford can use the apps so more people using an app they is cheaper = more money. I’m not saying you should exaggerate it and make the subscription like $50 maybe make both apps $120 for the subscription or make it so you have more options like $10 a month or $60 every June so it’s half of the year so it’s half the price because young kids may use this and parents might pay for the app and doing the more options thing might be more efficient because then they get paid and can afforded it. I hope this helps. Yours sincerely, Ghassan.

Please read and reply!. Hey, this app is a really good starting point for learning guitar. But I need to get to the fact: why I gave this a 2 star rating. I have 2 different guitars, one with 6 strings, the other with four. I’ve been wanting to learn bass for a while now, but I decided to start that practice with a 4 string bass guitar. Now knowing that, simply guitar only provides the learning intention for people with 6 strings. They say “you’ve either been ripped of on eBay or I have a banjo.” But no, I have a 4 string bass guitar. I don’t know anywhere else to learn. If I can fix that somehow, please let me know. This is not a hate report but I’d really like to know if this app can teach me how to play a four string bass. I chose ‘electric guitar’ from the options thinking maybe It’d give me a choice to choose whether I have 4 or 6 strings on the guitar. (Or any other amount of strings). So does this app only allow 6 strings? And if so: please recommend any other apps or sites for me if you can. Thanks you. Kind regards, - Melissa Topic

Please don’t ignore!. I wanted to learn guitar because I had a guitar my father gave me just sitting in my room. I was really interested! But all of the guitar guide books weren’t helping at all. But then I heard about simply guitar! I thought it would cost money to use the app so I looked it up on safari, on safari it says that the basic membership is free. So I downloaded the app. It was amazing! Until I was ready to learn my first song. I taped to the icon and BAM! You need a membership to learn more than 2 chords! I was devastated, I was actually getting somewhere. So turns out that I need to pay $30 to finish the BASICS of guitar lessons a month. I really do love the app but I’m not willing to spend $30 on an app each month I’m not expecting anything to change but I just am really confused about what safari said please answer atleast why safari said it was free.

you have to pay. I downloaded the app hoping I could put an old guitar in my house to use. It worked really well helped me tune. My guitar helped me play a couple of chords but once you reach a certain point in the course it asks you to pay to continue trying to learn a new hobby. That’s ridiculous. You should not have to pay. There should be an option to get extra support and pay for that. I also tried downloading the singing one so I could possibly make some music with my own voice and my own hands, but no, you have to pay this is ridiculous. You should not have to pay.

I need help. So basically I just started using the app and was like ok this is pretty great but then I needed to tune it using the app tuner but I had already tuned it and thought that it would say that it was fine but apparently every string was too low and no matter how many times I turned the peg on the guitar it would still say that it was too low now I’m still on the tuning page cause I need to tune it with the tuner in the app to progress but it’s either not picking up the sound of the strings or it is just saying too low because of a glitch pls help me and fix it so it is accurate.

App Sound Issue. I really had high hopes for this app considering the price point and initially I really loved it however, after progressing to later lessons, I started experiencing a lot of issues with the app not picking up the lower 3 strings of my guitar making it impossible to progress to the next lesson. Unfortunately, instead of learning I was trying to tweak the way that I was playing in order for the app to pick up the sound (even though I was playing the correct chords at the correct time) which is pretty frustrating. Im guessing it was an issue with the app itself not my guitar as when I used the tuner included in the app it picked up all the strings but then would not pick up the strings in the lessons. I’m grateful I was able to get a free trial before shelling out $150 for a year subscription as I would be very disappointed had I spent that much on an app I cannot use. I did contact customer support but after the standard troubleshooting tips (which I had already tried) they were unable to help me any further with the issue which is a real shame (apart from suggesting that I try using a different guitar which I do not have) I guess I’ll be trying out another guitar app.

Absolutely fantastic app. 100% this is the best guitar app I have come across. I have been playing guitar at school with my friend who has taught me all the basic guitar chords and some hard chords as well. But since it was my birthday I got a new acoustic guitar. So I downloaded simply guitar thinking nothing of it and it is so handy, all the other tuning websites are wrong and make my guitar sound like all the strings are in miner chords. But simply guitar made it sound normal. Thanks simply guitar I love your app it is great for beginners

Costs too much. Although I have to appreciate the work that has gone into this app, I have been playing guitar for 5 years and downloaded it so I could improve further. At the beginning I was flying through the basics and I was getting so hyped about the app, then I realise how much money it costs to actually get to do things. I am just a kid and would love to be able to learn with this creative and wonderfully structured app without having to pay. I have to appreciate how much work has gone into this app though but I think if it were free you would get more downloads and revenue then if it were this expensive. Just my opinion, read it how you like. Overall good job on a great app, would have loved to be able to use it more. I did delete it because there is no use, but it is right at my fingertips if I want to re download it.

Full access problem. I love SimplyGuitar it is amazing but the problem is 1 I can’t change my type of guitar when I got the app I chose electric because I had an electric guitar but when I wanted to use my dads acoustic I couldn’t switch my type of guitar I am not sure if I don’t know how or if i can’t please fix this and also this needs a 1 month subscription because what if after a month I don’t want to use the app I won’t my money back please fix this I want to rate this 5 stars.

Fun at first. So I started this app and it give lots of useful advice of playing guitar. The first notes are very interesting to learn because I have never even picked up a guitar in my life, the first chord was also very new to me, but the problem is, you can only go with 5 beginner lessons and then you have to pay for the rest! You should at least make it a bit cheaper because it is very expensive! I think that the app developers should change the fact that you can only go for 5 lessons without paying. At least make a couple more free lessons, they should also do this for simply piano, because I have tried that app already, and I downloaded simply guitar hoping that it wasn’t the same. So if you want to learn guitar using your phone or I pad, with a small price or none at all, I do not recommend this app. I hope this review helped people that want to learn guitar and the app developers. Thank you for reading the whole thing, I really appreciate it!!😊😊

Skip feature. Love the app, brilliant design, awesome instructor, the teaching method is wonderful. However, it’s really important to add a Skip feature during song playing. Slower songs work great and the notes timing is synchronised well. However, when it’s a fast song with chords following each other quickly, the timing doesn’t work correctly and the app becomes slower. As a new guitar learner and a user it’s really frustrating as it makes me stuck in one song for a long time even though I know that I’m playing the right chords and I can’t do anything about it because I can’t skip it. Adding a skip feature will remove this frustration as it gives me the option to move forward if the app timing wasn’t working well. I hope this feature to be added soon as I love this app and that’s the only thing stopping me from giving it the 5 stars.

What is going on?. Hey come on- is someone playing a joke here? Why is it a $100 subscription for an app with only about 5-6 hours of lessons? I have been playing guitar for years but I thought I could learn some new skills - I went through all the beginner lessons thinking I needed to do so to get to the more complex lessons- but no, those lessons don’t exist. And saying more lessons are coming doesn’t help- improvement comes from playing every day and not waiting for the next lessons to be uploaded. My decision to purchase came From my experience with Simply Piano which helped my daughter- I assumed simply guitar would be of a similar standard. In these difficult times who has $100 to just waste on an app that only partly exists?

Doesn't pick up sound well. i have literally played the same chord 23 times trying to get this app to let me progress and it wont pick it up. I moved my device so that the microphone was literally directly infront of my guitar and it still wont pick up the sound. Tried again after writing this review and omg this app literally doesn't work at all! I have to drag my microphone across the floor and then it thinks i played the correct chord, when i actually play the correct chord it completely ignores it. I have tried every single one of the "App recognition" tips on the website and not a single one has worked. I turned up my amp, nothing. I moved my device and removed the case, nothing. I turned up the bass on my amp, nothing! What is the point of this app if it doesn't even work half the time.

Joy tunes apps are very very very very expensive and shouldn’t be downloaded. The two apps that joy tunes made to help you learn guitar and piano are crazy expensive I’m only eight years old and I’m and I was trying to learn both piano and guitar before I turn 10 and I saw the ad that for these two apps and thought it should be free because everyone’s playing it including little kids so I downloaded it and it was all going good until I had to play the full song and then realise that I needed a membership and the subscription was so expensive. Lower your prices or I will never download your apps again and also simply piano is wrong about the piano keys because I was playing the piano and I said that the white key for middle F is the black key for the middle F

HORRIBLE DO NOT GET. You know that thing that shows the majority of ratings just above the reviews? Well that is a load of rubbish. NO ONE IN THE RIGHT MIND WOULD GIVE THIS APP A FIVE STAR. I would give it a one star but that is impossible. I got this game thinking it will be an amazing idea to learn guitar. We have an extra electric guitar in the studio so I thought it was perfect. I downloaded it and filled in the survey and started my “journey”. It was amazing until the lessons really started. My dad used to play guitar every day so he knows quite a bit about playing. They start by tuning your guitar. IT WAS WRONG. I said I have an electric guitar in the survey, so the app could not be confusing me. I tried every song, dad supervising, the amp working properly, yet the app STILL says I’m wrong. In short, don’t wast your time on this load of rubbish and get a real guitar app THAT WORKS. 0/10. The only good thing is the videos.

The money. In one of the simply guitar ads, it said that this person was learning guitar for free. This is what happens with most ads and it annoys me. Knowing I have to pay a lot of money (so much money I might as well get a guitar teacher myself) makes me heart broken as my I wanted to learn guitar so bad. At least I know how to grip my guitar 🤪😭 at least say that there is a subscription in all of your ads therefore it will notify anyone else that wants to learn guitar more than me but feels sad as they have been scammed… (sorta…) but still please make it better and I hope to see that in the future I’ll be able to open this app for free and strum at least 4 chords… then I might rethink of paying for a MEMBERSHIP TINY LESS THAN 100 DOLLARS FOR ONLY 3 MONTHS!! Please fix this… I’m giving you 2 stars instead of 1 because I trust that this will be better in the future…

The app is great, but expensive!. I worked my way through the first few basic lessons, and I think the app is amazing! However, after those first few lessons, it asked me to subscribe to continue. $100 annually might not seem like a lot to some people, but I, still in the process of getting my first part-time job, unfortunately don’t have that kind of money of my own to spend on an app. So if you’re like me, a broke high school student who took up guitar out of boredom, maybe give this one a miss until you can afford it. The app is great, but the price is just a deterrent for me in my personal circumstances.

Heres my take on this app. I completely understand you guys needing money and stuff but i find it completely unfair that you need to pay for a subscription to even learn a song and finish a course I wanted to try out simply guitar for a free time kind of thing, and because i do want to learn guitar, the guy in the video was amazing i loved how it was all set out, i was getting ready to play my first song and getting all hyped up until i reached it, I was told to buy the subscription for $30+ or family plan for $40+ otherwise i couldn't finish my course and actually learn a song. In my opinion there should be some sort of freedom with this app, like how i get to finish my first course and have access to a few songs instead of none, as someone who cant pay $30+ a month not to mention it is a ridiculous price im giving this a two star, the app welcomes you in makes you think youre gonna actually learn your first song, then all of a sudden you have to buy the expensive subscription to even learn it.

Walking Meme & Waste Of Time. What the hell!!! I was so hyped to learn the guitar so I downloaded this app. It asked me which song I wanted to learn so I clicked on one. I completed all of the lessons getting so excited because after finishing those lessons it meant I got to play the song! But then once I finished the lessons I clicked on the song and it just directed me to a subscriptions page! What the hell?!?! After all that it turned out literally everything on this app costs money. Not even 1 song for free? How will I ever live out my rockstar dream?? I should have listened to my brother when he told me simply guitar is just a piece of trash and a walking meme. To add on- it wouldn’t even listen to me when I tried to tune my 6th string. It also said I was getting every single note and chord incorrect when I was clearly playing it correctly. Don’t waste your time - listen to me and my brother. It is a scam.

Don’t even bother with this app. I had a guitar sitting in my room and never had the time to learn how to play. When I found this app I was some exited to learn and after tuning my guitar 5 times and learning 2 chords (only two!) the app said I was ready to play ,y first song and I was was so excited. But then when I pressed on the song it said I had to PAY to learn. I tuned my guitar and learnt two chords for that. So I pressed on the the songs section. HAVE TO PAY. I decided to learn some more chords. HAVE TO PAY. I’m only a kid I can’t just magically become loaded with money! On the ad it said you could master guitar in just a couple of weeks! Because apparently if you don’t have money being a master of guitar means knowing TWO chords! Thank you for reading and don’t install this

Would not recommend but go ahead. I downloaded this app about a year ago but went through some struggles which led me to delete the app, I re-downloaded it signed in and then I was greeted by a supposedly nice man (in my opinion) in a chicken suit. I went through the basic lessons of playing guitar then I got up to what I thought was the exciting part, playing the song. I chose bad guy by Billie Eilish because my friends sister is obsessed with her, but when I went to click on it it said that I had to buy premium to actually “unlock” all the features. I read the amounts and was not happy about how expensive it is. I hope you know most people do not have the money to buy it slightly crushing there guitar dreams like you did mine. I don’t have enough money myself to buy it and wish others the best of luck with it. Hope you see this and drop down you prices to at least $50 a year or every 3 months.

If you’re trying to learn how to play, I guarantee you this app will definitely help you get there.. I have been trying to learn how to play for years. I tried you tube, other learn-how-to-play guitar apps, and even have some players teach me. But I still couldn’t. It was not until I stumbled across this app and voilaaa! Less than a month, I can now play (not that good tho, but at least Im getting there 😁). Overall this app is just AMAZING and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn to play guitar.

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This is so fun and easy! 💗. This app is so fun and easy to learn from!!💗

Good but.... I thought that i would be able to learn how to play guitar and get good at it but i have to PAY REAL MONEY TO CONTIUE.

Expensive. Would be the best app on the market… if it was free. I don’t have the money to pay the courses but I found the few free guides of excellent quality. Now I have to learn on my own.

Excited. I’m really getting it thanks

Too much money. Hi it’s a great app but it’s just too much money for me to continue to premium. I’m just a kid and there’s no way I would ask my parents for like 200$. They already do so much for me. I really like the app and it would have helped me with following my dreams of being a performer. And besides 200$ is way to much I wouldn’t pay more than five for a lifetime. I’m sure this app helped other people but it just didn’t work for me. I’ll just have too find something that’s free I guess. Stay safe and thank you for reading P.s. I’m sorry for complaining about how much it cost I mean making an app costs money and then you have to make money out of it somehow to keep a roof over your head, clothes on your back and food on the table Ok sorry now I’m just tipping your ears off ha get it because I tipped this review I hope you laughed at my terrible joke Bye sorry that my review was long and I kept on tipping about random stuff. I really am sorry I mean you didn’t have too read it all. Sorry that comment was a little rude Ok sorry I’ll stop there stay safe

You haft to pay. I don’t have any money and my parents don’t if u could take off money I would play 247. 😁😆😜

So cool. Simply guitar takes you. Step by step

Fails to recognize Am. App consistently fails to recognize Am and I’ve to either trick to by playing off beat or keep strumming it violently. Extremely annoying!

Scammy. U need to pay even though they say: learn this for free it’s a scam otherwise it’s decent

The tuner is infuriating. It’s terrible.. The first five strings were absolutely fine. They tuned well. But every. single. time. that I tried to tune string 6, it said it was too high. Even when I turned it so low I couldn’t hear it. Everything else worked except for that. I tried a different tuning website, and it worked! So something is wrong with this app.

Actually works. Is fun.. I’ve owned a guitar for nearly 20 years. I took a few lessons here and there, and by that I mean maybe 3 lessons total. With no in-between practice. But as I got older I just didn’t have time to go to a lesson and frankly I found them awkward. Decided that I have a few minutes in the evening I was wasting on YouTube so why not try this instead. I have legitimately spent at least 2 hours a day every day for 10 weeks now learning and practicing. The app has a lot of songs at various levels of simplification to hammer home the skills without getting too repetitive. Plus the chords and tabs for tons of other songs. It works great. Seems to be pretty accurate at detecting notes and chords as well as when I mess up. First time I can say I love an app with no notes. You guys nailed it.

Simply……BAD. The course doesn’t work I tried the first couse but nothing happened and I couldn’t even skip fix your game

I would give 5* but.... I was having a lot of fun, I was having a good time playing along, but then it said I needed the Simply Guitar Pro to continue playing. I tried skipping to the next lesson and it kept popping up. You see, some people can’t afford to pay for a game, even IF it’s a game that you can learn from. SO! I was thinking... Maybe, for the people who, like me, can’t afford to pay, you could make it so that we can skip the Pro lessons and move on to the next one WITHOUT the annoying pop-up saying that we need to get the Pro. Perhaps for the people who DO want to get the Pro, you could maybe have a chord chart, more songs, more exercises to train our fingers, and a few extra tips and pointers. The reason I think this would be a good idea is because then the people who get the Pro can start writing songs and carry Simply guitar through the rest of their lives, even AFTER they’ve finished all the lessons. They could be famous, they could be inspirational, they could be happy... and it would all be thanks to you at Joytunes! Sorry for the VERY LONG review. I understand that, seeing as in just some random kid, you probably won’t listen to what I have to say, BUT! If you do, I think it will really improve the game. Sincerely Jude Culbert, a fellow guitarist

It’s not free. After few lessons you have to pay to learn

Horrible app. They let you play one chord! And then u got to pay 200 dollars like- wth?! Total rip off the microphone DIDINT even pick up the sound. This app is trash- also I’m not gonna bug my parents for 200 dollars like seriously 🙄🙄 total rip off- DO NOT DOWNLOAD

Perfect for a beginner. Great app

I can’t believe I ignored the guitar app for 2 weeks looking for a guitar lesson!😃🙁☠️💀. Oh my

My Perspective. When I downloaded this I was very excited to be able to play my guitar, I was enjoying learning how to play guitar until I went to play my first song, it said that I had to pay to move on?! What is up with that!? $200 for a year that’s crazy! No wonder why there is so many ads in YouTube because you guys actually have the money to put ads on there! Not a lot of people have the money to be spending like that! You need to make a change or you are going to start getting lots of bad reviews! For a year it should be like 70 or 80 dollars or something! Not 200! I can’t believe that you think people have that kind of money! This is a really great app and it has great potential! But for the money to move on it makes it really sad that this is able to go downhill.

Needs money. It was fun until I learned I needed to pay money to play songs. One star would not play again.

This sucks. I was enjoying until I finished the set up and it said I had to pay over $100 your app is trash simply

Too Money Hungry. I can understand having to pay for extra songs and/or early access to chord progressions, but to not even be able to play the very first song without paying is utterly ridiculous! Deleted and moving on to try the next app or maybe in person lessons - at least there I’d get real feedback for my money.

This app sucks. This app is so useless even if u played the wrong chord it will be correct and I made sounds with my voice and it was still correct and I am not paying 300$ for a stupid private teacher that looks like a pedo like make this app free

Hate it 😡. I my kid Keeps trying to play and it doesn’t pick up I was out getting Groceries I found her crying and floor because it couldn’t pick up her guitar I payed too much for this Bad App

Vraiment la bonne base pour apprendre à jouer ( merci). Good merci beaucoup

Pay to learn. It’s good for learning two chords only with paying but I can’t even play a song

Not bad. I don’t like how you have to pay after like 5 lesson like this app was great but then getting for the subscription really sucks, I’ve been trying to find a guitar app that wouldn’t have this.

Microphone issues. I don’t think this app is accessing the microphone properly on my IPad. The tuner doesn’t work and I get notes accepted during the lesson when it is dead silent and I never touch a string. I think the app would be great if the could fix this issue

Hate it. It made me break my chord!

It’s an amazing app! But if you have the money sadly. My father got me the subscription so I don’t have to worry. The app is amazing! My first lesson taught me better then a year of actually guitar lessons. With actually guitar lessons. I didn’t understand much everything was going too fast. But with simply guitar it kind of reviews things and goes back to jog your memory (kind of). But it’s very sad that you have to pay. It’s very expensive for even 3 months! Like I said I did get the subscription and I don’t have to complain but there are people who cannot afford it. Maybe what you can do is if they don’t want to pay. They don’t have to. BUT like it most apps they don’t have access to most songs. And in order to access them they have to pay subscription? Doing it this way is better than not letting the people who cannot afford, play at all. Other then that, I HIGHLY recommend this app especially if you only have little experience. Knowing a bit before getting started with this app is actually helpful. Sincerely, Just a 10 year old.

Good but. I was really liking it but then realized that I would have to pay money for the next lesson my parents don’t have much money and I don’t want to bug them for stuff so I am going to try to learn on my own I do think it’s a good app if you have the money for it I would definitely recommend

It broke my guitar. I was tuning my guitar on the first lesson and it broke my last string I didn’t catch up on the noise and it broke my last string I don’t recommend this app.

“Simply” too expensive. With the amount of people that use and can use this app they are being much too greedy with the subscription compared to cost to create. And especially because of how long this app has been available

Good app. Been playing guitar for a couple months just got this app and so far it’s great

it was okay. when i went onto the part where you have to play string 1 when the blue line hits the square, it wasn’t picking up my guitar even though i had it turned all the way up (i use an electric guitar). i tried about 7 times, and got it right on every time but it said i was wrong. that was kinda frustrating.

Suggestion. I thit would be cool to have simply drums. We would buy it as soon as we knew it existed

Seriously?. I was really looking forward to learning the guitar for free from home rather than paying for a private lesson. I was enjoying the introductory lesson when you all of the sudden say that I need a membership to continue??? Seriously??? Not all of us have money available which is the whole reason why we downloaded this app!! And you didn’t even make it clear on your ads or description that we would have to pay. PLEASE CHANGE THIS. Do you know how disappointed people must get when they get their hopes up about a nice app that teaches you for free, then it turns out that it’s all for the money?? WE ARENT MADE OF MONEY. Just allow for ads in the app to replace the membership payments. I would rather watch tons of ads than pay for a membership. This is seriously false advertising. If anyone agrees with this, please add the same review so we can change this.

Idk. I really enjoyed this app and was excited to get started. But i have an old guitar and the tuning part wasnt working properly and broke my guitar string

this app sucks. i was haveing a lot o fun until i had to subscribe this app is garbage don’t install

Em chord. What is wrong with the em chord i play it right and it still doesnt do anything and a9 playes perfect but not the freakin em, im deleting this app

It broke my guitar. So I was learning and it told me to turn my string low, so I do it and the string brakes right off, thanks a lot simply guitar now I can’t play for a long time till my dad buys me one, 😡😡😡🥺

Didn’t work. My 9yr old cousin was trying to use it but it wouldn’t respond to his playing

Pay. After starting and learning the super basics, you have to immediately pay. So lame, pls change. Would rate 0 ⭐️if I could. Very disappointed

Semble facile. Semble facile et intuitif, j’aime!

😠. This app is a scam. I entered for 9 minutes and all I saw was a video I couldn’t skip or anything

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GARBAGE APP. THE TUNING IS TERRIBLE IT CAN BARLEY HEAR MY GUITAR EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A GOOD MICROPHONE THE ADS SAY “LeArN fOr FREE” BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY A STUPID TRIAL TO BE ABLE TO LEARN SIMPLY ACTUALLY NO GARBAGE GUITAR IS A TERRIBLE APP AND A WASTE OF TIME DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT (i rated it 5 out of 5 so people can see this)

The microphone is stupid. I’ve been using this app for a bit, and it’s been okay. I’m in the middle of one of the lessons, and it decides to not pick up my noise even though i’m about to break my strings from strumming so loud. I am sure im playing the chord right too because i’ve been playing for a year now with this app. Very disappointed

It so helpful. I lov you this app

Microphone issue. The idea of this app is amazing and everything is executed well except the microphone. I have my iPhone within good distance of my amplifier and it tends to not pick up notes. Once that happens I can’t skip the section and it just continuously rewinds the segment until I complete it.

Ok. So when I was like doing the tuning for my guitar it was perfect it was good but then when I got to the threats whatever it’s called it wouldn’t work and it was super hard and I’m not playing it anymore because it won’t let me get past it

Glitch. I don’t know why but all of a sudden the volume went down to half the volume and I keep turning it back up but it makes no difference..it just randomly happened and it’s hard to hear anything! I literally can’t turn it to max volume and it doesn’t work!!! It also doesn’t connect with my AirPods.

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Mind numbingly repetitive. I find it harder and harder to use this app. It’s so mind numbingly repetitive that it’s boring as you can possibly make a guitar. Like it’s not even fun because the whole training model is based around really hard learners. So as a result you get stuck with lessons that you absolutely can master in 5 minutes, and then for good measure you continue to learn the same lesson for another hour at least. They need the option to test out of certain portions. And if you’re flying through everything without any mistakes, stop drilling the same thing for the rest of the week. I personally need challenged to stay engaged while learning. This app is the exact opposite of that. It’s so boring and repetitive that I just tend to google guitar tabs and teach myself songs because I can’t mentally handle another hour of doing the exact same 2-3 chords over and over and over.

Amazing app but I have some requests. This app is amazing. I downloaded after I bought my first guitar. I had no prior knowledge or experience with the guitar and I feel like I have learned pretty quickly with this app. A few things I would like to see in the future are more song options and the ability to customize the Chord Switching Trainer. I think it would be useful to be able to practice switching between any chord I wanted. I also would like more song options. I was born and raised in the South so I would love the option to learn some songs from people like Jimmy Buffett, Allan Jackson, Kenny Chesney, and some more Lynyrd Skynyrd. Some other artist I would love to see are Train and Jack Johnson. Something else that I would love to see would be some Christian songs for those who would like to play in the church band on Sundays eventually. If those things were added this would be a definite 5 stars!

Amazing app, but no month to month fee. I just recently started picking up guitar again so I essentially downloaded every app i could find to try it out, this one, by far was the most fun and actively got me wanting to play. I downloaded the fender play, yousician and a few others, but this one stood out because it was actually fun! The app follows along and listens to your playing. It doesn't always pick it up perfectly, but its sufficient. Biggest downside is the upfront cost. There isnt a month to month plan so you are committed to at least 60 bucks for 3 months, which isnt preferred if you're looking for a side hobby and you aren't sure if you can commit the time. Would be 5 stars if not for this. Even though it was my favorite I am sticking with the fender one because at $5 a month and a student income I cant commit $60 to what might be a temporary thing. :(

Love but one problem.. Okay firstly I want to say that this app is amazing! This helped me with my guitar so much! When I started this app I didn’t even know how to do a chord. But now I know a bunch of chords, different songs, and I’m overall just better. And it’s so easy too! Now let’s get to the problem. When I’m doing songs or tutorials and I’m doing the right chords and strums, it tells me I’m not doing it right. You might be thinking “maybe you’re doing it wrong” but no, I double check if my fingers are on the right stuff and it still tells me I’m doing it wrong. I don’t know if it’s something with my microphone or the app but if you can please fix it SimplyGuitar! But overall I love this app. Please get it if you’re looking for a easy way to learn guitar! God bless.

Great app needs better teaching. Listen, I like the app don’t get me wrong. I’m able to learn some of the basics and play some fun songs along the way. However, the app just doesn’t have the accuracy to properly tell if you are playing something correctly or not. Along with that, the app has the audacity to give me a green checkmark when even I know I didn’t play half of that last section correctly. My biggest hit is its price tag compared to the quality of actually teaching. It somehow reminds me of Duolingo but for guitar. It’s not personal. It doesn’t know that you need to work on fingerpicking or strumming. It just assumes that you’re right on track to go to the next level. I might be salty because my fingers hurt and I can’t play here comes the sun but I’ll keep trying and looking past that stupid green checkmark.

Great app but major flaw. I love simply guitar. I think that’s it’s a great way to learn a new instrument and I appreciate the fun videos, wide range of teaching styles, and variety of song genres. What I don’t love is when I’m playing the right chord and the app refuses to pick up on it. I’ve taken to playing wrong chords or the right one so quietly you can barely hear it because that’s the only way the app will let me progress through the lessons. It’s very frustrating and is becoming kinda discouraging. I’ve tuned my guitar using the app (which is usually pretty accurate although sometimes I do have to fix it using my other tuner), but that didn’t fix the problem. Please Simply Guitar, if this issue persists then the subscription is a waste of money and I wouldn’t recommend anyone new to guitars (or just anyone in general tbh) use this app. I really hope you fix this, because aside from that one issue it really is a great app.

This app has some ups and downs. I first heard about simplyguitar on an ad and since I just had a guitar laying around doing nothing, I decided to give it a try. First fee lessons in and I’m doing really well but I start to realize this problem… No matter how right I play a note, it will say I played it wrong. I would repeat steps over and over until finally the lesson would say I did it right. When you play along to a song, as long as you strum your guitar at the right time, you will get it right. I tested this theory out and realized this shocking fact. This app was great for me because I was starting out but these bugs make it almost impossible to know if I’m even playing the guitar right. This can be a real deal breaker and with these bugs it is not worth the $150 a year I’m spending on it.

Good but there needs to be a change in the songs.. I am not here to write about how the song selection is bad I am here to talk about how you play them. First the songs for tabs are way to easy you have to advance super far to get to the hard ones. So it is easy or it is way to hard. Also the easy songs when you play the tabs it does not really sound like the song. If I were to turn off the music and asked someone what song I am playing and they say oh that’s twinkle twinkle little star and I am like nope thats somebody that I used to know… so while the app is really good and it helping me a ton and with out the app I don’t think I could learn guitar. I feel like some of the songs need to actually sound like the song I am more talking about the easy to hard songs. Also add some songs that are not over played or 2000’s songs or just rock. Add some new good sounding stuff. Dirty head, Harry Styles NOT watermelon sugar.

So much potential.... So I was lended a guitar for the next few months and I decided that I would really try to learn a lot about the guitar. I downloaded the app and made an account. I played through the first 3 guitar basics lessons and I really enjoyed them! Then I got to the ‘We will rock you’ lesson and to my disappointment I realized I needed a paid subscription to continue. Everything was going amazing until that happened. I knew my parents would say no, and I was shocked to see you needed at least $60 to continue. The lessons were all great and I am sure anyone could agree with me on that! Apart from that sometimes when playing the app sometimes think I strummed twice when I didn’t, this is a minor mistake tho compared to the subscription This app had so much potential, which is why I’m not giving it too much of a low review of 1 star or even 2 star. I might as well switch to a different app, I’m sorry.

Shouldn’t have to pay to learn music. SimplyGuitar markets itself as an easy, beginner-friendly way to learn guitar, but in practice it is heavily locked behind a paywall. While the app allows a brief introduction, nearly all meaningful lessons and progress require a subscription. This makes it impossible to actually learn without paying. Some premium features are reasonable to charge for. Advanced lessons, extra tools, or personalized feedback make sense as paid options. However, SimplyGuitar goes far beyond that. The app gives users only one short free course, and the moment you begin practicing and making progress, you are forced to pay just to continue learning basic material. Cutting off learning mid-progress is not acceptable. This is especially disappointing because there are kids and beginners who genuinely want to learn guitar but cannot afford a subscription. Music education should encourage curiosity and growth, not shut people out because they cannot pay. Locking core learning behind a paywall turns motivation into frustration and discourages new players from continuing at all. Overall, the app feels less like a learning platform and more like a monetization system disguised as one. The constant push to subscribe comes across as greedy rather than supportive. SimplyGuitar could be a great app if it allowed real learning and consistent practice before forcing payment, but in its current state, it prioritizes profit over education.

Why:(. I took a class a year ago at school for basics where guitars were provided, but it is no longer offered so i decided to go out and find a gutiar for me. I ended up spending minimum $100 for a somewhat good guitar. I found this app that was advertised to help you learn guitar through more than 2 yr old things. I was excited to check out the chord library and play my first song until **Pay for Premium** came along… $150 a year is kind of a lot.. im only 16 after all and spent my own saved up money because i wanted to pursue a dream of being able to play for my friends and family. Maybe this app needs some minor adjustments where you can get at least a few chords in the library to see like G, D, E, Em, A, and C. I would also like to play at least 1 or 2 of those *5,000* songs yall talk about in your ads. I really wish i could’ve learned from this app and what it advertised but I dont have the money to do so… Please consider a slight change for all the people that have considered this an issue. Thanks

It doesn’t work!. I was just in the middle of tuning the 6th cord, and it wouldn’t work, I realized all my strings were really loose so I tightened it. Anyway, when I tightened the 6th one, and tried playing it to see if it worked, and it was too low, and I eventually ended up tuning it so high that y string broke and snapped me! And even when I was tuning my 1st string it said it was too low, so the I played the rest of the strings, (this was before the 6th one broke) and it said the 5th string was right, even though I tightened the first one to the point where it took 2 hands to tighten it! Also, It said I was playing the acoustic guitar, and I looked to see if I could change it to electric, and when I asked if I could change it, the article said that it detected if it was acoustic or electric, so I just went with it. I am really disappointed that my guitar string broke, and I even had to move into another room from my other family members just to try this out. I wouldn’t recommend this app if you want to learn how to play your guitar.

Disappointing. Things like this are very disappointing. You have to download it and then sign with an email so they can have your information first. And then they lead you on this incredible first lesson and then boom a paywall. There response to this is typically: sorry but we need the money to be able to provide new lessons. They also ask for a rating in the middle of your free first lesson so that you’ll give it a good rating before realizing that you have to pay to do anything more. By that point you’re fed up and don’t bother changing your rating and they profit off of that. So even though 90% of people will quit after seeing the insane paywall, they still get the benefit of you giving them a good rating before realizing you have to pay. Even if you go back and change your rating you still have them you’re email so there you go now they can sell your information. They’re taking advantage of people who want to learn how to play the guitar and it’s sad.

It’s ok... I got the app and I’ve been upswing it for two days now but when i got to the song part I clicked it but then I saw I had to pay for a monthly thing to use the songs and I got really mad because I’ve always wanted to play the guitar but now that I practiced I can’t even play the song for free I mean what kind of design is that where are you can’t play this song for free and have to pay for it like no I’m not paying for that it’s a waste because well it’s supposed to be free because you’re learning how to play the guitar you learn the chords and everything but then you can actually play the song like that doesn’t make sense I mean everybody is getting this app to learn how to play the guitar and play songs but you have to pay for the song but why pay for the song when you could just get some to teach you is it of waiting like $119 for 12 months to play no I’m not doing that.

Just want a free app. It only teaches you two chords, and then after that you have to pay just so that you can learn one song! I just don’t understand why the app only gives you two chords and then you have to pay for the rest. Why can’t it just be free? When your about to download the app it doesn’t say that you have to pay that’s why I downloaded the app but then after I went through only about 10 minutes for each chord to the song and I have to pay! It’s outrageous! I thought that you only had to pay for good song like songs that are hard and you could have the other songs free but when I went to check, it had all the songs that you had to pay for! Let me tell you I was so mad! This app wasted all my time please don’t download! The app is such a rip off don’t download you have to pay for everything after you only learn two chords for free! Thank you for taking your time and reading my review! The overall of this review comes to say, do not download the app you have to pay for everything, but only two cords are free. Just DONT DOWNLOAD the app.

Amazing BUT!. I download the app tune my guitar and started to do my first lesson and I did great it was absolutely amazing and I actually learned lots of stuff really easily. So then I went to do the last bit of my lesson and of course right before I was going to play a choir in a song they hit me with the subscription fees! I look at the prices and it was outrageous or was it? You will really learn lots of stuff and do really well but I just didn’t have the money to pay the subscription in my opinion the subscription is just way too much but you should definitely download it and try the first lesson to see how much you learned and what the fees areBecause if you have the money this is the best app for learning the guitar but for me I just can’t pay that much just so I can learn the guitar. The fees where like $169 a year or for 3 months $79

Bad. I really loved this app. In the beginning, I really enjoyed playing with this app. It taught me so many good things and there were no ads. It was great. I learned smoke on the water, but every time I tried to play the end of smoke on the water it kept on making me redo that whole part of the song, and I wasn’t enjoying myself when I finally finished the song. Then, to my surprise, it asked me to pay so I could move on. And if you already know the basics and you want to skip to chord learning you have to go through the basics even though you already know them. It also cannot hear anything you play at all and it will make me replay a note about ten thousand times. In summary, don’t get the app if you want to learn. The people in the ads obviously already know how to play guitar, and they put inaccurate proportions of how long it took the people to learn a song. I’ve been playing for 4 hours and I just learned a “simple” song. I’m genuinely mad about this.

Great app. I love this app, but I don’t like how you have to pay $20 dollars to play a song that’s not even the full song. One time, I was playing, and I got to the end of the course where I got to play the song. I clicked on the step, BAM! “Simply Guitar Premium” For 20 dollars a month? It’s a great app, the note recognition is a little off, but good for the most part. The system is great, being able to change the speed of the song was really helpful for me and the humor used gave me a good chuckle every now and then. BUT, back to the main part, paying to play for a simplified song just doesn’t really make sense to me. I mean, yes, you want money and people to use the app, but instead, please lower the price! Dev’s, if your reading this, GREAT app and mechanics, but please next time, don’t be so pricey!

I really want to love this app. As the title says, I think this app shows immense potential but falls flat (no pun intended) in two crucial areas. My biggest issues are that the app seems to have a very difficult time picking up what note you play - this becomes an issue (and a really really obnoxious one that led to me writing this review) after it says you’re playing the wrong note and causing you to replay the same god forsaken section of music a hundred times over. EDIT: After chatting with support (which responded immediately) wearing headphones seems to have fixed this problem, for the most part. Secondly, and just as importantly, they don’t have that many courses. I finished them all within a month and a half and have nothing left to play. The rate at which they come out with new material is suspiciously slow, they’ve introduced maybe 2 new courses within the last 2 months.

If people want to learn the guitar why pay for it. If people really want to go and get a tire and you let them play for at least 10 minutes in the first starting stages of being a beginner then why would you get off the entire courses and tell us to pay for it if we don’t have any money yeah cool it’s it’s a guitar app that will let you learn to play for free but it’s not really for free they literally let you play about 10 minutes make you learn but three chords and then there’s a freaking pay gate when you want to learn the we will rock you by Queen why would you make it so people get to play for 10 minutes and then you have to tell them oh you need to buy about 12 months of 60 bucks but at the same time if you’re broke and you have a guitar near you and you want to learn a new hobby why would you make it so you need to pay for it can you just make it completely free come on man

Microphone Problems. This was my first fully paid guitar training app - I played daily. Since running into microphone and freezing problems I have since downloaded and paid for other guitar training apps (Fender Play, GuitarTuna, Tabs, Yousician, Guitar, & FourChords) and none of these other apps have a freezing or microphone problem. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and I can play different songs from the songs list and not hit a single note because the microphone doesn’t pick up my playing. If I on’t have an issue with the other apps I can only assume it’s still just this one. I am playing on a 2023 version Apple IPad Pro running iOS 17.0.3. I’d love to stick to the lessons and further my development on this app but it has become extremely frustrating. From playing songs to simply just tuning my guitar. Please assist.

Makes Learning the Guitar Fun and Easy. I’ve only started playing the guitar a week ago, and I’m amazed at how quickly I’m learning the basics with this app. The app does a good job at gamifying lessons so even when it’s difficult to learn new chords and songs, it becomes addicting to keep trying. We’ll see how what this app has to offer as I get more experienced, but already it’s a night and day difference between where I was at when I started a week ago and what I can do now. I can play basic chords with barely having to look at my guitar as I’m quickly developing muscle memory. If you’ve been interested in learning to play the guitar but have been worried that you’ll get easily dissuaded by it’s difficulty, then I highly recommend starting with this app to give you the motivation you need.

Solid three.. I really want to like this app. After 17 weeks of use, I’ve definitely learned some chords and plucking techniques, but I’m disappointed with how it skips around. By now, I thought I should be able to strum a whole song, even if it’s just a simple version. For the first 14 weeks, I was playing consistently 3 to 4 times a week, with each session lasting between 10 and 30 minutes. However, in the last three weeks, I’ve lost a lot of momentum and interest, playing only once or twice a week out of obligation. It would be much more enjoyable if I could actually fully strum some songs by now, even simple ones. With this app, I feel like I’m only getting bits and pieces. There’s a large library of songs to learn, but it mostly involves playing very simple chords without incorporating strumming rhythms or a cohesive way to play the entire song. Often, it’s just about hitting the right note on every fourth beat. They mix in some plucking techniques, but by now, I feel like I should be able to play something like ‘Sweet Caroline’ by a campfire. I think the app would be greatly improved if it offered more structured lessons that guide users to play full songs, even at a beginner level. As it stands, I feel like I’m not progressing towards playing real music, which is frustrating. I may need to find a new app that provides a more comprehensive and engaging learning experience.

Best app for beginners. I played the first lesson in the app and was very impressed with the production quality and the ease of the lessons. I hadn’t picked up a guitar in almost 20 years, so I started from step one. It’s not a chore to play 30 minutes or more every day, and I can already tell I’ve gotten a lot better in just a few months. It’s not boring scales, the app has you playing actual songs pretty much right off the bar, and reading tabs and practicing chords and everything (even my boyfriend, who is a self-taught player and is amazing, can’t read tabs). Sometimes when they update it, the app will lose the ability to understand what you’re playing, but the support team is fantastic and very responsive. I bought the full app with no hesitation and have not regretted it since. Fully deserve five stars 👍🏼

App can’t distinguish my notes properly. It might be the fact that I have a tiny guitar for kids—its the size of a ukulele but it has six strings—anyway, during practice the app will think I played two or three or sometimes four notes WONDERFULLY when I only played one, and other times it has a hard time recognizing even one. DISCLAIMER I do have a thin case on the phone, so maybe that’s it, too. Anyway, besides that I love the way the app presents itself, it’s got a good humorous tone and the construction of everything, such as the guitar-hero-scrolling-style is really appropriate. It takes me through the bare basics and even my five-year-old was enjoying her turn at it. I hope to use this app to have some cool bonding with her and maybe even compete with her, as both she (at five years of age) and myself (at 33) are on equal footing with playing this instrument at the moment. Thanks SimplyGuitar!

The app is good, but come on guys, a membership!!. This app is good for the most part, it teaches you to play guitar and have a fun time doing so, however you can only do one lesson for free and the others cost a membership. I don’t understand why this is, as it would probably be best just to make the app a purchasable app that would cost around the same price as the membership. I say this because of the fact that they advertise it a lot and get people hyped to play the guitar, but when they finish only a single lesson, they can’t even do just a couple more without spending money!! I don’t know if I am even in the right position to say this but I feel the need to speak out because of that fact that most of the people that would actually want to learn how to play the guitar really good like you guys are teaching, might not even have enough money to do a monthly membership! I hope this reaches out to you guys and I really hope I can get some understanding as to what reasoning this entire system has.

Worked great at first, then I don’t know what happened. I started on simply guitar a week ago, and I’ve been really motivated to learn. Today I sat down, and suddenly the app can’t recognize notes. I’ve tried closing it and reopening it and restarting my phone, and obviously making sure my guitar was in tune multiple times, but it still fumbles with recognition. It’s inconsistent with all the strings now, but it has the most trouble with the E string and G string in particular, pretty much making me play these strings over and over until it gets it, which is really tripping up my practice. I know there’s something wrong with the app too, cause it has no problem recognizing strings with the tuner, and it also keeps thinking I’ve played notes I haven’t even gotten too yet, which is just as frustrating as it not recognizing the notes I am playing.

Why can you add an ad based account?. This is a really good app, it’s well made and designed. I was upset that I couldn’t just start where I’m at as a intermediate instead of having to start as a beginner, sure it’s always a good idea to go back and practice the basics but I would like to start where my current skill level is at and challenge it. I also don’t understand why you can make an account that is ad supported so I don’t have to pay for a premium account that I don’t want to pay for if I don’t have to. I was having a fun time relearning in the beginning to only learn that I had to pay a premium fee to continue the lesson to the song part. I get inflation has got us all in a bind, I just think there should be an option for an ad based account to continue the lessons. It would allow a lot more people to be able to access this amazing app.

It wasn’t helping that much. I picked up the guitar a couple months ago and basically just played around with it. I learned how to play the beginning on Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd by ear before I downloaded this app and also started taking lessons. I finished a few courses before I started taking lessons. I felt that the app took too much time teaching you chords but not enough time explaining how to do things, such as reading tabs or sheet music. The songs were very rushed into. The app advertised that you’d be able to pick the songs you want to learn, but it costs money to do that and in the courses, they make you play specific songs (some of them I didn’t have an interest in playing). After I started taking lessons, it was a lot easier to read tabs and music, and my teacher made it clearer how to hold, pluck, and play the instrument correctly. If you want to learn guitar, I recommend to get actual lessons than to download this app.

If you can’t pay for a subscription, don’t download. I can’t pay for a subscription or lessons, but really wanted to learn how to play my grandpas old guitar. Assuming the app was completely free, I downloaded it. It was nice at first, but after learning two chords it wouldn’t let me do anything without a subscription. Honestly I’m extremely disappointed and dissatisfied. I feel like it would be better to not have this rule in place, it gives others more opportunities to learn and grow to make music. I would be fine subscribing if it was cheaper, but no. I can’t pay almost 20 dollars a month for a lesson like that. The app and its features are great, but the tuner can also be inaccurate. I tune it once and it says it’s perfect, but when I make no changes to the tuning the next time the tuner pops up it says almost all of my strings aren’t tuned. It’s a good app, but doesn’t exactly give a lot of opportunities.

Premium membership. I started using this app, and though it was awesome! That was until I was in the middle of learning a song, and it wouldn’t let me continue with a subscription. This really frustrated me. I’ve had my guitar for about a year now, and i’ve just been teaching myself, so when I got an add for this I was really excited to try it. I have no idea why I have to have a subscription to learn a song that’s apart if my course, and it won’t let me continue without it. They want me to pay $15 a month, that’s $180 a year! And although that might not seem like a lot, I’m not old enough to get a job yet, and I doubt my parents would pay for it. Every other app I’ve gotten has also want me to get a premium membership. I have no one to teach me, and this is the best app I tried. I’m very frustrated at the fact that I cannot continue. I was looking forward to finally be able to play guitar right, and I guess that’s not going to happen.

Could Be a Great App. I paid for a premium subscription and quite frankly there’s a lot to like and plenty to dislike about this app. First, the positive, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. The app makes you want to learn and you feel like you’re making progress, so less desire not to practice or quit trying to learn. Now the negatives. First, there should be an option to view the video instructions with either an acoustic or electric guitar instructor. Currently, the video instructor is using an acoustic guitar. Secondly, there’s no option to skip to the next level in a course. The app determines whether or not you are ready to advance and oftentimes the app does not acknowledge you are playing the strings or chords correctly, so you get stuck and cannot advance. For example, I got stuck on the ‘Em cord course at stage 8 and the app kept making play the stage over and over - my fingers were really sore trying to get pass stage 8, which I never did. My biggest complaint is often times the app has a hard time hearing that you are playing correctly and there’s no way to skip thru to a lesson to get to the next level. Why would I pay a premium price to have an app determine if my playing is sufficient to advance? I should be able to advance thru any course, or view the next level in a course, if I want.

Not a lot of pay off for the price. I’ve had this app for almost 6 months now. I’ve played pretty religiously 3-5+ days a week for 10-20 minute sessions, sometimes a few times a day. I didn’t know anything about guitars or music, but wanted to learn. It seemed fine at first. I got to play a few songs that sounded vaguely like the song it said it represented. The more I played and the more I unlocked for songs, the less the songs even sounded remotely like the song it was saying I was playing. It’s literally just having you stroke a random chord every so often as the song plays in the background. It’s kind of infuriating and belittling. After 6 months I can’t look at the song list with the chords and play the songs. I have no idea how to read it. There’s no strumming instructions. I showed someone I knew that has been playing guitar for 20+ years and he told me the songs I was showing him weren’t even the right chords for the song, which was why it didn’t sound right. The song list availability is very narrow and main stream. When doing the lessons the app constantly could not “hear” the chords or strumming. It would just not register it was hearing anything. Sometimes I’d get frustrated and just strum random strings and it would mark it as correct. I feel like I’ve wasted 6 months worth of money learning literally how to strum a chord but not how to play the guitar.

Problems solved. Ok, I’m not that smart but I’m a thinker. I’ve had guitars since 17 and now 53. Frustrated by many years with mental barriers and playing blocks. Simply Guitar came along and why not try another. This app is great for beginners. I went through each lesson meticulously and it will have you practice notes and chords until your sick of them. But, you’ll be grateful for the mental muscle memory it builds for those chords as you progress. The biggest issue I have had and I read in the reviews is the mic not recognizing notes or chords and holds you back until completing them. Here’s a couple easy fixes I found along the way and they are on the users end: 1. Practice in a sterile environment. Remove all background noise. TV’s, radios, kids, barking dogs etc. 2. Turn down your lesson volume on your own phone. This impedes the mic picking up your guitar sound. (My #1 issue) 3. Best remedy: Buy a nice head set. $100 spent was well worth the money. Plug in your phone, the mic then only hears your guitar. This solution is solid on acoustic or electric playing. I’ve done both. Frustration, eliminated. Back to the lessons: great quality, excellent presentation, applicable, steady progress realized. Here’s the kicker, for both advanced players and Simply. This is truly a beginners app. There is enough learned to keep coming back, but Simply needs advanced level lessons. Simply has taught me enough to understand how to grab another app and move on, but I’d prefer to stay right here with Simply. The teaching style and methods are perfected for any style. Thank you Simply for that. Side note (Pun): Got the kids on Simply Piano and progress there is also amazing! Keep up the good work and make some advanced levels for us folks that make it to the end!

Worth the money. I have been playing guitar for 13 weeks now with the app and I love it!!! It is fun, interactive, and very easy to learn from. Because they incorporate so many songs to play throughout the courses, I feel like I am actually getting somewhere instead of just playing chords or notes at random. I also have to mention how much I adore the freeze features. This company and app understands that there are some weeks or seasons in life when even the most committed players just need a break or are just too busy to practice. Because the freeze keeps my streak, I feel motivated to get back into practicing and learning. This is soooo much cheaper than in person guitar lessons and it truly is an absolute joy to use. Thank you to the creators and everyone who worked together to create this great resource for those wanting to learn how to play guitar.

good start but…. I downloaded the app today after hearing about it for quite some time. I wanted to learn quickly and it was going great! Then, right after learning Em and A9 it put up what looked like an optional pay screen but upon further inspection, I discovered that you have to sign up for a $20 subscription to even play the first song. I can here to the reviews to see if it was a glitch but was met with glowing reviews. Whenever I got to a neutral or negative review, the developer responded. It is only when I found comments about my concern that it confirmed my belief, and i noticed a very disheartening bit of information. The reponces are all the same but with the topic of the complaint switched out with an electric guitar emoji and a “sorry but we don’t care and won’t change, figure something else out” message engrained in the “apology”. I am hoping that I will get a real response to my concern. Please don’t put everything behind an expensive paywall while claiming to be affordable, and please give actual responses.

Completed Every Lesson. I didn’t know anything about playing guitar when I started. I have mixed feelings about this app but I choose to to the end and I wanted to share my thoughts. I don’t do a ton of reviews but I thought my insight might help others. First, you will learn how to play guitar. The app gamifies practice, its fun, has good progression, lots of songs. But, it has severe gaps. While the app recommends you play with headphones - try playing without headphones and the volume turned off - you’ll find out you are playing, often random notes, from a song it sounds like noise. So you’re not playing music your playing chords while listening to music. The ads are a lot of hyperbole probably to the point of being false advertising. Your aren’t going to be anywhere near the rock-god shredder the app promises. In fact you’ll never learn to play b or b minor. The best thing the app has are mini games from spider walking or chord switching. These are great tools that are hidden within lessons and can only be replayed by navigating back to that portion of the lesson. Why these are accessible or customizable. So the best thing about the app are mini games that are too cumbersome to get back to. I got this because I forgot to end my free trial and I stuck with it through every lesson. It just kind of ends with barre chord lesson. Everything the app has to offer can be done six months. Ultimately, it’s not worth the cost and there are probably other apps that work better. You’ll learn most of the chords and some strumming patterns but it’s not like you’ll be able to play actual music.

❤️ - 💔. I love this app it is good, self explanatory, and it really helps beginners. But to be honest, it’s kinda only for beginners. I did learn two new chords but that’s all. You get free lessons but then you have to pay for everything. Like, what? And then you can’t even do literally anything on this app without paying for it. I’m not much a beginner. My dad and I do lessons together and I wanted to surprise him by learning some stuff and him be proud of me. ( he already is but you get the point) so that’s how learned all the stuff I know now. For people who are wanting to learn the guitar ( like how to tune it, hold it, learn what frets and stings are) this would be a good app for you. But if your wanting to know MORE about it I don’t suggest this. So this app could kinda go both ways I guess. But I only rated this three stars because you can’t really do much on it. But thanks for reading! Bye 👋 😊

Won’t catch any frets. I just downloaded this after buying my first guitar. Everything was going great until I got 10 minutes in & started learning the frets. Every time I play the fret properly without a muted note it never catches the note being played but if I put my finger fully covering the bar it catches the tone - when it’s completely muted. I’ve tried it with & without headphones. It’s not working for me whatsoever. I’m no musician but I know the note is NOT suppose to sound like that. Even if I talk or make another noise it’ll give me the green light as if I played the note. Or when I mute the note it gives me the green light. But if I actually play the note properly it gives me a red light and forces me to go back to the beginning of the first fret practice. Can’t get past the first 10 minutes of this app. Highly disappointed ☹️

They fixed everything and I was very wrong!. UPDATE: I previously had an issue with being charged immediately when signing up for the free trial, but I must say that Simply Guitar has since fixed everything for me. They even gave me a two-week free trial to compensate for the inconvenience. I was mistaken about their customer service being slow, as they have a chat available within the app that I was able to use to resolve my issue quickly. Their customer service was also very friendly, super nice and efficient. I appreciate their quick response and willingness to make things right. Now, onto the app itself. It’s a great app (the best imo) to learn how to play guitar. I highly recommend it to anybody interested in learning how to play guitar. Previous 1-star review for reference: I was charged immediately (meaning as soon as I clicked on ”start free trial”), even though I signed up for a “free trial”. It seems like a sneaky way to make money. Well, it doesn't matter anyway because they have a solid 4.7 rating 👏 on the app store and have already got my money. So, who cares if I talk about it here? LOL. It’s not nice doing this to people. Eventually, your deeds will catch up with you if they haven't already. On a positive note it’s a great App to learn how to play guitar as many have stated in their reviews here. P.S. They don't have customer service phone number. So you’ll have to email them and wait 2-3 days to get a reply after you write them. And if they don't agree to fix the issue on your first try you’ll have to repeat this process several times. This makes it easier for people to give up on their stolen money and makes it a more profitable business for this App.

Ok bro. OK, so I’m going to give you my totally honest review about this so simply guitar is an amazing app honestly but OK here’s a thing and it’s a big thing for me so I download the app. It gives me like five lessons and it tells me how to do the AI and the E Corde so I like it so excited because I finally could like learn to do guitar but then it’s finally time for me to learn this song in the lesson but it says that I need the premium access and like why is it well OK so I learn another song because it says that like you can learn whatever song you like like Olivia Rodrigo Dua Lipa whatever you want I go there and it says I need the premium access as a premium massive is like $29 a month so it like no like this is not OK because here it says that it’s all free but in real life you need to pay for everything so if you want to pay this app, it’s totally amazing believe me, but if you do not want to pay believe me, don’t download this app.

Great when it picks up the notes. This app works great and I like it much more than other similar apps for learning the guitar. The main problem is that the app fails to pick up the notes at the start of the song. This is after tuning the guitar every time I open the app and going through their FAQ section. Usually the first 4 to 5 notes aren't picked up and then after that, it works great. It has a great selection of music and I feel like each lesson is perfectly timed for my skill and interest level. This is a five star review if the notes were being picked up reliably I've tried with headphones. I've tried no headphones. I've tried AirPods. The behavior is the same no matter what and it's really frustrating.

Good App. I really like the app, I think it’s helpful and would definitely teach someone who has never touched a guitar learn how to play. My only thing is, I wish it would at least let you finish the first basic lesson before making you pay. I understand why you need to pay for this because it is a quality app. However, I feel like if I can’t even finish that lesson before having to pay, it’s not worth downloading unless you plan to pay. It makes complete sense to pay for everything after that lesson, but since you can’t finish it at all there’s no real reason to start it without a membership. I’m considering getting the membership eventually, but If you are looking for something free I’d consider looking at different options. It does seem like a really great app to learn on though, so take the review as you will.

Joy tunes. This app. Is great and should get 5 stars. It is solid,need to work at this program. Any complaints are with the user, not joytunes! The program for guitar playing has taught me a lot in a short time. This system is structured and laid out to make it useable for students. New DO NOT USE THIS APP. IT IS SHORT WITH NO IDEA WHEN THERE WILL BE MORE. THIS IS ACCORDING TO SIMPLY GUITAR. SAVE YOUR MONEY GET A BETTER TEACHER. Refunds are questionable, so is simply guitar.I call them a scam,cheat,ripoff and other names. Waste of time. You pay way too much for this joke. You are better-off taking Gibson’s course. They teach you how to play completely. Their course is complete and informative, you can really learn to play and has more tools to use. You will have to apply yourself. You need to work at it’s not hard but follow their method and it works. It’s cheaper then simply guitar. No way should this course get any stars. This course is not complete and does not teach you properly . It is a waste of time and money. Your money and time. You’re better off with Gibson or Fender these are complete courses and will teach you how tow play! Good luck

I really like this app. I love this app. One hour of practice and I learned 4 new chords and more about finger positioning. I think it is very good and will probably pay the 9.99 a month when my free trial is done. My one problem is that it does not include the question “are you using a pick or your fingers” at the beginning. I think that would be fine for someone who has never even picked up a guitar or has never really done anything with a guitar but I did guitar lessons for about a year but than two years ago I moved and stop playing. However in the year where I actually did do guitar I learned to use a pick. I only ever use a pick and it would be really helpful if I could have had the option to say that I only use a pick so I can get tricks for how to position a pick instead of my thumb. But other than that I think this is a great app especially for anybody who is brand new to guitar or has not played in a while.

Difficulty ramps up FAST. The app had a great start. You learn the basics and pick up the easier chords. You get an idea of the difficulty but the songs are still structured in a way that you can actually complete them at your skill level. But then at around the Fmaj7 and G chords things really take a turn. All of a sudden you’re doing strum patterns and switching between like 5 chords. There’s no way the average person pulls this off without months of practice. Basically, if you’re going from lesson to lesson like you assume is the point, then you just get smoked. At no point are they like “hey, take a few weeks to master these songs then move onto the new lesson.” Instead it’s like “here’s the plucking technique… now do it at lightning speed while switching to all the chords you’re still trying to master!” Some intermediary lessons purely practicing chord switching, plucking, etc. before the next main lessons would make a huge difference. I see most of the reviews talk about the issue with the mic/note recognition. I’ve been dealing with that too. It’s a real problem. It exacerbates the frustration with everything I’ve mentioned above. I’m going to stick with it for a bit, but my enjoyment definitely took a nose dive.

Stop scamming people into paying during free trials. I really loved this app when I first tried it and then of course out of nowhere it becomes completely useless unless you pay a staggering $20 a month. And this was way too early into the programming to see if it's really worth the money. But then it’ll try to convince you to do a free trial so I ended up doing that.. of course there’s no way to cancel on the app that I’ve found. So if there is a way they are intentionally making it hard to find so people can’t cancel within the week trial. I am so tired of companies making it difficult to cancel monthly subscriptions. It is disingenuous and gross and if these monthly fees were a little bit more reasonable, they’d probably make a lot more money selling to a lot more people rather than making people pay at $20 for a simple app. Stop being shady because your app is actually decent and I might have considered paying for a month or two if you didn’t pull this.

Poor optimization for registering chords. So far I’m pretty new to the app but not as new to playing guitar and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this system has problems when listening to a guitar play chords because the way that it registers cords is completely unpredictable and completely inconsistent. In some instances it will not even acknowledge that I’ve played a chord, in many other cases it will just automatically fail me because it cannot pick up what is being played for whatever reason, and in some instances it will just act as if I played a chord when I was not even touching the strings. This is really immature technology I feel so I hope it does improve in the future and that they do listen to the feedback but it’s very difficult to get past the basic courses when it can’t even register your E minor chord. Very frustrating needs fixing hope it gets better otherwise it’s a waste of your money if you aren’t using the piano app as well

UMMMM WHERE ARE ALL THE SONGS!?!?!?. Ok, so I’m not the best player in the world and I don’t claim to be, but why do all the songs have the SAME EXACT CHORDS!?!? I don’t understand how this can be an app for learning guitar but they only have like 10 chord available to learn. And there is an astonishingly depressing amount of songs. I have literally 3 recommendations. 1. Add more classic rock songs and country songs because those types of songs are the only genre that really use a lot of chords. 2. Make all chords available to be taught. And 3. Make more songs for electric guitar players. Most of the songs are geared towards acoustic guitar players, which is fine, but it isn’t. Am I just not doing enough lessons?!?! Do you unlock more songs as you go? I would be pleased to fix this rating as soon as you fix at least the first two problems. I gave a one star so that it would get your attention and so that it might just maybe be motivation to fix the problem and please another customer who is PAYING to use this app. When I first got it, I was thinking this would be money well spent… Now I’m thinking otherwise.

I like you but it’s one thing I wish It had this. I love simply guitar talk to really get up I highly recommend it I’m just one thing I wish I had ukulele lessons only because it says you have to have six strings I only have for him so I was really hoping if I can get some help on that but overall it’s a really good app if you are new to guitar if you’re kind a like a Vance we just want a little bit more help either way SimplyGuitar it’s really good highly recommend it to anyone but that’s just the thing is like it requires six but I don’t reallyHave a guitar that has six strings all I have is for him so I was really hoping if they could make lessons for that and if they do please show me where all because I really need to understand where it is because I really need help on that and I’m really trying to learn how to play I’m over it really good app really good app have a nice day