I would say flowkey because I already tried simply piano and it autually got really boring in while because it went to slow to teach you thing and it forced you to get it right the first time like if I already knew sheet music
SimplyPiano app (android user); Essentials III (Rhythm) - it doesn't matter how long/short I play the note, if I hit the correct key - then the app considers then I did everything right regardless of how long or short that note should be. I wonder if Flowkey has the same problem
flowkey is better for options and kind of cheaper than simply piano for premium. though i think simply piano is better for kids beginning to learn piano and flowkey would be better for people a little older than 10 ish to start piano. just my opinion though please no hate.
@@deecl305 flowkey is a bit better for this, but if you use wait mode it is really just looking for you to play the right note, it doesn't check how long you're playing the note for.
I completed the Simply Piano course. I was more or less a complete beginner. I started in Oct 2019. It took me a little over a year to complete it. I like the sheet music because its at my level. I started using.Flowkey about half a year ago. I wanted to advance a little more. It gave me a chance to work with more advanced notes and improve on my own. Both apps worked out for me I prefer to be without a teacher it lets me learn on my own.
Being self-taught makes it hard to avoid picking up bad habits that can damage your playing ability and your hands, but if you aren't planning on becoming very advanced and just wanna play some simple pop for fun then it's not as big of a deal.
The suggestion is fair! I started with simply and I enjoyed that it forced me to finish the courses before playing a certain song. I found it annoying but that motivated me to master some skills without getting frustrated that I couldn't follow to play the song I like. I finished simply in a year and now I am thinking about getting flowkey.
I agree, but I’ve looked at in person piano lessons in my city and they charge $50-$150 per lesson. $120/yr is a lot, but in my situation it’s the best option.
Thank you very much for a calm and informative review. (I came here after clicking through a dozen videos of screaming people trying to get from pun to pun while failing to actually review anything, and I have the feeling my brain needs some serious soothing now.)
I tried Flowkey, but I didn’t like the way the bars of music scrolled on one line (felt like a game). So, I continued to search and found Piano Marvel, which is not as much of a game, but focuses more on reading sheet music. And I like how the music bars/notes don’t scroll.
I agree with you that flowing notes really hurt my eyes in the long term, and sadly, musician and flowkey and simply piano all have it...so I think Piano Marvel did a great job. I also recommend you to check out the playground sessions
I used simply piano. It was ok but I could miss quite a few notes and it still said I got the piece. It doesn't cover as much. Pianote goes into extreme detail of everything. They do live lesson, coaches are available and forums. I found that one is a lot better.
I tried Simply Piano for a year. It did teach me quite a few basics and chords , however I will never use it again, because -There are A LOT of commercial pop songs (and I do not like pop, at all) -You have to complete a song in order to progress So I was basically stuck in pop music hell and stopped practicing because of the lack of freedom I felt so learn with the songs I like (anything but pop and rock, basically). Can't say anything about flowkey yet, just installed it, but from what I see it has much more variety than SP (videogame music, anyone?), which I think is already a big plus.
Good review but you missed one of the best features of Simply piano, Play Beta, that actually addresses many of the issues you call out. To me Play has been the best for song learning and the sheet music with feedback is awesome.
@Zabloing i only agree about the pop songs. I wish they would add more classical pieces, and gave you the posibility to choose playing the original harder song or a simplified version (a lot of songs are already simplified in the app)
Hi Charles, thanks for the informative comparison. Which of the two would you recommend for improving sight-reading skills? I'm coming back to piano after a long break and even though I passed my Grade 6 exam before, I failed the sight-reading part. I always struggle through the reading part and then rely on muscle memory to actually play the pieces, but I want to be able to read in real-time as my inability to read music fast ruins my enjoyment of playing.
I really like your approach used to explain the differences between these two apps. One bad thing Flowkey has, it's that sometimes it fails to register the note one plays... Thus not letting one advance with the song.
@@interestingstuff8932 We noticed this with the kids playing because the tablet is listening for the sounds being played. I have bought a midi cable which connects the piano to the tablet which then picks up all the notes being pressed via the cable and not being picked up by the tablet microphone. Seems much better. Also with a 2 male to 1 female 3.5mm jack merge cable, can take both piano and tablet outputs to a single jack socket so we can use headphones and practice in silence.
So Flowkey will not be audible on an android phone if connected by Midi. Confirmed by customer support (you need to have another app running in the background to "hear" your keyboard). SimplyPiano works perfectly well.
In my experience flowkey is for people who already know how to play atleast a bit. I am a 3rd grade student in art school and flowkey is a great way to relax from all of the other stuff I have to play Simply piano is a great way to start and then you can start using flowkey and it will be easy :)
i don't really like learning songs in simply piano i only love their courses But in flowkey i like leaning songs but i can't chose what to start with in their corses So i use both🙂👍
@@jeffreypounds9956 I compared them myself. And I have to say this review is quite biased towards flowkey. It does not mention a few of the nicest features of simply piano e.g. the handsfree operating. Not saying flowkey is not good or better just saying this may be "his" honest opinion but it is by far not an unbiased nor balanced review.
Thank you! This video is exactly what I was looking for. I learned sheet music in HS but I was always writing down the notes, rather than sight reading. I can play very well, but I skipped the beginning steps so it’s affecting me. Trying to go back to the basics, I think it’ll be flowkey for me! 😃
I started with Simply Piano but I didn't like the way they use numbers on the music instead of using the note name. With the left hand the little finger is on the c but on the music score a 5 is above the note. I was trying to learn the note names but all I saw were the numbers and it was very distracting for me. I see Flowkey doesn't use numbers to identify the note therefore I can learn the notes and their positions on the bar line. I have cancelled my account with Simply Piano and am starting with Flowkey.
Totally agree is absurd the apps don't have a metronome. However, with wait mode, you can run a separate metronome. I learned guitar first, and had a simple small battery operated metronome, and it works well with wait mode.
Hello Charles! Great app reviews. I’ve seen some of your other videos comparing other piano learning apps and I have to ask which one would you prefer for someone that wants to learn that also plays another instrument? Thanks again!
For complete beginner which one will help me a lot between yousician, flowkey, and simply piano? I live at rural village, i didnt have teacher at my village, so app the only way i can learn piano
ı started learning piano 2 weeks ago with simply piano , ı was a complete beginner too. ı think simply piano is good for beginners . there is some stuff that the. app lacks but in general it is a nice app.
Thank you so much for this video! You explained everything very well and clear. I’m going to go with Flowkey. Good luck with your music and stay safe brother!❤️
@@heartyandsnowballgirl158 oh It’s not in the video, It’s a joke because Daniel Thrasher’s old videos had a sponsorship at the end and it used to say those words
thanks very much. i wish i had watched this video before signing up with simply piano. but you are absolutely right, simply piano works for total beginners like me. but there are things i did not like, some of which you have pointed out.
Hi Charles...I'm looking for an app that is "suitable" for accoustic piano's as for what i've been reading, they lack some understanding of getting the right notes that are being played. Do you recomend any app? I'm a 46 years old with almost no knowledge of piano...yeah...quite old to learn but eager to learn. I'm taking some personal lessons from a teacher but at a rate of 1 per week my improvement is quite slow. I would like to add some other option to my piano education at home. I was keen on Skoove or flowkey... Let me know you thoughts
They all struggle with that as it requires a good acoustic environment and a piano that is concert tuned. You can likely get a better Mic and position it near the cabinet but even that won’t touch the MIDI connectivity. In my opinion, you’re better off grabbing Alfred’s adult guide to piano series books and going through those if you cannot get good note recognition. I recommend those even if you can get good note recognition, but even more so if you cannot. Grab the All in one level one course. www.alfred.com/alfreds-adult-piano-courses/b/
Hi im thinking to pay the sub for flowkey, is it applicable to digital piano like casio s1000 while i practice on it using the usb port or bluetooth? thanks for your info. liked.
the casio should work with flowkey plugged into a tablet or computer - initially i used an OLD (1990s) Casio 61 key keyboard and that worked. i do not recommend just having the app use the microphone off of a tablet or computer/laptop - it is not as reliable and can lead to frustration. i currently use a Yamaha P125 with iOS plugged in and works flawlessly. good luck!
I feel like flowkey has more customization/setting options when compared to simply piano. But it doesn’t look as fun which is where some people might find it hard to choose.
How much does Flowkey cost? My little sister learns with simply piano, she has a trial and she likes it but dad doesn't wanna buy her the premium version cuz it is too expensive (in our countries currency) so i want to download it for her. I am a pianist tho. So you probs wonder why i don't teach her. She doesn't want it, she only wants to learn with apps cuz she says it is more fun
I like your tutorials and reviews (and music 😃). Could you make video about MIDI sound management on iOS. For example when I connect Casio PX-870 (as simple MIDI keyboard) to my iPad to use with Simply Piano I can listen to sounds of piano from piano’s own speakers and adjust volume on iPad for iPad sounds. But when I connect Yamaha MX49 that has two-way USB and no own speakers, it plays on headphones (or audio out) both its own and iPad sounds. However the volume on the iPad that is routed to Yamaha is fixed to max on iPad. This makes much higher volume from iOS than the MX own sounds. There are apps that manage audio that I have not tested like Audiobus that are used for samplers mostly. Should I get this or do something else? Can you explain all this two-way USB connection on iOS.
Hi Robert, thanks for watching and thanks for the nice words. I'm not too familiar with midi on iOS since I mostly work on desktop but this is something I want to learn more about so I will dig into it.
Hey thank u for this video I just have one question. Ive bought my first digital piano and i really wanna learn how to play the piano and the app is my only way to do so. Simply piano looks fine but i dont think that i would really enjoy working with it. Im not a child -18-, so is it ok if i go with Flowkey? I have no experience at all. I just dont wanna regret choosing the wrong app. Thank u.
Hey Grey, sure if you prefer to go with flowkey I don't think you'll regret it, the biggest piece about learning the piano is having the discipline to do so, if you are committed to showing up every day and practicing a little, flowkey will be fine for you.
I’ve been trying simply piano and piano academy. I like them both and I made good progress with both. I like the sheet music part of simply Piano very much, you don’t have that with piano academy, on the other hand Josh the teacher from piano academy is very cute (I know that shouldn’t count but it does for me). The price for both is similar and you can have several accounts for family members in both apps. I also tried Flowkey - which was my favorite till I got to simply piano, Yousician and skoove. Skoove didn’t work so well for me. Any opinions?
For apps that "listen" and give the student feedback, do I need I need a piano with Bluetooth? USB? Or does it just send info via the device microphone to the app? I'm a total beginner so feedback is important. I'm looking at Yamaha P125 or Roland FP-30. Yamaha only has USB; Roland has Bluetooth. Will one or the other give me access to feedback with most of the apps out there (Simply Piano, FlowKey, Usician, etc.?) Thanks for the helpful review.
USB MIDI. A Midi control keyboard has no sounds, it sends data to your pc and the sounds are synthesized in your pc. Get one with full sized keys, but make sure reviews of keybed are good. I have NovationSL MK3 for example, but an Arturia Keylab Essential would be a good cheap option for $200. Remember tho, no sounds within the device itself, but they (some) will come with sound program downloads for your PC.
iv'e been using the simply piano for a little while and the finger numbers on the chord aren't helpful atall. they definitely need to give an option to enable or disable finger numers.
just purchased a Yamaha PSR E473, got 3 months FREE flowkey - but it doesn't work... I hooked it up per instructions, and at first (about 8 minutes) it worked great, but then it didn't - I wouldn't get audio through the keyboard - looked everywhere for a fix - repeated the setup many times - same result - reached out to support with flowkey - TERRIBLE CS - I basically got questions, and NO answers - total waste of time.
Hi guyz. Is there any musician here who could tell me which ap is best to learn accompaniments only, in order to sing along ? Seems they all focus on piano full song with melody included. Thanks in advance for any advice. :) cheers
Hey I did flowkey before but I deleted it then I re-downloaded it it has been a month i haven’t downloaded flowkey but I did yesterday and we forgot how to use it can u do a Tourtle of how to start it? Ima sorry how my spelling is
I was told simply piano is the only one you can find easily a cracked fully unlocked version, flowkey not. I don't have a piano yet but will check both apps at some point.
Yeah I found a cracked version of simply piano, ive been playing SP for months but since the progress seems slow, I wanted to try flowkey but I couldn't find a working cracked app. if you find one please let me know.
I tried FlowKey on the iPad with my 61 key MIDI controller and ran into a big roadblock. The FlowKey app recognizes the MIDI input just fine, but it does not produce it's own sound for the notes. Since my controller does not have a sound module I cannot hear the notes being played. They suggested I run GarageBand as a background process, but that doesn't work because iOS shuts the app down after 15 seconds of being in the background. I'm wondering if any of these learn-to-play-piano apps produce their own sounds? Or do they all rely on the user's keyboard to produce the piano sound?
@@CharlesCleyn Flowkey does not produce its own piano sounds. Neither GarageBand nor Cubasis will continue to run in the background in iOS 13 for more than about 15 seconds. Flowkey support replied to me and said they intend to add piano sounds in the future. They also pointed me to a separate app called iGrand Piano. This app will run successfully in the background and play the sounds for me. So I'm finally up and running with Flowkey and I think it would be helpful to tell other MIDI controller players about these challenges with Flowkey when comparing it to other similar applications.
@@CharlesCleyn Sir, For learning from RU-vid, It needs lots of research and I don't know about the different types music. So, How can I learn completely?
Can you please remind me, which of the apps had a feature when u can press any piano note to play the track again instead of pressing the screen of my tab?
Some of the criticism to Simply Piano is either addressed or not fully true. 1) simply piano also has a wait-mode (by now) 2) learning left and right hand separately is usually part of the lesson of each song some criticism is very valid: 1) i do miss is the repeat-section button 2) sometimes the drums you get while learning a song have a really difficult rhythm and i would rather just have a normal click/beat.
I tried SIMPLY PIANO (in french). I liked it. The thing is that you have not a global view of the lessons, going to the left, and going to the left and so on you can feel lost. And when restarting difficult to remember where you finished last time. The price is a bit expensive reason why I am looking for another apps, it’s seems that flowkey is not the good alternative solution. Anybody have an idea?
@@CharlesCleyn Yes, I started playing the piano at 3 till I was a teen but I wasn't too keen. And now that I'm older, I miss it. Summer has begun so I'd like my kids to learn. Because of the current pandemic, I have decided to use an app. My kids started with Simply Piano (trial). After watching your video, I downloaded Flowkey. My seven year old says he enjoyed Flowkey more than Simply Piano... He says that he is learning better with Flowkey. It's his first day, so let's see how it goes! He's excited to learn songs but I told him to complete the courses first lol! I'll be purchasing Flow key's one year subscription. Thanks again for the review!
Why is there link with you name to flowkey in your description if your saying in the title that it is not a sponsored video? Your are being blatantly deceptive.
hey Alex, that’s an affiliate link. Use it or don’t. It’s up to you. Sponsored videos are out right paid. This video was not sponsored. No one is forcing you to click on the link.
People. Stop it with the apps and get a music teacher. You are going to regret your bad habits later when you are unable to improve your technique unless you do specific work to lose the bad habits. It’s not just about technique either - an app cannot teach musicianship.
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