Fretello Guitar Lessons

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4.5of 5 · store
1,519ratings on the App Store
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An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Strong concept: live lessons that adapt to your music style, standard tab, feedback while you play, and a developer who actually responds to problems. It falls apart on the core thing, the pitch detection often fails to hear a correctly played note, so you strum the string several times, lose the tempo, and sometimes random noise gets counted as correct. On top of that almost nothing works without a subscription, and some users get stuck in a payment loop at sign-in.

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What people use it for

Beginner and intermediate guitarists willing to pay a subscription and tolerate flaky pitch detection

What reviews praise

Live feedback while you play, lessons tailored to your music style, standard tab instead of gimmicky interfaces, responsive developer

What reviews complain about

Fails to hear a correctly played note, you must strum the string several times, counts random noise as correct, tempo breaks in exercises, almost everything is behind a subscription, payment loop at sign-in

What users experience

2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

App doesn’t pick up my opening notes on exercises and I frequently have to play a note four or five times before the app hears it. If you press retry on an exercise, it tells you to press play to start the exercise but none of the buttons are mapped.

I was on the lesson and when I played the correct string on the correct fret (before someone says it’s a user error I triple checked that I was playing the right thing and I was) it said that it was wrong and when I played a bunch