Reviews for Appcompanist

One of the best experiences I have ever had working with canned accompaniment! Worst part is the tempi are in percentages and not bpm but you get a feel for it once you use it for a bit.

I really love this app because I do vocal warm ups on it and it is very clear and effective, and I think it is very good for people who are learning piano as well! Highly recommend for beginner singers and piano players! :)

Great concept and love that we can have so much control over the music to practice. I wish there were a way to add formatas into tracks without having to hold the button ourselves.

Music education student here. I used to use appcompanist for my repertoire, but in the middle of my subscription for this month, my account was either deleted or removed. I was still paying, but it refused to let me use my email. It wouldnt even let me sign in using google. What a waste. I still had 2 weeks left on the sub, and I cant even use it. It helped before the issues though.

Essential to me as a voice teacher. Extensive catalog. Requests for new music to add are honored, albeit with great delay. Which is to be expected, honestly. Controls within app for transposition, tempo, fermatas, are fantastic. How did I live without this app before?

This app is very nice for young singers who want help with learning songs. The vocal exercises are so helpful as well and there is lots of flexibility with this app. I am so happy this app exists and it has been a life saver for me!

Really great app and super helpful, I just have one suggestion: can you please match the subscription options for both Android and IOS? There's only one option for Androids and about 5 different kinds for IOS, one of which being a limited, but cheaper choice.

Love this app! I just wish it sang too.Like had vocal warm-ups,& vocal songs,not just notes played on a piano.I also didnt know many of the songs,so maybe you could add more songs like hip-hop,pop,country,and other songs in both notes & vocal!To make this an even better app, you guys could think of musicians too.I myself am one and I wished there could be a notepad icon to go to if I was in the mood or had inspiration. If there was also a way to add music,beats, record,& save them it'd be great!

This has the potential to be quite wonderful. The pianist is too inconsistent with tempi (during times where no rubato or push is musically asked or called for, with random accelerandi or rubati) for it to be used without too much fuss. Recording with a click track and only doing cadential tempo changes would be a great improvement.

I love the size of the library. I am able to find accompaniments for song collection that do not have a cd accompaniment option. I would love for it to eventually expand into instrumental songs. It is very hard to find accompaniments to my violin solos.

It's a great app. Very handy to vocalise without the need to have a piano. I would have given 5 starts, but give 4 because it fails to play in the background. You can't have a pdf sheet open to look at while listening to melody on the app. It would be great if the developers can add this feature to the app.

This is a great program! it's got me singing again after a ten year hiatus. It's like having an amazing piano player in your pocket

Worked very well for vocal warm-ups! However, I didn't appreciate the fact that a subscription is required to access the songs. I ultimatley decided to switch to a better warm up app that is free. However, I would recommend this app to anyone who needs to learn piano. Good app, just pricey

As a high school choir teacher with limited piano skills, Appcompanist has been a game changer when it comes to rehearsals and sectionals. The versatility of the app allows for me to run sectionals more effectively, gives a little extra help in full rehearsals and assists my rehearsal accompanist to cover every part AND the accompaniment when I ask for the impossible. After using Appcompanist regularly, I can't imagine going back to the way I did things before.

There should be a new update or bug fix!!! Currently I am running into an issue where the audio will only play when I have headphones or Bluetooth connected, and I prefer to practice without earbuds so that I can actually hear my voice resonate. This audio issue is only happening with this app and no other apps on my phone. Please fix this issue, because I would love to give this app a higher rating!

I must add to my review: I am a voice teacher who also studies voice. My teacher assigned a Schubert song to me last week. I never dreamed that Appcompanist would have it, but I looked and YAWOHL! Auf dem Wasser zu singen was there. I have been using Appcompanist with my students and now I am using it myself. If you have not tried it, jump in and join the gang, my students love it Since Covid I have been teaching only online. I bought a new phone so I could purchase the app; good excuse for retiring my dinasaur phone. I have my new Google phone and this App is a lifesaver for my students. It also helps me as I teach because my students can pull up the melody and I do not have to play it for them dealing with time delays. Plus, they can hear the melody with as much or as little of the rest of the accompaniment as they need, progressing to just singing to the accompaniment; or for those with trouble staying on pitch, they can keep the melody forever! The warm up exercises are useful and the ability to choose the pace is fabulous. I can use the exercises on Zoom with my students and they can continue with them during the week. The playlist option is fantastic. Changing keys is so easy and one thing I love is the easy of learning how to use it; very intuitive. I wish I could give this App 10 stars! I will leave my stamp of approvial and I will continue to use it when I teach face to face lessons again.

Overall love this app. Wish it wasn't so expensive. Price is hard on a substitute teacher's budget. Transpose feature & adding melody line great features. Please add a feature where it at least "stars" songs you've already added to a playlist. Would save a lot of time. Showing what playlist it's in would be even better.

An excellent idea, and potentially very helpful with the current crisis. I just downloaded the app and started a free trial for the full collection. However, I have already heard several mistakes (wrong notes) in the accompaniment tracks. It's hard to feel like I'm making music at a high level when the accompaniment contains very noticeable errors.

Normally this app is great. However, there are a few key bugs - on Android, the search bar disappears when you lose focus on the app, and you have to close and re-open the app. Also, if you type the word "still" into the search bar on Android, the app crashes. "Stim" and "stick" don't crash it. Looks like some kind of string parser issue or integer overflow error. Please fix - a lot of English songs have "still" in their titles.

I love this app so much and the concept is amazing. Oftentimes, it works great, but it is still far too buggy. The other day, I was trying to access exercises for my student and just kept on getting a blank page over and over again in the middle of our lesson, when it had been working fine the lesson before. There are other bugs as well. I have paid for this app for over a year now. But for now, I am not going to pay for it any longer until these issues have been fixed.