Capo - Learn Music by Ear App Reviews

Keep up the good work!

The slow down and pitch shift features are great. The voice reduction is nice, but limited tremendously by the recording quality and amount of vocal reverb/delay. Also, the chord guessing feature is only sometimes nearly correct. The worst thing about the app is that the entire build in chord library is wrong. All of the chords are written into the diagrams incorrectly. This would be a great app for beginner except that its teaching everything incorrectly. Im almost thinking that the app was geared towards guitarists but made by someone who doesnt play much guitar.

As a music teacher his app has been extremely useful. The main feature Ive appreciated is the ability for the app to change the key of a song without changing the tempo. I use this feature for my classes to play along to songs they know and love when the song is in a difficult key for the instruments were using. For example, if the original recording of a song is in C#, the Capo app can adjust it down a half step to C and instantly easier for my students to play along to the song on steel pans, marimbas, guitars, keyboards, xylophones, etc. The key adjustment feature is also be extremely useful for singing groups. The other useful feature is the ability to loop any section of a song, which comes in handy for rehearsing sections of songs. You can also slow looped sections down, without the key/pitches changing, so you and/or your students can slow a difficult section down to reverse it, and slowly increase the tempo until they can play it up to speed. Youre also able to label the verse, chorus and bridge of a song for looping and/or just knowing which section is which. Just AWESOME features that have instantly made lessons better and my students more successful. The kids also really enjoy being able to play along to the songs as theyre learning their parts. I give the app 4 stars because Ive found the chord and beat detection features to be unreliable. I pretty much ignore those aspects of the app. But the other features I mentioned above are perfect for use in my classroom! Thank you Capo!!

Capo Touch, along with it Mac brother Capo 3 are an incredible music application. Both applications are chord recognition applications, which allow you to load music from iTunes and return the chords that are recognized by Capo. Although not all the chords return with 100% accuracy, the majority of chords are or have a slight different voicing. Capo also will give suggested potential chords and voicing selected from a drop down menu. Capo Touch and Capo 3 have many other features such as pitch, tempo, capo placement and many others. One amazing feature is that all your songs in your project are stored in the Cloud, so they can be shared and synchronized with all of your Mac or iOS devices. The developers are excellent at taking users suggestions and incorporating ideas from the users. A must have application! George P.

I love Capo. It makes it way more easier and fun to learn to play songs that I love. I can get the main chords and jam out

This is really nice. The only issue I have is its not very good at detecting the chords in the song. When it detects the chords it always brings up the hardest chords to play. It should bring up the easiest. And it should automatically pick the easiest tuning, or if its capoed it should say where its capoed at and switch to capoed automatically.

Would be a solid free app but needs much improvement to be paid. BPM/tempo detection is consistently incorrect AND you are not able to edit Capos whack calculation. Doesnt seem to matter which genre the song is. So if it reports a song is 90 BPM but its actually 120 the bars will be completely off. Chord detection and the song key are not accurate even on simple songs. Will improve rating if improved but would not recommend to anyone currently. Youll be much better off putting in the time to learn to detect all this with your ear and brain.

Sexy interface!

This is a great app...very easy to use. As a DJ, I find this app very helpful. A+. Great work guys!!!

I absolutely love Capo! Its great app to learn new tracks, make charts and transpose music. My favorite part is that, by changing key and tempo, I hear new details, nuances to the music I didnt hear before. I love it!!

Thanks very much to the developers for making this valuable time-saving app. I can figure out chords to a song in a fraction of the time.

This is such an amazing app! No words to say. Purely amazing. Thank you very much for this!

Not compatible with Apple Music

Cannot load any songs from my phone, iTunes or otherwise. Requires a subscription to a website? Would have been nice if they WARNED us first, before shelling out $10.

Capo is a fantastic tool for both seasoned musicians and beginners. Im just starting out and its been instrumental in teaching me how to play acoustic songs.

I love this app! There are, however, two areas I would like to see enhanced. Please add a "rewind to beginning (<<)" button and a "chord finding sensitivity" control. The app tends to populate the screen with too many chords. I am looking forward to future updates and improvements. And $10 is not too much to pay for this amazing tool.

OK, I have learned over the instructions are. They are tucked in the More section, underneath Features. So, I have upped my review of this app to five stars.

Lots of Uh Ohs but thats about it.

Used to love this app...now crashes whenever I open on my iPad Air running iOS 9. Cant even begin to use it :(

I love this! I play piano and often spend time trying to search online for sheet music or struggle playing by ear, but now I can load up a song and jump right in and start playing along with my favorite songs. Cool features like adjusting tempo and changing key! Musicians must have tools.