Simply Sing: My Singing App 4+

This is the greatest app I’ve used in a very long time. I initially got it to help my daughter who is autistic learn to read better by singing along because she really loves music. I got insist of singing as well. I never thought I would be able to really sing because I had some issues with my voice in the past. In the year, 2000 I completely lost my voice for two years due to acid reflux. I truly never thought I would be able to sing because I also have scarring on my vocal cords from multiple surgical procedures for my knees. I’ve also had three surgical procedures on my vocal cords to try to alleviate the scarring. Wow, with family over Thanksgiving I experienced catharsis. Since then, my singing has become dramatically more powerful. Prior to Thanksgiving when I was saying, and I will let my wife listen to it. She called it torture because my voice was just monotone flat because I wasn’t able to feel the music. But since Thanksgiving, I have been able to sing beautifully with a lot more emotion and feeling been able to carry notes that I never thought I would be able to do to the fact that I had vocal cord issues. I highly recommend this app if you truly want to learn to sing or even if you want to do it just for fun. I am even willing to give a video testimonial to show how much this app has changed my life.

I downloaded this app because I find singing as a hobby and I saw it in an ad recently. It looked cool enough so I decided to try it out. It placed me as an alto, which I didn’t know because I’m not a song genius really. But I sang a couple of songs and really liked it! It adjusts the song to your range so that you can sing it easily. Which I find convenient. But there are a couple of things I would like updated on the app. I know many people have already stated this, but I think searching up songs would really help people to find certain songs that they want to sing. Also, I know maybe this isn’t the biggest deal but I still wanted to include it. As mentioned earlier, I was an alto based on the app. But there were definitely a lot of low notes that I couldn’t reach on most songs. I know it isn’t their fault but it was just something that caught my eye. Overall though, this is a really nice app for karaoke and I love that it was free to download and there were no subscriptions. (Most of the Simply apps require subscriptions) Anyway, I definitely recommend this app for someone who loves singing or even a beginner. -Izzy 😁

You will be more frustrated than anything else. As if learning to sing wasn’t hard enough already, now you will be battling the app the whole time with incorrect note identification and poor timing between the vocals and the music. If the app was free then okay. But to pay monthly/yearly to have notes not register correctly, leaving you annoyed instead of uplifted from singing is not going to keep people wanting to learn. I bought a year subscription and I literally deleted the app after 2 weeks because the timing and the note identification made it impossible to have any accurate or consistent feedback. I was developing bad habits trying to get notes to register which really defeats the purpose.

Here is more detailed examples:
It says I’m a bass when I’m clearly a tenor. You can adjust the vocal range when singing but it seems to then adjust the notes I sing as if I am a bass. Everything I would sing, that were clearly in key, always registered too high since it thought I was a bass and wouldn’t change. The other thing I didn’t enjoy was i was 90% accurate when I first started the app, and then after 2 weeks of daily practice the best score I could get was like a 77%. I either got worse, which I don’t think, or the app incorrectly registered the notes I sang. When listening back, my 90% scores sounded really bad with terrible tone and my lower 70% scores sounded far better and much more listenable.