Violin Lessons by tonestro

it's an amazing app

thanksgiving

Great app for saxophone practice! Very helpful for tuning and improving my tone. Highly recommended

sometimes it doesn't hear me even though the tuning is right

amazing app ⚡✨🥹✨✨✨✨

good

Its very helpful

so far so good

so interesting app

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yay

First time user..

good

ok

is good for me 😄

sheesh

it's the best app ever!!!! please download it!!!

this app didnt not work well at all on ny samsung. tried it and requested a $30 refund and was declined. WHAT A WASTE!!

love. game

regularly doesn't recognize notes played, even though i play in a quiet room and use headphones like the app suggests. support doesn't respond to requests, already tried to contact more than once. wish I hadn't paid for it

it's beginner friendly.

good

best to play violin

At first glance, I can say it's a great app.

good application

it's a great app and I'm sure people enjoy it, it's just pay to learn though. personally, only lesson 1 was for free. once I finished it I was hit with the "subscribe" ad in order to unlock the rest of the lessons. meaning I only got 1 lesson and learnt nothing as it was basically just an intro. you could've made the lessons free and the songs payable at least. I just wanted to learn how to play :(

I don't know how play this but seems good

Sounds good?

Installed app, selected 7 days free, then canceled subscription (because I wanted to try for a week and not forget to cancel if I didn't like it). App immediately said "your subscription is canceled, resub to continue" So I wasn't even able to try it.

ok

it a alomust read

love this

I have enjoyed picking the lessons I need. then it makes smart lessons for me based on my struggles and strengths. It is nice that they add new music or give seasonal playlists too. it is easy to use. It was $13/year. so no ads. sometimes it takes a while to load, so when I close it and reopen it, it works.

I have not tried it yet

This Is Classical Romantic

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love this app I am a rock star to me myself and I for one week long only

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good

I can understand wanting to make money off of your app but most people these days would rather watch an ad than spend 30 bucks a month on a single musical instrument. At that point I might as well just hire a teacher. it would make more sense to have specific sounds locked behind a pay wall than it does gatekeeping the whole app. I'll change to 5 stars when you change the paywall. Otherwise, I can't tell if the app is good or not.

good

This app makes you pay to finish the whole violin lesson can't play other songs without paying

good

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing Violin Learning App! This is one of the best violin learning apps I have ever used. As a beginner, I found the lessons easy to understand and well organized. The step-by-step approach helped me learn the basics without feeling overwhelmed. The app provides excellent guidance on posture, bow hold, finger placement, tuning, rhythm, and intonation. I especially like the real-time feedback because it helps me identify my mistakes and improve faster. The practice exercises are enjoyab

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Love this app. I can follow so easily for my violin review.

Sami Adnan

best ever

I just want to learn, I'll will be sure to let y'all know

verry happy

Awesome

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ok good

allow for refunds if not used more than an hour. I gave it a shot but the quality is bad. my violin had to be 2 inches from my phone to be heard. don't fall for the discount for signing up for a year. they say you can cancel anything, but they don't refund the money. they said I could skip the part about replacing the strings but I had to sit through it because there's no way to skip it.

Absolutely terrible experience — pure scam. They cut me off from the subscription even though they promised access until 5th September. Broken promise, zero warning. Only after your money. No real teaching, just cheap dopamine hits. As an experienced musician: skip this. You’ll learn far more from honest YouTube videos by trained musicians who actually care. Save your money. Empty hype, no skill.

it cool and it fun and easy

Great way to get into playing violin. would love if in the scale section they add 2 and 3 octive versions of the scales , this would be very usefull. edit 22.06.2026. New songs are aded each week , but when is the new playing style addit 27.8.2026 would love to know when the new playing style lessons will be added, its been quite a while now

Froud

like it

best

easy to use and friendly

very goog

the starting was so good so I think that this app is so good for beginners

good

can't use the app unless you buy pro

ok so far

can't use trail

love this app

nice app

best app

the vilon is the best investment

Bro I put beginner and it made me play fur elis and they were like "pluck the A string when the ball hits the note" so I decided to not play and see what happens and you know what they did "good job you have masterd the A string) and then when you FINALY get to play with the bow they put this in your face "UnLoCk The LEssoNs WitH PreMiuM SUbsCrIption" AT LEAST I NOW HAVE MASTERD THE A STRING

I had played everything already, I thought the advance or experience would be teaching vibrato also but not,but its good for beginners ,very nice and friendly apps. how I wish they have more well-known songs .

I like it

thank you

it's amazing

really nice

I downloaded the app, selected the 7 day trial, then found out later that instantly, on day 1, they charged me the full 1- year subscription rate of $99.98. I was denied refund from Google after explaining what happened.

helpful

so basically I've been playing violin for 2 years and downloaded the app out of curiosity to play more songs and u have to pay.

It's pretty good not as good as a physical tutor

good

great

I was tuning my notes and on the G String It said that needed to go up so i pushed it up and guess what it just snap off I'm voting this app one star and don't use it because now I have to go get my violin repaired. I advised you to not get this app it will destroy your desire playing a violin and will destroy your violin I tried playing some notes like d but it just told me to keep d even though I was playing it psychic playing it and then when I tried a it said correct and now I'm confused

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awful app absolutely terrible lessons lack of variety and severally overpriced subscription it's not even worth the free download but if you use the free trial make sure you cancel it before it drains your bank account.

stop doing private lessons try this app it's very good

It helped me learn more better than what I had learnt before.

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real app

great at first but the second you finish the first section (?) it won't let you move on until you get premium...

ok

I like how it asks me do I have a violin or not or can I read notes

this is kind of good it teaches me how to play violin

The video lessons were quite good and very helpful. However, the practice sections were inconsistent to say the least. It felt like 75% of the time it didn't recognize the note. I would be playing the same note twice in a row, the first time it said I played it perfectly the next time it said I got it completely wrong despite not changing anything. Also I could not get the app to recognize up and down strokes no matter what I did. I can't recommend it with these issues.

this app BROKE my violin!!!! I have to go get it fixed by a professional!!!

thats good

teacher Suzanne is amazing. like from day one I'm playing like a pro. I am so glad I installed this app

to be fair I've had a couple of sound issues but once you learn how to use the latency, and get used to headphones it does what it sais. I started from scratch. I am now smashing scales,getting really nice sounds, and starting to read the stave more quickly. to get basics under your hat it is on point and breaks it down well. now im kinda experimenting looking at 2nd n 3rd position and trying to really hone in of finger position so the notes are tight. so yeh pretty decent for me.

this app can be really good but here are 2 big problems for me 1. you can only do a yearly subscription I don't have that kind of money as my budget is really tight so I won't be going past the 7 day trial. 2. after a while the app stops recognizing the notes properly, I'll play open E and it will say I'm playing open G which can be infuriating. I even tried putting on my gaming headset which has a better mic than my phone and it didn't help. fix those 2 things and it would get 5 stars.

During the registration I was presented with the option of 7 day tryout, I choose that BUT I was CHARGED for a full year!

Don't don't know much about the app.It's making me rate it before I can use it.

Horrible experience. My son is learning the violin and downloaded the app. Started the 7 day free tria with the price of 12.50 after the trial. Canceled it after 2 days of it not being what he wanted. They then charge me 162.50 the day after we canceled.Tried to get a refund and the said they do not have a free trail. DO NOT USE THEM IT IS A SCAM.

I am very disappointed. One I can only accept the most expensive free trial. Two everytime I play the songs it keeps making me go back though I'm playing the right note. Would not recommend if you're actually trying to learn violin.

I signed up for a one week trail and agreed to pay $12 . 50 a month after. I cancelled after 2 days into the trail. After cancelling I was charged $162 . 36. DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT IS A SCAM.

When I first started the app I was asked a bunch of questions. Few of them were to estimate my current skill level which is OK, but many of them were just data collection for marketing purposes. Then I was asked to RATE the app and redirected to the play store BEFORE I EVEN GOT THE CHANCE TO TRY THE APP. I was really looking forward for a chance to TEST the app BEFORE subscribing, but unfortunately you have to subscribe (yes 7 days free and a "promise" that you can cancel. No, thank you)

One star for deceptive and manipulative marketing. Free trial automatically triggers payment if not canceled in time AND is only allowed if you select the more expensive pay-by-year price. Then, before doing anything but answer a few questions, they showed me a special discount offer that "if you close this one-time offer, you won't be able to access it anymore." The thing is, I would have had to skip the free trial to accept that offer.

I was doing the tutorials right up to the first exercise where it needed to listen to my violin. simply plucking the A string in time. I know I was doing it at the right time but the app kept giving me red dots. I have no idea if it thinks I was off time or just not plucking, but either way, the feedback was useless. The only green dot it gave me was literally one of the times I hadn't plucked the string. don't waste your time.

After three months of use on my cell phone, my cell phone battery died and I lost all my contacts, apps and pictures. I got a new phone and downloaded all the apps. Tonestro is the only app that didn't find my yearly subscription that I paid on Google in October. I have asked customer service for help 3 times and just get a run around that it is lost because of the devise and I should go into profile to reinstall. That doesn't work. They refuse to reach out to me for help. Poor customer service

app can't hear my violin. tried to get help no response. was able to get to experienced and it wont let me move farther. Only got that far because the previous corses you can still learn and get passed with the issue I was having.

I like it but the problem is that I don't know how to read music and that is one of the questions asked when you first install the app and pay for it. Now they give me music to play without explaining the notes, so it's a little tough. Also you really need headphones for the app to really work.

As a beginner, This app is good for practice, but the tuner is not very accurate for violin. While I was tuning the A string, the app kept telling me to tighten more and the string broke at the peg. This can be scary for students, especially beginners. The lessons are nice, but the tuner needs to be safer and more precise.

Lessons are great, and the app is super easy to use, but it doesn't pick up the notes being played and keeps restarting the songs as it thinks I'm making mistakes. It's infuriating. Have tried everything suggested but doesn't work.

As much as I wanted to like this app, I simply couldn't. it took me back to the basics which I already know. and it's absurd to need to pay for lessons. some people can't afford actual lessons and are looking for something free and reliable. so as much as I WANTED to like this app, I couldn't.

I was so happy at first when I found this app but after I downloaded it, I learnt the first lesson and I happily went to go for the second lesson but I saw that it requires premium, I wish that you guys could at least give free lessons until the person learns at least on song

Not for me, the use of AI art everywhere feels very icky. Do you use AI music too?Can't help but feel bad about an app that's supposed to be teaching you the art of music won't respect other forms of art. Another company that's only interested in money and not in actually teaching you anything.

The basic tutorials for setting up, violin position and bow basics are fine but as soon as you have to start playing along, the notes are occasionally off time but mainly they just don't register the note and it forces you to restart over and over. Playing the same note to an external tuner shows that it is the right note so definitely not user error. This app is more likely to destroy your desire to learn than it is to teach you to play violin.

wonderful idea, terrible execution. the lessons are great themselves, but when it comes to the interactive lessons in which you actually play your violin, there are a lot of bugs to be fixed. 1) the timing is off.. I had to play the notes earlier than they were supposed to be, otherwise it would say I missed the note. 2) if you mess up during the song, it will restart without any background music, and in order to get the background music back, you have to manually restart the song yourself

while the lessons are fine and really good there is something shady going on with thus company and your data and credit card info will maybe be compromised. I had a weird charge a month after buying the yearly subscription, then again another. I gave the info to the FBI and consumer protection bureau but who knows where this company is and what they do. Are they based in Italy? Russia? So instead of spending time playing violin I spent time canceling my credit card charges. wish they were honest

I have paid $179 for the premium and we couldn't even use it. I've emailed Tonestro the issue I was facing when I tried to log in but they can't resolve the issue. I regretted paying this much for a useless app.

Very frustrating. Because, there's this thing where it teaches you a song, and you KNOW what string you plucked specifically. (Supposed to be RIGHT, but it's NOT). And it won't let you move on in the song, even if you do fully finish the song, your "score" is terrible! Although you know that you were 100% accurate!!!! I do not recommend this app to beginners or anyone else in that matter. Even the tuning isn't very specific on what to tune. Other than that, it's a pretty okay app. 🙄

My sincerest apologies but this is not the app I'm looking for. I understand if you're not going in that direction with your app, but it would imo be far better to have an app that shows you an A4 page of sheet music, you then play along and the app listens, correcting notes and tempo as you play. The music accompanying scales is the worst by far, but in general the sound quality in the songs is very low class. I truly hope you will manage to turn your play-along into a great listener app.

Your tuner broke my violen string. Just got an electric violen for Christmas, went to tune it using your app, and automatically broke my last string. Thanks a lot. Never even got to play it. Response to Tonestro: It was semi-electric, you could use headphones and you could play it normally. So I shouldn't have experienced any issues. I'm not angry, just upset. 😕

This is a good learning tool for me, as a beginner on the violin, but it crashes on a regular basis. I spend more time bringing the app back up and finding where I last was than I do actually playing or going through a lesson.

it helps tells you what you need to or should do and tells you how and when you're doing a good job just started using this app a few minutes ago and I'm enjoying it. Edit Nevermind I need to pay for the rest of the lessons I'm to cheap (broke) but still like the app

Very unpleasant experience. The app plays a practice song with a theme and metronome. On your first mistake both the metronome and the theme STOP and you're left with basically a boring sheet music which you can download from the internet for free. Everyday I experience a very frustrating and annoying session and I promise myself not to start the app again. I asked them for a refund , but guess what ...

It is a very good app to learn the violin. However, I have one problem. They don't teach quarter tones to teach you the middle Eastern style for those who are not American. If they would have one section for quarter tones, it would be a universal app and not just for Americans and Europeans. There are other people put there in the middle east who want to learn that style and with a few classes they could attract plenty of arab people to learn and include them as well.

I think it's only good for some tips, but not for general learning. It progresses too fast and the microphone detection is totally wack (sometimes I played out of rhythm and it registered as a perfect).

If I could give no stars I would. The app never picks up that I am playing despite following recommendations to use headphones. I think that made it even worse. So the song I was trying to play just starts over and over and over. Really frustrating and glitchy given the cost of the app.

I installed the app because I wanted to play the violin not only because to be like Sherlock Holmes, but also development of logical reasoning. (Alright, they both may be the same reason.) But I had one problem with when I had to tune the D string. It was at at the maximum of it's turn, but it still says it's too low. So I used the small tuner, which quite helped, but it still says it's to low, and I had to turn the big one. I don't want to snap the string. What should I do?

Great app only can't afford to unlock the songs or other lessons. I'd be willing to watch ads to keep using this app. But, when it Said I needed to pay to go on, I uninstalled this app. Sad. I was enjoying it. But I'm just that broke. Wishing it was all free. Also the tuner could use a bit of help hearing my instrument. The songs also had trouble hearing me. Needs a calibration sound listening test leveler thingy or something that can adjust the listening sensitivity and background noise filter.

It's too expensive for what it is, but the free trial works to get you comfortable playing, at least. My biggest complaint is if you mess up too much, it resets you back to the beginning of the passage. This would be fine, except it completely cuts off the backing track AND METRONOME for some reason. And no matter how well you do in the passage, the sound doesn't come back for the rest of the song. How am I supposed to play without any audio timing aid? The little bouncing ball? That's harder.

They expect us to do well but playing on your phone is just dumb, heres a suggestion for improvement: make it so you can play on computer, your phone microphone wont pick up everything and some people just have microphones laying around.

I thought it was odd that I was still getting the note wrong after doing it over several times. So I decided not to play it at all amd somehow started getting the notes right. This app seems like a scam to me, and the fact they want money for these lies on teaching violin is ridiculous

Please avoid this company. We accidentally subscribed to this after a trial and tried to cancel the subscription on the day that the trial period ended. My daughter had been ill so we had been unable to try it. They had already taken my money from my bank account (over £100) for the subscription and when I asked customer service for a refund, they refused. I had to raise a complaint with Google Play and it was Google Play who refunded me because they were in breach of my consumer rights. Avoid.

I have to buy aa used this app for a fun practice as an intermediate violinist.. this was horrible and hard for a person to understand. The topics are good though, the money is not worth it. It keeps giving plans... It should charge either less or nothing... Thankyou

I really love the course and how easy it is to follow. It's an amazing learning experience. The only downside is that the phone microphone is not always accurate. Would be amazing if the lessons would also be available in a web browser to use it on a pc, for better ways to configure input devices.

I rlly rlly like this app I was like struggling for day just to tune my violin strings and with the help of this app I did it in minutes.I surly prefer this app if you don't know how and where to start . although it requires money it very worth it.

Be cautious of the Tonestro app. I signed into the app with no intention of spending any money and was offered a free 7 day trial. After accepting the offer I was immediately charged $149.99 and not provided the trial that was offered. I reached out to Tonestro support to refund and close my account and they are refusing. This company uses misleading, scammer practices in their app to get you to pay ridiculous subscription fees and refuse to refund.

I hate apps that hide the price... no mention in the description that it's actually $150/year!! My complaint is not the cost, I understand the cost. My complaint is that you are not upfront about the cost. You don't disclose the cost in the app description.

Have to pay for anything past the most basic of basics. Not worth your time. I spent half an hour going through the only free lessons, that I had already learned by watching a 10 minute YouTube video.

Playing songs costs money, I hate this so much I've been trying to spend so long to find apps to find music to play on my violin but it costs money. I'm ok to deal with ads but don't want to have to pay money.

I play violin since 5 months ago. I found that This course is very basic and not useful to me at all. I contact thier support service for refund and get my money back. They were verybad and not supportive at all. I did refund through Google support service. I found that Suzuki Books with YouTube videos better than this garbage application. Strongly don't recommend it.

Seems good until you pay. Everything is locked behind a pay wall but the app seems to be good. Then you pay and realise that the microphone doesn't work no matter how many times you calibrate it. Then you can't progress or even skip the lesson. What a con and colossal waste of money. Wish I'd read the reviews.

Tonestro really helps with learning the violin. It's showed me so many things about the violin and it goes into detail just enough for me to process it all. I love how you start with your fingers and then your bow, and the same thing for notes you actually have to start reading. This has been a great helper for me and my band class.

Disappointed... I've been playing the violin for around 7 yrs, but I thought why not try an app out and see if it could help newbies. I preferably think you should just go somewhere else. But go ahead and try this if you want! It has potential I think, it just needs to hear the notes better and also the fee to unlock everything i think is a bit disappointing. Just go to YouTube:)

I was so disappointed when I went to lesson 2 , it cost money. I thought that all lessons was free but not. So, please I'm kindly requesting you that make all lessons free because teaching is not for money, if when u go to church, will u give the god money to pray and fulfil your wish? So please 🎻❤️‍🩹 teach nicely but not wasting money. I download this app for learning not for wasting all my money.

The first lesson for the violin is free it only teaches you how to use 2 of the strings without the bow after that they want $75 for 3 months before you can start any other lessons it is messed up. I guess if you are made of money it would be worth it. But I won't get to know anything past the first bs lesson at the rate they charge.

I mean, it's okay if your looking for short lessons and a bad mic. I also hate how you only do like 1 or 2 songs in a lesson,you also only learn 2 strings before it bombards you with ads about their plans for the year

extremely helpful even comes with the helpful Turner to help keep your violin or whatever whatever instrument you are trying to learn in tune I am only on my first lesson and I am enjoying it very amazing for beginners they helped explain everything and teach you how to tune your string instrument wish I found was very helpful

Loved the intro. The app doesn't pickup each note a student plays during song/quiz, so don't worry if you don't get a high score because of it. I like how it teaches students how to tune, but an age requirement should be specified to keep the violin safely intact (players under age of 12 shouldn't be allowed to tune yet). All in all, a really fun app for everyone!

I love the baby steps approach, there comes progress removing the overwhelming feeling of other apps or videos. Also, technical support was exceptional, they helped me to fix my account after I managed to mess it badly. Thank You!

I didn't even finish setting up my profile and I was already getting notifications with deals and promotions. This app isn't free and it isn't cheap, and on top of that it's bombarding me with ads notifications already. Not worth it.

I overall really like this app, I like how I'm progressing but a couple things I find frustrating is that when the ball hits the note and I play at that exact time I could be not even a second off and the app will count my note as wrong, and most of the time the tempo is already quite fast for a beginner.

Complete garbage, the app can't hear you half the time, they charge you a FORTUNE and it's clearly not worth it. Please don't waste time or money. They pay for good reviews clearly and are a completely garbage app. Would leave 0 stars if I could deleting and making sure my subscription is completely canceled.

You only play one lesson but then when you get to your bow lesson you have to pay £150 a year it's just unacceptable I'd rather send my kid to a school to play violin than have it taught online because you have to pay for it

App keeps crashing and the microphone won't work or calibrate. I thought it might have been an error on my part so I downloaded it on my iPad. Nope! It keeps crashing and giving me errors on the iPad also. So, it's giving errors on Android and Apple? And they want you to pay $100+. Not worth it. I want to like it, but it's not even usable.

Got thru lesson one have to pay 150 bucks for acces to everything else. Even the 7 days free you have to give them a credit card number just to use the free 7 days you get 1 maybe 2 warnings then they start charging you. Don't download as you can see the only support you get is automatic response.

I regret subscribing to this app. First it is way too expensive. Second, I'm always getting error messages about feedback.

Coming from an actual violyn player this app would not be the best way to learn the app wants you to play far too fast which makes the noted not sound as they are supposed to for example a crotchet sounds like a minum and there is not alot of details either personally I don't recommend

It might be fine, 1 star because there is no warning you have to pay. I'm okay with paying, I just think it's misleading.

I paid for this app for a year expecting to get at least a year's use but I completed the whole app in a view months. I still can practice songs but I hope there will be new ones soon. And also courses for a bit more advanced topics.

It's great! I get overwhelmed quickly with videos on YouTube, but with this app I'm just getting started and I'm already learning so much! With this app you don't have to figure out where you're lost anymore and it teaches you every little step from the beginning! < 3

This is good app but with a lot of room to improve. The videos are good but often too short and lacking details. I feel like the app biggest problem is that it wants you to go too fast (for my taste at least) and it can be difficult to not feel lost if you're an absolute beginner. It's nice that you can start songs right away but maybe label the notes? Some of the lessons feel out of order. Other stuff to improve but it's a good option if you can't find an in person tutor.

This is a bad app it didn't help me at all and If you made one 'mistake'(even though I got it spot on) it would stop the entire rest of the song. Then you can only do like two short lessons before you have to pay for the rest of it. Horrible don't waste your time on it

really bad at picking up that I'm doing A note on the wellerman song, eliminated all other background noise and still has a hard time with pinpointing what note I'm doing. might work for others but it's not working for me well

I didn't see my previous review again so I'm just gonna review again. This app is amazing. I used to play the violin at age six but I moved to a new house. Now I am thirteen going to fourteen and I am getting really good at playing the violin.

the only time you can really practice and learn is with the A and D strings and I don't get why i have to subscribe/trial to continue to the lessons this is just crap i don't reccomend

Very little content. Beginner only. Some sections "Comming Soon." Not really there, interface makes it look like you have more content.. Scam. Don't waste your time or your money