Piano Sight-Reading Trainer 4+

I am a teacher, and I thought it would be good to look at this for my students.

Not only is the app quite clunky to use and not particularly intuitive, the entire premise is flawed.

The rhythm matching is ok - but limited. A more holistic approach to it would help.

The pitch matching is just awful. It requires you to memorise the entire passage, then asks you questions on it. This doesn’t match in any way with the way most people sight-read music. It would be so much better if it could listen to you at the piano, something like Simply Piano, and judge that way. I don’t really think this particular method would ‘train’ anyone to sight read music. More focus on relative pitch would be good too, rather than memorising note ranges.

The whole experience is sadly disappointing and I would advise spending your money elsewhere.

Speaking as a piano teacher, what I’ve seen so far is terrible. I’ve only looked at Grade 1 so perhaps the higher grades work better. I will update if so!
First of all, sight-reading is intended to help with reading music, and the intention is to be able to see and play. So why does the first exercise ask students to translate notes into letter names and recall them in this way, while removing the actual notation? How will that help to build skillls in reading more complex music later on? We should be looking at fast note recognition and translation straight to playing, by looking at intervals, repeated elements, scale patterns, rhythmic patterns, etc. The most important thing here is to be looking at the music you need to play!
This app relies on memorisation more than see-and-play, which is not developing the skills that are actually required and is not representative of the task actually set in the exam (or indeed in real-life sight-reading).
I’m definitely sticking to the excellent Paul Harris Improve Your Sight-Reading! books for my students. Very disappointed with the ABRSM for this — I wonder if they did any consumer testing or consultation at all.

This app is excellent for extended practice. Some suggestions I would make are:
There are progress notes which appear after the third exercise, but they don’t stay on screen long enough to be read. Could the time be extended?
As a dyslexic I have trouble memorizing the notes in the Pitch exercise. Could the stave be kept in view for the question section?
Could there be a pause option in the exercises? I appreciate that in the exam, candidates only have 30 seconds but I think the option to work up to this speed would be helpful.