Nice. I'm going to put this in front of our resident toddler tonight.
Bit of feedback:
* I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app.
* How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place and are able to figure out the core interface, the better.
Thanks for the feedback!
The monetization is hard to solve. Only thing you can do in the end is to try it out.
Thanks for the tip regarding the "toddler resistant" mode ! We'll consider that for a update.
1up that 'toddler resistant' mode; just got this for my girl's ipad, going to have lots of fun with it and it will be more fun if the music doesn't stop every five seconds because she hit the one button she wasn't supposed to hit again.
This is great. I laughed out loud when I discovered that notes you throw upward off the screen eventually come back down if you throw them straight up. Definitely getting my toddler to play with this.
I have two suggestions: one is a tool/mode that lets you remove a bunch of stuff quickly, and the other is a simple undo mechanism. Since there isn't much instruction, you need to explore by touching, and e.g. when you're testing to see if a three finger gesture does something, you tend to create a lot of unwanted notes and potentially accidentally remove stuff that you overwrite.
Oh man, I just discovered the magic of tapping on an unused instrument on the bottom. Build a sequence using no sax and then start wailing away on saxy bill. Wonderful.
For iPads able to run iOS 6+, you can activate "Guided Access" mode. Apps being run in this mode can have disabled hardware buttons and deactivate certain areas on-screen.
Once the global setting is enabled (Settings > General > Accessibility), triple-clicking the home button activates and deactivates the mode. There is a passcode, distinct from the unlock code, to exit "Guided Access."
I became familiar with this as part of an iPad kiosk project, and when my toddler discovered that iPads exist, it has been very valuable.
Bit of feedback:
* I would have been willing to put down a couple of bucks up front just to try it out, even without the extras available in-app.
* How about "toddler resistant" mode that disables the sharing, feedback, social buttons? Kids tend to touch and drag all over the place, often seemingly at random. The less they end up in a strange place and are able to figure out the core interface, the better.