Common Sense Media Review
By Patricia Monticello Kievlan
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Singing game has potential, limited guidance.
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Vanido - Your Personal Singing Coach
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What's It About?
VANIDO - YOUR PERSONAL SINGING COACH is intended to help people improve their vocal music skills. Once you establish your vocal range by singing notes from low to high, you can choose from four types of exercises: foundations, head voice, chest voice, and agility. You can try up to three exercises per day, and additional exercises are in development. You earn high scores for how accurately you sing each exercise, and the app tracks your accuracy and practice time each time you use it.
Is It Any Good?
While it features a cool concept, its gameplay feels more like Guitar Hero than a serious tool for developing musical skills. The colorful interface is appealing, but it's hard to be intentional about singing the right notes. It eventually becomes clear that exercises involve repeating the same phrase as you move up the scale, but it's hard to tell how large the intervals are between notes. Also, although the exercises' names relate to key singing concepts -- such as head voice and agility -- there isn't clear instruction within the app to help you understand the techniques you might use to approach those exercises. As it is, there's very little guidance to help you understand how to score well and how you might do better the next time. Overall, Vanido - Your personal singing coach has a neat concept and great potential, but there's not quite enough information here to really help people learn good singing techniques -- or to feel like an especially rewarding game.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how they might use Vanido - Your personal singing coach to structure their practice time. Talk about how the exercises might connect to the skills that music students might learn in choir or voice lessons.
Talk about how reading musical notes in this app or in a game like Guitar Hero is different from reading more traditionally written music. Is this format easier or harder? Why?
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Arts : music , singing
- Skills : Self-Direction : achieving goals , goal-setting , set objectives , work to achieve goals
- Pricing structure : Free to try (Three free exercises per day. Unlimited practice is $2.99 per month or $17.99 per year.)
- Release date : April 23, 2017
- Genre : Education
- Topics : Arts ( Music and Sing-Along )
- Publisher : Vanido Inc.
- Version : 0.6.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 10.1 or later
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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