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Rhythm Cat Lite – Music Game Review
Rhythm Cat Lite is a Music/Education game from James Uhart, first launched in 14th December 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 171+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Rhythm Cat Lite Stand Out
More info and video presentation at http://melodycats.com
Put your rhythm skills to the test!
Above all this game is highly entertaining with a great soundtrack to play along to, but it also has the added benefit of teaching you to read the most commonly used music rhythm notation.
Developed in collaboration with professional musicians and educators.
This Music game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Rhythm Cat Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd February 2021
Recent improvements include:
- 3/4 count off fix
- 5 additional levels
- General performance improvements
Download & Availability
Rhythm Cat Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Rhythm Cat Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This app is so awesome our daughters love it and it helps so much with there piano its so awesome.
Thank you for making this game its because we dont know music yet actually so thank you for making it it also we have one calm moment for you just one thing you should add is a big fat cow at the end when we get to the end of stage 10 But we love everything that you added and we never see ads so thats great and Im so so so thankful for you guys for making a game like this im about to cry right now so please make us happy! Today Im gonna go to school so can you please reply what do you want to say to us so bye.
This app does teach rythme, and our teacher told us to use it for music lesson, although we think there should be more challenges, overall it was a great app. There are also places that you don't get credit when you actually hit it correctly, such as an eighteenth note in a challenge, Hope the developer is still looking back at this app. Please add more to the app and maybe try to improve and fix some minor bugs P.S. Like the cats.
This game is awesome! But for those who are just learning about rhythm it might be a little tricky. There were some notes that they didnt explain, and even we were confused. We ended up having to look them up, so we wish theyd have an online note sheet or something we can look at to learn the notes. Otherwise we highly recommend this game and is something we hope you play.
This app truly can be a great resource for practicing rhythm. But most of the time the sound wont work and some levels dont respond to the touch button accurately. At all. One consistently misses all taps. We wish these bugs would be fixed so it could be used in our piano studio. We cant recommend just because it doesnt actually work when we want it to.
We have used this app, many times in past years for students of all ages and have always thought it excellent. Now, for some reason, neither ourselves nor our students can get the touch response to work. It is useless. We hope this is fixed soon.
Its okay but the only thing thats trowing us off is that this game doesnt say the tempo, other than that we think its really good.
We think its perfect. We mean its challenging and the perfectly matches the notes, we mean perfect our music teacher even uses this app to teach her students.
This is a fun way to learn how to read rhythms. The immediate feedback helps reading rhythms easier to figure out.
As a college student whos taking a music class for the first time in her life, we loved this app!!! It helped us understand what our professor meant by rhythm and notes and beats that confused us so much. We wish there were more than 15 free levels, but that was enough to help us understand and pass our first exam.
This teaches students to learn notes without actually playing. Like if their on a drip the dont have to bring there instrument they can just use the app.
A great way to learn rhythm with some catchy songs.
Very fun app for practicing rhythm with different speeds and sounds.
So much fun! We love that it switches to two-hand coordination! Strangely, it wouldn't play any sounds/music until we plugged in headphones, but after we did, it worked great.
This app teaches rhythm in a way that is very fun and we engaging. From easy to hard, there are different genres and type of music that are great for learning. The length of each exercises are just about right for you to learn its rhythm. We would recommend any who is trying to improve note reading and rhythm coordination when playing real music instrument.
Level one is very easy and we're hoping that in will get wayyyyy harder but nevertheless, it's fun and might be nice for younger kids to start practicing rhythms and sight reading.
We didn't really understand rhythm or what notes did what when our professor taught it to us, this made it a whole lot easier to understand! We also like the cat, because all cats are awesome. We will totally buy the full version. Thanks for the great game.
Lo recomendara 100 % para los que estn aprendiendo solfeo y para los que ya saben leer.
The animation isn't fancy (tho the cat is cute as hell), but that allows for a more simple and straightforward interface. We love the songs they use and the way in which they teach you things one at a time. We don't currently have credit to buy the pro version, but we definitely would! Great work.
Our cello teacher told us to download this. Very cute app and fun to play. Wanted the game to continue.
Oh our gosh great app! Loved it.
Trying to keep our piano students interested in music. Great games like these are a big help.
Our music teacher showed us this on her tablet when to help us play faster and we LOVE IT.
Love this because the students have to tap along with melodies, and accuracy must be right on to go to next level.
We downloaded the lite version and played through it. We liked the music mixed with the rhythms. Nice variety and we liked the drum beat in the background. Good for children to keep their interest (more interesting than just tapping a drum pad), and we had fun as well.
It really helped us in music counting, best music app yet.
So in 6-7th grade we guess we were gone or something when we learned how to count phrases and Rhythms and things and now with this app really helping us and getting the extra help we need we'll be prepared for high school band so thank you so much for this app. Hugs to you :).
This is a fun game which teaches about basic music notes. It would be great for you to create an app where there is color-coded piano keys and guiding melodys.
There is still a place in the free exercises where you can not get credit for 1/8 note pair when you hit it correctly, and if you tap rapidly you can sometimes get credit when you shouldn't, but overall this is a brilliant app that really does teach rhythm. If the pro version added more buttons (or a keyboard) and staff line with different notes, this app would be even more awesome.
We use this app in our music class to help with reading, counting and clapping rhythms. It's a helpful aid in class. Sad that we have to pay to get new levels otherwise it would have been 5 stars.
Really neat premise. We're playing a game, but practicing reading beats at the same time. The lite version is not very challenging, but the paid version would be a great way to brush up on reading skills and teaching our younger ones about music values. Great app.
Too hard with the background music going.
The two sets of music, background and the exercise music, don't line up rhythmically. We wish there was an option to turn off background music. Other a good tool for practicing rhythm.
This app truly can be a great resource for practicing rhythm. But most of the time the sound wont work and some levels dont respond to the touch button accurately. At all. One consistently misses all taps. We wish these bugs would be fixed so it could be used in our piano studio. We cant recommend just because it doesnt actually work when we want it to.
The app has no sound at all, rendering it all but completely useless.
We are a professional musician and tried this app to teach our son how to read rhythm. Unfortunately on the harder levels the button shows mistakes even when tapped accurately.
Once you get to level 15 in LITE Edition, after you do the whole song, it just gets stuck. If you dont believe us, try it yourself. It always gets stuck. DaveinWisconsin: Its because you need to hold them down longer.
Game keeps failing us on the third level despite knowing with absolute certainty we are hitting all quarter and half notes correctly. In fact the previous screen was also quarter and half notes and we scored 3 stars on it. But the very next one Im getting no scoring whatsoever. And am not being allowed to continue. Edit: we unlocked all the levels. It stopped scoring us on levels 3,4, and 5. It started scoring us again on level 6 and after.
We think this is a great way for kids to learn how to play an instrument to a tempo. We really enjoy it.
This is fun. The music is enjoyable for beginning students to practice their rhythm matching. It motivates students to practice.
We hide our tablet under our shirt and say to our teacher can we go to the bath room and we go out side and to the railing and play lol.
We hated practicing rhythm, but this makes it fun. One thing that confused us about the game at first was we didn't know that you have to hold your finger down long enough for it to count, even if its just a quarter note. At first we couldn't understand why we were missing all of them when we knew we were tapping the button at the right time. Finally figured out we wasn't holding our finger down long enough, so maybe that will spare someone else the headache.
Totally amazing!!! Loved it!! Level 11 was the best! Played it over and over — can NOT stop.
We noticed an improvement when we progressed each level. Fun and addicting.
Fun rhythm game, and a good way to learn to sight read rhythms.
We like the game because it's challenging and you have to get a hold of the beat.So download this game if you don't have it.
Even though we didn't know many of the songs, we definitely learned more about notes just within the short 15 levels they have on this app. We recommend it.
Whenever we got this game we thought it would be a total blow off but when we started playing it and using it we got a 100 on our music test play the game use the game love the game get 100 like us.
Fun game, evidently we need to work on our rhythm more.
We can already read better and it's only one day from having the app! It progresses well, so who plays it is ready for the next level. We love the controls and, well, we love the cats, too.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8
- Size: 62.78 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: James Uhart
Last updated: 23rd February 2021 | Genre: Music, Education | Developer: James Uhart