“Confusing Billing — I hadn’t use the app in a while. After changing email address there was no way for me to sign in and recover my account. Now I can’t cancel. I can’t renew. And I can’t access the app even though I have an active…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 501 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★60,609 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
118 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Fender Play® is your one-stop online guitar teacher for starting your guitar, bass, or ukulele learning journey. Start for free. Play for life.
Created by the most trusted name in music; you can expect a robust, guided learning path to jumpstart your playing ability as a beginner or intermediate player. Whether you’re learning to play your favorite songs, building a healthy habit, or finding a new creative outlet — we’ve got you covered!
Learn to play guitar with the industry's elite instructors and over 3000+ bite-sized video lessons, with chords, scales, songs and riffs that you can practice at your own pace.
Play your way with Fender Play.
How Does It Work?
EXTENSIVE MUSIC LIBRARY
Play songs by your favorite artists with our 1000+ song library!
Fender Play helps you to master the chords, techniques and guitar scales to play songs from your favorite artists, including:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.0.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.0.2, updated 2026-09-09.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 501 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“READ BEFORE SUBSCRIBING. FENDER PLAY BILLING IS THE WORST. — I signed up for Fender Play over a year ago and didn’t use it enough to justify it on an ongoing basis. My advice to anyone considering this app: If you want to subscribe, DO IT…”
“How do I cancel it — Bro I accidentally started a trial on another email and I can’t cancel it no matter what I tried everything and there is no other way to cancel it”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.0.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.