Morse It App Reviews

I’ve tried a bunch of programs and methods to learn CW. This is the first one where I see confirmed progress. I set the CWOPS speed to 30-35 and run thru the sections and don’t proceed until I nail the section. I try to use it daily for at least 15 mins. Highly recommend.

I use this only for practicing sending CW with the gain on my receiver turn down and only using the side tone. Headphone connected to the radio and the cups over the mike on my iPad. Decodes 100% of what I send at any character speed. I use it to make sure my words do not run together and correct spacing between letters. Just need to send cw a few times to allow the app to sync. I’m currently up to sending 24-26 wpm.

I have purchased several, looking for good functionality. All others so far have been difficult to understand or limited. Morse it does exactly what I have been searching for. Start with this app. I later added the upgrade. Upgrade is very worthwhile.

The iambic keyer behaves erratically. At times you will touch dit and it will give you a dah. The cw interpreter requires perfect millisecond timing, something a human can not do. However, if one pause was slightly to short or too long, a human listening on the other side of a QSO would not be able to tell the difference. In the cwops academy, these little time differences make you have to totally start the exercise over. Fine when it is one or 2 words. A nightmare when you get to the QSO sections. It seems you can hardly get to the 4th word without some small variation forcing you to start all over again.

I purchased Morse-It app with my iPhone then put it on my iPad without having to purchase it again, as I expected. Then I purchased the premium upgrade on the phone but I was not getting it on the iPad. I emailed the developer and described the issue. They responded the same day, with instructions to use the restore button on the iPad, it worked. I have tried many Morse apps, some on desktop, this one is by far the BEST app, and customer support. 10 stars.

Without premium futures of five bucks, it is no point to purchase as there are already many free alternatives with all non-premium features. Don’t get me wrong - the app itself is very good. However, their selling logic is hooligan, at least as far as I see it.

Super app to learning Morse

Great app

This app is GREAT! Got it back in 2010, and gladly PAID for the extra features because 1) I wanted to get the quizzes, and 2) I wanted to support the developer. Still the best Morse Code app in the App Store! ☺️🙌🏽👍🏽 ➖⚫️➖➖ ⚫️➖ ➖⚫️➖➖

Best app for CW practice!

Not much function in the 99 cent version, mostly advertising for in app purchases.

This is a wonderful app. The best morse code app out there. It would be great for you to develop a morse keyboard app for iOS. That way you don't have to export your code. In the app It would also be nice to have a one button export feature. Also it would be great to have a backspace button that is more accessible in an iambic mode. The novice mode is too novice. Give me a mode where I don't have to hit a confirmation check box, but I have a backspace button instead. I really like using the iOS keyboard morse app called morseboard. I really like the backspace button there.

Helping me a lot to achieve my desired goal of 20 wpm

On the decode where the app is supposed to translate the morse code the microphone pics up seems to decode only T's, E's, I's, and :-( Even when the morse code provided is from an electronic source like that from a 2 meter repeater identification transmission.

Thank you!

A great teacher, translator, and friend!!! Makes me feel safer to know how to type "s.o.s" with a light or a tap! Great app easy to use and even better to have fun with!

The mnemonic is very helpful. It helped me to quickly learn the Morse code alphabet, which is something I haven't been able to do since my Cub Scout days. I wish the basic app had some practice quizzes built in though.

This application really is great for education, but I do not think that we need to have priced premium features because this app is already priced. It would make a lot of sense if either both the application were free and the premium features were not priced or both the application were priced and and the premium features were not priced. It must be one way or the other and not both. It is a great application, and it ought to be reliable about its information, but it is just expensive, but, then again, the app did cost only one dollar, so I guess that I can settle with either two or three dollars for the premium features.

Amazing!!! You can do everything just with this piece of SW!

This is a really useful & enjoyable app for learning. It would be an outstanding addition if I could send messages to others or post to social media accounts so that friends could quiz each other. Just a thought.

It is $6, not $1. Not that good. . .

Given the reviews of others, I expected more out of this app. It does what several other apps do for free, and the nice stuff is sadly hidden behind a further in app purchase. I sadly paid for this app and now learned that I would have to pay again to get the nice features.

I purchased the 99 cent version, only to discover that one must pay $4.99 more for the full feature version. OK, I bought that one, or so I thought. It has yet to download. I'm sure it's a nifty app, too bad I can't get at it.

I really enjoy practicing on it

Does not decode at all. Worse than useless!

Accurate detection of morse code, high configurability, with multiple types of simulated keys, and plenty of mnemonics and training aids. Perfect for novices and experts alike!

Enjoy using this App. It's been a great help to me! If used properly this App. Is a great tool to Learn CW.

Well organized, thorough, all the configurability that's needed. Well worth the price (ignore the freebo complainers... this is good work).

Very good. Just love it!

Exactly what I needed and a whole lot of extras!

Lots of ways to use it. Easy to use, and I especially like the games available once I upgraded.

I didn't change my rating because this app is still great. I wanted to note that since iOS 10 came out, output to Bluetooth doesn't function.

$1.00 for a useless gadget. If you want the trainer its an additional $5.00 which can be had elsewhere for free or a small price. I’m not sure what you would need this for. Waste of time.

So customizable and is the perfect companion to the CWOps course. I highly recommend this app!

This app has greatly accelerated my learning of CW and I would highly recommend it. The tap feature lets you practice sending anytime anywhere with instant feedback. Once you are ready to start using CW on the air, the decoder helped me to feel more comfortable picking up those hard to recognize words and also confirm that my transmitted code was accurate (well most of it). Buy the app... and immediately purchase the premium options. They are well worth the price. Enjoy 73

A great app to assist in learning or getting better at Morse Code. My CWOPS CW Academy Level 1 class used it along with other resources. The author is very responsive and keeps tuning and extending utility so this app will be a good buy now and for tomorrow.

My 6-year-old Cub Scout is learning so well with this program -- mastered a through u in a single sitting. Thank you.

This is the best app I've found for learning CW. I use the Koch trainer mostly, but the tap function is also good for practicing sending. I also use the decode function for very fast CW.

Morse-it, with its recent changes, is now the best training app for those serious about mastering Morse as a language. There is an in-app option to unlock additional modes. I recommend simply including it in the total purchase price. I feel there are better apps for learning letters, but once you graduate to learning whole words and phrases, this is the app you want. The ability to text others exported Morse audio is also fun (if you have a training partner). This is one of the few apps to support this feature. 73 de N2OW

This is a worth while program. We used it while in CW Ops Academy to help study and learn. It is also fun to play with. I wish we could also get lessons for CW Ops levels II and III. Awesome in anycase! 73, Me

Just packed with very useful features! Really enjoying using it. Thanks so much!

The sound makes tiny little skips as of iOS 11

Any feature you think you bought is a “premium feature “. Dumped it 10 minutes after downloading it.

Simple to use, and easy to practice. Very nice app.

Simply the best Morse app there is.

I have been operating for over forty years and out of a dozen or so other methods of learning Morse code I found this app to be the best. It has everything necessary already within the app to facilitate the learning process. I strongly recommend the Koch method with the speed set to at least 20 WPM and the Farnsworth slide set long enough to hear the character. Then over time reduce the slider to attain a full 20 WPM. With 2 hours a day practice, one can be proficient in less than a month.

In app purchases are not shared with family members

Great tools. The learning path could use an overhaul.instructions are virtually non existent on that part. No way to randomize it or measure mastery of each chapter in the copy side of things. It’s almost backwards there, but for ensuring you are solid on timing, on the sending side, it is great! I’m better at sending than copying.

This app is helpful for people who want to learn Morse code. After learning the letters and numbers it is pretty easy to go into the CW Ops Academy section to start learning words.

I have been looking for a good app to brush up on on my cw skills & this is definitely it. By adding the in-app purchases it is the best Morse Code training tool I have found & it works great on my 10.5 iPad Pro. One of the features I really like is that it has material from the CWopps Academy that is geared to teaching how to copy 25-30+ wpm in your head without writing it down. In my younger days I got CP-25 when I was scribbling like crazy, but I could never get the one minute of solid copy at 30 wpm & it is getting harder the older I get. This app, however, has given this grey haired code chaser new hope, and confidence, that I will be able to learn how to copy in my head and run it with the best of the operators I hear on the air. Thanks & great job on this app.

Seems to have everything I need. No problems yet. Good app

There are a lot of resources for learning CW, but I am getting the most mileage from this app. TKS DE N5MAJ

A little clumsy in some places (button locations next to delete etc) but good app. Would like to see effective speed addd.

So far this is working amazing. Glad I tried it. Thanks

I've tried some other offerings both online and other apps. This is the best route I've found so far to learning CW. You should plan to get the in app purchase though. I particularly like the feature where you can tap code and get immediate feedback on how well you were understood by seeing the text form of your message. For example I meant to tap an "a" but got "et" instead. This is also interesting for seeing what mistakes turn into (eg n becomes m, a, or i). Bottom line, I've definitely spent more time practicing since getting this app.

I don’t understand why more people don’t want to learn Morse. This is a great app to hone skills and not be caught in some fruitless game maze haze. The Cold War never ended! Learn Morse code today with this cool app.

The app codes and decodes, as well as allowing the user to key in Morse code and have the results appear on the screen. Excellent and thorough work on the part of the developers. Highly recommended!

There's a decent basis here for a great app, but I've had intermittent issues with the trainer getting stuck. Sometimes input will stall when Morse is being generated. Other times I've had the tone output stutter or get stuck (extremely long dash) this seems worse with non-default keyboards, but also occurs with the default Apple keyboard) The Farnsworth interval doesn't seem as consistent either (it'd be nice to have that in the settings section) These minor issues make it a little frustrating when you're learning!

Icon translates to 6 4 k 6 é 4 which is weird but besides that decent app to learn Morse with

The dev responded quickly to my review and educated me about the process to turn off review prompts in iOS (a pet peeve). Francis, you rock! The app is the best in most regards for learning CW. It pairs well with Ham Morse. If you are doing CW Ops, it is great because all of Level 1 is built in. For Level 2, I am making a custom list of words to work on word recognition and review using the Quiz portion of the app. Also, this app is by far the easiest way to make CW ringtones

Tried to use through BT in my car and the letters are truncated to the point that it is unusable. Other CW training apps work fine, so I think it’s an app issue.

After trying half a dozen apps that were lousy, this app delivers when it comes to teaching Morse code and decoding audio Morse code on HF Ham Radio bands. Great app! Thank you from KM6HFR.

Really helpful in learning CW.

Useless without buying premium features. Pay .99 to download app only to be told to pay an additional $4.99 to make it work. Dont buy. Deceptive sales tactic.

I've downloaded a few CW training apps in my on again off again autodidactic quest to master Morse. All the other apps I downloaded (some of them pretty decent) have since disappeared from the Apple Store, but Morse-It is still around. That says a lot.

I want my 99 cents back. This app does not play random Morse code so you can listen and learn and test yourself. You have to buy in-app additions for that. That should be stated upfront. Very disappointing. On the positive side, it is attractively designed and easy to use.

I have owned this morse code program since I bought my first iPhone 3 over 7 years ago. Has never failed me and always works with every upgrade and is the best Morse code program ever in the App Store.

This is a really nice trainer application with a lot of features. I wish it had better documentation though.

If you want to learn Morse code and use it on the airwaves then this is for you. In an emergency situation CW transmitted by QRP could travel hundreds of miles or more with minimal power output. Learn the code, practice it with this app, use it in the real world. I especially like the encode feature. You can cut and paste any text and listen to it via Morse code. Also in the settings there are so many settings to tweak it just right. You can set the timing, speed, and tone. Once it's set, sit back, listen, and copy.

This has been a great training tool.

No instructions on how to use it.Indicates many features, but doesn’t work as shown. Ex. Tap .- for A and get incorrect letter T. It displays a dot or a dash, but the letter it represents is incorrect. It says you can use it to generate a ringtone on your iPhone, but no instructions on how to do it. My suggestion would be to have a video explaining how to get this app to work properly like tuning a musical instrument. Definitely needs improvement.

Once you pay and install the APP you realize there are additional features, only available after another payment of more than the double of what you’ve already paid. Not a honest move! Very disappointing.

This trainer is very comprehensive and includes many of the traditional approaches to learning Morse Code. I found it intuitive and easy to use and found myself abandoning other software applications as I gained proficiency in sending and receiving code.

The training methods available as an in-app purchase are a lot of fun.

I won’t pretend to have any deep knowledge of or interest in Morse code, but there’s an awful lot of Morse code in the background of TV shows and in video games. I’ve kind of made a hobby of decoding it. Some of it’s just for flavor, of course, but a lot of it contains interesting information, Easter eggs, or plot-relevant clues. This app is amazing at taking Morse-encoded audio beeps and converting them into text. Even when the audio is grainy or distorted, the decoded results are almost always still good enough to parse out the meaning, especially if it’s a repeating message. The current price is 1/10 that of apps that advertise similar features, and it seems to work just as well as any of the decoding software installed on my PC. I suppose your mileage may vary if you’re using this app to listen in on Soviet-era numbers stations or something, but if you’re just out to decide Morse for entertainment purposes it’s a fantastic bargain.

I know this app is intended as a Morse trainer but I bought it for the audio decoding feature. It failed in that. No matter how I tweaked the decode settings, it returned gibberish, maybe getting a letter right every 20 or so. Given this is an advertised feature, it needs to work. Sorry dev to give you a low rating, the rest of the app may be stellar but if you advertise a flawed feature and that is the sole reason a customer has bought the product, then in their eyes the product is flawed.

I'm an old school military CW intercept technician. Cut my teeth on Chinese and Viet Cong tactical military Morse nets. This is a first-class training system, particularly since I can set parameters of all kinds. I recommend this to anyone learning Morse and for us old operators working our receive comprehension upwards from 30-wpm.

Good fun and great trainer. Well thought out and one of the better morse code apps out there.

Morse It has really helped me to begin developing cw skills that I believe will successfully launch me into strong cw efficiency. I highly recommend this app especially for those who thought cw was beyond their capability. Morse It is thorough, simple, and fun. Don't rush it. Enjoy.

Great for anyone interested in CW. Super rich feature set with tons of flexibility. One thing I would love to see is the developer create a custom keyboard app. Or add that functionality to the current app. Google just added a Morse code keyboard to Gboard, but it’s horrible. And the othermorse keyboards I’ve seen are not much better. The iambic keyboard you get with in this app is great. I love how you can just keep your finger on the screen and slide back and forth to hit the dits and dahs. All while being super responsive. Now if I could just use that as an entry keyboard in other apps that would be perfect. Keep up the good work. The app is great👍👍

The 99 cent app will get you basic functionality, but really another $5 to make it fully functional is a little lopsided... my star rating reflects 5 stars for the product 0 stars for the price and 2 stars since the paid basic version has annoying ads...

3 or 4 days and I feel like I’m able to send at 10wpm. Still working on listening. Treat it like a language, immerse yourself, and it comes quickly. Speed comes with practice.