PlayPianoOff the record
Live feedback at your own pace. Wait mode holds the music until you find the key. One hand while the app plays the other, a slower tempo, a loop of a few bars. Kept as practice, never as a score.
Piano practice for iPhone and iPad
Play the page.
Hear every note.
Free to start. First Notes, every game and the metronome stay free. Maestro adds more music, more coaching and more memory.
- MIDI keyboard or screen keys
- Your MusicXML and MIDI files
- No account to start
- iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later
Tap a key to hear it.
Turn off silent mode to hear it.
Download on the App Store
Scan with your iPhone or iPad
PlayPiano is for iPhone and iPad.
Feedback on every note
Only the truth.
Only when it helps.
A free piano course, short games and an AI practice plan, with feedback that only ever tells you the truth. Right, early, late or missed: every note you play is marked on the page as you play it.
You choose what a session is for before it starts. A learning run never gets a number. A graded run gets seven, each counted only when the music and your keyboard can carry it, and the report names the one thing to work on next.
One passage
With Maestro, an AI practice plan reads the piece, finds the hard bars and sets up each passage with its drill. Fingers appear on the keys for the bar you are playing. Everything a machine wrote is marked.
One run
The whole piece, both hands, nothing waiting, between half and full tempo, on a MIDI keyboard. The only run that keeps a score, and only when it reaches the end.
Note accuracyNote timingNote duration · work on thisEvennessChordsDynamicsPedal
Every session leaves plain facts: how far you got, how much went clean, at what tempo. The app speaks up only when something got better. It never says a run was worse.
AI practice plans, with Maestro
A plan for the piece you want to play.
Give the coach a piece and it reads every bar, then writes a plan the way a teacher would. Start each session with a card or two from the top, then carry on with the next passage, until you play the whole piece.
Get PlayPiano
- 1
Warm ups from its own music, with Tock
Tap the rhythm of the bar you are about to meet, or find the beat at its tempo.
- 2
Basics in its key, with Note
The scale, the chords and the notes the piece is built from, each a short game.
- 3
Passages in order, with Hold
Each one slow first, then up to tempo. When a bar leans on something new, the plan sets a short step before it and says why it helps.
- 4
Then the whole piece
A play through from start to end, and a Grade run when you are ready to hear how it went.
One new plan a day with Maestro. Plans are kept on your account through Sign in with Apple, so they come back on any phone. A few pieces come with a plan already written, open to everyone. Your score file never leaves your device: the coach reads a summary of each bar. Everything a machine wrote is marked.
Today and Learn
One next step.
Every day.
Today opens on the one thing to do now: your next chapter, the passage you were working on last night, or a game that is due. Learn holds the courses, each on its own page, never a locked path.
- First Notes, free for everyoneSix chapters from your very first sound to your first complete little performance, each ten to twenty minutes, with Hold, Note and Tock.
- Passed by playing, not by watchingEvery chapter has you play, on a MIDI keyboard or the screen keys, and hears what you played, between short questions and a recap.
- Eight more courses with MaestroMelody Makers, Read and Play and the courses after them are already in Learn, marked Coming soon. They open one at a time as each is ready.
- A week badge, not a tallyPick how many days a week you aim for. Rest days are part of the plan, and nothing counts down.
1Your first sounds2Every C, and every name3A steady beat4The other hand5Read a rhythm6Your first piece
Start First Notes free
Free in your browser
Try it free.
No install.
A piano that names chords, a metronome, the circle of fifths and two games. Nothing to sign up for, nothing stored.
ToolOnline pianoHold a few keys and it names the chord, with its inversion.Open the piano →
ToolMetronome30 to 300 BPM, tap tempo, time signatures and subdivisions.Open the metronome →ToolCircle of fifthsTap a key to see its signature, its chords and its scale.Open the circle →
GameName the noteTen notes a round on the staff. Treble, bass or both.Play the game →GameFind the beatTock counts you in. Tap along and see if you lean early or late.Play the game →ReferenceChords and scalesNotes, fingering and the staff for every major and minor chord and scale.See them all →Practice games
Short rounds.
One skill each.
Every level is open from the first day. A level clears on two different days, so what you can do on Tuesday you can still do on Friday. The pulse games take taps on a pad; Spot the change, Major or minor, Listen and tell and Name the note take answer keys; Play it back, Half a minute, Step or skip and the Hands games need a MIDI keyboard.
PulseTock keeps the beat
Find the beatTap along with a steady beat
Echo the rhythmTap back a rhythm
Tap the rhythmTap a written rhythm
EchoNote listens with you
Play it backEcho a short tune
Spot the changeHear what changed
Major or minorThe happy one and the sad one
Listen and tellListen and answer
ReadSwell turns the pages
Half a minuteRead a short piece you have never seen
Step or skipRead by step and skip
Name the noteName a note on the staff
HandsHold watches the fingers
Scale runScales at speed, fingers on the keys
MirrorHands in contrary motion
Arpeggio ladderArpeggios and broken chords
A round never asks you to clap, never takes a heart away and never names an exam board. A stopped round is simply not counted.The Music Room
Classical pieces, Baroque to ragtime.
Each with its story.
Real editions, engraved on the page you practise from. Every piece comes with the story behind it, a Did you know, its mood, an estimated level and a Hear it key, so you can listen before you open it. Shelves sort by what is within your reach.
Open to everyone
Open to allPrelude in C major, BWV 846Johann Sebastian BachOpen to allFür Elise (Bagatelle in A minor), WoO 59Ludwig van BeethovenOpen to allLa CandeurFriedrich BurgmüllerOpen to allL'ArabesqueFriedrich BurgmüllerOpen to allWaltz in A minor, B. 150Frédéric ChopinOpen to all100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139: No. 1Carl CzernyOpen to allMinuet in F major, K. 2Wolfgang Amadeus MozartOpen to allGymnopédie No. 1Erik SatieOpen to allAlbum for the Young, Op. 68 No. 1, MélodieRobert SchumannOpen to allMarch of the Wooden SoldiersPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
These pieces are open to everyone, with Hear it on every piece. The rest of the room is part of Maestro. Levels are estimates, and the catalogue grows.
PlayPiano MaestroA subscription, inside the app
Hear more.
Play more.
Nothing a free player can do is ever moved behind Maestro. Maestro is built from more music, more coaching and more memory.
- The whole Music RoomEvery piece, each with its story, on your music stand.
- The full reportAll seven parts of a scored run, note by note.
- The score reader and PDFsRead any piece a page at a time, turn pages with a pedal, and export a printable PDF with its licence on every page.
- Work with the coachA new AI practice plan for a piece each day: warm ups, basics and its passages in order, with fingers on the keys.
- Every practice toolTake it up, Transpose and more, on every piece.
What it costs
Monthly$7.49a month. New subscribers pay $5.99 a month for their first three months.
Yearly$59.99a year, about $5 a month.
Free stays free: First Notes, every game, the metronome, your own imported music, the ten open pieces and the plans that come with the app.
Try PlayPiano freeComing to Maestro
What we are building next.
Eight things on the way, released one at a time after the redesign, in the order they are ready. None of them is in the app yet, and we are not promising a date for any of them.
Family Sharing
One Maestro for the household through Apple Family Sharing, each person on their own device.
iCloud backup and sync
Your pieces, history and course progress on your phone and your iPad, in your own iCloud.
Recordings kept and compared
Hear my run, kept. Listen to a run from March next to today's, played back through the app's own piano.
A sight reading ladder that keeps your level
A session of short reads whose level moves with you, and a level kept over time. A level, never a score out of 1900.
Scan a PDF or photo into a playable score
The sheet music you already own, read into a score you can play, grade and plan. The first scan is free.
Ask the coach about a run
"Why do I keep missing bar 12?" answered in words, from the facts of your run. Never the audio, never the file.
Play with an accompaniment
The second part of a duet, or the other hand of a piece, played by the app at your tempo and waiting with you.
Polyrhythm and custom sets
Three against two on the metronome, your own click patterns, and quick check sets you build yourself.
This is a roadmap, not a promise. Each of these ships only once it works, and the order can change. What Maestro includes today is listed above; if a line here matters to you, wait for it to arrive before you subscribe.Two ways to play
A keyboard at home.
A little practice anywhere.
Connect your MIDI keyboard
USB or Bluetooth MIDI. The app measures your keyboard's delay once, so timing is judged fairly. A Grade run needs a keyboard: a score earned on the glass is not comparable with one on weighted keys, so it is never kept.
Get connected
Or play the screen keys
First Notes, the metronome and every Play session work on the screen keys of your iPhone or iPad. In the games, the pulse games take taps on a pad, Spot the change, Major or minor and Listen and tell take answer keys, and Name the note answers by letter or key. Play it back, Half a minute, Step or skip, Scale run, Mirror and Arpeggio ladder need a MIDI keyboard.
How to practise a hard passageOn iPhone, the practice screen, lessons, sight reading, the metronome, the score reader, every practice tool but the Ear player, and the games that show a keyboard or a staff (Play it back, Half a minute, Step or skip, Scale run, Mirror and Arpeggio ladder) turn to landscape; everything else stays portrait, Name the note and the other games included. On iPad, everything is landscape except the first run onboarding, which is portrait, and the score reader, which turns any way. The app does not read notes from an acoustic piano yet: listening by microphone is coming soon.
Practice guides: a good place to start.
01
Your keys. Connected.
Connect a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, and get ready to play.
Read the guide →02Bring your own music.
From a MusicXML or MIDI file to a score on your music stand.
Read the guide →03Make the tricky bit click.
Slow it down. Take one hand. Loop the bars that need you.
Read the guide →Good questions
Before you take a seat.
Do I need a piano or keyboard?
You can begin with the on-screen keys on your iPhone or iPad. A compatible MIDI keyboard gives you real-key practice and is required for a Grade run to keep its score. Touch practice does not measure dynamics or pedal.
Will it listen to my acoustic piano?
PlayPiano reads notes from MIDI or the on-screen keys. It does not recognise the notes of an acoustic piano yet; listening by microphone is coming soon.
Is PlayPiano free?
First Notes, every game, the metronome, your own imported music, ten pieces of the Music Room and the practice plans that come with the app are free, with no account. Maestro is an optional subscription that adds the whole Music Room, a new AI practice plan each day, the full report, the score reader with PDFs and every practice tool. Prices are shown in the App Store for your region.
What is in Maestro today, and what is coming?
Today: the whole Music Room, Work with the coach, the full seven-part report, the score reader and PDF export, and every practice tool. The eight features under Coming to Maestro are planned and not yet in the app; they ship one by one, with no dates promised.
What is an AI practice plan?
With Maestro, the coach reads every bar of a piece and writes a plan: warm ups from the piece's own rhythms, basics in its key, then short passages in order, each slow first and then up to tempo. You finish a passage by playing it as written, and the plan ends with the whole piece. You can make one new plan a day.
Do I need an account?
No account is needed to play, take First Notes, play the games or use the Music Room's open pieces. Making a practice plan with Maestro needs Sign in with Apple, so your plans are kept and come back on any phone. You can hide your email from us when you sign in.
Can I import a PDF or a photo of sheet music?
Not yet. Import MusicXML (.xml, .musicxml or .mxl) and MIDI (.mid or .midi) files from Files. Scanning a PDF or photo is on the Maestro roadmap. Only import music you have the right to use.
Does it work offline?
The course, the games, your pieces and saved practice plans work offline. The Music Room fetches a piece the first time you open it and keeps it. Making a new AI practice plan needs a connection. Your score file never leaves your device; a summary of each bar is what gets sent, never the file or its name.
What devices does PlayPiano support?
iPhone and iPad with iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later. On iPhone, the practice screen, lessons, sight reading, the metronome, the score reader, every practice tool but the Ear player, and the games that show a keyboard or a staff (Play it back, Half a minute, Step or skip, Scale run, Mirror and Arpeggio ladder) turn to landscape; everything else stays portrait, Name the note and the other games included. On iPad, everything is landscape except the first run onboarding, which is portrait, and the score reader, which turns any way. USB may need a compatible adapter, and Bluetooth must support Bluetooth MIDI.
How are Play, Coach and Grade different?
You choose one before a session starts. Play is for exploring with live feedback and is never scored. Coach works through one passage of a practice plan. Grade is one run of the whole piece with both hands and nothing waiting, from half to full tempo, on a MIDI keyboard; it is the only mode that keeps a score, and only when the run reaches the end.
Your next note is waiting
Make a little music today.
Bring your curiosity. Tock, Note, Swell and Hold will help with the practice.
Download on the App StoreNew this October: AI practice plans, First Notes and the practice games.
Piano sound on this page from the FluidR3 sound font, MIT licence.