Tools, reports and settings
The three buttons along the bottom of the home screen: the small utilities, what the app has recorded about your practice, and everything you can change about the app itself.
Metronome
A plain metronome, with the four buttons underneath doing the fiddly part: −10 and +10 to travel, −1 and +1 to land exactly. Beats per bar decides which click is accented, and the row of dots shows where in the bar you are. The dash option turns the accent off altogether.
Find the tempo
The reverse problem: you have the music, you want the number. Tap either drum in time with what you are hearing and the reading settles after a few beats. Alongside the BPM the app reports how many taps it has counted and a steadiness percentage — how consistent your tapping was, which is worth a glance in itself.
Test this tempo then runs the metronome at the figure it found, so you can check it against the music before writing it down.
Free Play
A keyboard with nothing attached: no exercise, no score, no timer. What you play appears on the staff as you play it, which makes it the quickest way to answer where does this note live without starting a session.
The octave strip above the keys moves you up and down the instrument, and Sustain and the volume slider work as they do everywhere else. If a MIDI piano is plugged in, it plays here too.
Reports
Sight reading is recorded by clef and by key signature, which is what lets you see that the treble is fine and the bass is not, or that three flats undo you. Rhythm is recorded per figure, with averages over the last ten sessions.
Both are worth reading the same way: ignore the single-session number, which bounces around, and look at the breakdown. It tells you what to practise tomorrow, which is the only thing statistics are good for.
Settings
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Language | English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, plus Automatic, which follows the device. Changing it reloads the app. |
| Upside-down screen | Flips the display. Useful when the charging cable — or the OTG adapter with the piano on the end of it — comes out of the wrong side of the phone. |
| Keep the screen on | Stops the phone dimming mid-session. Worth turning on for anything you play from a stand. |
| Keyboard keys | Which physical key answers for which drum and which piano note. Tap a row, press the key you want; X clears one and the button at the bottom restores the defaults. |
| Privacy and ads | Appears where the law requires the choice to be re-openable — in the European Union, for instance. It reopens the consent dialogue so you can change what you agreed to. |
Note names — DO RE MI or C D E — are not here. That one lives in the sight reading options, and the choice applies across the whole app.