Leave a Review Modacity
**Warning: Miscalculates average !**
I loved this app, but sadly just discovered that it badly miscalculates averages. For example, if you play 30 minutes for 3 days in the week, and 90 minutes on another 3 days, and 0 minutes on one day, it will display your “weekly average” for the whole 7-day week as 60 minutes “per day.” It won’t count the day with 0 minutes. That’s bad math. The average should actually be 51.4 “per day.” My numbers varied a lot, so the app’s error wasn’t apparent at first, and now I realize I’ve been practicing much less than I thought. Would’ve been nice to know my real numbers. That’s the *sole* purpose of the app for me and many others. And it failed. (Also it needs an export function!!)Show less333M333
Pretty Useful
I discovered this app on the Mind Over Finger podcast (which if you’re into effective practice and reading this you should probably check out too), I’ve only been using for a week but I definitely see an improvement in my approach to practice and probably even motivation.
I use it in combination with other apps since I find the subscription model too much for me, I’m not exactly sure about the extra features on it but the only thing I feel I’m missing in the free version is the unlimited notes. Weirdly I find that that limitation ends up helping me focus on the one note I do have per piece and maybe even works for the best. I use other apps (and pen and paper) for more detailed journaling and note taking, but the practice list feature is unique here so I mainly use that.
Definitely recommend the free version, I mean it’s free and if you don’t see the benefit of the subscription it still has enough features to be useful. I’m guessing the subscription is geared towards classical musicians or maybe to make you more accountable to yourself.
There is an bug where when you click the note you have while a recording is being played the recording stops and doesn’t play again anymore (virtually lost) so if you try taking a note while listening it won’t workShow lessOren ko
It helps me accountable to my goals
Modacity’ s time accounting and history are much easier to work with than my paper notebook. The app is well designed to focus my attention on the things I choose to practice.courtsong