Honestly, it encourages me to practice because I see the immediate results. Andante is a great app. It shows you your stats and you can record your mood and focus in addition to how much time you’ve practiced. It also lets you pause the timer or add in your own session if you forgot to time it! I did purchase the in app purchase but the app is just as useful without it. I love it!
I tried writing down how long I would practice and using some other apps that were used for studying, but I would forget to do it or it wasn’t as convenient/helpful for practicing. I got an email from somewhere recommending this app and I’ve used it since then! (4+ months). I love being able to easily turn it on when I practice, and turn it off when I’m done, and if I need to do something I can easily pause it and go on other apps without losing my progress. the other apps were timers, whereas this one is more of a stopwatch, a tracker. They also have a timer option if you like that too! I love how easy it is to use.
My favorite part is seeing my progress and having the focus and mood tracker. I never knew fully how long I practiced everyday, I sort of just looked at the clock and stopped when I thought it was an hour or so. But with this app I’m way more mindful about how I’m practicing, which has helped me a lot. also, I always thought I practiced every day, maybe missed a couple every 5+ months or so. turns out I actually miss a few days every month lol
I really love this app, it’s helped my practicing become a lot more productive!! highly recommend, especially for musicians :))
Hello, thanks for your amazing app, I use it every time I practice. It’s the best
I have a recommendation, I think if there would be an setting which we could select, if the audios we record during practice will save just on iPhone(or iPad) storage or it will save on the iCloud too. Cause some times I don’t want to save some of my recording on to the iCloud because of lack of iCloud storage and capacity. And the other idea is it would be so amazing if there is a part which we can track our study time too, because now the app is mostly useful for instruments practice not study music or other, it would be a complete app if you add this feature too.
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The app is minimalist, has (almost) all the features I needed, and works great. There aren’t ads which I really appreciated, but I bought Pro anyways. The only thing that I would change is the way profiles work. I play multiple instruments, so I need quite a few profiles, but I think it would be really cool if there was a way to see all of those profiles together. If the home page showed you all of your practice sessions together and then gave you the option to filter by instrument, I would 100% give this app 5 stars. Great job!
This app has worked amazingly well for me so far! It has all the features I need to record my practices across multiple instruments and is something I use daily. The streak feature has been instrumental (lol no pun intended) in keeping me motivated to practice consistently and I love the data analytics for length of practice, focus, and mood.
For the developers, I have one suggestion:
My mood often changes during(and as a result of)my practice. I would love to be able to record that; perhaps a “mood before” and “mood after” tracker could fulfill this need. The data analytics could then tell me my:
-Avg. mood per practice
-Avg. change in mood per practice and
-whether my net change in mood per practice was primarily positive or negative
Cross-referenced with my practice time and focus stats, this ‘change in mood’ feature would enable me to modify my practice habits in order to achieve the most positive mood and greatest post-practice feeling of fulfillment. It is something I would like to see added to the app, if you’re open to the idea!
I recommend Andante to all my students, peers, and colleagues—100% worth using, for any musicians out there (pro, student, and amateur alike). Would give this 6 stars out of 5, if I could 😁❤️💯🎻🎹
I love this app, I use it every day and have uploaded some of my hand written journal notes into it bc of how easy it is to use.
The only issue I’ve had was where I tried to sync my iPad and iPhone. I think there was some user error that caused two profiles to combine and duplicate/triple/quadruple some of my practice sessions. Since deleting the app on my iPad and all of the extra sessions my app has been quite wonky. Home Screen does not show my streak progress and the calendar in the page is completely white. My number of hours have also been inconsistent (that may be from the app updating after deleting all of the duplicated sessions). Either way, I’m worried it isn’t saving data properly anymore (and the streaks feature really helps keep me motivated... not having it has been a bummer)
I’ve found this app invaluable. I love the features, allowing me to track my mood and focus, along with the all important time being tracked either in real time or after the fact. This tool motivates me to make sure I hit my practice goal every day! Highly recommend this app, and glad to support the app maker!!! Worth every penny to be able to make notes and download the Data!
I use Andante for my violin practice all the time, and it has really helped me become more focused in my practice sessions. Setting a daily goal always motivates me to do more, and I really appreciate being able to see my practice data visualized within the app. Would recommend for any musician!
This is a simple, easy to use, aesthetically pleasing, perfect little tool. A lot better than the practice logs I had to write out as a kid! I’m an adult learning guitar for the first time and mostly just wanted to track total practice time so I had some sense of progress—how many hours of practice it actually took to get to wherever I am. This is perfect for that and more and couldn’t be easier to use. I actually find it super motivating too—I never want to break that practice streak! The metronome, the timer, the practice streaks, the graphical representations and stats are all great. So glad I searched and found this right when I started to learn. I bought the premium version even though I don’t really need/use the features because I’m just so grateful for this lovely app. I especially like the dark mode so my only suggestion would be that I wish I could set it that way in the app, regardless of whether my phone is in dark mode or not. Thanks so much for developing this!
I use this app to log my practice hours on the trumpet. For being a free app with purchasable hotheaded, it’s almost everything I want. I’ve had nothing but great experiences with this app thus far.
The only suggestion I’d add would be a pro feature that lets you save practice videos. I’d upgrade for this feature alone!
All in all, this app is amazing and I’ll probably be upgrading to the pro version very soon.
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