# Keystrike: Piano Sight Reading — Music Theory Drills & Practice

> Music Theory Drills & Practice (iPhone/iPad app by Blue Flame Games.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/keystrike-piano-sight-reading/id6763947075 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Blue Flame Games](https://appshunter.io/developer/523824138)
- Category: Education, Music
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 93 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-05-04
- Data updated: 2026-09-02
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/keystrike-piano-sight-reading/id6763947075/reviews.md

## What is Keystrike?

Keystrike teaches you to actually read music: a graded piano course that takes you from your first note to real repertoire, with sight-reading drills, ear training and theory exams at every level.

Connect any MIDI keyboard and the score follows your playing in real time — every note you play is read, marked and graded.

Pay once, own it forever. No subscription, no account, no cloud: everything stays on your device.

• A real graded curriculum — structured levels from first key to repertoire; pass exams to move up; honest grading, no participation trophies.
• Sight reading that counts — octave-strict note reading; drills that adapt to what you miss.
• Ear training & theory — intervals, chords, rhythm and theory drills built into the course, not bolted on.
• Your keyboard, not a screen keyboard — works with any MIDI keyboard; the score follows your actual playing.
• Practice Studio — loop practice with Steady and Tempo Climb modes for the hard bars.
• Built for iPad and Mac — full-size scores, real engraved notation.
• Private by design — no account, no cloud, no tracking; progress lives on your device.
• Try everything free for 7 days — then one purchase unlocks it all. Ode to Joy stays free forever.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Keystrike Unlock | $14.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.6 — 2026-08-28

What's new in 1.2.6

• Practice Studio has learned pentatonic scales: major and minor five-note patterns in C, E, G, F and A unlock after Grade 8.

• Sharp & Flat Scales also unlock after Grade 8, with advanced major and minor keys from C-flat through G-sharp. Even the double flats are spelled properly; the piano remains emotionally neutral about this.

• Finish Grade 5 and the core scale list now grows with C minor, G minor, A major and F minor.

• Studio scales may begin in any playable octave and then stay in that register. Keystrike no longer insists that middle C is the centre of the universe.

• Acoustic resampling and the score engraver's JavaScript hand-off are safer under Swift 6. Plumbing should not be allowed a percussion solo.

### 1.2.5 — 2026-07-11

What's new in 1.2.5

• The falling notes lost their scenery: as you advanced through the grades, the piece player quietly stripped away the vertical lane guides and the note-name letters. That fade is a lesson feature — less hand-holding as you improve — but it wandered into the concert hall, leaving anonymous blue blocks raining onto a bare stage. The lane guides are back for every piece, at every grade.

• The letters are now yours to choose: a new setting, "Note names on falling notes" (on by default), shows or hides the C-D-E letters when you play pieces. Lessons still fade them on their own as you level up — that part was always intentional.

• The scrolling staff measured its bars with the wrong tempo whenever you slowed a piece down — an operator-precedence bug the compiler was too polite to mention. Bar lines and note shapes now follow the tempo you're actually playing at.

iPad and Mac, in sync.

### 1.2.4 — 2026-07-09

Fixed a scrolling staff timing bug that could ignore the tempo selected for sight-reading and fallback score views. Bar lines and notehead durations now follow the intended BPM, with safer fallbacks for unusual or imported charts.

### 1.2.3 — 2026-07-07

What's new in 1.2.3

• Small print, big fix: the whole app has spoken eight languages for months — English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Hindi and British English — but the App Store only ever admitted to English. Turns out we localized everything except the one line that tells Apple we localized everything. The listing now confesses to all eight.

• Dark mode had a secret invisible-ink feature: save a recording after dark and the save sheet rendered white text on a white card. A bold minimalist choice, a terrible practical one. The ink is visible again.

• Deleting a recording or an imported piece used to be instant and final, like a magic trick where the thing that vanishes is your practice history. Both now stop and ask first.

• The info screens ignored your text-size setting and served everyone the same fixed fonts. They now respect Dynamic Type, so "bigger, please" finally means bigger.

• VoiceOver could see the play button but not press it — the play/pause control was a shape pretending to be a button. It's a real, labelled button now, so VoiceOver can start the recording like everyone else.

iPad and Mac, in sync.

### 1.2.2 — 2026-07-02

What's new in 1.2.2

• Practice Studio grew up. There are now proper arpeggio drills all the way through Grade 8, and Tempo Climb finally cares whether your rhythm is even — not just whether you hit the notes. You can speed up, but you can't rush.

• Ear training moved into the practice loop, so you can drill your ears in the same place you drill your fingers, instead of hunting for it in a separate corner.

• Made a mess in a piece? Tap the mistake on your results screen and Keystrike builds a drill for exactly that — the missed bar, the wrong note, the rushed run — instead of making you replay the whole thing.

• You can now scrub back through a performance to see precisely where it went sideways, like a replay for your own hands.

• New latency wizard: if your MIDI keyboard or speakers were a hair behind the score, you can now measure and correct the delay in about a minute.

• Recitals end properly. Finish a multi-piece recital and you get a real summary — every piece, its accuracy, and an honest overall grade — instead of the single-piece results screen pretending the other pieces never happened.

• Tapping something locked used to sometimes fling open Settings and leave you to find the right button. Now it opens a focused unlock sheet that actually names what you tapped.

• Sight-reading now draws the key signature at the clef, where it belongs, instead of quietly leaving sharps and flats to your imagination.

• Your MIDI keyboard no longer "vanishes" for a blink when it reconnects — a brief hiccup was enough to make the app think you'd unplugged it.

• The on-screen keyboard and the falling notes now agree on exactly how many keys there are, so notes line up with the key they actually belong to.

• Octave-strict grading now applies to chord inversions too — right notes, right octave, no sneaking a chord an octave off.

• Plus a one-time safety backup before big upgrades, and a long list of small fixes from a thorough shakedown of the whole app.

iPad and Mac, in sync.

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