My favorite practice app
I’ve been using Modacity for many years now, and it has become one of my favorite practice apps of all time. I honestly cannot practice without it at this point. It’s capable of so many different things: helps keep me organized and focused, keeps track of all my stats and metrics, and I can keep all of my notes and recordings all in one place that’s easily accessible. As a classical musician who is currently taking a lot of auditions, being able to create playlists of all the excerpts into one list to keep track of notes, recordings, and time spent practicing has been a game changer for me. The timers are also super helpful in keeping me focused. Highly recommend to any musician who is looking to get a little more organized and focused in their daily practice.
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Essential Tool in Daily Use
Modacity is always open on my phone when I’m practicing. (Honestly it’s not always daily, but I thought that made a better title for the review.) My longest practice streak is 111 days, and I know that because I tracked it in Modacity. For me this “gamification” of practicing is a powerful motivator. The ability to track what items I have practiced is also meaningful to me. And I have several “lists”—groups of individual practice items with timings—so I can pick something I feel is meaningful when I know I have a limited amount of time to work. I’d give the app five stars but for some small user interface details that I would do differently. And about that I’m happy to say that the app’s developers and product managers have responded to my suggestions, implementing some of the changes I suggested.
I’m really happy to have this app as an aid for continuous improvement of my musicianship.
I’m really happy to have this app as an aid for continuous improvement of my musicianship.
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Update is terrible
Update made everything worse. Anything I used the app for is now harder to do, doesn’t work as well, or both.
Also, the app randomly cancels my practice session when I go to a different app then come back to it.
So the practice time tracker is unreliable and completely useless. Don’t depend on the app to track how long you’ve practiced.
Also, the app randomly cancels my practice session when I go to a different app then come back to it.
So the practice time tracker is unreliable and completely useless. Don’t depend on the app to track how long you’ve practiced.
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Shameful not to have access to old recordings
I used this app daily and recorded my piano lessons every two weeks - I can now no longer access my old recordings and now have a trivial number of items available to me - do not bother with this app - they might have their reasons to make the changes explained to other recent reviewers ( Luke is spot on so I won’t repeat ) but they clearly have no respect or regard for the efforts of their musician users - they effectively steal your data and hold you to an expensive sub to get it back - avoid
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In shock.
Don’t update. Daylight robbery. Modacity now only allow you access to a whopping 9 items. It’s insane. So generous of them…cheers. They’re clearly really thinking about the customer? I mean WOW. The update gives you limits on your reminders, recordings, everything, even your cloud syncing. You can kiss goodbye to all your lists. Speechless. Monthly subscription is now £12.99, with ZERO saving plans offered for longer term. Bit harsh? Didn’t realise the exchange rate was £1:€1 ? Mind looking into that one?
Not to mention this new app design is totally unnecessary, ugly, and a waste of their [our] money. The beautiful object was to encourage practice, no? Which you’d already mastered? Wasn’t it pleasing enough to you that you’d made the perfect app? Not earning enough eh? Watch out folks - Modacity is no more, just another click-bait tabloid. So unless you have fat pockets (and not much between the ears), I’d avoid sponsoring this company, as you certainly won’t improve much on your instrument without subscription, and because clearly this company has caught the “financially-unsatisfied” bug, and resorted to soulless and careless expansion at the expense of widespread musical encouragement. If you want to improve on your instrument with Modacity, without subscription - DO NOT UPDATE.
Such a shame that this once-brilliant and immensely helpful app has now become another transparent business-first-client-second moneymaker. Horrendous.
Not to mention this new app design is totally unnecessary, ugly, and a waste of their [our] money. The beautiful object was to encourage practice, no? Which you’d already mastered? Wasn’t it pleasing enough to you that you’d made the perfect app? Not earning enough eh? Watch out folks - Modacity is no more, just another click-bait tabloid. So unless you have fat pockets (and not much between the ears), I’d avoid sponsoring this company, as you certainly won’t improve much on your instrument without subscription, and because clearly this company has caught the “financially-unsatisfied” bug, and resorted to soulless and careless expansion at the expense of widespread musical encouragement. If you want to improve on your instrument with Modacity, without subscription - DO NOT UPDATE.
Such a shame that this once-brilliant and immensely helpful app has now become another transparent business-first-client-second moneymaker. Horrendous.
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