My go-to for recording practice
I’ve been using this app to record my practice for a few years now. It just works. The only thing I would improve is the syncing, I don’t get a proper copy of my data on my iPhone, only on the iPad. Otherwise, I use it religiously.
Would love a simple timer!
Beautiful app, but puts your focus on playing with tech rather than an instrument. Would love to have a simple timer where after two clicks I’m focusing on music and the app tracks the time.
Great
Great, great product. Very flexible. Very stable.
Amazing app
This app is really amazing for helping organize and focus practice!
There are a few bug issues like when I set times, some of the tasks squish down where I can’t really read the name.
There are a few bug issues like when I set times, some of the tasks squish down where I can’t really read the name.
Good, but could be better
I appreciate that you can put in a subcategory but I wish it weren’t required. You just don’t always need one, and I’m struggling to use the app efficiently.
Almost great…
Very good, I like it. Gives structure to a practice session and stops me indulging the parts I like!
What would be great would be a (switchable) sonic alert as you complete your allocated time for each practice period, I can’t believe it hasn’t got this. Without it, I have to keep looking at my phone, which can be annoying when the periods are very short, such as for a scale.
What would be great would be a (switchable) sonic alert as you complete your allocated time for each practice period, I can’t believe it hasn’t got this. Without it, I have to keep looking at my phone, which can be annoying when the periods are very short, such as for a scale.
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Very good!
This is a really useful app, allowing you to set up different practice plans for different instruments. It’s very easy to use, intuitive to set up, and works reliably and consistently well. My only grumble would be that, although it allows you to track time spent overall practising, it doesn’t enable you to see time spent practicing individual elements, which would be useful to know whether you are spending more time on one thing and not enough on another, for example. But in general it’s good, and probably the best available at the moment - it hasn’t been updated for quite some time now, and could do with some additional features to make it great.
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Great effort but missing absolutely REQUIRED feature
Unless I’m missing it in settings somewhere, there is no ability to edit the time of your practice. Right out of the gate, I had several times where I forgot to pause the app when called away from my practice and came back to a 20 minute time for a practice item and no way to edit it for the actual amount of time. Without this ability, I can’t really recommend the app. I’m using the paid version…
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Good App, but
I really like the way that this app works, but it crashes a lot when trying to create new categories:
Almost there
The sub-categories make this work for classical music. My cat accidentally paused the timer on one movement of a Beethoven Sonata. Sometimes I also forget to turn off the timer but know when I quit. I could correct the record. I only gave this app 3 stars because I just started using it. I will use it for several days and then weigh in again.
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Good but
I’ve used this app for a couple of years and the practice log is great but unfortunately on two occasions all my statistics were lost and can’t be restored.
Way too complicated
I’m sorry to downvote this but I really don’t get how this app works. I play a number of different instruments and my practice routine is therefore quite wide-ranging. I couldn’t figure out how to actually begin a practice session once I’d logged all my practice information into the app.
I think the problem is that there are far too many subdivisions required before one can actually practice. “Piano->Scales->Major->Key” is way too specific for me. I just want to have “Piano->Scales” be an option I can choose to practice but it won’t allow me to. Shame.
I think the problem is that there are far too many subdivisions required before one can actually practice. “Piano->Scales->Major->Key” is way too specific for me. I just want to have “Piano->Scales” be an option I can choose to practice but it won’t allow me to. Shame.
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All I want
This is very easy to use. 99% intuitive and with a good help function/YouTube vid for a few things that aren’t intuitive. Just has all I want for logging how much time I spend on different pieces and scales. Seems to motivate me to practise more. Lots of scope for categorising and adding practice notes. The random practice function is great for a scale/arpeggio warm up. Works on my ancient iPhone 5s :)
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Too many steps, not intuitive
This app is probably great for a classical music student, but for anything else it’s overkill and clunky in its current form.
A great app for pactising...
This has certainly improved over the time that I’ve been using it.
The leaning curve is no easy - darn right frustrating a times.
But after trying similar apps this is the best in my view.
A suggestion: can we have different colours for each instrument. That would stand out more in the logs.
Thanks - keep up the good work.
The leaning curve is no easy - darn right frustrating a times.
But after trying similar apps this is the best in my view.
A suggestion: can we have different colours for each instrument. That would stand out more in the logs.
Thanks - keep up the good work.
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Love the app.
Uncluttered and classy interface. Good functionality. I had a couple of questions about its use, contacted the developer and he replied on the same day. Also, great feature that it can back-up to iCloud. Great stuff!
More complicated than I need it to be
This app has a lot of nice features but I need something simpler and I don’t see a way to set this up in a simple way. It forces you to make really specific categories and sub- categories. Honestly that much be cool but it’s kind is a pain in the butt. I just wanted an app that I could track time days and a few notes for practice on 5 instruments. I found one way to just enter manually the practice time but now I can’t seem to find that feature again. If I want to track how much practice i put in I have to start the timer when I start. If I forget I have to run the timer and set a separate timer to remember to turn it off. If I let the timer run too long there’s no way to edit the total practice time that I can see. I just want an easy manual entry of a couple of different topics and this app makes it really difficult to do that. Shopping for something different.
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too much effort for daily use
I have a general daily practice regimen which changes from time to time. I was excited to see this app was designed around the idea that a practice session consists of various steps. Unfortunately, this app takes an “a la carte” approach to practice and sort of assumes what you practice may change everyday. It also assumes you want to keep a very fine-grained record of precisely what you did and did not practice, down to the individual tasks and items at hand.
It has 3 levels of organization: categories, subcategories, and items. I play piano, so for instance, I might have the following:
Categories: Technical Exercises, Repertoire, Sight-Reading
Subcategories of Technical Exercises: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios, Hanon
Items of Scales: Parallel, Contrary (maybe you’d put the actually keys here as well)
When it’s time to practice, you pick and choose the items you’d like to practice, assign timing to them, and hit “go”. There is no way to repeat a practice from a previous day. Every “recipe” must be new.
For me, this is a disappointment. I’d rather have a single “object” called a “Practice Regimen”, which is defined by a series of tasks optionally defined by their amount of time, and I can “instantiate” this regimen each day. The regimens are sorted in reverse chronological order. From time to time I might duplicate it and change some details, but practice regimens for piano (and many other instruments) usually don’t vary so often. For instance, I’d love to have the regimen:
Technical exercises: 20 mins
Repertoire 1: 20 mins
Repertoire 2: 20 mins
Repertoire 3: 20 mins
Sight Reading: 30 mins
Performance: 10 minutes
I don’t need to track the precise nature of the exercises or repertoire. Maybe optionally the app can let me add notes if I so please before and after each section.
Maybe some week, I instead just have two pieces, and no performance coming up. No problem, just duplicate it, delete Rep 3 and Perf. Then hit go.
It would be nice if the timers could measure undershooting and overshooting the estimated time, so as to help me adjust my daily regimen.
So in all, this app is just far too complicated, requires a lot of effort before you touch your instrument, and makes logging by paper an easier proposition.
With all that said, while the app doesn’t fit my use-case, but may fit others. If you have a *lot* of material you need to keep fresh and keep track of over long periods of time, then this app may be for you.
It has 3 levels of organization: categories, subcategories, and items. I play piano, so for instance, I might have the following:
Categories: Technical Exercises, Repertoire, Sight-Reading
Subcategories of Technical Exercises: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios, Hanon
Items of Scales: Parallel, Contrary (maybe you’d put the actually keys here as well)
When it’s time to practice, you pick and choose the items you’d like to practice, assign timing to them, and hit “go”. There is no way to repeat a practice from a previous day. Every “recipe” must be new.
For me, this is a disappointment. I’d rather have a single “object” called a “Practice Regimen”, which is defined by a series of tasks optionally defined by their amount of time, and I can “instantiate” this regimen each day. The regimens are sorted in reverse chronological order. From time to time I might duplicate it and change some details, but practice regimens for piano (and many other instruments) usually don’t vary so often. For instance, I’d love to have the regimen:
Technical exercises: 20 mins
Repertoire 1: 20 mins
Repertoire 2: 20 mins
Repertoire 3: 20 mins
Sight Reading: 30 mins
Performance: 10 minutes
I don’t need to track the precise nature of the exercises or repertoire. Maybe optionally the app can let me add notes if I so please before and after each section.
Maybe some week, I instead just have two pieces, and no performance coming up. No problem, just duplicate it, delete Rep 3 and Perf. Then hit go.
It would be nice if the timers could measure undershooting and overshooting the estimated time, so as to help me adjust my daily regimen.
So in all, this app is just far too complicated, requires a lot of effort before you touch your instrument, and makes logging by paper an easier proposition.
With all that said, while the app doesn’t fit my use-case, but may fit others. If you have a *lot* of material you need to keep fresh and keep track of over long periods of time, then this app may be for you.
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Can’t log practice time
Response from developer
Hi mhoman, Please see the help section available within the app. It includes a video that demonstrates how to set up a timed practice session. You can also log time manually without using the inbuilt timer. Thanks, Gary
First days positive
So far this app has helped me to get my music practice organised and productive. I’m still trying to have the practice sessions flexible for me to move about. Still looking for a solution to that.
