Psaltica Praxis

Psaltica Praxis

Play and Learn Byzantine Music

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • April 29, 2026
  • June 30, 2026

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Psaltica Praxis is a Byzantine music composition and notation app for iPhone and iPad, designed for chanters, students, teachers, and composers. Create compositions using a specialized Byzantine keyboard with neumes, gorgons, martyria, fthoras, ison, expressive signs, accidentals, time symbols, and other notation elements. Edit directly in the score with cursor-based insertion, replacement, selection, copy, and paste. Add multilingual lyrics, compose in LTR or RTL layouts, and organize your work in the composition library. Advanced notation tools include: - Cluster-aware Byzantine symbol entry and editing - Customizable keyboard palettes and a More Notes keyboard - Petasti variants and expressive signs including Varia, Omalon, Antikenoma, Psifiston, and Eteron - Time signatures, automatic measure barlines, and per-measure beat overrides - Interactive fthora mode selection with Greek mode names - Accidentals and fthoras targeted to individual notes within composite neumes - Fthoras attached directly to key signatures - Out-of-mode key detection with one-tap replacement - Note Inspector with mode, pitch, channel, applied rules, and moria distance - Customizable notation alignment and symbol positioning - Per-composition playback transpose and expression controls Playback and study features include: - Byzantine melody and ison playback - Adjustable instruments, volume, tuning, tempo, and pitch bends - Selection playback and looping - Note-name display during playback and selection - MIDI export for playback and external workflow integration Printing and file tools include: - Printing and PDF export - Configurable paper size, orientation, margins, scale, lyrics, title, page numbers, measure barlines, and time signatures - Composition library search and in-document Find - Importing, exporting, backing up, restoring, and sharing compositions - Settings backup, export, and import - In-app feedback and composition issue reporting The free tier allows up to 3 saved compositions. Free playback previews are available for up to 3 distinct compositions per rolling 24-hour period, with 60 seconds of playback for each composition. Subscribe to unlock unlimited composition storage, unlimited playback, printing, PDF and MIDI export, sharing, backup tools, and the complete Psaltica Praxis workflow. Psaltica Praxis offers auto-renewable Monthly and Yearly subscriptions for premium access. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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What's New in Psaltica Praxis

1.1.15

June 30, 2026

This major update expands composition, notation, playback, printing, and file management. Printing and PDF • Print compositions or export them to PDF with paper-size and format controls. • Include lyrics, title headers, page numbers, measure barlines, and time signatures. • Improved print spacing, scale, lyric sizing, Arabic tatweel rendering, full-bleed output, and multi-page reliability. • Reset now restores all print defaults, and typed values are applied immediately. Notation and Rhythm • Added the extended Petasti family, including Petasti Ipsili, Isson, Kendima, Oligon, Plus 5, and additional high-interval neumes. • Added Eteron, Omalon, Antikenoma, Psifiston, Varia, the Siopi beat extender, half-ifesis, third-ifesis, half-diesis, hard-chromatic Ni keys, and more key signatures. • Added time signatures, automatic measure barlines, and per-measure beat overrides. • Added configurable expression for Petasti, Varia, Omalon, and Psifiston. Playback and Free Access • Added per-composition playback transpose and separate playback volume controls. • Free users can save up to 3 compositions. • Free playback covers up to 3 distinct compositions per rolling 24-hour period, with 60 seconds for each composition. • Preview usage persists across app restarts, and returning to a composition continues its remaining time. • Subscribers continue to receive unlimited saving and playback. • Improved Android background playback, iOS Control Center state, accidentals, gorgon/Stavros anchoring, and selection playback. Editing and Inspection • Added a Note Inspector showing mode, pitch, channel, applied rules, and moria distance. • Added selection details, edge indicators, and looped selection playback. • Accidentals and fthoras can now target individual notes within composite neumes. • Added an interactive fthora mode picker with Greek mode names, including fthoras attached to key signatures. • Added one-tap replacement for out-of-mode key signatures while preserving attached fthoras and markers. • Improved fthora rendering, positioning, hit areas, deletion, anchoring, and mode resolution. Keyboard and Layout • Redesigned the musical keyboard with customizable palettes, a More Notes tab, landscape side-keyboard layout, collapsible key columns, and long-press flyouts. • Improved alignment across neumes, ornaments, accidentals, fthoras, and key signatures. • Added expanded alignment controls with dropdowns and sliders. • iPad now uses the full tablet display instead of an iPhone-sized compatibility view. Library, Search, and Settings • Added glyph-sequence library search and in-document Find. • Added export search, improved folder sorting, and newest-modified ordering. • Added compressed settings backup, export, import, and restore. • Added in-app feedback and composition issue reporting. • Updated tutorials for the redesigned composer, keyboard, measures, and expression controls. Corrections and Reliability • Refined Modes 4, 5, and 6, including pentaphone, short-scale, per-octave, and variable-length scale behavior. • Fixed Arabic lyric connectors and wrapping, Android text and modifier clipping, and key-signature clipping. • Fixed selection dragging and handles, print blank pages and overlaps, cancelled or stuck printing, and numerous notation alignment issues. • Improved unavailable-billing handling and Restore Purchases behavior. • Fixed hard-chromatic fthora note labels and preview identity after saving or renaming. • Added privacy-preserving diagnostics without collecting composition titles, file names, lyrics, notation, or advertising identifiers.

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Psaltica Praxis

An App to compose and play byzantine psaltica music

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