# ScaleCraft: Learn Piano — Gamified Piano Learning > Gamified Piano Learning (iPhone/iPad app by Sharad Kapoor.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scalecraft-learn-piano/id6753967558 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Sharad Kapoor](https://appshunter.io/developer/1830689755) - Category: Music, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $14.99) - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 208 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2025-11-11 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is ScaleCraft? Learn piano by playing. Build technique, understand scales and chords, train your ear, and turn what you learn into music. ScaleCraft is an interactive piano learning and practice app that connects lessons, playing, music theory, ear training and creativity in one place. Whether you are starting from your first notes, learning chords and scales, improving your technique, or exploring modes and melody, ScaleCraft gives you a practical way to learn at the keyboard. PIANO LESSONS Follow a structured piano course where every lesson teaches one idea and ends with a piece of music that uses it. Choose the learning path that suits you: • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced piano courses • Start with technique, the keyboard and music • Start with chords and learn through progressions • Children’s courses for ages 5–7 and 8–11 • Step-by-step lessons that build on what came before • Learn each technique with both hands • Practise each part separately before putting both hands together • Finish every lesson by playing a complete original study • Learn with the interactive piano, MIDI keyboard or microphone Every lesson follows a practical progression: Listen → Right Hand → Left Hand → Hands Together You hear what you are about to play, practise each hand, then bring everything together. The course is designed around playing rather than simply reading explanations. SCALE & MODE EXPLORATION Understand scales by seeing, hearing and playing them. • Explore a comprehensive library of scales and modes • See the notes and intervals that define each scale • Play scales on the interactive piano • Explore different keys and roots • Connect scales to practical playing • Discover arpeggios and related patterns • Build familiarity with major, minor, pentatonic, blues and other scales TRAIN YOUR EAR Develop the ability to recognise what you hear. • Interval Quiz • Name That Scale • Ear Trainer • Hear the relationship between notes and scales • Practise recognising musical patterns by sound PRACTISE WITH MIDI OR YOUR PIANO Use ScaleCraft with the instrument you already have. • Play directly on the built-in piano keyboard • Connect a MIDI keyboard for hands-on practice • Use your device microphone to practise with an acoustic piano • Receive feedback on the notes you play • Practise without having to follow a rigid speed-based score PLAY ALONG Put your playing into a musical context. • Play along with MIDI and classical material • Follow the music while playing • Practise melodies, scales and musical patterns • Switch between practical playing and structured exercises CHORDS & HARMONY Move beyond individual notes. • Explore chords and chord progressions • Learn major, minor and other chord qualities • Explore inversions and arpeggios • Understand how chords relate to scales • Practise common progressions and harmonic patterns CREATE MELODIES Turn scale knowledge into musical ideas. • Generate melodies from a selected root and scale • Choose genre, mood and tempo • Experiment with different melodic ideas • Save melodies you want to practise or develop further INTERACTIVE PRACTICE ScaleCraft gives you multiple ways to reinforce what you learn. • Scale Stack • Call & Response • Interval practice • Scale recognition • Arpeggio Explorer • Progressive practice challenges • Interactive piano and notation views FREE TO START, PAY ONCE Free forever: the first levels of Scale Builder and Scale Stack, five lessons of each beginner course, three kids’ songs, two Play Along composers, quiz level 1, Call & Response, Arp Explorer triads, Major and Natural Minor, Freestyle and MIDI. Try everything free for 30 days. Nothing is charged or renews. Full Unlock is one in-app purchase, paid once, that opens everything for good. No subscription, no ads. Progress is kept after a trial. Privacy Policy: https://www.chordmuse.app/scalecraft-privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 30-day Trial | Free | one-time | | ScaleCraft Full Unlock | $14.99 | one-time | ## Is ScaleCraft safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess ScaleCraft. ## Is ScaleCraft legit? ScaleCraft: Learn Piano appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for ScaleCraft is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.2.0 — 2026-10-17 - ScaleCraft is now free to download. Try every feature free for 30 days, then unlock everything with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. - Bug fixes and performance improvements ### 3.1.0 — 2026-10-06 - Bug fixes and performance improvements - Kids song lessons now follow key presses on the keyboard or MIDI controller or any piano (via mic) ### 3.0.0 — 2026-09-24 Piano Lessons A structured piano course, new in this release. Every lesson teaches one idea, drills it, then ends with a piece of music that uses it. • Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced courses, plus a chords-first path • Children's courses for ages 5 to 7 and 8 to 11 • Play with the on-screen piano, a MIDI keyboard, or your own piano through the microphone • Lessons can be read aloud. Tap Listen to hear a lesson's notes • Follow the music on a scrolling roll or on standard notation Also in this release: performance and stability fixes. ### 2.0.3 — 2026-09-04 Now with Mic input so you can practice on acoustic piano or any piano with no MIDI. Two big additions this release. Play Along - open your own MIDI file or the classical music now included, and play the notes as they arrive, as falling notes or as sheet music. Scale Stack - a new game that works through every scale in the app, a level at a time. Plus Call & Response in Practice. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-23 Melody Trainer/Generator (for some inspirational learning) Generate practice melodies from any scale and root. Choose a genre and mood, set the tempo, and save the ones worth coming back to. ## More apps by Sharad Kapoor - [ChordMuse: Songwriting Tools](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chordmuse-songwriting-tools/id6749480745) - [Just Metronome](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/just-metronome/id6753331805) - [Tactus MIDI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tactus-midi/id6813861589) All apps by Sharad Kapoor: https://appshunter.io/developer/1830689755 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-24.*