# TunyStones Piano for Schools — School Edition

> School Edition (iPhone/iPad app by Swiss MusicLab GmbH.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tunystones-piano-for-schools/id6755961130 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Swiss MusicLab GmbH](https://appshunter.io/developer/1529101326)
- Category: Education, Music
- Price: $44.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 203 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2025-12-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-16
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tunystones-piano-for-schools/id6755961130/reviews.md

## What is TunyStones Piano for Schools?

TunyStones Piano for Schools

This app version is specifically designed for schools and music schools and is available as a one-time purchase in the store.

TunyStones is created by piano educators for educators and their students.

- Works with any piano or keyboard
- Supports teachers and motivates pupils
- Teaches from scratch - no previous knowledge required!
- Enhances creativity with reading, composition and improvisation features 
- Allows you to compose your own music 
- Turns music reading into a great adventure and your piano into a game-controller
- This smart app automatically adjusts to different learning types/speeds
- Includes introduction levels to provide a general understanding for music notation
- The game is nonverbal: you play and understand how it works, while playing!
- Supports MIDI

Content:
- Melodies by Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and popular tunes
- Specially conceived Music Reading Exercises
- 126 levels + the possibility to create your own levels!

How it works:
- Place your tablet (iPad) on your piano or keyboard.
- Meet Tuny, the main character of the game, whose movements you control with your music
- The piano is now your game-controller: play sounds and Tuny will move accordingly
- Have fun: swim along rivers, cross rapids, jump on stones
- Without even noticing you will progress in reading music very quickly!

TunyStones is a widely tested, science-based method developed by music educators at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
It is produced by the SwissMusic Lab GmbH.

We are always striving to improve your playtime. Please contact us with any questions, feedback or suggestions!

Contact: info@tunystones.com


Additional Information for Music Educators on the didactic content:

Cleff Mountain I – the Mountain with one peak

Start learning with Cleff Mountain I.

- Establishes a general orientation in the notation system
- Introduces music intervals: prime, second and third
- Contains: „Ode to Joy“, „Kuckuck“, Haydn‘s „Surprise Symphony“ and specially conceived Music Reading Exercises

Cleff Mountain II – the Mountain with two peaks

Continue learning with Cleff Mountain II, after you have completed all levels of Cleff Mountain I. 

- Trains content from Cleff Mountain I
- Introduces music intervals: fourth and fifth
- Contains: „Frère Jacques“, „Happy Birthday“, „Eine kleine Nachtmusik“, „Twinkle, Twinkle little Star“ (original version and variation by Mozart) and specially conceived Music Reading Exercises.

Composition Mountain – the Mountain with multiple peaks

- Allows the creation of your own melodies
- Enhances creativity
- Enables you to jump along your own melodies with Tuny
- This feature encourages everybody to compose
- Can be used by teachers to compose for your own students and by students to compose their own melodies/levels

For further information, please see our Terms of Use: https://tunystones.com/terms-of-use/


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2025-12-17

No release notes.

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