Comparison

PrivateLessonsApp vs Arietta

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

PrivateLessonsApp

Organize student progress for private music lessons. Track assignments, grades, and performance notes by semester. Create reusable technique templates and share progress reports with students. Sync notes to Google Drive for easy sharing and collaboration.

Highlights
  • Student information management
  • Semester-based lesson tracking
  • Technique and exercise templates
  • Progress reports for students
  • Google Drive sync for notes
  • Audio recording for lesson notes
  • Data backup and restore
Features
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PrivateLessons is for music teachers who want to track the progress of their students taking private lessons. Student information may be organized by semester including weekly lesson assignments, grades, and notes about student performances, accompanists, and ensemble participation. Technique and exercise assignments may be created and saved as templates for use with other students. Points may be used if desired for assessing student progress. Teachers can send progress reports to students to remind them of assignments. Notes may be synced to Google Drive for sharing with students. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Features include: - Maintain a list of private students, including contact information. - Track student lesson assignments, organized by semester, including technique assignments, notes about performances, accompanists, ensemble participation, lesson notes, and lesson grades. - Share progress with students through the iOS share sheet. - If you subscribe or purchase a lifetime license, you can save your lesson notes and recordings to your Google Drive. Your lesson notes will automatically stay up-to-date in Google Drive. From Google Drive, you can share these folders with your students. - Record audio into lesson notes to share musical examples with students. - Backup data and restore from local storage.

About

Arietta

This app helps musicians track their practice sessions and repertoire using spaced repetition to identify pieces needing attention. It offers a built-in metronome, session logging, and detailed progress charts to visualize tempo improvements. Organize your entire music library and stay motivated with streaks and milestone celebrations.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition for practice recall
  • Session timer with metronome
  • Section-by-section tempo tracking
  • Practice journal and history
  • Repertoire organization by status
  • Weekly streaks and milestones
Features
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Arietta is a music practice tracker that remembers what you're working on — down to every section of every piece — and uses spaced repetition to tell you which pieces are starting to fade. Add your repertoire, time your sessions, and log how they went. Arietta keeps a complete practice journal: what you practiced, when, how it felt, and how your tempo is progressing. Open the app and Today shows exactly what needs your attention — no guesswork, no blank page. KNOW WHAT TO PRACTICE TODAY Most practice apps are just timers. Arietta uses spaced repetition — the same proven method behind language and memory apps — to track how well you know each piece and bring back the ones starting to slip. Today lists the pieces that are due and says why each one needs you. You spend your practice time where it actually counts. PRACTICE IN FOCUSED SESSIONS A built-in practice timer with the metronome right below the clock. Choose the sections you're working on, jot down a note mid-session, switch pieces, or practice without a piece at all. Then log the duration, the tempo you reached, and how it went — or skip the timer and log a session by hand. Every session feeds your history automatically. PROGRESS, SECTION BY SECTION Record the tempo for each section of every piece, and watch your tempo climb on a clear chart. The micro-progress that used to be invisible — the two extra clicks on the metronome, the passage that finally locked in — becomes something you can see. SEE YOUR PRACTICE ADD UP Weekly, monthly and all-time stats, a practice calendar, full session history, and a tempo chart for every piece. Monthly reviews surface your highlights, personal bests, and the pieces that need attention before they fade. YOUR WHOLE REPERTOIRE, ORGANIZED A piece library with status tracking (Wishlist → Learning → Learned → Mastered). Group it by status, search it, and sort it the way you like — it stays that way. STAY MOTIVATED Weekly streaks that reward consistency without punishing rest days. Milestone celebrations. A weekly practice goal that keeps you accountable without turning practice into a chore. BUILT FOR EVERY INSTRUMENT Piano, guitar, violin, cello, flute, drums, voice — if you practice it, Arietta tracks it. Whether you're a student working through lesson assignments, a returning player rebuilding your repertoire, or a self-taught musician with a growing list of pieces, Arietta fits how you practice. ALSO INCLUDED · Built-in metronome with tap tempo · Daily practice reminders · Designed for iPhone and iPad, in light and dark · Import and export your data anytime · Works offline, no account required — your practice history backs up automatically to your own iCloud account, so a new phone picks up where the old one left off Arietta is free during early access — every feature unlocked. A premium tier is coming soon, and early supporters will be taken care of. Questions or feedback? hello@playarietta.com

Screenshots

PrivateLessonsApp4 screens
Arietta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PrivateLessonsApp at 5.0 against Arietta's 4.0. PrivateLessonsApp also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Arietta's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PrivateLessonsApp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Arietta asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PrivateLessonsApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PrivateLessonsApp ships an update every 2 weeks, Arietta every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 4 level
PrivateLessonsApp versus Arietta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivateLessonsAppArietta
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB31 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAdam BallifJakob Torsvik

In-app purchases

3 purchases

PrivateLessonsApp

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock All Features - 1 Month$0.991 Month
  • Unlock All Features - 1 Year$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime-Unlock$19.99
None

Arietta

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PrivateLessonsApp free?
PrivateLessonsApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arietta free?
Arietta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PrivateLessonsApp or Arietta?
PrivateLessonsApp is rated higher. PrivateLessonsApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Arietta averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PrivateLessonsApp or Arietta have ads?
Neither PrivateLessonsApp nor Arietta shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PrivateLessonsApp or Arietta?
PrivateLessonsApp ships an update every 2 weeks, and Arietta every 2 months. Most recently, PrivateLessonsApp was updated on November 1, 2026 and Arietta on November 9, 2026.

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