Real Sight Reader vs SightPiano

Your repertoire is the curriculum. Most music apps drill you on exercises you'll never play. Real Sight Reader flips that: import the MusicXML scores you're actually working on, and the app turns them into focused reading and rhythm practice — so every minute you spend here pays off in the pieces you care about. IMPORT YOUR OWN MUSIC Bring in any MusicXML (.xml / .mxl) score and practice straight from it. Or start with the bundled library of public-domain classics — Bach inventions, Chopin preludes, Joplin rags, Mozart, and more. TAP THE RHYTHM Sample-accurate rhythm training with a real metronome feel. Tap along as the playhead moves; on-time taps score green, rushing or dragging shows up instantly. Per-device latency calibration keeps scoring honest on any headphones or speaker. READ BOTH CLEFS Drill the two-hand note pairs in a piece — treble and bass together — and see exactly which pairs you read fast and which slow you down. Practice the weakest ones in a focused set. PRACTICE THE WAY READING ACTUALLY WORKS - Listen and repeat: hear a phrase, then play it back from memory. - Eye-hand span: train reading ahead of where you're playing. - Weak-figure drills: the app surfaces the rhythms you keep missing and drills just those. PLAY ALONG WITH MIDI Connect a MIDI keyboard and play the rhythm or the melody — the app scores your timing and your notes. SEE YOUR PROGRESS Per-figure and per-pair stats show your accuracy and timing trend over time, weakest first, so you always know what to work on next. A daily streak and home- and lock-screen widgets keep you coming back. CHALLENGE A FRIEND Finish a run and share a challenge link or a designed brag card with your score — they can try to beat it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your scores and your progress stay on your device. No account required. Real Sight Reader is for pianists, students, and teachers who want their practice time to land on the music in front of them.

SightPiano is a notation-first piano-learning app for beginners. Learn from real sheet music on a digital piano or MIDI keyboard, with instant feedback on every note and its timing. Build core piano skills as you learn from music — not by following falling-note games. Choose structured method courses, train one hand at a time, and see exactly where your playing needs work. Start free with about a month of real method repertoire — often more — across three classical method paths. No account, no trial clock; every feature is permanently unlocked at no cost during the free foundation. WHY IT’S DIFFERENT Real notation, not diagrams. Every piece is full sheet music, read the way a musician reads it. The beat never stops. Metronome on by default; every note is judged for timing as well as pitch. You track your own position on the page. No bouncing ball, no auto-scroll — the skill a real sight-reader needs. No upsell modals, no locked-until-you-pay progression on the free foundation. Payment expands content, not the practice system. THE SIGHT- PRACTICE PIPELINE Sight-reading is five skills in sequence, and SightPiano trains all five, in order: Hear it first — SightPlay highlights each note as reference audio plays, with a visible beat and human (non-mechanical) timing. Play it through, off the clock — SightTrace colors every note green or red the instant you strike it, looping until you clear the passage. Read ahead, off the clock — SightPeek lets you preview the next measure at your own pace. Read ahead, at tempo — SightAhead runs the same drill under real tempo pressure. Get the truth immediately — SightMark and SightError show exactly what landed and where the misses went. A PROGRESSIVE CURRICULUM Choose from three historical method paths to intermediate playing — the balanced German Path (Beyer, Burgmüller, Czerny), the lyrical French Path (Le Couppey), or the technical Viennese Path (Czerny) — plus Hanon, SightJazz, and SightPops. The beginner foundation of every path is free, permanently, with every feature enabled — about a month of practice for most learners, often more. BUILT-IN PRACTICE TOOLS SightMastery and SightTrend track real progress across months, not minutes. SightRight/SightLeft isolate a hand. SightDyna shows touch evenness. SightJuke turns a songbook into a jukebox — pick a first and last piece and SightPiano performs the whole range hands-free, with optional repeat. SightCade turns nine retro arcade games into focused drills on rhythm, pitch, hand independence, dynamics, memory, and chord leaps — including ChordRally, which steers with block chords. SightMaestro is an optional AI practice coach — bring your own API key and pay your provider directly, at wholesale, instead of a subscription markup. A NOTE ON HARDWARE For the full real-keyboard feedback experience, connect a digital piano or MIDI keyboard by wired USB. Bluetooth MIDI and acoustic-piano input are not currently supported. The app also includes a virtual piano for a quick try without MIDI hardware. Built and maintained by one person. Feedback goes straight to the developer, not a support queue.