Music Practice Coach vs Practis

Music Practice Coach turns a vague "go practice" into a plan you can follow. A plan is a sequence of steps. Each one does a single job: a timed instruction, a metronome at a set tempo, a passage of sheet music to read, or a loop of a recording slowed down until it is playable. You work through them in order, and the app keeps time. WHAT A STEP CAN BE • Instruction — text to read, with an optional tuner for tuning up • Timed — a countdown, with a metronome if you want one • Tempo ramp — the metronome steps up from a starting tempo to a target, cycle by cycle • Score — sheet music on screen with a countdown, and a metronome or a tempo ramp • Audio, video, or MIDI loop — set A and B points and repeat that passage, at any speed • Loop plus score — the recording and the sheet music side by side • YouTube — practice along with a video, with speed control and loop points THE MUSIC SCROLLS ITSELF Set a scrolling speed and the score moves while your hands stay on the instrument. It works on an ordinary PDF, page after page. Or turn on Prima Vista, which reflows the score into one continuous ribbon of systems, so a page turn never lands in the middle of a phrase. Go full screen, and if a page is read wrongly, say how many systems it has — the correction is kept. SLOW IT DOWN, KEEP THE PITCH Audio loops play from 30% to 200% speed without the pitch shifting, so a fast passage stays in tune while you learn it. Pitch shifts separately, in semitones or five-cent steps, which is fine enough for quarter tones and for matching an instrument tuned to something other than A440. A SPEED RAMP THAT DOES THE WORK Set a starting speed and a target and the plan advances through the stages as you play, which is the part people skip when practising alone. METRONOME AND TUNER, ALWAYS THERE A full metronome — any meter, per-beat accents, adjustable subdivisions — and a chromatic tuner with an adjustable A4 reference and a drone. Both work on their own, without a plan. MARK UP THE MUSIC Write on a score with an Apple Pencil — fingerings, bowings, the bar you keep missing. The markings belong to the file rather than the plan, so they are there again the next time any plan uses that score. FOR TEACHERS Build a plan, and share it as a package with everything it needs: the plan, the recordings, the scores. Students open it and practise exactly what you set. You can publish a catalog of plans your students install in one tap, and lock the media with a code if the recordings are not yours to give away. YOUR FILES STAY YOURS Everything lives in a folder you choose. No account, no sign-in, no subscription, no ads, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. The Mac and iPad apps read the same folder, and there is a web version for everything else. Free, with no in-app purchases.

Practis is the practice companion for musicians: a diary, score reader, and coach in one app. Log what you play, see your progress, and always know what to practice next. PRACTICE DIARY • Log sessions in seconds - piece, duration, notes • A daily goal dial and streaks keep you honest • Throwbacks resurface old recordings so you can hear how far you've come! YOUR REPERTOIRE • Track every piece from "just started" to "performance ready" • Program lists for recitals, exams and auditions • Practice history for every piece SCORE PRACTICE • Import your sheet music (PDF) or browse thousands of free public-domain scores and read page by page - two-page spread in landscape • Draw, highlight, add fingerings and musical markings • Bookmarks and trouble spots for the passages that need work • A practice heatmap shows where your time actually went • Built-in metronome and a shareable session recap PRACTICE PLANNER • Build the week from your own categories: technique, repertoire, sight-reading, whatever you actually work on • A rotation decides what comes next, so nothing quietly gets dropped • Built from your real sessions, not a generic template FRIENDS • Add friends with an 8-digit friend code, no email address to share • See what each other practised that week • Send a reaction when someone puts the work in • Nothing is public, and your session notes always stay private ASK PRACTIS • Get a session plan built from your real repertoire and goals • See what's neglected, what's due, and how you're doing RECORDINGS (Practis PRO) • Capture takes while you play and listen back anytime Practis syncs with your account on pract.is, so your diary, pieces and scores are on the web too. PRACTIS PRO The free plan includes up to 5 tracked pieces. Practis PRO is an auto-renewable monthly subscription for $3.99 (USD) per month that unlocks unlimited pieces, cloud recordings with throwbacks, and cloud score storage. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://pract.is/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://pract.is/terms