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Create your perfectpractice app.

Practice Pro is a new kind of practice app. Pick from 28 widgets, from a strobe tuner to a speed trainer, and put the ones you need on one page. They all run at the same time.

4.7 on the App Store As seen in The Verge

Free for iPhone and iPad. Every widget included.

A page with a strobe tuner, a metronome, tap tempo and a decibel reader A violet page with a digital pendulum, a pitch pipe, a repetition counter and practice streaks A teal page with a beat visualizer, a multi pitch player, a stopwatch and a timer The strobe tuner page in black and yellow The Practice Planner page with a routine, a tracker and streaks
How it works

Add only the toolsyou need.

Put up to eight widgets on a page and make a page for every part of your practice. Swipe between pages, and keep the metronome going if you like.

28 widgets

Customize your practicewith 28 widgets.

Fifteen tools, several of them in more than one style. Each widget has its own settings and comes in up to three sizes.

Simple Pendulum metronome at 80 BPM
MetronomeA pendulum swings with the beat.
Beat Visualizer with four beats
Beat VisualizerEvery beat as a bar. Tap one to accent or mute it.
Digital Pendulum metronome
Digital PendulumA sweep of lines across a Large widget.
Traditional Pendulum metronome
Traditional PendulumThe look of a wind-up metronome.
Flash metronome
FlashA metronome that flashes on the beat.
Auto Increase metronome
Auto IncreaseRaises the tempo every few bars, after a count-in.
Tap Tempo at 120 BPM
Tap TempoTap the beat and the metronomes on the page follow.
Needle tuner on A0
TunerA needle tuner with 8 temperaments.
Strobe tuner in bands
Strobe TunerPhase-detection strobe, as bands or a ring.
Strings tuner showing six guitar strings
Strings TunerChecks every string in one strum.
Pitch pipe wheel on C4, 261.6 Hz
Pitch PipeThirteen notes on a wheel, with the frequency.
Single pitch player on A4
Single PitchHold a drone, or let Sound Back play your note back.
Multi pitch player keys
Multi PitchPlay several notes at once to build a chord.
Recorder with three takes
RecorderRecord while the metronome plays. Name and share takes.
Record VideoFilm yourself with the click, then save to Photos.
Mirror widget before the camera starts
MirrorCheck your posture with the front camera, up to 4x zoom.
Decibel reader at 62 dBA, Moderate
Decibel ReaderA, C and Z weighting, with average and maximum.
Practice Journal entry for Friday the 9th
Practice JournalA page a day. Send a recap to your teacher.
Practice Routine with three of five items checked
Practice RoutineA daily checklist of what to work on.
Practice Tracker bar chart for the week
Practice TrackerMinutes per day, against a goal you set.
Practice Streaks calendar, 121 days
Practice StreaksYour current and best streak, day by day.
Timer at 7 minutes 42 seconds
TimerCount down, with a sound when time is up.
Stop Watch running
Stop WatchTime a run-through.
Repetition counter with icons
Repetition CounterCount clean repetitions with icons.
Repetition counter showing 7 and 3
Repetition Counter, numbersThe same count, as numbers.
Clock showing the time and date
ClockThe time and date, in any time zone.
Text widget reading Spring Recital
TextA title and subtitle for the page.
Photo widget showing a desert landscape
PhotoAny picture from your library.
Tuner

Tune anyinstrument.

Choose a needle, a strobe or a strings tuner. The strobe uses phase detection, so even a small drift shows as movement.

  • Check all strings in one strumThe Strings tuner knows 62 instruments, from guitar and bass to ukulele, violin, mandolin, banjo and folk instruments, with 247 tunings, a capo and your own tunings.
  • 8 temperamentsEqual, Just, Just Minor, Pythagorean, Meantone, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III and Vallotti.
  • Your reference, your keySet A4 anywhere from 392 to 491 Hz and transpose to any key, with sharps or flats.
  • Feel when you're in tuneA light tap on the phone once you hold the note in tune.
The strobe tuner as a ring, reading A4
The strings tuner in Drop D, hearing all six strings
Metronome

Odd meters.Custom accents.

Run one metronome, or several at once at different tempos. Set 30 to 300 BPM in any of 15 meters, including 5/8, 7/8 and 12/8, and make each beat accented, normal or silent.

  • Speed trainer for tough passagesAuto Increase loops 1 to 31 bars, then moves the tempo up or down by as much as 30 BPM. A count-in gets you started.
  • Six sounds and subdivisionsAnalog, Digital, Clave, Woodblock, Shaker and Tick, from eighth notes to triplets.
  • Random MuteDrops some of the beats at random so you learn to keep time on your own.
  • Tap TempoTap the beat and every metronome on the page takes the new tempo.
A digital pendulum metronome at 92 BPM on a violet page
The metronome's settings: accent beats, subdivision and meter
Pitch playback

Pitch pipeand drones.

Play a starting note, hold a drone under your scales, or build a chord to tune against. Notes follow the same 8 temperaments as the tuner.

  • Pitch PipeThirteen notes on a wheel, from C to C or F to F, with the frequency of each.
  • Sound BackPlay a note and the app plays it back to you as a drone.
  • Six soundsSine, saw and square, plus sampled clarinet, pipe organ and trumpet.
  • Chords in just intonationMulti plays several notes at once, with sustain, from A1 to C8.
A pitch pipe wheel, a single pitch player and a multi pitch player
Notes
A1 to C8
Reference
392–491 Hz
Temperaments
8
Practice planner

Plan and trackyour practice.

Write today's routine, check it off as you go, and see how much you played this week. Practice time counts on its own while the app is open.

  • Practice JournalA page for each day. Send a recap to your teacher for the last week or any dates you pick, with a PDF if you like.
  • Practice RoutineA daily checklist: warm-up, long tones, scales, etudes, repertoire.
  • Tracker and streaksMinutes per day against your goal, and your current and best streak.
Today's Practice with a routine checklist, the week's practice time and a 121 day streak
A page in the chosen theme
Themes

58 colorthemes.

Give each widget its own colors, or retheme the whole page in one step. Make your own themes from four colors: backdrop, buttons and two accents.

Tap a theme to see this page in it. Theme 1 of 58

Templates

Start froma template.

Ten ready-made pages. Add one, then change anything you like.

  • Metronome & TunerThe two tools every practice needs.
  • GuitarTune up, lock in with the metronome and record your riffs.
  • Vocal Warm-upFind your starting note, check your pitch and warm up for ten minutes.
  • ViolinTune each string, then play your scales against a drone.
  • Winds & BrassLong tones at 60 BPM. Hold a steady pitch and monitor volume.
  • Rhythm LabMixed meter time signatures, tap tempo and rep counter.
  • Speed BuilderStart slow and let the metronome automatically increase speed at a rate you set.
  • Performance PrepFilm a run-through, time it and write down what to fix.
  • Practice PlannerPlan your practice, stay on task and keep your streak alive.
  • Ear TrainingPlay chords in perfect just intonation and keep an eye on your pitch.
The template picker on Metronome & Tuner
iPhone and iPad

Your pages,on every device.

Pages, settings, your journal, practice history and recordings sync through iCloud. Turn the device sideways and the page lays itself out in landscape.

Practice Pro on iPad with a strobe tuner, a metronome, tap tempo and a decibel reader

And the rest.

iCloud sync

Your pages and practice history on all your devices, with backups.

Share a page

Send a page you built to a student or a friend. It opens in Practice Pro.

A volume for each widget

Turn the drone down and the click up, each on its own.

Background sound

Keep the metronome or a drone going when you switch to your sheet music.

As many pages as you want

Warm-up, repertoire, ensemble. Swipe between them.

Haptics

Every control answers with a light tap. Turn them off in one switch.

16 languages

Including French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and both Chinese scripts.

VoiceOver

Labels and actions throughout, down to the tuner's cents and each subdivision.

“This app does literally everything! Metronome, tuner, pitch, records, everything. You can have multiple pages with your widgets and it’s totally customizable.”
App Store review
“As a professional cellist, it provides a lot of tools I find helpful, and fun ways to personalize the appearance.”
App Store review
“Being able to use the metronome, pitch drone, and tuner at the same time is exactly what I needed.”
App Store review

Every tool, made forserious practice.

Free on iPhone and iPad, with all 28 widgets and 58 themes.

Requires iOS 18 or later.

Joe LeBlanc, the developer of Practice Pro
About the developer

Made by a musician.

I'm Joe LeBlanc, a lifelong jazz enthusiast and, for twenty years, a musician in the United States Marine Corps. I've been building apps since 2011, including Practice+ and Transcribe+.

Under the hood

Built on Apple frameworks

Practice Pro is a native app for iPhone and iPad. The listening, timing and sound all happen on your device.

SwiftUI

Every page, widget and sheet.

AVFoundation

The metronome, drones, recorder and camera.

Accelerate

Fast signal processing for the tuners and decibel reader.

CloudKit

Keeps pages, journal and practice history in sync.

Core Haptics

The taps under your fingers.

PhotosUI

Pictures for the Photo widget, videos saved to Photos.

QuickLook

Previews a shared page before you open it.

User Notifications

Tells you when a timer ends.