Practice Pro
Metronome · Tuner · Drones · Recorder · Journal

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 create a page with everything you need to practice. 

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4.7 on the App Store As seen in The Verge

Free for iPhone and iPad. Every widget included.

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. 

28 widgets

Customize your practicewith 28 widgets.

Each widget has its own independant 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. 

  • Check all strings in one strum62 instruments, from guitar and bass to ukulele, violin, mandolin, banjo and folk instruments, with 247 tunings, a capo and your own tunings. This tuner can detect all string pitches at once.
  • Phase Detection Strobe TunerIncredibly accurate and instant response so even a small drift shows as movement.
  • Fine tune and TransposeSet A4 anywhere from 392 to 491 Hz and transpose to any key, with sharps or flats.

The strobe tuner as a ring, reading A4
The strings tuner in Drop D, hearing all six strings
Metronome

Any meter.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 beat visualizer metronome in 7/8 at 92 BPM, its three beats grouped 3+2+2, on a violet page
A pendulum metronome three quarters of the way through a beat, above 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. Drone tuning 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.

Check it off daily practice task as you go, and see how much you played this week. Practice time tracked automatically 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 or anything you like.
  • 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.

Theme 1 of 58. Swipe the row, or tap a theme.

iPhone and iPad

Your practice pages,on every device.

Pages, settings, journal, practice history and recordings sync through iCloud. 

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

Download on the App Store

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+.

Joe LeBlanc · Dynamic App Design · joe@dynamicappdesign.com

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.