PieceKeeper

Every piece you're working on lives in one list, with composer, instrument, difficulty rating, tempo, and notes attached. You can mark a piece as actively learning, in rotation, or set aside, and a set-aside piece quietly leaves your practice schedule until you bring it back. For anyone juggling a dozen pieces across lessons and personal projects, this alone replaces the notes app full of half-finished lists.

Instead of a fixed routine, PieceKeeper builds sessions from your repertoire based on your practice days and how many pieces you want per session. It rotates pieces so the ones you haven't touched in a while resurface, and you can add specific theory skills to a session from the settings. There's also an impromptu mode for people who practice whenever inspiration hits, with no set schedule at all.

When you start a session, you get a checklist of the pieces and add-ons for that day. Checking a piece off records it to your history, and an optional setting ends the session automatically once the last item is done. Notes you jot during practice flow straight into your journal, so the reflection happens while it's fresh rather than in a separate app later. No juggling between tools.

The built-in metronome handles tap tempo, accents, and volume, and it remembers a tempo per piece so you can load the right speed for whatever you're playing. A sustained drone supports tuning and intonation work. It's not a full studio toolkit, but it covers the two things most practice sessions actually need without opening another tab. Small thing. Big difference when you're mid-session.

Insights shows your lifetime practice time, streaks, per-piece stats, and a full session history you can filter and export. You can attach audio recordings to a piece and play takes back to hear the change over weeks. That's a real check on whether slow practice is working.

Every session ends with a journal entry, and the Notesbook collects them in a searchable timeline. Writing down what went wrong and what to fix next time is the habit that separates steady progress from aimless repetition, and having it built into the session flow makes it far more likely to happen.

The theory section covers note reading, major and minor scale building, and chord construction on the staff, with immediate feedback on each answer. Drills award a star for a perfect run. That turns short review sessions into something with a finish line.

Ear training walks up from the basics: naming a single piano note, then intervals (ascending, descending, and harmonic), then chord qualities, then chord progressions built with roman numerals. It starts with major and minor chords and layers in the harder qualities as your ear gets sharper. A rhythm dictation drill has you rebuild a heard rhythm on the staff. It's a solid progression for self-taught players who never had formal ear work.