Appmuse

This app is really amazing for helping organize and focus practice! There are a few bug issues like when I set times, some of the tasks squish down where I can’t really read the name. Show more

I appreciate that you can put in a subcategory but I wish it weren’t required. You just don’t always need one, and I’m struggling to use the app efficiently.

Unless I’m missing it in settings somewhere, there is no ability to edit the time of your practice. Right out of the gate, I had several times where I forgot to pause the app when called away from my practice and came back to a 20 minute time for a practice item and no way to edit it for the actual amount of time. Without this ability, I can’t really recommend the app. I’m using the paid version… Show more

The sub-categories make this work for classical music. My cat accidentally paused the timer on one movement of a Beethoven Sonata. Sometimes I also forget to turn off the timer but know when I quit. I could correct the record. I only gave this app 3 stars because I just started using it. I will use it for several days and then weigh in again. Show more

This app is probably great for a classical music student, but for anything else it’s overkill and clunky in its current form.

This app has a lot of nice features but I need something simpler and I don’t see a way to set this up in a simple way. It forces you to make really specific categories and sub- categories. Honestly that much be cool but it’s kind is a pain in the butt. I just wanted an app that I could track time days and a few notes for practice on 5 instruments. I found one way to just enter manually the practice time but now I can’t seem to find that feature again. If I want to track how much practice i put in I have to start the timer when I start. If I forget I have to run the timer and set a separate timer to remember to turn it off. If I let the timer run too long there’s no way to edit the total practice time that I can see. I just want an easy manual entry of a couple of different topics and this app makes it really difficult to do that. Shopping for something different. Show more

I have a general daily practice regimen which changes from time to time. I was excited to see this app was designed around the idea that a practice session consists of various steps. Unfortunately, this app takes an “a la carte” approach to practice and sort of assumes what you practice may change everyday. It also assumes you want to keep a very fine-grained record of precisely what you did and did not practice, down to the individual tasks and items at hand. It has 3 levels of organization: categories, subcategories, and items. I play piano, so for instance, I might have the following: Categories: Technical Exercises, Repertoire, Sight-Reading Subcategories of Technical Exercises: Scales, Chords, Arpeggios, Hanon Items of Scales: Parallel, Contrary (maybe you’d put the actually keys here as well) When it’s time to practice, you pick and choose the items you’d like to practice, assign timing to them, and hit “go”. There is no way to repeat a practice from a previous day. Every “recipe” must be new. For me, this is a disappointment. I’d rather have a single “object” called a “Practice Regimen”, which is defined by a series of tasks optionally defined by their amount of time, and I can “instantiate” this regimen each day. The regimens are sorted in reverse chronological order. From time to time I might duplicate it and change some details, but practice regimens for piano (and many other instruments) usually don’t vary so often. For instance, I’d love to have the regimen: Technical exercises: 20 mins Repertoire 1: 20 mins Repertoire 2: 20 mins Repertoire 3: 20 mins Sight Reading: 30 mins Performance: 10 minutes I don’t need to track the precise nature of the exercises or repertoire. Maybe optionally the app can let me add notes if I so please before and after each section. Maybe some week, I instead just have two pieces, and no performance coming up. No problem, just duplicate it, delete Rep 3 and Perf. Then hit go. It would be nice if the timers could measure undershooting and overshooting the estimated time, so as to help me adjust my daily regimen. So in all, this app is just far too complicated, requires a lot of effort before you touch your instrument, and makes logging by paper an easier proposition. With all that said, while the app doesn’t fit my use-case, but may fit others. If you have a *lot* of material you need to keep fresh and keep track of over long periods of time, then this app may be for you. Show more

Can’t log practice time

Very frustrated by this app. Was hoping to use it to monitor my daughter’s piano practice progress but the unintuitive interface of this app coupled with the apparent lack of any real functionality that couldn’t be more easily done with a pencil and paper made this app worthless to me. Have now deleted it from my iPhone. Show more

This app took a bit of practice itself, to understand how to set it up. But, after entering a standard practice session, some exercises, and songs I’m working on, it is quick and simple to use. For only $4 this app lets me track what I’m practicing and how much time I’m putting in. Because it uses iCloud, it doesn’t matter if I use my iPhone, or iPad, the same information is there. With some other apps requiring expensive subscriptions, I’m very happy using this one, even if I have to use a few others to supplement it. Thanks for making a very thoughtful and useful app at a reasonable price! Show more

The description says it will work on my iPad PRO 11.0 IOS 12.4.1 It does NOT! The start menu and practice timing screen will not appear. I spent the last 3 hours figuring I was doing something wrong. I went back to the YouTube video and they use an iPhone for demonstrative purposes. The “iPad” version looks nothing like that. It’s time for my money back and better testing by the developer. Show more

This app is just what I was looking for. No more messing with my old thick notebook for logging practice. It has a user friendly interface. Easy to use. This app makes me want to practice more. Show more

this is really exactly what I’ve been looking for! there is so much to practice and i’ve been wanting a way to keep track pf it all. i actually like the granularity of it all. i can really hone down on things and focus on mastering each aspect of my practice. i like that i can rate my progress. i really like that i can set up different practice sessions. seriously, thank you for making this! Show more

Exactly what I was looking for. My practice time is now focused.

This is a great game, the best part is that there are not pit stops ?

This app appears to have everything needed but is too granular both in setting up and trying to track progress. To practice a piece you need to first set up an instrument, create (or choose a preset) category, sub category and finally an item ( a piece ). You then create a practice session and add the items to it. Getting analytics on your practice time is equally granular. There’s no way that I can see to get the total time you practiced a piece throughout the day/week. You must go into each individual practice session throughout the day/week to find each and every time for the piece and total them up yourself. The app has a basic metronome (nice touch) and a timer which you can pause. It’d be nice if the timer had an option to be a countdown timer so that you could limit the time you practice something to say, 10 minutes. Show more

This app does everything a practice journal would do, but Better! I love the categories and sub categories, makes managing practices easier. Best option is the randomization feature. Makes working on scales and chord exercises a lot better. *The ability to select specific practice items, instead of a whole category would be helpful and time efficient. The metronome is barebones, it could be improved. *I would like to have subdivisions and possibly a different tone on the 1 count. *Also would be helpful if it recorded in the practice log at what bpm I was practicing a piece. Instead of showing it only once the practice screen opens. *One last input would be to add the ability to move a subcategory or exercise to another category without having to delete. I would gladly pay $4.99 for this app if the developers keep improving on it. It’s really good Show more

I was looking for an app to help me track all of my children’s music practice. I have three children with different instrument. Each teacher has different focus areas for my children. This app is very helpful for me to keep track of all of their practices tests. Show more

This app is perfect to put some structure in your practice. It has very simple interface and easy to use. Workflow it creates is just amazing - you start a practice session, choose what you want to work on and you are good to go! People who don’t like it just don’t know what they want or what this app is for. I would pay $10 for it without second thought. Few suggestions to developer: - When starting a practice session, app hijacks sound (i.e. Music pauses). Likely because of metronome. I think this is unacceptable - what if I want to play along? - I would like have option to remove metronome from timer screen, it’s distracting with its [play] button. - Capitalization of first letters in item names is annoying, have to tap shift before each word - Need option to export practice log. JSON, XML or any other easy to parse format will work. - I would like to be able to order practice items manually, same as categories and subcategories. - When choosing items for practice, allow to check several items in the same subcategory. Otherwise I have to drill down inside the same subcategory 10 times if I want to select 10 items. - Would be nice to have “expected duration” for each practice item, so app beeps or changes UI background color or something (will not hear beep when playing, music is too loud, same reason why metronome is useless). Or just make item’s notes be visible, so I can put expected duration there. - It would be nice to be able to go back in your practice. I noticed that I’m tapping Next instead of Start a lot and there is no way of going back. Would be useful to just be able to work extra time on some previous items when necessary. After some more time with the app, this is super important. Maybe allow to swipe left-right to go back and forward? Thanks for the app, keep it up! Show more

Can’t get this to work at all on my sons iPad