Music
Piano Maestro
Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the iPad seems to listen in and light up the notes they hit.
Piano Maestro presents practice as a game. With the iPad propped on the music stand, a child plays an acoustic piano or digital keyboard and the app appears to follow along through the microphone, lighting up notes and filling in stars as they go. A Journey mode moves through chapters that each target one piece of the puzzle – sight-reading, rhythm, technique, hands together. The App Store listing describes a library of more than 2,800 songs and exercises sorted by level and style, including pages from familiar beginner method books, which suggests it is meant to sit alongside real lessons. Each piece can earn up to three stars, a nudge many kids seem to respond to. For moments away from the instrument, an on-screen touch mode stands in. Kids already taking lessons look like the natural audience.
- Ages
- School-age kids learning piano
- Works on
- iPad app
- Topics
- Music
- Languages
- English
- Listed
- 2026-10-18
What kids do
- Play a song on the piano while the app listens
- Move through Journey chapters on sight-reading
- Chase three stars for rhythm and accuracy
- Practice a page from a method book
- Tap through a piece in touch mode
Who it suits
School-age kids learning piano.
Notes for parents
From Simply, the company behind Simply Piano. Teachers can apparently link in with a teacher code to assign pieces, and it looks designed for any acoustic or digital keyboard within earshot of an iPad.
What you need
- iPad
- Piano or keyboard (or the on-screen touch mode)
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