A piano teacher that listens
Upload the sheet music and play along on your own piano. Your teacher, Solo, listens to every note and tells you which key was wrong, or when you rushed.
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Für Elise L. van Beethoven
That’s D5. Play D♯5, the black key just to its right.
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You found the sheet music and tried it alone. Too many notes, nobody to break them down, and the piece stayed unfinished.
I'd tried other piano learning apps, but I found them frustrating because they didn't let me play the songs I really love… Now it all feels possible.
Piano Nova is for you if…
Miss a key and Solo tells you which one to play instead. Rush or drag, and he tells you that too.
Stuck? Tap to bring the tempo down, or to hear the bar first.
Tell him where you are when you start. New to piano: both hands, at half speed, then faster from your next piece. Played before: closer to full speed from the start.
Tap and play it your way: loop a passage, slow it down, or practise one hand at a time. When you’re ready, a graded run shows which bars you’ve learned.
Take a one-bar lesson on Für Elise. Solo plays it, you tap it, and he catches every slip.
Für Elise Beethoven
A real score, running in your browser. Press play and follow each note on the keyboard.
A PDF, a photo of the page or a MusicXML file. It becomes a score you can play from.
Your first lesson takes you through the opening bars: one hand, then both; find the notes, then keep the beat.
Then practise the whole piece: loop any passage, slow it down, and watch the bars you’ve learned fill in.
A lesson covers a few bars, one at a time, at a pace set to where you are. Each bar goes through up to seven small steps, and Solo only moves on once you’ve played it.
Solo plays the bar before you touch a key, and the keys light up as it goes. Want it again later? is always one tap away.
Right hand alone, then left, then both together. New to piano too: you just take it slower.
First Solo waits for every note. Then the click comes on, and he tells you when you rush or drag. Already in time while finding the notes? He skips ahead.
You play all of the lesson’s bars in a row. If one breaks, Solo names it, drills just that bar, and sends you back to the top. Stumble three times with the click on and he slows the tempo, never below 40%.
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A fantastic app for piano players of all levels. It's intuitive, well-designed, and has really helped me improve my playing and stay motivated to practice.
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Piano Nova is made by Ivan Shapovalov, a pianist. It’s early, and that works in your favour:
Stuck on setup or a tricky piece? The founder helps you directly.
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Solo is an AI piano teacher built into Piano Nova: software, not a person or a video. He listens as you play, tells you which key was wrong and when you rushed, and decides what you practise next. Ivan, our founder and a pianist, also helps players personally.
Yes. Yearly starts with 14 days free, with everything a plan includes. There's no charge today, and we email you a reminder before the trial ends; cancel before then and you pay nothing. After the trial it's $149.99 a year. Weekly has no trial: $6.99 a week from day one.
That's fine. Tell us you're new, and your first lesson takes both hands at half speed, one bar at a time. If you've played before, you start closer to full speed.
Piano Nova accepts PDF sheet music, photos of printed scores (JPG, PNG), and MusicXML/MXL files. PDFs and photos are converted to playable notation using optical music recognition (OMR). MusicXML files are imported directly.
You see the score before your lesson starts. If it doesn't look right, upload it again, as a clearer photo or the PDF.
No. Solo can listen through your device's microphone (beta), so lessons work on any piano, acoustic or digital. A MIDI keyboard gives the most precise tracking, but it's optional.
Yes, bar by bar on the sheet music itself. Play a bar in time and it's marked, so you can see which parts are learned and which still need work. A graded run with the help switched off rings the bars that went wrong, and you can set how many days a week you want to practise.
Piano Nova runs in your web browser on desktop, Android, and iPhone. Play along with a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, or use the microphone — mic input (beta) works with acoustic pianos too.
Synthesia uses falling colored blocks instead of real sheet music notation. Piano Nova displays actual notation, which builds sight-reading skills, and Solo teaches it to you bar by bar. Piano Nova also lets you upload any score (PDF, photo, MusicXML), while Synthesia works with MIDI files from its library.
Those apps teach from their own song library. Piano Nova teaches the sheet music you bring, which makes it a popular Flowkey alternative and Simply Piano alternative for pianists who want to learn pieces that aren't in a fixed catalog. See all piano app comparisons.
Bring it. Solo will take you through it, from the first bar.
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