Short, guided steps take you from your first middle C to both hands together, in Western notation or Indian sargam. Play on a MIDI keyboard, on the screen, or let the microphone listen to your piano.
Free to start when it launches. Pro starts at $3.99 a month. Hear when it's out
A demonstration keyboard. Guide me lights the first phrase of Ode to Joy one key at a time, with finger numbers, the way a Keyboard Mentor lesson does.
Western keyboard from your first middle C, or Indian keyboard in sargam from your own Sa. Each path is a run of short units, and the first ones are free.
54 lessons. Foundation first, then Melody and Chords.
52 lessons in sargam. Meet Sa first, then choose a style.
A classical, graded path. Coming soon.
Lessons turn your phone sideways and come as short steps: an idea and its keys, a phrase the app plays for you, then a bar or two for your hands. Practice steps wait until you play. The last step is a check in time, and only that check can pass the lesson.
The staff scrolls to the blue line as you play, and the next key lights a beat before it's due, with its finger number. Only this timed check can pass the lesson, against the pass mark written for it.
Practice songs follow the lesson that taught their notes, so every one is in reach. Then the Library keeps you playing.
Songs are practice. They show stars and notes on time, and never change what a lesson says you've mastered.
Chord sheet, 3/4
GAmazing G7grace, how Csweet the Gsound
That Gsaved a wretch like Dme
I Gonce was G7lost, but Cnow am Gfound
Was Emblind, but Dnow I Gsee
{key: G} [G]Amazing [G7]graceOpen to everyone. None of them are scored as lessons, so play with them as much as you like.
The twelve major keys around the outside, their relative minors inside. Pick a key for its signature on a staff, its scale, its seven chords and progressions to try. Tap a chord to hear it and see its keys.
Free, no limit
Built to Guitar Mentor's standard: 40 to 240 BPM, 4/4, 3/4, 6/8 and 5/4, subdivisions, accents, tap tempo and saved tempos, with eleven colourways and six click sounds.
Free, no limit
Rounds of ten that train you to find notes fast: find every note, name to key, staff to key and sargam to key. Get 8 of 10 to pass; the summary shows your median reaction time.
3 rounds a day freeUnlimited with ProA full keyboard with sound and nothing scored. Change octave, switch the names between C D E and Sa Re Ga, hold Sustain, and set a click from 40 to 200 BPM.
Free, any timeThe keys at the top of this page work the same way. Try them
Every input is scored the same way, on your phone, from the moment each note lands. Every result records which input played it.
USB, Bluetooth, network or virtual. Calibrate latency, with a separate setting for Bluetooth. Your keys run the lesson too: C4 to try again, D4 for the next lesson.
No keyboard yet? Lessons, songs and Free Play all work on the phone's own keys, in landscape.
Listen mode hears your acoustic or digital piano. The band switches off so the microphone doesn't mistake it for you, unless you wear headphones.
PlugAI, inside Keyboard Mentor
The same coach that's in Guitar Mentor, made for keys. Ask about a lesson result, a song or what to practise next. It can explain what went wrong, draft a chord sheet or suggest a change to your plan, and nothing changes until you confirm.
From your latest run's wrong, missed, early and late notes, it tells you which bars and which hand, and what to try next.
"Write me a chord sheet for Silent Night." Save it to Chord Sheets or say not now.
It can suggest a change to your Keyboard Journey, with Update plan or Not now.
Practice summaries are shared only while you allow it, and you can withdraw. No audio and no name are sent.
PlugAIIllustration. PlugAI is part of Pro and needs an account. In kids mode, a grown-up check comes first.
Your phone checks each note against the lesson's written notes. Results say how they were earned, and practice never quietly turns into mastery.
Beyond the lessons and tools: a plan for every day, ear training, exam preparation and your own songs.
A daily practice plan with a personal coach, five-star course progress and milestones you earn.
An ear path from pitch and scale degrees to intervals, chord colour, harmony and melody, with aural practice for ABRSM, Rockschool and Trinity.
Original preparation for Trinity Piano, Trinity Rock & Pop Keyboards, Rockschool Piano and Keys, and ABRSM Piano. Not affiliated with the boards.
Import a song for chord suggestions and separate stems to practise with.
Play a Library song's chords as they light up, with an optional left-hand pattern and backing band.
A piano-led band with guitar, bass, drums, tabla rhythms and a metronome to play over.
For ages 4 to 10: hand pictures instead of finger numbers, bigger notes, and a grown-ups-only gate.
On-screen keys in Small, Standard or Large, so small hands and big phones both fit.
Taken from the app as it is today, in light and dark.
Pro adds every lesson and song, Ask PlugAI, and no daily limits. It starts at $3.99 a month or $35.99 a year, with a 3-day free trial on yearly.
| What you get | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Keyboard lessons: Foundation, Melody, Chords | First units | Every lesson |
| Indian Keyboard: Hindustani and Carnatic | Meet Sa + first unit of each | Every unit |
| Library songs, at Easy and Standard | 15 songs | All 38 |
| Practice songs after lessons | In free units | In every unit |
| Keyboard Vision | 3 a day | Unlimited |
| Daily quiz | 3 a day | Unlimited |
| Ask PlugAI | — | ✓ |
Starting prices in USD. Prices vary by region, and the App Store or Google Play shows yours before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel in your store.
Soon, on iPhone and Android. It isn't in the App Store or Google Play yet. Email us and we'll tell you the day it's out.
Yes, to start. The first Keyboard units, Meet Sa, the first Hindustani unit and Sarali Varisai are free, with their practice songs, plus 15 Library songs, Free Play, the Metronome and Circle of 5ths. Free learners get 3 rounds a day of Keyboard Vision and the daily quiz. Pro unlocks every lesson and song, Ask PlugAI and unlimited rounds.
No. You can play on the on-screen keys or let the microphone listen to your piano. A MIDI keyboard over USB or Bluetooth gives the most precise timing, and you can calibrate latency for each.
Yes. The Indian Keyboard path starts with Meet Sa, then you choose Hindustani (alankars, taal, komal and tivra swaras, Raag Bhupali, Raag Yaman, bhajan and aarti) or Carnatic (Sarali, Janta and Dhatu Varisai, Alankarams, Adi Talam, a first Geetham). Notes are named in sargam from a Sa you can set to any key.
Your phone checks each note against the lesson's written notes, using the moment the note landed. Each lesson has its own written pass mark, most often 85%, and only its timed check can meet it. PlugAI can explain a result, but it never calculates one, and practice songs, the Library and Free Play never change your lesson results.
An optional hand position for beginner two-hand lessons. The right hand moves up an octave to start on C5, for more room between the hands. The lesson, tempo and pass mark stay the same.
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Keyboard Mentor is coming to iPhone and Android. Email us and we'll write once, on launch day.
