Music Practice Log - Tracker

Great, great product. Very flexible. Very stable.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.