Music practice is hard. Cresc Flow makes showing up feel worth it.
Cresc Flow is a beautifully crafted music practice tracker that elegantly gamifies your daily routine.
No more dry logs or mindless repetition. Cresc Flow turns your journey into a rewarding, collection-driven experience. Track every session, set smart goals, visualize your progress with deep analytics, and stay sharp with a built-in metronome and tuner. As you log your hours, you’ll unlock 54 historical composers, build a unique connection with them, and pick up genuine music knowledge along the way. Every minute of practice moves you forward!
GOAL-DRIVEN SESSION TRACKING
- Track by Goal: Tie every session to a specific goal so you always play with a purpose.
- Countdown or Stopwatch: A countdown for time-boxed sessions, or the stopwatch for open-ended runs.
- Actionable Sub-Tasks: Break complex pieces into bite-sized sub-tasks you can check off as you go.
- Session Freedom: Edit or manually log any session anytime to keep your history clean.
- Rate, Record & Reflect: Grade your performance 1 to 5 stars, record audio, and add structured notes, all tied to the session.
UNLOCK 54 HISTORICAL COMPOSERS
- Earn Reference Letters: Start with Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Practice consistently to earn letters and unlock more famous composers.
- Grow Your Affinity: Practicing raises your Affinity with composers. It only ever goes up. Zero decay, zero guilt.
- Post-Session Inspiration: Composers occasionally appear at the end of your sessions with a word of wisdom, unique inspiration, or a creative spark.
- Personalized Hub: Favorite composers, add custom tags, view historical timelines, and link external music, videos, or texts to track your learning.
FREE METRONOME & TUNER
- Precise Metronome: Steady beats with adjustable BPM, time signatures, and traditional tempo terms from Largo to Presto.
- Microphone Tuner: Highly responsive tuning with a flexible reference pitch from 430 Hz to 450 Hz.
- Reference Drone: Hold a steady reference tone hands-free, so you can tune or play along.
- Quick Presets: Save custom note presets to tune your instrument in seconds.
ALL-IN-ONE PRACTICE TOOLS
- Repertoire: Build a library of the pieces you’re learning, each with a status. Search the IMSLP catalog for scores, or add your own PDFs to read full-screen.
- Recorder & Notes: Record audio with scrubbable waveforms, standalone or attached to sessions. Write notes in grid or list layouts.
- Practice Compass (Strategy & Ideas): Map out your session before you play. Pick the facets and moves for the day so you always know how to tackle hard passages.
- Chords Lib: Explore chords in any key and scale, hear each as a block or arpeggio, and see its tension on a piano.
- Music Glossary: A searchable dictionary of terms, filterable by category and difficulty. Track mastery across languages.
SEE YOUR PROGRESS VISUALLY
- Running Totals: Keep score of your all-time sessions, time, recordings, and notes.
- Heat Maps: See your practice intensity at a glance with an interactive calendar heat map.
- Comprehensive Charts: Clean bar charts for total practice time and rating trends by day, month, or year, plus a detailed pie chart breaking down sessions by goal.
FREE PLAN
- Full access to the built-in Metronome, Tuner, Audio Recorder, Notes, and Practice Compass.
- Track up to 20 sessions and 1 active goal.
- Unlock up to 2 historical composers.
- 7 days of full statistics history.
PREMIUM PLAN
- Unlimited Everything: Unlimited composers, goals, and session tracking.
- Full History: 30-day, 12-month, and custom-range analytics.
- Cloud Sync: Seamless cloud synchronization across all your iOS devices.
- Cloud Storage: 10 GB of secure recording storage. Monthly or yearly subscriptions.
Bring clarity to your routine and history’s masters to your side. Download Cresc Flow and start your first session today!
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
It’s an over glorified stopwatch unless you pay for the subscription. Then you can take useful practice notes and fill out a composer Pokédex. They composers just pop up wiki information after every practice and nothing else. There is no other gamification. Somehow there aren’t any composers of color at all.You do get an in app tuner and metronome without the subscription, so it gets 1 star.
Developer Response
Thanks for the detailed feedback.On the free tier: Recording, notes, the metronome, and the tuner are all totally free. Notes aren't paywalled. Like any practice app built to last, we do have a subscription. What sits behind it is straightforward: cloud sync and backup, so your goals, notes, repertoire, and recordings follow you across devices and don't vanish if you lose your phone. Cloud storage adds up every month, and the subscription is what pays for it, along with ongoing maintenance and new content. That's also what helps keep all those core features free for everyone.On the composers: Cresc Flow isn't a collection game. Unlocking a composer is meant to be a reward for practice you actually put in, and that's all it is. It's a practice tracker first, though more depth for the composers is on the way. Cresc Flow is built by one person, so new features just land a bit slower than we'd like.On the roster: It's still growing, and we want to keep making it broader. There's a "Wish for More Composers" button at the bottom of the composer list. Tell us who you'd like to see and we'll look into it.Appreciate you taking the time. Hope your practice goes well!
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
- Fixed a bug where sheet music or links added to a piece could fail to save and disappear after reopening.
- Fixed a bug where turning off the drone could stop the tuner from detecting pitch.
- Additional interface polish and localization fixes throughout
Version 1.2.6
The developer, Tiny Cresc Interactive Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Tiny Cresc Interactive Inc.
Size
89.9 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
