New: Echo Garden. The app plays a few notes from a real song, then it's your turn: play them back on your kalimba, and every note it hears blooms a flower. Phrases grow longer, so ten echoes teach the song's opening. No kalimba yet? Play on screen in labelled touch mode. Also new: a clearer first run ("I have a kalimba" or "No kalimba yet"), and the Pro screen now shows live song counts and says exactly what Pro adds.

Kalimba Pro now comes as a one-time purchase. If you don't have Pro yet, choose Lifetime on the Pro screen to keep every lesson that fits your kalimba, Wait Mode and A-B practice across the collection, and unlimited tabs, tunings and exports. You pay once; nothing renews. Monthly and yearly plans stay available, and current subscribers keep full access through their plan. Also fixed: when you reach the free limit for saved tabs or custom tunings, the Pro screen now opens on top of the editor and your draft stays where you left it.

The rating prompt is fixed: it no longer disappears forever after your first export, and it no longer asks again every time you reopen the app. One ask per version, at a moment you earned.

Find your first three tines with a new illustrated guide for 8-, 10-, 15-, 17- and 21-key boards. The layout drill keeps the next tine in view and plays the note you tap. After your first song, go straight into practice. This update also clears stale microphone readings after interruptions, stops old preview notes from replaying, improves purchase restoration, and adds account-deletion recovery. Existing Pro subscribers keep access through their original products.

Kalimba 1.3 rebuilds the app around physical-instrument truth: • Confidence-gated, overtone-aware listening that abstains on unclear input • Rhythm-true tabs, Hear It First, scrub, 50–100% slow-down, and A-B loops • Separate timing and tine-choice results in Play-Along • Free per-tine cents guidance and a least-force buzz-fix guide • Exact 8, 10, 15, 17, and 21-key C layouts with disclosed lesson fitting • 80 rights-reviewed graded lesson sources, with incompatible melodies withheld rather than rewritten • A fail-closed release catalog containing no unreviewed song-name chart tier • Rhythm-aware tab maker with real PNG and PDF export • Centre-out zigzag trainer for the first-week layout wall • Accurate App Store pricing, eligibility-aware trial copy, restore, and legacy-subscriber entitlement support • Improved VoiceOver, larger text, contrast, reduced motion, iPhone, iPad, and landscape behaviour

Play your first real song — free. Before any paywall, we now guide you through Twinkle one tine at a time while the app really listens: Wait Mode waits for each note and only tells you a note is wrong when it clearly hears one, so you finish the whole song in your first sitting. Plus a daily practice streak to keep you going.

Bug fix: resolves a crash some users hit when using the live tuner / audio features on the latest iPhones and iOS.

Ground-up Soloist Kalimba rebuild: real 17-tine board, number tabs, glowing-tine play-along, scale-aware tuner, starter course, and cleaner on-device pitch feedback.

A big quality update based on real play-testing: - New: Practice Club - a fresh Pro song pack every month plus a weekly drill - New: export your tabs as shareable images (Pro) - New: "Practice this" on any song jumps straight into play-along - Improved: play-along controls moved above the board so Start is always reachable - Improved: editor now previews tabs in your selected tuning - Improved: clearer paywall copy and a friendlier sign-in flow - Plus dark-mode polish and many small fixes