PlayPiano 2.0. The app has been rebuilt around your first ten minutes with it. - A new first session. Connect a keyboard by cable or Bluetooth and watch it name every key you press, or start playing on the on-screen keys right away. Without an instrument you can still play. - Home is three places now: Today for what to do next, Practice for the trainers and the tools, Library for your pieces. - Opening a piece asks what the session is for. Play to explore, Coach to work one passage from its plan, Grade for a run that counts. Only Grade keeps a score, and it asks for real keys, because a score earned on glass is not the same thing. - Your report shows where it went wrong across the whole piece instead of the first few bars. Tap any bar to open the notes inside it. - A passage you pass now says so. - When a practice plan cannot be made, the app says which thing went wrong and what you can do in the meantime. - Suggested fingering is drawn on the key it belongs to. - Four widgets: your week, your next step, a quick start, and a note to name. Each one is a tap from practising. - On iPad, Today, the report and the trainers use the extra room instead of stretching. - A run where nothing was heard says so, instead of scoring it zero and inventing advice about it. - A new look throughout: one colour per meaning, type of the app's own, and controls that press like piano keys.

Open a piece and pick why you are here: Play to explore with nothing judged, Coach to work on what a plan found hard, or Grade for one scored run. The score on your library card now always means the same thing, a graded attempt, never a gentle run at half tempo. - Practice plans: open a piece and get a short plan built from it, with passages that build toward playing it whole. - A weekly target replaces the daily streak, so missing one day is no longer starting over. - Your best score and how it is trending are shown before you open a piece, not buried after. - Fixed: a sharp or flat printed in the music is now read exactly as written, so a note you played right is no longer marked wrong. The second time through a repeat is graded like the first.

Learn mode waits for you, then moves on. - Learn mode could stop on a key you were already holding, and the music never continued. Now it moves on. - Notes on the hand the app plays for you are no longer counted as wrong. - Sharps and flats are matched exactly as they are written. - Fixes a crash during practice, and prompts that covered the notes you were reading.

See exactly how you play, and what to do about it. - Every note is coloured by what actually went wrong: early, late, released early, held too long, missed. - The report opens on one thing to work on, with a button that starts practising that exact passage in a loop. - Tap any note or bar for the detail: what was written, what you played, and by how much. - Play back your own run and hear the mistake rather than reading about it. - Zoom the score, or hide the bars you got right. - A seven part score out of 100, with the weakest part called out. - Keyboard calibration keeps timing fair, whatever keyboard you use. - Guided runs with Wait for me are for learning and are not scored. - Anonymous usage stats help improve the app; switch them off any time in About.

A bigger course, and a new way to train your ear. - The path is now 51 units across 7 chapters, from middle C to both hands together. - Reading starts on the grand staff in the very first reading lesson. - New Echo drill: listen to a short phrase, then play it back. - Chords now cover C, F and G7, with a new Amazing Grace arrangement to play them in. - Scales add hands together and contrary motion, with a steady click to keep time. - Pieces and drills open on two tracks, so a hard piece never holds your practice up. - Drill progress starts fresh on the new levels. - Fixes: the practice screen no longer lists an idle network session as a connected keyboard, loop handles snap to the nearest barline, the intro clears the Dynamic Island, and the coach tour points at the right spot.

A better first day, and a way back tomorrow. Getting started - Four short introduction pages on the first launch. No questions, skip whenever you like. - The path now opens with Find middle C and your first melody, so the first key press comes within a minute. Posture and finger numbers follow, on one card. - Played before? A link on the home screen skips the first steps. Every chapter still has its playing test. Coaching - Short tips the first time you meet something: Play, the settings panel, Listen, Practise mode, the metronome ruler, the trainer panes. Each shows once and leaves the moment you do the thing. - Show me around: an optional five-stop tour of the practice screen, offered on your first piece. - How to use PlayPiano: six short illustrated pages in About, and from the practice panel. - When a unit is done, the home screen offers the next one. It never starts on its own. Habit - A daily practice reminder, if you want one: pick a time after your first practice day. Days you already practised are skipped. - The streak forgives one rest day a week and says so on the card. - Coaching tips can be switched off, or shown again, in About.

A smoother score and clearer feedback while you play. Playing - The score now scrolls and animates smoothly during playback, dragging and selecting a passage. - A wrong note is now marked on the staff with the note you actually played, so you can see what you hit even with the on-screen keyboard hidden. - Early and late notes are shown differently: the notehead shifts in the direction you were out, so you know which way to correct. - Pausing shows every judgement from the pass you just played. Restarting clears them. Accessibility - The practice screen now respects Reduce Motion, and every verdict can be told apart without colour.

A large accuracy and reliability update. Every feature in the app was reviewed end to end and the fixes below all come out of that pass. Playing and scoring - Notes are now judged from your keyboard's own timing rather than the screen refresh, so a fast passage played slightly behind the beat is no longer marked wrong. - Fixed hands-separate practice: the app now plays the hand you are not playing, and scores the hand you are. - Fixed wait mode missing the very note it was waiting for, which could cost you marks on a flawless run. - The last notes of a piece now count towards your score, and restarting starts a clean score. Learning - Corrected the note names shown in the chord and scale explorers. F major now reads B flat, and C minor reads E flat. - Chord exercises say when they want root position instead of silently expecting it. - Practice you missed now comes back on a proper review schedule, and the home screen shows how much is waiting. - The course no longer teaches black keys three units after asking you to play them, and it can no longer get stuck: any unit you cannot pass can be skipped and returned to. Your library - Search now finds accented titles: typing "fur" finds "Fur Elise". - Your scores and their practice history are now visible in the Files app, so you can back them up or move them to a new device. - Importing several files at once no longer stops at the first problem file. - Deleting a score asks first. Metronome - The click is now locked to the music instead of drifting against it, subdivisions sound different from beats, and the screen stays awake while it runs.