Solo practice in the woodshed.
The phone sits ten feet away on the music stand. You play. It records. You stop. You hear yourself. You play again. The fastest version of the loop you've always been told to do.
Stop fumbling for the record, stop, and play buttons. PracticePlay listens for music and plays it back automatically, so you can focus on actively hearing yourself and improving your sound and technique.
Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
I can’t think of a more helpful app for both teaching and performing. The ability to truly hear exactly what you sound like is the greatest benefit of all.Ryan Gardner · Professor of Trumpet, University of Colorado Boulder
PracticePlay is a dream come true—an intuitive tool with hands-free recording and automatic playback for reflective, efficient, and meaningful deep practice.Wiff Rudd · Professor of Trumpet, Baylor University
I record three times as much now. I don't even think about it.Beta tester · Placeholder attribution
It’s not just that it works. It’s that I forget it’s there until it plays back what I just played.Beta tester · Placeholder attribution
The first time I heard myself without walking over to my phone, the whole practice room felt different.Beta tester · Placeholder attribution
HVAC, voices, doors, fans. None of it triggers a recording.
No pressing record. No countdown.
Hear what just happened. Play again.
Half-speed when you need to hear what your fingers actually did.
Every recording is grouped by session and stored on-device—come back to last Tuesday's run-through whenever you want.
Practice with the built-in mic — or add an external mic and studio speakers for a more professional setup.
Send a passage to your teacher, a bandmate, or anyone else—straight from the recording. Messages, Mail, AirDrop, anywhere.
The phone sits ten feet away on the music stand. You play. It records. You stop. You hear yourself. You play again. The fastest version of the loop you've always been told to do.
The app sits in the back of the room and earns its place by knowing when not to act. The whole group hears what they just played—something individual players almost never get to do during rehearsal.
Capture a student's playing alongside the teacher's spoken feedback in real time. Both come back together on playback, so the student can hear what they did and what they were told.
Run takes back-to-back without walking to the phone—slate, play, listen back, adjust, run another. Hear exactly what the panel will hear, before they hear it.
No subscriptions. No accounts. No ads. Pay once and use it on every Apple device you own.
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