Piano Intro

Piano Intro is a small, free app for the very first steps at the piano: what the keys are called, where they sit, and how the notes on a staff match them. It is for children from about six and for grown-ups starting from nothing. It is an introduction, not a piano course: once you know the keys and can read the seven notes, you have outgrown it, and that is the idea.

What it does
• Four short lessons: find C, D and F by the black keys, discover octaves, meet the notes on the staff, name the black keys
• Four exercises with stars and records: Guess the key, Find the key, Black keys, All keys
• Read notes: ten notes on the staff, find each one on the keyboard
• Eleven simple songs, learned one note at a time: Twinkle Twinkle, Ode to Joy, Morning Mood and more
• Flow: play along as the notes glide by, judged on timing
• Free play over several octaves with five sounds, among them a real grand piano
• Practise now: three short rounds picked for you, and a quiet reminder only if you ask for one
• Instructions read aloud by the device's own voice, and the keys called B, H or Do Re Mi
• Statistics: your path, your best rounds and the songs you have played

What it does not do
• No chords and no two hands: everything is one note at a time, and the songs use the white keys only
• Only single notes on the treble staff, without sharps, flats or note lengths
• No videos and no teacher: it does not cover fingering or how to sit
• Only in English and Danish

Play on your own piano
Turn on the microphone and put the phone or tablet on your piano. The app hears which key you pressed, one note at a time and best in a quiet room. If it cannot hear you, tap the keys on the screen instead: everything works that way too.

Free, and private
Free, with no ads, no accounts, no purchases and nothing to unlock. It has no internet access at all: your results stay on your device, and the sound from the microphone never leaves it.

Works on phones and tablets, upright or on their side.