Psaltica Praxis

Compose Byzantine music, edit lyrics, print scores, learn by listening and inspecting each phrase, and loop difficult passages until memorized.

Psaltica Praxis is a Byzantine chant composition and notation app for iPhone and iPad, built for chanters, students, teachers, and composers of liturgical music.

Learn a hymn by ear, then by eye. Each neume lights up as it sounds, so you can see exactly which note is playing, where you are in the chant, and why the melody moves the way it does. A printed book cannot show you that, and a recording cannot either. Loop any phrase until it is memorized, slow the tempo, and inspect any neume for its mode, pitch, and interval.

Write chant the way it is actually sung. Enter neumes on a specialized Byzantine keyboard with gorgons, martyria, fthoras, ison, expressive signs, accidentals, and time symbols, then hear the hymn play back in the correct mode.

Edit directly in the score with cursor-based insertion, replacement, selection, copy, and paste. Add multilingual lyrics in Greek, Arabic, English, and more, compose in LTR or RTL layouts, and organize your hymns in the composition library.

Notation and editing tools include:

• Cluster-aware Byzantine symbol entry and editing
• Customizable keyboard palettes and a More Notes keyboard
• Petasti variants and expressive signs including Varia, Omalon, Antikenoma, Psifiston, and Eteron
• Time signatures, automatic measure barlines, and per-measure beat overrides
• Interactive fthora mode selection with Greek mode names
• Accidentals and fthoras targeted to individual notes within composite neumes
• Fthoras attached directly to key signatures
• Out-of-mode key detection with one-tap replacement
• Note Inspector with mode, pitch, channel, applied rules, and moria distance
• Customizable notation alignment and symbol positioning
• Per-composition playback transpose and expression controls

Playback and study tools include:

• Byzantine chant melody and ison playback
• Adjustable instruments, volume, tuning, tempo, and pitch bends
• Selection playback and looping
• Note-name display during playback and selection
• MIDI export for playback and external workflow integration

Printing and file tools include:

• Printing and PDF export for clean chant scores at the choir stand
• Configurable paper size, orientation, margins, scale, lyrics, title, page numbers, measure barlines, and time signatures
• Composition library search and in-document Find
• Importing, exporting, backing up, restoring, and sharing compositions, including opening .psaltica-backup files straight from the Files app
• Settings backup, export, and import
• In-app feedback and composition issue reporting

Whether you chant in a parish choir, teach Byzantine music, or transcribe hymnography, Psaltica Praxis keeps the whole score on one device: compose the chant, notate the neumes, hear it played back, print it for the choir.

The free tier allows up to 3 saved compositions. Free playback previews are available for up to 3 distinct compositions per rolling 24-hour period, with 60 seconds of playback for each composition. Export and share your compositions for free, and import shared compositions up to your saved-composition limit.

Subscribe to unlock unlimited composition storage, unlimited playback, printing, PDF and MIDI export, backup tools, and the complete Psaltica Praxis workflow.

Psaltica Praxis offers auto-renewable Monthly and Yearly subscriptions for premium access. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings.

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