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Orphia

Piano practice, for the music you own

Any score you own.
A coach that listens.

Photograph a page of sheet music and Orphia turns it into a score that lights up as you play — following every note from your keyboard, finding what's holding you back, and showing you exactly how to fix it.

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Free to start · No account needed · iPad, iPhone and Android

An Orphia practice session on a tablet: a piano score on cream paper, with a gold playhead in the first bar and the notes already played shown in green.
Keyboard connected

Bar 2 of 32

Pause
Listen
Start over
Guide

Practice

WaitFollow

Hand

LeftRightBoth

Tempo

−100+

At the score's tempo

Metronome

Accuracy

96%

End session & see results
  • Any digital piano or MIDI keyboard
  • USB MIDI
  • Bluetooth MIDI
  • iPad and Android tablets
  • iPhone and Android phones

How it works

From the page on your stand to a score that follows you.

No catalogue to choose from, no songs you didn't pick. Bring the music you already want to play.

  1. Sharp — hold still
    1

    Snap the page

    Photograph sheet music with the in-app camera — it tells you when the page is flat and sharp — or import a PDF or image. About a minute later, it's a score.

  2. Your photo

    What we read

    Key signature fixed
    2

    Check the reading

    Compare the score with your photo, side by side. If a clef or key signature was misread, fix it with a tap before you play a note.

  3. Keyboard connected4 of 4 right
    3

    Play — Orphia follows

    Connect your keyboard and start. Every note lights up as you play it, and the score waits for you or keeps the beat — your choice.

Why Orphia

Your music deserves a coach, too.

Learning apps coach you, but only through their own songs. Score readers show your music, but never tell you how you played it. Orphia is the one that does both.

Learning apps

Coach you — but only through their own song catalogue.

  • Practise your own sheet music(no)
  • Note-by-note feedback and drills(yes)

Score readers

Show and play your music — but don't tell you how you played it.

  • Practise your own sheet music(yes)
  • Note-by-note feedback and drills(no)

Orphia

Coaches you through the music you actually want to play.

  • Practise your own sheet music(yes)
  • Note-by-note feedback and drills(yes)

Inside Orphia

Everything a great practice hour needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Gymnopédie No. 1 — Satie

♩ = 72

Practice

WaitFollow

Hand

LeftRightBoth

Tempo

−58+

80% of the score's tempo

Start & loop

Looping bars 6–7

Goes back to the start when it ends

Note names

OffC DDo Re1 2

Practice

A score that waits for you — or keeps the beat

Learn the notes in Wait mode, where the score holds until you find the right key. Then switch to Follow and play in time with the guide. Slow it down, isolate a hand, loop the bar that trips you up.

  • Wait and Follow modes
  • Left hand, right hand, or both
  • Tempo from a crawl to full speed
  • Loop any bar or passage
  • Metronome and Listen
  • Note names: C D, Do Re or 1 2

This piece

Based on 6 sessions · 2,140 notes

This is holding you back:

You're rushing ahead of the beat

TimingBars 12–16 · High confidence
Drill this

Worth practising deliberately:

You're forgetting the key signature on some notes

Pitch · Bars 3, 7, 21

2 more things found this session — see why, with Pro.

Feedback

Hear what a teacher would tell you

After each run, Orphia looks for the patterns behind your mistakes — not just which notes were wrong, but why. Rushing the beat. Slipping a semitone on accidentals. Reading a third too low. Each finding says where, in plain language.

  • Findings across pitch, timing, rhythm, hands, reading, consistency and touch
  • Points to the exact bars
  • Tells you how sure it is

Free shows your top finding each session. Pro shows every finding, with the reason.

Drill · Bars 12–16

Step 3 of 4

Step cleared.

94% at 72 BPM. Next, the same bars at 84 BPM.

Drills

Fix it in five minutes, not five weeks

Every finding comes with a drill: the bars that need work, played slowly, then brought up to tempo one step at a time. Clear a step and the ladder climbs. Reach full tempo and the passage is yours.

  • Built from your own playing
  • A tempo ladder that only counts clean runs
  • Then back into the whole piece

Free includes one drill a month. Pro drills every finding.

Today's practice

20 minutes, built from your own playing

102030

  1. Warm-up

    3 min

    Your drill at 84 BPM

  2. Focus· Up next

    6 min

    Loop bars 12–16 at 72 BPM

    Because you're rushing ahead of the beat.

  3. Run-through

    8 min

    Play Clair de Lune all the way through

  4. Review

    3 min

    Check bars 3–4 again

Today's practice

Sit down. Know exactly what to play.

Tell Orphia how long you have and it builds today's practice from how you've been playing: a warm-up on your drill, a focus loop on the bars that need it, a run-through of the whole piece, and a check on something you fixed last week.

  • 10, 20 or 30-minute plans
  • Spaced reviews so fixes stay fixed
  • A gentle reminder, only on days you haven't played

20 and 30-minute plans and spaced reviews come with Pro.

Fixed lately

You've stopped rushing

Bars 12–16 were on the beat in your last 5 runs.

38% → 4%

12

day streak

Skill profile

Based on 23 sessions · 9,870 notes
  • Pitch88
  • Timing74
  • Rhythm81
  • Hand coordination67
  • Note reading92
  • Consistency78
  • Expression63

Progress

Watch problems disappear

Orphia remembers. It tells you when something's getting better, when it's fixed, and when an old habit has come back. Replay any run note by note, see your skill profile across every piece, and get your week in review on Monday morning.

  • “Fixed lately” — with the bars and the numbers
  • Replay a run note by note
  • Streaks, weekly report and skill profile

Your latest run on each piece is always free to replay.

The programme

Made for players with music they love.

Orphia is for people who can read a little music and want to play real pieces — properly.

No. 1

Coming back to the piano

You played for years, then life happened. The old books are still on the shelf. Orphia meets you where your hands are now and gets you back to the pieces you loved.

No. 2

Practising between lessons

Your teacher hears you once a week. Orphia hears every run in between — so you arrive with the hard bars already fixed, not just played more often.

No. 3

Teaching yourself

You can read music and you've got real repertoire in mind. What's missing is someone to say what's actually going wrong. That's the job Orphia does.

A note of honesty: Orphia isn't a game that teaches piano from zero. If you've never read music, start with lessons — and bring Orphia in once you're playing real pieces.

Practice is personal. We keep it that way.

Orphia listens to your keyboard, not to you. Your scans stay private to your account, and you can take your data with you — or delete it — whenever you like.

Read the privacy policy
  • No ads
  • Your data is never sold
  • Nothing is recorded
  • Export or delete any time

Pricing

Practise free, for as long as you like.

Both plans include unlimited practice. Pro explains everything that's holding you back — and gives you the drills to fix it.

Free

Everything you need to practise, every day.

$0forever

 

  • Unlimited practice — Wait, Follow, loops, metronome
  • Scan 3 pages a month
  • Your top finding after each session
  • 1 drill a month
  • 10-minute daily plan
  • Replay your latest run on each piece
Download free

No account needed to start.

Pro

Recommended

The whole coach — every finding, and the way to fix it.

$59.99/year

Just $5.00 a month, billed yearly

  • Everything in Free
  • Scan whole pieces — up to 150 pages a month
  • Every finding, with why it happens and where
  • A drill for every finding, with a tempo ladder
  • 20 and 30-minute plans with spaced reviews
  • Your skill profile across every piece
  • Replay every run, and the full weekly report
Start with Pro

7-day free trial, then billed yearly.

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Coming next

For piano teachers

See what Orphia finds in your students' playing between lessons — with their consent — and assign a drill on the exact bars in a tap.

Join the teacher waitlist
Coming next

For families

One tablet, several pianists. Each learner keeps their own pieces, plan and progress, with purchases and settings behind a parent PIN.

Learn more

Questions

Before you sit down.

All questions
What is Orphia?

Orphia is a piano practice app for the sheet music you already own. Photograph a page, and Orphia turns it into a score that follows you as you play — marking every note, finding the patterns behind your mistakes, and giving you short drills to fix them.

What do I need?

An iPad, iPhone or Android tablet or phone, and a digital piano or MIDI keyboard connected by USB or Bluetooth. A tablet on the music stand is the nicest way to use it; phones work in landscape.

Most digital pianos made in the last decade have MIDI. If yours has a USB port marked “USB to Host”, or Bluetooth MIDI, you're set.

Is Orphia for complete beginners?

Orphia works best if you can already read a little music and want to play real pieces — returning players, students between lessons, and self-taught players. If you're just starting out, Wait mode and note names help a lot, but Orphia isn't a game-style course that teaches piano from zero.

What sheet music can Orphia read?

Printed piano music — books, photocopies, and PDFs. Handwritten music isn't supported yet. Clean, well-lit pages give the best results.

How does Orphia know what I'm doing wrong?

Your keyboard tells Orphia exactly which notes you played and when. Orphia compares that with the score across your runs and looks for patterns — like rushing in the same bars, or missing the same accidental — then tells you what it found, where, and how sure it is.

What's the difference between Free and Pro?

Free gives you unlimited practice, 3 scanned pages a month, your top finding after each session and one drill a month. Pro scans up to 150 pages a month and unlocks every finding, unlimited drills, longer daily plans with spaced reviews, your skill profile, and replays of every run.

The stage is lit. Sit down and play.

Take the piece you've always wanted to get right, put it on the stand, and let Orphia follow you through it — one note at a time.

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