Questions, answered.

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.

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.

Orphia is built around MIDI, which tells it exactly which key you pressed and when — that precision is what makes the feedback trustworthy. A microphone mode for single-note melodies is in testing, but for now a digital piano or MIDI keyboard gives the real experience.

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.

No. You can play your first piece as a guest. If you create a free account later, your pieces, practice history and streak come with you to any device.

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

Lay the page flat in even light, fill the frame with the page, and hold still until the camera says it's sharp. The in-app camera guides you through it.

Yes. Open the piece and use the review screen to compare the score with your photo and correct clefs and key signatures. If a page went badly wrong, rescanning it in better light usually helps most.

Free includes 3 pages a month, and Pro includes 150. Your allowance renews at the start of each month, and practising pieces you've already scanned is always unlimited.

Orphia is for practising music you own or have the right to use. Your scans stay private to your account — they're never shared or published.

In Wait mode, the score holds on each note until you play it — perfect for learning the notes. In Follow mode, the score keeps time and you play along, which is how you build the piece up to tempo.

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.

It doesn't have to. Keyboard timing calibration measures your connection's delay in a few seconds and takes it off your timing, so a slow link is never counted as playing late.

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.

Yes — the annual Pro plan starts with a 7-day free trial. You won't be charged if you cancel before it ends.

Subscriptions are managed by Apple or Google. On iPhone or iPad: Settings → your name → Subscriptions. On Android: Google Play → Profile → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn't cancel it.

Sign in with the same account, then open Plan and tap Restore purchases.

We keep your scores and your practice history so Orphia can coach you. We don't sell your data, we don't show ads, and the microphone never records you. Read the full privacy policy for the details.

In the app, go to Settings → Privacy & account. You can download your data or delete your account there — or see the delete-account page for how to do it without the app.