The 15 Best Piano Learning Apps

How to start this ranking without mentioning the most complete piano learning app? La Touche Musicale offers you a vast library of songs to learn on piano (pop, hits, jazz, rock, rap, anime, video games, movies, …) and offers you to learn them easily through an efficient, fun and intuitive method.

The main strong points of La Touche Musicale : the possibility to upload on your account all your favorite songs in midi format (also called “midi file”) and to be able to connect your keyboard to your computer in order to interact with the platform and learn very quickly !

From a price point of view, it’s certainly the most interesting piano app on the market: hundreds of songs are totally free and 5,99€ by month to have access to the whole library of songs (1000+ songs). With La Touche Musicale, you’ll be able to play the best easy piano songs in just a few days.

Perfect Piano is a well thought-out piano app. The library of songs is less complete than on La Touche Musicale, but the learning features and the “gaming” side make it really interesting. You can learn easy songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or the notes of Happy Birthday on piano.

The only real drawback: on this piano app, you need several smartphones to have a piano with 88 keys (the piano is very small on a single smartphone).

Piano Teacher is one of the best piano learning apps which help you to start deciphering sheet music. The objective is to know how to decipher a score and understand how they are made up. The whole in a playful and gamified way. The musical theory is at the heart of the app, and the way to teach its knowledge is quite funny! If that’s your goal, test it, you’ll certainly have fun!

With this app, you will discover how to read scores and then you may be interested in our article on the best sites to download free easy piano sheet music.

Chordify is a clever website that allows you to choose a video from Youtube and transform it into tablatures in order to learn chords of the songs on guitar or piano. Their transcription technology is very powerful and took several years of development. But the downside is that you won’t really be able to learn the song, but only its main chords.

However, if you are looking to simply tune your voice to these chords to practice your singing, you’ll certainly enjoy it!

Online Pianist is a website and a mobile app that offers to learn songs on piano through a simple and intuitive interface. Its songs library is very rich and it will be easy for you to find your favorite song.

Only downside: you can’t interact with the website. Indeed, it’s not possible to connect your piano to your device in order to learn at your own pace.

If you like this app, we recommend you read our article on the best alternatives to Online Pianist.

Synthesia is the oldest app on the market, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad app! Synthesia offers the interesting feature of importing your own songs in midi format (or midi file), just like La Touche Musicale app. This gives you an almost unlimited songs library that you can build yourself.

It’s also possible to connect your keyboard to your device in order to interact with the software.

Only downside: Synthesia is a software that can be downloaded and is therefore not available directly on the web (unlike all other apps mentioned here). It is therefore complicated to access the same account on your smartphone.

You can learn more about this piano software in our article dedicated to Synthesia.

Skoove is a relatively new player in the market. Its value proposition is very simple: make you learn sheet decryption through online piano lessons.

The website is well thought out and allows you to evolve progressively.

You have the possibility to connect your own keyboard in order to interact with the software, making piano learning more motivating.

On the other hand, beware of your budget: Skoove costs 19.99€ by month, making it (with Flowkey, the next app of this post) the most expensive piano app in this ranking.

Flowkey is, like Skoove, a relatively new player in the market. The app emerged in 2012 and offers to learn both your favorite songs on piano but also to learn music theory through an interesting and visual method.

It’s also possible to connect your keyboard to your computer for more ease on your learning.

However, like Skoove, its price is quite high (19,99€ by month). So make sure you have the right budget before you get started!

Simply Piano is a piano app only available on smartphone and tablet. Its approach is qualitative: you can learn music theory and the deciphering of scores through a (very long!) series of lessons designed to evolve gradually and not to become demotivated.

On Simply Piano, you can also connect your piano to your device to learn at your own pace!

On the other hand, if you wish to avoid the score in your learning, go ahead, because the whole application is based on this method!

If you like this app, we recommend you read our article on the best alternatives to Simply Piano.

In this ranking of the best piano learning apps, Pianu is one of the most recent. It’s a website that offers you to learn music theory through a series of lessons and a songs library.

The piano app is not yet very optimized for learning but it promises great things for the future!

On the other hand, pay attention here again to the budget you need to have to learn on Pianu: 14$ by month!

Piano Companion is an original piano app since it provides you with unique tools such as a complete chord list allowing you to get your hands on the various chord possibilities, a scale dictionary, chord progressions and a complete set of tools that every “good” pianist should have at his disposal.

However, you won’t be able to play your favorite songs or learn to decipher a score on this app, and that’s not its purpose. The app rather seeks to transmit the basics of music theory (chords and progression) so that you can improvise and compose your own songs afterwards. Nice initiative!

Vivace is a good app to familiarize yourself with sheet music. In spite of its interface which, at first glance, may seem a bit primitive, the app offers a good, methodical and rigorous approach to learning via the score. Intermediate and beginner alike will find what they are looking for.

imusic School is a website and an app dedicated to piano learning. Through a series of theoretical and practical lessons, imusic School make you a better pianist. Composed of several thousand video lessons, the website offers you to progress on piano whatever your level.

The Premium offer starts at 24,90€ by month, you can follow all the lessons you wish in video. The piano training is well structured and allows you to progress step by step without ever being lost. The lessons are composed of practical exercises and more theoretical notions, so that you can have the most complete teaching possible.

Yousician is a website and an app dedicated to piano learning. With a very simple and understandable interface, the learning method is really designed for piano beginners and will allow you to progress step by step while having fun.

You can choose between several display modes (scores, scrolling sticks, …) according to your tastes and needs. You also have the possibility to learn the different chords on piano in order to improve yourself and to be able to improvise more easily.

The Premium offer starts at 19,99€ by month and gives you access to one instrument and unlimited lessons. If you want to unlock all the songs in the library, you have to spend 29.99€ by month.

Yokee is one of the best piano app on the market. Designed to make you learn piano quickly through a simple method, you just have to watch the videos presented by a virtual instructor to learn music theory: scores, exercises, chords, …

The app is especially designed for beginners who have never played piano before. Thanks to a series of well-structured lessons, the method proposed by Yokee will allow you to progress step by step without getting discouraged.

Indeed, the comments of this app on the PlayStore are quite complimentary about the quality of the training provided. Even if you don’t own a keyboard yet, you can still have a rough draft of piano training.