Know what to practice today
Arietta is a music practice tracker that uses spaced repetition to bring back each piece you have learned before it fades.
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Free during early access. Every feature unlocked. No account.
Every piece comes back right before it fades
Arietta schedules your repertoire the way flashcard apps schedule words. Each good review pushes the next one further out, so a learned piece returns in weeks and a mastered one in months. A piece that starts to slip comes back sooner.
Open the app and Today lists what is due, and says why each piece needs you. No guessing where to start, whether you have fifteen minutes or an hour.
Progress, section by section
Break a piece into the parts you actually practice — the intro, the tricky run, the coda — and check them off as they lock in. Arietta keeps the best tempo for each one, so the passage that finally came together is on record.
- Intro
- Theme A
- Theme B
- Middle Section
- Return to Theme A
- Coda
Watch your tempo climb
Log the tempo you reach each session and Arietta draws it against your target. The two extra clicks on the metronome that felt like nothing add up to a line you can see.
See your practice add up
Weekly, monthly and all-time totals, a practice calendar and a monthly review of your highlights and personal bests.
Streaks count weeks, not days, so a rest day never breaks one. Set a weekly goal that keeps you honest without turning practice into a chore.
Practice in focused sessions
A practice timer with the metronome right below the clock. Pick the sections you are working on, jot a note mid-session, or switch pieces without stopping.
When you finish, log how long you played, the tempo you reached and how it went. Every session feeds your history.
Your whole repertoire, organized
Every piece moves through four stages, from the one you want to learn to the one you could play in your sleep.
- Wishlist
- Learning
- Learned
- Mastered
Search by title or composer, filter by stage, and sort it your way. In light and dark.
- Maple Leaf Rag learning
- River Flows in You mastered
- Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 mastered
- Gymnopédie No. 1 learned
- Take Five learning
Built for every instrument
Piano, Guitar, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Harp, Drums, Voice, Ukulele, and whatever else you play.
For students working through lesson assignments, adults coming back to an instrument, and self-taught players with a growing list of pieces.
Your practice stays yours
- No account
- Open the app and start. There is nothing to sign up for.
- On your phone
- Your practice data lives on your device and never reaches our servers. It works offline.
- Backed up to your iCloud
- On iPhone, Arietta backs up to your own iCloud, so a new phone picks up where you left off.
- Export anytime
- Take a full copy of your data out of Settings whenever you like.
Questions
Is Arietta free?
Yes. Arietta is free during early access, with every feature unlocked. There are no ads and no account to create.
What is spaced repetition in music practice?
Spaced repetition schedules a review of each piece right before you would start to forget it. Arietta applies it to your repertoire: each good review pushes the next one further out, so a learned piece comes back in weeks and a mastered piece in months, while a piece that is slipping comes back sooner. Today shows what is due and says why.
How is Arietta different from a practice timer or practice journal?
A timer counts minutes and a journal keeps notes. Arietta does both, and it also remembers every piece you have learned, tracks the tempo of each section, and tells you which pieces to review today so nothing you learned fades.
Which instruments does Arietta support?
All of them. Piano, guitar, violin, cello, flute, drums, voice and every other instrument — if you practice pieces on it, Arietta tracks them.
Does Arietta have a metronome?
Yes. The metronome sits right below the practice timer, with tap tempo, and the tempo you reach is saved with the session so you can watch it climb toward your target.
Can I log practice without the timer?
Yes. You can log a session by hand afterwards with its duration, the tempo you reached and how it went. You can also practice without choosing a piece.
What platforms is Arietta available on?
Arietta is available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store and for Android phones on Google Play, in light and dark.
Where is my practice data stored?
On your device. Arietta is local-first — there is no account to create, and your practice data is never sent to a Torsvik Labs server. On iPhone, Arietta also backs up automatically to your own iCloud account, so a lost or replaced phone does not cost you your history — that copy lives in your Apple account, where we cannot reach it. On Android that off-device copy is handled by the system Auto Backup rather than by Arietta, and it is not working reliably for Arietta at the moment; the data on your phone is unaffected, but use the export in Settings to keep a copy of your own.
What happens to my data if I get a new phone?
On iPhone, set up the new phone with the same Apple account and install Arietta — your pieces, practice logs, and statistics come back from your iCloud backup, and Arietta offers to restore them the first time you open the app. On Android, do not count on the automatic backup for this yet: it depends on the system Auto Backup, which is not currently reliable for Arietta, and we are working on it. Export your data from Settings on the old phone and import it on the new one — that is the dependable path on Android today, and it is also how you move between iPhone and Android, since Apple and Google backups do not talk to each other.
Get Arietta
Free during early access, with every feature unlocked. For iPhone, iPad and Android.
On a computer? Scan this with your phone's camera to get Arietta.
Made by an independent developer. No ads, no account.