Learn to Read Music.
Play Anything You Put in Front of You.
Most piano apps teach you to follow along. Piano Tree teaches you to read music: real-time feedback, structured progression, and 19,451 pieces across every style and level. Built by piano teachers for students who want real musical fluency.
Sound familiar?
You Can Play Pieces You've Practised. Unfamiliar Music Is a Different Story.
Most piano students hit the same wall. You can work through a piece if you've had time to prepare it, but put something new in front of you and it falls apart. Not because you lack talent. Because the way most people learn piano is built around preparation, not reading.
Most piano learning apps make this worse. You follow coloured keys, you get through the piece, you feel like you've learned something. But the moment the prompts disappear, so does your ability to play. You haven't learned to read. You've learned to follow.
The best way to learn piano is not to memorise your way through a piece list. It is to build the ability to read music in real time, at any level, with any piece. That is what Piano Tree is built to do.
What professionals say about us
Photo: Elina Akselrud
Piano Tree is a rare app that actually delivers real value to music learners. It isn't built to give you the illusion of progress. It's built for genuine, well-rounded growth, with a thoughtful set of tools for both students and teachers. Whether you're working on sight-reading, repertoire, ear training, or theory, everything is structured beautifully and, honestly, it's a lot of fun.
The sight-reading modules are huge and really enjoyable. Even the simplest pieces are arranged with obvious care. Some of the standout features are also among the most essential, like being able to transpose any piece and the smart practice protocols that help you truly master your repertoire.
The app is so good that I've decided to integrate it into my own online piano courses. You can tell this was made by experienced, well-rounded, passionate musicians and teachers working alongside genuinely skilled engineers. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Piano Tree is a rare app that actually delivers real value to music learners. It isn't built to give you the illusion of progress. It's built for genuine, well-rounded growth, with a thoughtful set of tools for both students and teachers. Whether you're working on sight-reading, repertoire, ear training, or theory, everything is structured beautifully and, honestly, it's a lot of fun.
The sight-reading modules are huge and really enjoyable. Even the simplest pieces are arranged with obvious care. Some of the standout features are also among the most essential, like being able to transpose any piece and the smart practice protocols that help you truly master your repertoire.
The app is so good that I've decided to integrate it into my own online piano courses. You can tell this was made by experienced, well-rounded, passionate musicians and teachers working alongside genuinely skilled engineers. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Photo: Elina Akselrud
Photo: Elina Akselrud
Piano Tree is a rare app that actually delivers real value to music learners. It isn't built to give you the illusion of progress. It's built for genuine, well-rounded growth, with a thoughtful set of tools for both students and teachers. Whether you're working on sight-reading, repertoire, ear training, or theory, everything is structured beautifully and, honestly, it's a lot of fun.
The sight-reading modules are huge and really enjoyable. Even the simplest pieces are arranged with obvious care. Some of the standout features are also among the most essential, like being able to transpose any piece and the smart practice protocols that help you truly master your repertoire.
The app is so good that I've decided to integrate it into my own online piano courses. You can tell this was made by experienced, well-rounded, passionate musicians and teachers working alongside genuinely skilled engineers. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Piano Tree is a rare app that actually delivers real value to music learners. It isn't built to give you the illusion of progress. It's built for genuine, well-rounded growth, with a thoughtful set of tools for both students and teachers. Whether you're working on sight-reading, repertoire, ear training, or theory, everything is structured beautifully and, honestly, it's a lot of fun.
The sight-reading modules are huge and really enjoyable. Even the simplest pieces are arranged with obvious care. Some of the standout features are also among the most essential, like being able to transpose any piece and the smart practice protocols that help you truly master your repertoire.
The app is so good that I've decided to integrate it into my own online piano courses. You can tell this was made by experienced, well-rounded, passionate musicians and teachers working alongside genuinely skilled engineers. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Photo: Elina Akselrud
Piano Tree is the BEST app to practice sight-reading and piano exercises easily. Whether you're a complete beginner or an advanced pianist just looking to brush up on your sight-reading skills, Piano Tree helps build genuine sight-reading fluency. You can adjust your settings to tailor to your exact practice style, so you can have the sheet music go slow or fast and it even shows you exactly the spots where and how you make mistakes so you can go back and practice those sections. Piano Tree is AWESOME!
Piano Tree is the BEST app to practice sight-reading and piano exercises easily. Whether you're a complete beginner or an advanced pianist just looking to brush up on your sight-reading skills, Piano Tree helps build genuine sight-reading fluency. You can adjust your settings to tailor to your exact practice style, so you can have the sheet music go slow or fast and it even shows you exactly the spots where and how you make mistakes so you can go back and practice those sections. Piano Tree is AWESOME!
As a piano teacher, I highly recommend Piano Tree to my students. It helps build a strong foundation in rhythm, note reading, listening skills, and practice habits, all while making learning more fun and engaging. I especially love the sight-reading and ear-training features. Reading new music regularly in the app has done more for my students' fluency than the worksheets I used to hand out, and their listening has noticeably improved alongside it. It also fits the way I already teach, so I can assign specific exercises between lessons and know my students are practicing the right things. It has made my lessons more effective and my students far more confident at the keyboard.
As a piano teacher, I highly recommend Piano Tree to my students. It helps build a strong foundation in rhythm, note reading, listening skills, and practice habits, all while making learning more fun and engaging. I especially love the sight-reading and ear-training features. Reading new music regularly in the app has done more for my students' fluency than the worksheets I used to hand out, and their listening has noticeably improved alongside it. It also fits the way I already teach, so I can assign specific exercises between lessons and know my students are practicing the right things. It has made my lessons more effective and my students far more confident at the keyboard.
Piano Tree gets the fundamental thing right: it builds actual reading ability instead of letting students memorize their way through songs. And the graded, structured path means there's always a clear next step. You can also slow the sheet music down or speed it up to match your level, and it pinpoints exactly where you stumble so you can drill those spots. It works whether you're a beginner or an advanced player brushing up on weak areas. A genuinely useful tool for anyone serious about reading fluency.
Piano Tree gets the fundamental thing right: it builds actual reading ability instead of letting students memorize their way through songs. And the graded, structured path means there's always a clear next step. You can also slow the sheet music down or speed it up to match your level, and it pinpoints exactly where you stumble so you can drill those spots. It works whether you're a beginner or an advanced player brushing up on weak areas. A genuinely useful tool for anyone serious about reading fluency.
Everything You Need to Learn Piano Properly
Piano Tree is a piano learning app built around one goal: genuine reading ability. Not just accuracy, not just memorisation. Reading, timing, coordination, and fluency together, the way real musicians practice.
True Sight Reading Practice
Play mode keeps the music moving even when you make mistakes, because stopping is a habit that has to be unlearned. This is how sight reading is actually built.
Real-Time Feedback as You Play
Connect via MIDI or use your device microphone with any acoustic or digital piano. The app listens, tracks, and shows you exactly what you played, right or wrong, without interrupting your flow.
Fully Adjustable
Slow any piece down without changing pitch. Loop sections. Transpose to any key. Lock to a single key for focused training. Adapt every session to what you actually need.
MIDI and Microphone Support
Works with any piano, acoustic or digital. Connect via MIDI for the most accurate feedback, or use your device microphone to get started right away.
Backing Tracks
Practice with full accompaniment instead of a metronome alone. Develops timing, musicality, and the composure needed to play with other musicians.
Structured Progression Path
The Piano Tree Path moves you through graded levels systematically. You always know exactly what to practice and where you're going next.
Sight-Reading Focus Packs
Targeted packs for intervals, chords, cadences, rhythm, ledger lines, hand coordination, polyrhythms, and more, each built around real musical material.
Read-Ahead Training
Activate read-ahead mode and the bar you're playing disappears, forcing your eyes forward. One of the most important habits in fluent sight reading, built directly into your practice.
Who it's for
Built for Students Who Want to Actually Learn to Read Music
Whether you are learning piano for the first time, returning after years away, or preparing for exams, the approach is the same: structured, reading-first, and built around real progress.
Learning piano from scratch
Start with simple material, slow the tempo right down, and build note reading from the ground up, with a structured path that tells you exactly what to do next.
Exam students (ABRSM)
Graded material, transposition training, and a continuous-play mode that mirrors real exam conditions. Practice the way the exam tests you.
Learning piano as an adult
Rebuild rusty reading skills at your own pace, without the pressure of a lesson environment. Large repertoire means you never repeat the same material twice.
Improving sight reading and fluency
Close the gap between what you can play from memory and what you can actually read. The Focus Packs target the specific weaknesses that hold most players at this stage.
Piano teachers
Assign Piano Tree as a between-lesson tool. Students practice the right way independently: steady pulse, no stopping, reading ahead, without needing your supervision.
Jazz musicians
Lead sheets, chord symbols, and harmonic training alongside standard notation. The same structured approach applied to jazz repertoire and real charts.
Built by Piano Teachers
Piano Tree was built by piano teachers, composers, and engineers who kept observing the same problem in the studio: students who practiced for years without developing any real ability to read music. Every feature in the app exists to fix that.
Reading-First Approach
Every feature is designed around building genuine sight reading ability, not just piece memorisation.
19,451 Pieces
Classical, jazz, pop, film, tango, and more, organised by level and style. New pieces added every day.
Trusted by Teachers
Piano teachers assign Piano Tree as a between-lesson tool. Students build real reading habits independently, without needing supervision.
Join students and teachers who are building real musical fluency with Piano Tree
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