Where practice becomes progress.
An honest record of what you're working on, how often, and whether you're actually getting better. No streaks, no nags, no judgment.
Practice drifts. Comfortable pieces repeat, weak spots stay weak, and weeks pass with no honest record of what was done or what improved.
Founder's brief · § The problemSit down. Tap an item. Practice.
You sit at the piano. Etudio is already open on the tablet. Your practice list is visible: a handful of items, each with the time logged so far.
You pick one and work for twelve minutes. When the section feels done, you tap the item, hit + and type 12 with a one-line comment. Save.
You move to the next. After the session, the list view shows what was touched and what was skipped. The log grows quietly underneath.
Effort, measured honestly.
Not by what you intended. By the time you actually logged: per item, per day, over the window you choose.
Time invested
Total minutes in the period, next to the same window before it. Up, down or flat, the number stays neutral.
Days at the piano
Average minutes per day, and how many days of the window you actually practiced. Skipped days count as zero. There is no streak to protect.
Where the time went
Time per item, top ten in a ring, plus the hardest piece you touched (Henle 1-9). Which work got attention, and which got left.
Effort over time
Minutes per day, stacked by item, and one line per item across the window. Days with nothing on them sit on the baseline, plainly.
Built for solo practice first. Teachers and students follow.
One studio, any level.
The professional, the hobbyist, the self-taught teenager: the studio doesn't care which. Etudio tracks and organizes your practice and keeps your notes.
Receives, tracks, requests.
Today you log practice between lessons and your history is yours. Next: connect to your teacher so they see what you actually did (opt-in, and it travels with you if you switch).
Library, students, assignments.
Today: your own exercise library, ready before students arrive. Next: invite students, assign items, review each one's list in fifteen minutes before the lesson.
What Etudio is not.
- Not a metronome.Etudio refers to those. It doesn't replace them.
- Not a method book.Content is brought in by users (and seeded for v1), not authored top-down.
- Not gamification.No streaks, no badges, no leaderboards. Ever.
- Not a nag.No reminder notifications by default. We earn the open through value, not pings.
- Not a judge.The dashboard reports data; it never editorializes. Numbers stay neutral.
- Not a social network.Teacher↔student connections are bilateral and opt-in. Nothing is broadcast.
Things people ask.
Yes. Free is a real plan, not a trial. Basic and Professional add room and are 14 days free to try. Your data and personal library stay yours on every plan.
No. Etudio is a web app, built mobile-first: the phone on the music stand is the screen it was designed around, with its own bottom tab bar and touch-sized controls, and the practice timer runs right in the browser. Open the same address on a laptop and you get the full desktop layout. Nothing to install, nothing to keep updated, no store account. One workspace, every screen.
Piano in v1. The data model is instrument-agnostic; guitar, violin, voice, drums, and brass will follow as content (and a few instrument-specific affordances), not as a redesign.
Not yet. Teacher↔student connections are the next thing we build: bilateral, opt-in, and your log stays private by default. Until then your practice is yours alone, and your history will travel with you if you switch teachers.
Not today. Logging needs a connection. What you save lands in your account straight away, so it is there on every other device you open. Offline logging is not built yet: it needs groundwork on our side before it could be honest about what is saved and what is not.
Yes. From your account settings you create a file with your practice history (item names, time spent, comments) and your personal library, in a form that survives outside Etudio. On every plan, Free included. Your history belongs to you; nothing is held hostage, and you can delete your account at any time.
You can sign up from 14. At 14 or 15 you confirm that your parents agree, from 16 you sign up on your own. For younger students the route we are building is the teacher connection, which puts an adult on the contract; a parent role of its own comes later.
A notebook is honest but disconnected: what you planned, what you practiced, and what improved live on different pages. Etudio connects them in one log.
Where practice becomes progress.
Free to start. Email + password. Sign up takes a minute; your practice list is ready before the kettle boils.
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