Pick any song. Upload it. We'll help you learn it note by note.
Free to start · no card needed · runs in your browser
PDF, photo, or MusicXML — it becomes playable, living notation.
Adjust the tempo, set custom loops, practice hands separately.
Listen first, then play along — MIDI keyboard or just the mic.
Upload sheet music as PDF, photo, or MusicXML — any genre, any difficulty. Your uploads stay private, always.
Listen before you touch a key, then play along on your own piano — digital or acoustic, whichever you already have.
Slow any passage to half tempo, loop the bars that trip you up, practice hands separately, then speed back up.
Three ways to sit with the same piece. Practice waits for you to find the right note before moving on. Perform switches the help off and grades the run.
It writes your practice onto the sheet music itself — run by run, bar by bar, week by week. Come back after a week away and the piece already knows what you can play.
Pick a section and play it straight through. Piano Nova grades the take and rings the bars that went wrong — one tap puts them on loop.
Accuracy 94% 6 points up on your last run
Bars 17 and 22 need another pass
Play a bar in time and Piano Nova marks it. No badges, no levels, no points — the actual bars of the actual piece, filling in as you work through it.
Each column is one bar · Für Elise, 35% learned
Choose how many days a week you want to sit down at the piano. Piano Nova picks the next twelve bars each time, and marks the day off once you’ve played them.
Goal met · 3 of 3 days · 6-week streak
Start free with 3 scores. Upgrade when you're ready — no hidden fees, cancel anytime.
A fantastic app for piano players of all levels. It's intuitive, well-designed, and has really helped me improve my playing and stay motivated to practice.
Always free
One payment, yours forever.
Pays for itself in ~2 years — then free foreverPiano Nova is built in the open by a solo founder — Ivan Shapovalov, pianist.
Stuck on setup or a tricky piece? The founder helps you directly.
Beta players' requests jump the queue.
Today's price is yours as Piano Nova grows.
Compare every plan in detail on the pricing page, or contact us about teacher & school plans.
Piano Nova accepts PDF sheet music, photos of printed scores (JPG, PNG), and MusicXML/MXL files. PDFs and photos are converted to playable notation using optical music recognition (OMR). MusicXML files are imported directly.
No. Piano Nova can listen through your device's microphone (beta), so play-along and wait mode (where the app pauses until you play the correct note) work on any piano — acoustic or digital. A MIDI keyboard gives the most precise tracking, but it's optional.
Yes, bar by bar on the sheet music itself. Play a bar in time and Piano Nova marks it, so you can see which parts of a piece are learned and which still need work. Each day it picks the next twelve bars for you to take on. Perform mode grades a run with the help switched off and rings the bars that went wrong, and you set your own weekly goal for how many days you want to sit down at the piano.
Synthesia uses falling colored blocks instead of real sheet music notation. Piano Nova displays actual notation, which builds sight-reading skills. Piano Nova also lets you upload any score (PDF, photo, MusicXML), while Synthesia works with MIDI files from its library.
Those apps lock you into their song library. Because Piano Nova lets you upload any sheet music, it's a popular Flowkey alternative and Simply Piano alternative for pianists who want to practice pieces that aren't in a fixed catalog. See all piano app comparisons.
Yes, there is a free tier — upload a few scores, hear any of them in full, and practise the opening of each piece. No card needed. Paid plans start at $19.99/month and lift every limit: unlimited scores and pages, and full-length practice on all of them. A yearly plan ($149.99/year, 37% off) and a one-time lifetime plan ($299) are also available. Exact free-tier limits are on the pricing page.
Piano Nova runs in your web browser on desktop, Android, and iPhone. Play along with a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, or use the microphone — mic input (beta) works with acoustic pianos too.
Upload a PDF or a photo of any score and play it back, note by note.
Start playing freeNo card needed · works on desktop, Android & iPhone