I built a free iPhone app for the 6 days between music lessons — the teacher’s recap becomes the student’s practice plan
Tutti went live on the App Store today.
A — Answer
Private music lessons have a slightly awkward handoff.
You can spend the lesson working through a piece and explain exactly what needs practising, but then the student goes home and there are another 6 days before you see them again. Notes in a notebook, email or WhatsApp can work, but the important bit can easily get buried.
Tutti is built around that gap.
At the end of a lesson, the teacher can leave a recap and the actual things they want the student to work on. Those become the student's Today's Focus rather than just sitting in a page of lesson notes.
The student can practise from there, use the timer, metronome or tuner, work through repertoire and goals, and save recordings as Performance Takes. They can also leave a reflection for their teacher.
Then when the next lesson comes around, the teacher has some context from the week instead of that whole period basically disappearing.
Parents have their own view too, but I didn't want that to mean parents can see everything. Teacher-only notes stay with the teacher, student reflections stay between the student and teacher, and the family view only gets the things that are actually meant to be shared.
The point isn't to make the teacher available to students all week. If anything, I wanted the opposite — make the next step clear enough that the student can get on with practising without needing another explanation.
B — Better
There are already some very capable apps in this space and I'm not pretending I invented lesson notes or practice tracking.
My Music Staff is much more established around running the administrative side of a music studio. Practice Space and Better Practice are closer to the student-practice side.
The thing I wanted to do differently with Tutti was keep the whole loop in one native iPhone/iPad app:
lesson → recap → Today's Focus → practice/recordings → next lesson
Teacher, student and family aren't just looking at different permissions on the same dashboard either. They have separate experiences built around what each of them actually needs to see.
There is more around that core — recurring lessons, attendance and rescheduling, repertoire and milestones, recordings/files, a lesson whiteboard, practice history, XP/achievements and a private billing ledger — but I tried to make all of it sit around the teaching rather than turn the app into accounting software.
One thing worth mentioning because I know this sub (fairly) hates pointless account walls: Tutti does require an account. That's because teacher, student and family accounts actually connect and sync information between each other. It isn't there just to make you register before using a single-player utility.
C — Cost
Free.
There isn't a subscription or paid tier at the moment, and there are no ads. The syncing between student, parent and teacher is done via my own home server so there is no additional cost for me, and all data is stored locally first then synced to the server, so in a situation without internet, or In the rare case the server does go down your data is still safe. In the future if you guys like this, I am working on creating a discord server with feature requests for a theoretical paid version, but any feature that has been shipped or advertised today will always stay free!
App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tutti-lesson-studio/id6796408234
t requires iOS/iPadOS 26 and is also supposed on MacOS 26. Some features, like the performance take analysis feature are only available in the 27 software releases as that feature specifically uses Apple's new Music Understanding framework!
If anyone tries it, the thing I'm most curious about is whether the teacher → student → family setup makes sense without me explaining it first. If you get confused somewhere, tell me where, that's probably more useful to me :)