10 Best Piano Apps UK 2024 | Yousician, Simply Piano and More

It's a mark of quality when Yamaha offers a free subscription to your app with its pianos, and Flowkey really is a great app for everyone from beginner to advanced players. You'll start out with concepts as basic as posture, before moving onto sight reading and music theory.  

It also includes a host of unique features: every lesson is accompanied by a video of someone playing the piece so you can be sure you're doing it right, and the music can be slowed down until you've perfected it. You can even personalise your learning journey. Flowkey takes everything great about other piano tutorial apps, and combines it into one convenient package.

Simply Piano aims to make learning the piano easy and fun, and we think it succeeds on both counts. It looks great and you'll have a lot of fun playing its hundreds of songs.

Where the app stands out, however, is in its personal touches. Unlike Yousician, Simply Piano uses instructional videos, so you'll feel as though you're sat with a tutor. It even allows you to create personalised goals. Advanced players may get frustrated by its lack of advanced concepts, but this award-winning app is perfect for beginners and intermediate players.

OnlinePiano is truly unique. It takes elements from gaming apps like 'Piano - Play Unlimited Songs' and, rather than an on-screen keyboard, allows you to use your actual piano. The result is an interesting halfway point between game and tutorial – you'll be competing against other players within a game-style app, but you'll be playing everything for real. 

No, you won't have advanced concepts explained to you in the way that you would with a tutorial app, but this app is so fun you'll be sat at your piano for hours. And, as they say, practice makes perfect! 

Designed by the husband of a piano teacher, Note Rush is a fun and highly addictive way of improving your music reading skills. As colourful icons appear across the staves displayed on screen, it's your goal to play them as quickly as possible. 

Over time you'll become an expert at quickly recognising notes, as well as their octave and whether they're part of the bass or treble stave. Don't let its colourful interface fool you into thinking this app is lightweight – Note Rush is a great way of gaining a highly sophisticated skill for music reading. 

Yousician is one of the best known piano apps out there, and for good reason. As you play along to lessons designed by expert music teachers, Yousician's highly accurate software listens and gives you feedback regarding your accuracy and timing. You'll only be able to progress once you perfect your new skill.

Yousician's downside is that some skills are only touched upon lightly, but the app's design and gamification elements – such as its leaderboards – make learning incredibly fun. You can also learn several instruments with Yousician, which is handy for multi-instrumentalists.

Piano Dust Buster is a fun, colourful game that dispels any idea that sitting and learning the piano might be a dull activity. Place your phone on the music stand, and press the notes shown on screen to enable 'Granny' to eliminate those pesky germs from her piano keys.

Gamification elements, such as XP points, make this addictive for grown-ups and kids alike, and the more you play, the more your sight reading speed will increase. Some may argue that using a game to get your kids to sit at the piano is a devious move, but when it's this fun, it's a win for everybody!

Skoove is a piano tuition app that listens and corrects you as you play along to a wide selection of popular and classical hits, all the while acquiring the ability to sight read and play tunes without even realising it. Its 400 lessons also allow you to focus specifically on any weak areas.

This app is a reliable method for getting yourself excited about playing the piano, but because it lacks some helpful extra features – such as allowing you to pause and rewind the song you're playing – we feel there are better tuition apps available. Keep reading to find out what they are.

If you're looking to learn the piano, Piano Academy is a great place to start. The use of video gives the app a personal touch, and the app covers simple concepts such as notes, the staff, and chords, which makes it perfect for beginners.

Once you've acquired a basic grasp, however, you'll find progression difficult, as Piano Academy features very little material for advanced players. Many users have also complained about being unable to rewind back to parts of a song they're struggling with. If you're a beginner, however, Piano Academy is a great way to get started.

It's not quite as good as the real thing, but Perfect Piano is about as close as you'll get to playing a real piano on your phone or tablet. You'll get the entire 88 keys, touch sensitivity, and even the ability to record and share your tunes with friends.

This app is a dedicated piano simulator, so you don't get many of the flashy features that you do with other apps, but there's no better way to practice your scales while on your lunch break.

It's a little oddly named, but this is one of the most enjoyable apps out there. Using the on-screen keyboard, it's your job to play note-perfect renditions of a selection of popular songs. Hit all the right notes, and you can find yourself topping the online leaderboard. You can even challenge your friends to discover who's the true Piano Man!

Whether you can strictly call this one a piano app is up for debate, but it's not a bad way to practice when you're out and about with some time on your hands. Plus, because the app follows actual sheet music, it's entirely possible that you could go home and recreate these tunes on your real piano. And it's incredibly fun!