What’s changed.

SightReader is on the App Store and Google Play

The iOS and Android apps are the full product rather than a companion: the whole library, every grade, uploads, offline downloads and teacher views. On iPhone and iPad the app is also the only way to use a MIDI keyboard, because no iOS browser supports Web MIDI.

Plug a keyboard in mid-session and we switch to it

If you connect a MIDI keyboard while the app is already open and nothing else is active, it becomes your input device automatically. Previously you had to reconnect by hand.

Listen mode: hear a piece before you read it

Any piece, any grade level, played back with dynamics and articulation so you know what you are aiming at. The transport dock beneath the score now also carries tempo control, a metronome you can sync to, and separate volume sliders.

Schytte’s 25 Melodious Studies added to the free tier

The free library is now 54 pieces — Schäfer’s Book 1 plus the Schytte studies.

Next and previous piece buttons on every player page

The apps speak Spanish, French and Italian

The native apps now follow the same four languages as the website.

New accounts start by finding their level

Sign up and the first thing you do is the placement check rather than a form: pick a rough level, adjust it against a real piece, then play it.

Redesigned for phones

A proper app shell on small screens — bottom navigation, larger touch targets, and a score that uses the width it has.

Rebuilt the emails we send you

Sign-in, welcome and account emails now render properly on mobile and in dark mode.

MIDI troubleshooting, built into the app

If your keyboard does not appear, the connection panel now walks you through the usual causes instead of leaving you to guess.

Magic-link sign-in opens straight into the iOS app

Buy Pro inside the apps

Subscriptions through the App Store and Google Play, alongside the existing card checkout on the website. Buy on either and sign in with the same account.

MIDI connection made reliable across the whole app

Your keyboard now stays connected as you move between practice, grades, scales and notes, instead of needing a fresh handshake on each page.

The on-screen piano works properly on touchscreens

A daily dashboard

Open the app to today’s practice, your streak and where you left off, rather than to a menu. Library, progress and account pages all load noticeably faster too.

Sign in with Apple, and delete your account yourself

Account deletion is now a button in your account settings, with a 30-day grace period before anything is purged.

Practise offline

Pro subscribers can download pieces and grade levels for use with no connection — on a train, in a practice room, anywhere the signal is not. SightReader also installs as an app from the browser.

Badges and public profiles

Cosmetic achievements for the things worth marking — keys covered, grades finished, streaks kept — and a shareable profile page. You can turn the public page off in your account settings.

Annual Pro plan, 20% cheaper than monthly

A written guide for every grade

What the sight-reading test actually asks for at each level, from Initial through Grade 8, and how to practise for it.

All nine grade tracks complete

Initial Grade through Grade 8 — around 340 purpose-built exercises, each aligned to the published ABRSM sight-reading parameters for its level.

Multi-octave scales, matched to real grade expectations

Grade certificates

Finish a grade and we issue a certificate with your accuracy and the pieces you read. Download it as a PDF or share the link.

XP, levels and eight tiers

Every star you earn counts towards a level, and levels group into tiers from Novice to Legend.