Where Music Began
Pythagoras, your host
“Stretch a string. Pluck it. Now halve it — congratulations, you've invented the octave. That'll be one theorem, please.”
Launching July 1, 2026 · Apple App Store · Android in development
Practice that
takes flight.
Sonavivo turns daily practice into a story your student wants to continue — with a phoenix that grows as they do, conservatory-grade tools, and a studio suite that runs your teaching business while you teach.
🎻 Built by a cellist
🔥 8-stage companion
🎯 ±3¢ tuner precision
🛡️ COPPA-first design
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Sonavivo
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Sonavivo
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Nice — 18 min so far today
2 more minutes hits your daily goal. Cassia is watching. 👀
🎼 Scales & Arpeggios ›
D Major, 2 octaves
📖 Etudes & Reading ›
Popper No. 6
🎵 Solo Repertoire ›
Elgar Concerto · I.
Bach Suite No. 1 · Prélude
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iPhone · iPad · Mac•
visionOS ready•
Android in development•
Offline-first games•
Widgets on your home screen•
VoiceOver & Dynamic Type throughout
Meet your practice companion
Cassia grows when you do.
Every Sonavivo student raises a phoenix. Practice consistently and Cassia evolves through eight life stages — from a glowing egg in a nest to a many-tailed sage. Miss a day? Cassia doesn't die, guilt-trip, or send red skulls. She waits. (More on that in the science section.)
Stage transitions play as full celebration animations in the app.
🔥 The Ember economy
Embers are Sonavivo's only currency, and there's just one mint: real playing. About 72 per hour of practice, plus small bonuses for saving sessions, streak days, and finished assignments. Spend them on app themes and streak insurance.
- Save a session+5
- Streak day+25
- Finish an assignment+50
- Streak Freeze1,000
- New app theme1,500
Kids under 13 can never buy Embers with money — they're earned with practice, full stop.
And she's not alone…
Meet Cinder — a dragon with excellent posture, strong opinions, and a violin made of violet fire. She's joining the Sonavivo universe as the learning adventures roll out. Rumor says she practices scales begrudgingly, just like you.
For students
A practice room in your pocket.
Everything runs at once. Nothing gets in your way.
🎻Sonavivo🔥 23
Sonavivo🔥 23Day 23 — Fledgling is so close
Practice 7 more days and Cassia evolves.
🎼 Scales & Arpeggios ›
D Major, 2 octaves
📖 Etudes & Reading ›
Popper No. 6
🎵 Solo Repertoire ›
Elgar Concerto · I.
🎶 Chamber / Orchestral ›
Brahms Sextet · Vc 2
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Metronome 4/4 · wood · ⚙
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Tuner Intermediate · ±6¢ · ⚙
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Reps Optional
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🎻Journal🔥 23
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23day streak
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312min this week
goal 20m
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Longest: 41d · Current: 23d7 badges earned
Streak milestones
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Composer Collection — monthly 30-min average
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Recital trophies
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One home for everything you play
Four practice categories — Scales, Etudes, Solo, Chamber — each with assignments your teacher (or you) set up. The Today card keeps the goal in view, and the quick-practice button means zero friction between “I should practice” and practicing.
Timer, metronome, tuner, reps — all at once
No app-switching mid-practice. The metronome runs 40–240 BPM in five voices with audio-engine precision (≤5ms drift over 5 minutes). The tuner listens 5× per second and shows the note plus how many cents you're off — choose ±12¢, ±6¢, or ±3¢ windows as your ear sharpens. It even understands transposing instruments.
Proof you're improving
Every saved session feeds your Journal: daily-minutes charts against your goal, weekday consistency, time per piece, tempo history, and intonation accuracy. Pro students add a mood + focus-tag reflection to every session — gold for lesson day.
Badges that mean something
Streak milestones at 7, 14, 30, 100, and 365 days. A Composer Statuette for every month you average 30 minutes a day. Recital trophies awarded by your teacher. All computed from your real practice history — no participation confetti.
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A real practice journal
Sessions log themselves: duration, tempo range, reps, intonation accuracy, your notes, even audio snippets you record. Swipe to share a session with your teacher.
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Repertoire that remembers
Track every piece, movement by movement, with goal tempos and a tempo ladder you climb rung by rung. Autofill from a catalog of ~1,000 classical works. Export a polished repertoire PDF for auditions and applications.
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Streaks without the dread
A weekly-goal model (3, 5, or 7 days) with a forgiven rest day, earned Streak Freezes, a 48-hour earn-back window, and real Vacation Mode. Consistency, not anxiety.
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Themes you earn
Five full app worlds with living animated wallpapers — Classic, Ocean (moonlit waves), Garden (fireflies at night), Sunset (palms & seagulls), and Space (shooting stars, one rare UFO). Unlock them with practice-earned Embers.
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Widgets & shortcuts
Streak and today-minutes widgets for iPhone and Mac. Keyboard shortcuts on Mac (⌘↩ saves a session). Your practice life, one glance away.
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Your data is yours
Back up your whole musical life to a single .snvo file — sessions, pieces, badges, Embers — and restore it anywhere. Coming with launch: full account export and deletion with a 90-day grace period.
The feedback engine
It hears you.
Then it shows you.
While you play, Sonavivo's pitch engine samples your sound five times every second, names the note, and measures how far you are from center — to the cent. Beginners get a friendly ±12¢ window; conservatory-bound players tighten it to ±3¢. There's even a vibrato mode that reads the center of your vibrato instead of chasing the wobble.
After you save, the session becomes data you can use: time-in-tune percentage, tempo timeline, where your intonation drifted. Your teacher sees patterns, not guesses.
5 Hz pitch sampling
±3 / ±6 / ±12¢ windows
Vibrato-aware
Transposing instruments
Audio never recorded in tuner
🔬 Why our tuner keeps getting smarter
We're not stopping at “good enough.” In our research lab, string players record calibrated test batteries — chromatic sweeps, pizzicato, harmonics, double stops — in studio-grade 24-bit/48kHz audio with synchronized pitch traces. That dataset is training the next generation of Sonavivo's listening engine, built specifically for the messy, beautiful reality of bowed strings.
The learning arcade rolling out after launch
28+ games. Three journeys.
One curriculum that goes from “what's a staff?” to twelve-tone rows.
A full Duolingo-style curriculum built by musicians: tap through a living skill map, master nodes, earn crowns, and watch Cassia celebrate at every tier. The first pack of every track is free, forever — and a placement test makes sure you never pay to re-learn what you already know.
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Theory
“Read, write, and understand music.”
15 packs from Staff, Clefs & Note Names all the way to Chromatic Harmony and Post-Tonal. Real engraved notation in every exercise.
Staff LinesInterval BuilderChord StackerKey DetectiveNumeral LabCadence LabScale SmithRhythm Tap
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Ear Training
“Train your ears like a conservatory.”
39 lessons from Higher or Lower? to harmonic dictation, modulation, and a graduate capstone. All audio synthesized on-device — works on a plane.
High or Low?Name That IntervalChord ColorsCadence CallerDictation StudioSing ItFeel the MeterTwelve-Tone Detective
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Music History
“Travel through the story of music.”
From bone flutes to the avant-garde, narrated by the composers themselves. Collect a statuette shelf of music's greatest characters.
Time MachineWho Wrote It?Spot the SoundTime TriviaForm Map
Free on-ramp, always
The first pack of every track costs 0 Embers. We never paywall the front door.
Earned, not bought
Packs unlock with practice-earned Embers. Under-13 players can't spend money on Embers — period.
Place out, free
The placement test credits skills you demonstrate, and every pack below your level unlocks free. We won't sell you what you already own.
Every brain welcome
Untimed mode on every game, reduce-motion support, colorblind-safe design, and non-vocal & motor-relaxed paths for every mastery gate.
Music history, but make it fun
Your lecturers have been dead for centuries.
They've never been funnier.
Every history lesson is presented by the people who were actually there. Collect their statuettes, hear their music, and let them roast each other a little. These are real lessons from the Sonavivo curriculum:
The Eight Eras
Hildegard von Bingen
“I am Hildegard — abbess, healer, composer, nearly nine hundred years young. We sang from memory until clever little squiggles began to hold melodies on the page.”
The Class of 1685
J.S. Bach
“Born 1685, same as Handel and Scarlatti. I tried to meet Handel twice. He dodged me twice. I wrote about it in fugue form — all three voices were disappointment.”
Vienna's Big Three
Joseph Haydn on Mozart & Beethoven
“I hid jokes inside symphonies for thirty years. Mozart got them instantly. Beethoven scowled, then wrote them louder. You'll hear the surprise — everyone does. That's the joke.”
Meet the Instruments
W.A. Mozart
“I wrote my first symphony at eight. You get to tap a button to hear a bassoon. Honestly? You have it easier. Tap the bassoon. It's funny. I'll wait.”
Romantic Stars
Clara Schumann
“I toured Europe for sixty years, premiered the impossible, raised eight children, and out-played everyone who said I couldn't. Robert wrote the love letters. I sold out the halls.”
Breaking All the Rules
Igor Stravinsky
“At the premiere of The Rite of Spring, the audience rioted. Actual fistfights. Over a bassoon solo. Anyway — lesson one: rhythm is allowed to bite.”
Music Around the World
Claude Debussy
“Paris, 1889. I heard a Javanese gamelan at the World's Fair and forgot how to be normal about chords forever. Best thing that ever happened to me — and to you.”
America Makes New Music
Scott Joplin
“They called ragtime ‘just entertainment.’ Then the whole world started tapping its foot on the off-beat. You're welcome. Now — syncopation. Hands apart. Let's go.”
Capstone: The Whole Story
DJ Vinyl Vera, time-traveling selector
“Forty thousand years of music, back to back, no skips: bone flute → chant → Bach → Beethoven → Joplin → Stravinsky → you, practicing scales. Don't break the chain.”
🏆 Complete a composer's lessons and their statuette joins your collection shelf — with a monthly Featured Composer dropping bonus lessons into whatever pack you're playing.
Beginner to doctorate
One ladder. Nine tiers.
Get on wherever you are.
T0–T2
First notes
Staff lines, clefs, note names, rhythm basics — taught with real engraved notation and a phoenix cheering you on. Suzuki-friendly categories built into the practice app from day one. If you can tap, you can start.
Staff LinesHigh or Low?Rhythm TapTime Traveler pack
T4–T6
AP Music Theory, covered
Diatonic harmony and Roman numerals, SATB voice-leading, phrase & cadence analysis, harmonic dictation, modulation — the exact muscle groups the AP exam tests, drilled as games instead of worksheets. Practice dictation on the bus; walk into the exam already fluent.
Numeral LabCadence CallerDictation StudioVoice-Leading & Part-Writing
T7–T8
Comps-proof your ears
Preparing for doctoral comprehensive exams? The graduate tiers cover post-tonal theory, pitch-class sets, twelve-tone rows, interval classes, enharmonic modulation, and form analysis — with a capstone that runs the entire history of Western music. Your study group lives in your pocket.
Twelve-Tone DetectivePost-Tonal packForm MapGraduate Capstone
The science of sticking with it
We designed for the brains
that practice apps usually lose.
Before writing a line of code, we built a research dossier on motivation, habit formation, and ADHD — and it changed almost every design decision in Sonavivo. Roughly 6.5 million children in the U.S. have ADHD, and the research is blunt: their reward systems discount distant payoffs steeply, which is exactly what “practice now, recital in May” asks of them. So we engineered the payoff to be now.
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Feedback in milliseconds, not weeks
The tuner answers five times a second. The metronome never drifts. Sessions end with a visible record of what just improved. Immediate, salient feedback is the single most consistent recommendation in the ADHD literature — so it's the spine of the app.
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Praise, not payouts
A landmark meta-analysis found verbal, informational feedback strengthens intrinsic motivation while tangible rewards quietly erode it — especially in children. That's why mastery earns a crown and a phoenix celebration, never a jackpot. No loot boxes. No variable-reward slot machines. Ever.
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External time structure
Time-blindness is real. Sonavivo is metronome-forward by design: visible count-up timers, goal lines that fill, rhythm-first games. The app holds the clock so the student can hold the bow.
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Streaks that forgive
Habits take about 66 days to form — and one missed day shouldn't burn the house down. Our streak counts weekly goals with rest days, earnable freezes, and a 48-hour earn-back. Loss-aversion is a tool we deliberately keep on a short leash.
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Gentle Mode for kids
On by default for under-13s: no 7pm guilt notifications, no red warning colors, no skulls, silent streak resets, badges over pressure. Engagement should feel like a hand on the shoulder, not a hand around the wrist.
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Calm is a feature
Cassia celebrates at round boundaries — never per tap — to avoid overstimulation. Every game has an untimed toggle, reduce-motion support, and colorblind-safe shapes-plus-labels design. Sensory-friendly isn't a mode; it's the baseline.
Sonavivo isn't “the ADHD app,” and it isn't a medical product. It's a practice app built so that students with ADHD and autism-spectrum profiles genuinely thrive — and the same structure turns out to be what every learner needed all along.
For teachers
You teach. Sonavivo runs the studio.
Get your evenings back. Invoices draft themselves from your rate card, schedules fill themselves from your availability, recital programs print themselves — and every connected student's real practice rolls in live. One six-character code connects a student; Sonavivo handles the paperwork from there.
Sonavivo — StudioRoster
🔍 Search students…＋AllActiveTrialPausedWaitlist
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Sofia RamirezCello · Tue 4:00
Active● Paid
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Jun KimViolin · Wed 5:30
Trial● Trial pending
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Maya PatelCello · Sat 10:00
Active● Past due
EW
Eli WattsBass · not on Sonavivo yet
Waitlist
💡 Sonavivo suggests
“Run a Summer Intensive promo — 12 students paused June–August last year. A 5-for-3 package could help.”
Draft this offerNot now
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Invoicing on autopilot
A recurring billing scheduler drafts invoices from your rate card; you review and send. Multi-page PDFs, refunds, CSV export for tax season, and clean recording of Venmo / Zelle / cash payments with a two-sided handshake.
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Scheduling that fills itself
Define your weekly availability once — Sonavivo generates the lesson slots, tracks attended and skipped, and spots the gaps. The waitlist detector even suggests which waiting student fits a freshly opened slot.
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A business brain
“Sonavivo Suggests” watches your studio's rhythms and proposes moves with the receipts to back them: summer-intensive packages before the June slump, reactivation pushes, anniversary offers, and an annual rate-review reminder with projected revenue impact. Every suggestion explains itself. You always decide.
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Recitals, start to printed program
Plan the event, collect RSVPs, schedule run-throughs, drag-reorder the running order, and print the program. Families subscribe to your studio calendar feed. Trophies land in students' journals afterward.
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Rate cards & scholarships
Versioned rate cards with effective dates, plus per-student adjustments — scholarships, intro pricing, discounts — composed cleanly with full history. “$42 / 30 min · 30% scholarship” reads exactly like you'd want it to.
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Announcements & policies
Studio-wide announcements with audience targeting, and versioned studio policies with typed-signature acknowledgment tracking. The “did you read my email?” era ends here.
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Bring your studio with you
Import your whole roster from a CSV in minutes, with duplicate detection and per-row validation. A built-in Rolodex keeps families, payers, and emergency contacts organized — grouped by household automatically.
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Your students get Pro, free
Every student connected to your studio unlocks Pro-level features — full journal history, analytics, unlimited instruments — at no cost to their family. Being your student is the perk.
Coming to Studio Pro
The Sonavivo Teacher Directory
Studio Pro will include an opt-in listing in a searchable directory right here on sonavivo.com — where parents look for a teacher by instrument, location, or online-lesson availability. No extra fee. No lead commissions. Just families finding you.
For parents — and built around your kid's safety
You see everything that matters.
Strangers see nothing at all.
The Parent app is free. Forever.
- One glance, every child. Streaks, minutes today, minutes this week — per child, side by side.
- You are the gate. For children under 13, every practice recording a child sends a teacher lands in your approval inbox first. Approve once, approve always, or decline — your call.
- Consent that's real. Children can't simply sign themselves up: an under-13 account doesn't go live until a parent gives verified approval, and sharing settings for young children are locked to keep parents in the loop by design.
- Lessons on your calendar. Recitals and lesson schedules across all your children, subscribable to the family calendar.
👋My Children
Sofia · 10 · celloConnected: Skinner Cello Studio
🔥 12streak
24mtoday
160mthis week
Marcus · 14 · trumpetConnected: Vance Brass
🔥 5streak
0mtoday
85mthis week
Awaiting your approval
🎙️ “Elgar opening — better?”Sofia → Ms. Skinner · 0:42
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🛡️ Our child-protection commitments
Zero ads for kids
Children under 13 see no advertising in Sonavivo. Not “limited.” None. This is a permanent commitment, not a setting.
Audio stays on the device
For under-13 students, practice audio cannot be exported off the device, and the tuner analyzes sound in real time without recording it.
No money in kids' games
Under-13 players earn Embers with practice only. There is no way for a child to spend real money on game currency.
Mediated communication
Under-13 student-to-teacher messages route through parent approval. Teens get direct messaging only after a parent grants standing consent.
On-device by default
Learning-game content for under-13s ships inside the app — human-written bios, bundled audio. No streaming services, no AI-generated content for young children.
Fail-closed design
If a birthdate is missing, Sonavivo treats the account as under-13 and applies every protection. We default to the careful answer.
Sonavivo is being built to meet the FTC's amended COPPA Rule (2025), with parental consent, data-minimization, retention, and deletion practices undergoing counsel review ahead of our July 2026 launch. Parents will always be able to review their child's data and request deletion — with a 90-day restore window for accidents.
Pricing
Start free. Stay reasonable.
Launching July 1, 2026 on the Apple App Store — iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Android is in development.
“I'm a working cellist and teacher. I built Sonavivo because my own studio needed it — every feature on this page started as a problem at my music stand.”
— Wesley Skinner, founderStudent Free
$0
- Full practice timer, metronome, tuner & reps
- Streaks, Cassia & badges
- Rolling 7-day journal — your week, always in view
- 1 instrument profile
Most popular
Student Pro
$2.99/mo
- Full journal history & analytics
- Unlimited instruments
- Session reflections (mood + focus tags)
- Earnable Streak Freezes & longer vacation pauses
Studio Basic
$9.99/mo
- Up to 10 active students
- Roster, assignments & lesson notes
- Teacher-code connections
- Connected students get Pro features free
For working studios
Studio Pro
$14.99/mo
- Up to 70 active students
- Studio analytics & practice rollups
- Invoicing, scheduling, recitals & automations
- Coming soon: opt-in Teacher Directory listing
Parent
Free
- Every child, one dashboard
- Approval inbox & consent controls
- Family lesson calendar
- Always free — safety is not an upsell
Kids under 13 can never purchase Embers or any in-game currency with money. Game packs unlock with practice-earned Embers — and the first pack of every learning track is free for everyone.
Now accepting educational partners
Reach families who care about learning.
Sonavivo is opening a small number of ad-exchange partnerships with education-aligned organizations: music schools, instrument makers and shops, summer programs, festivals, publishers, and ed-tech tools. We trade placement — your site features Sonavivo, ours features you — so both audiences grow without a media budget.
Website exchange
A featured partner placement on sonavivo.com, matched by a Sonavivo placement on your site. Simple, measurable, reciprocal.
In-app placement
Tasteful, education-only placements shown exclusively to adults — teachers, parents, and 18+ players on the free tier. No behavioral targeting, no data sharing. Subscribers and children never see ads.
The hard line
No advertising is ever shown to children under 13, anywhere in Sonavivo. No exceptions, no categories, no “kid-safe” networks. This is non-negotiable.
Partner spotlight
Three placements on this page are reserved for our founding partners. They're filling on a first-come basis.
Available placements
Homepage spotlightLogo or artwork, 40-word blurb, and a followed link — right here, above the fold of the partners section.Available now
Footer logo rowYour mark on every page view, linked. Appears automatically alongside your spotlight.Available now
Launch newsletterA featured-partner mention in our App Store launch announcement to the wait-list.July 2026
In-app placementsEducation-only cards on adult surfaces — teachers, parents, and 18+ free-tier players. Never targeted, never shown to children.V1.x · post-launch
Your first 365 days
start with one egg.
July 1, 2026 · Apple App Store · Android in development