My Music Staff is a solid, well-known studio manager. If you also want to know whether your students actually practiced, without asking anyone to fill in a log, here’s an honest look at how Allegrow Studio compares.
| Allegrow Studio | My Music Staff | |
|---|---|---|
| Price for one teacher | $9 a month for up to 25 students, then $3 a month for each 25 more | $16.95 a month, unlimited students |
| More than one teacher | Music school plan: $29 a month, any number of teachers, up to 150 students | $4.95 a month for each extra teacher or staff member |
| Free trial | First month free, no card | 30 days free, no card |
| Practice between lessons | Timed automatically. The student’s app listens and counts only real playing, plus tuning and steady rhythm | Student progress tracking |
| App for students and parents | Free app for iPhone, iPad and any browser (Android app coming soon). Children don’t need accounts | Student Portal for parents and students |
| Scheduling and calendar | Yes, with a live calendar feed, cancellations, makeup credits and a booking page | Yes, with attendance |
| Invoicing and online payments | Yes: billing reminders, late fees, and card payments through your own Stripe account, optional autopay, and a year-end income summary | Invoices and payments, with automated billing |
| Assignments | With your own recordings, files and links, shown in the student’s app | See their site |
| Also included | Repertoire, music theory games, recitals with a running order and printable program, progress reports, group classes and camps, an enrollment page you design, studio numbers | Lesson notes |
See every Allegrow Studio feature → Every feature is optional, and all of them are included in every plan.
My Music Staff has been around for years and is one of the best-known studio managers. If you teach a very large studio on your own, one flat price with unlimited students is simple and predictable. Its scheduling, attendance, automated billing and student portal are well established.
Most studio software asks students or parents to write down their practice. Allegrow’s free student app listens while they play and counts only real playing, not talking, tuning or wandering off. Before each lesson you see who practiced, for how long, and how in tune and steady it was. Nobody has to fill in a practice log.
What you assign appears on the student’s screen, with your recordings and files. Parents see how the week went, students earn streaks and badges, and on a paid plan your families get Family Plus at no charge.
With up to 25 students, Allegrow is $9 a month. A school with several teachers pays one price of $29 a month instead of a charge per teacher.
If knowing how much your students really practice matters to you, yes. Allegrow covers scheduling, assignments and billing, and adds practice that’s timed automatically by the student’s app. If you only need scheduling and invoicing for a very large solo studio, My Music Staff’s unlimited-students price may suit you better.
Allegrow Studio is $9 a month for up to 25 students, $3 a month for each 25 more, and $29 a month for a music school with any number of teachers. My Music Staff lists $16.95 a month with unlimited students, plus $4.95 a month for each extra teacher.
No. The family app is free, and children don’t need an account or an email address. On a paid plan your families also get Family Plus at no charge.
Yes. Allegrow’s first month is free with every feature, and you don’t need a card. Try it with a few students alongside what you use now.
Allegrow publishes this page, so read it with that in mind. We’ve tried to be fair and to stick to what each company says publicly. Other companies’ details come from their own websites, checked November 9, 2026: My Music Staff’s pricing and features pages, and Music Teacher’s Helper’s pricing and features page. Details change, so check their sites for current prices. My Music Staff and Music Teacher’s Helper are trademarks of their owners. Allegrow isn’t affiliated with them. Spot something out of date? Email hello@allegrowmusic.com and we’ll fix it.