Allegrow is a music practice app with a timer that only runs while someone is actually playing. Children see what to work on and how the week is going; parents see it at a glance. It’s free to practice with. This page walks through everything it does.
It started at our house. Set the kitchen timer for thirty minutes, head into the music room, come out when it rings. Practice was “done” – but most of that time hadn’t been spent playing. So we built a timer that knows the difference, and it grew from there.
Today it’s a practice timer, a metronome and tuner, music theory games, and a page where a parent sees the week. If your teacher uses Allegrow, their assignments and lesson times show up in it too. If they don’t, everything still works.
The practice timer
It counts real playing. The app listens the way a tuner does. While it hears music, the clock runs. When the playing stops, the clock stops after a short pause you can adjust.
Nothing is recorded. The sound is checked on your own device and thrown away. It isn’t stored and it isn’t sent anywhere.
Talking doesn’t count, and neither does the TV. If you’d like, it can count only your child’s kind of instrument, so a sibling’s violin doesn’t add to a pianist’s time.
You choose what counts. Only music, any sound (for warm-ups, clapping rhythms or very quiet instruments), or a plain timer that counts every minute.
A plan for the week. Minutes for each day, with rest days. On a day off, your child can still practice – as a makeup for a missed day, or as a bonus – and set their own goal for it.
Practice away from the device can be added by hand, and is marked that way.
What your child sees
A big clock and a ring that fills toward today’s goal.
This week’s assignments from their teacher, with any demo recording, photo or link the teacher attached. They tick off what they worked on.
A metronome with tempo markings, accents and a choice of sounds, and a tuner for instruments that are tuned by the player.
Music theory games: quick flash-card rounds for note reading, rhythm, symbols, key signatures, intervals, chords and ear training, with levels to move through.
Streaks, badges and stars – or, for older players, a calm look with just the minutes.
A summary after each session: how long they played, their longest stretch, and how close they are to the goal.
What you see
Your own page shows each child’s week: minutes, days practiced, and how that compares with the plan. No music background needed.
What their teacher assigned, and what’s coming up – lessons, recitals, and a countdown to each.
Lessons: if your teacher uses Allegrow for scheduling, tap “Can’t make it” to cancel or ask for another time, and book a makeup when you have a credit.
Payments: what’s owed to your teacher, and a way to pay by card if they offer it.
Practice history day by day, and a weekly summary by email on Sunday evening if you’d like one.
Settings for each child: their instruments, the weekly plan, what counts, and how the app looks.
With a teacher, or without
Your teacher uses Allegrow
They send an invite: a link, or a sheet with a code to scan. Open it, sign in once, and confirm it’s your child. Assignments and lesson times appear from then on, and your teacher can see how practice is going. You decide what’s shared, and you can disconnect at any time.
Your teacher doesn’t
Nothing is missing from the practice side. You set the plan yourself, and you can add your own practice tasks with Family Plus. If your teacher starts using Allegrow later, connecting keeps everything you have.
A child with two teachers, or two instruments, has both in the same place.
Devices
Your account goes where you sign in. Open Allegrow on another phone, tablet or computer, sign in, and your family is there.
Your child’s own device doesn’t need an account. On your page, tap Add a practice device; you get a code to scan or type on theirs. You can remove a device at any time.
Another parent joins the same way, with their own sign-in, and sees the same week.
On an iPhone or iPad, you can add Allegrow to the Home Screen so it opens like an app. The icon keeps its own connection, separate from Safari, so connect it once from inside: sign in, or enter a code.
Practicing on your own
Adults and older teens can use Allegrow by themselves. Choose Just me when you start, or later in Settings. The app then opens to your own page, with no PIN and nothing about parents or children: your week, your plan, Practice now.
Family Plus
Practicing is free and stays free. Family Plus is an optional extra for families who want more.
Free
With Family Plus
Practice timer, metronome, tuner
Yes
Yes
Everything your teacher sends
Yes
Yes
Practice history
The last 30 days
The whole year, month by month
Music theory games
The first three levels of each
Every level
Family rewards
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Set a prize for practice days, a streak, a finished assignment, or anything you choose
Your own practice tasks
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Add things to practice, next to or instead of a teacher’s
Children
Up to two
The whole family
Try it free for a month, with no card. Nothing is charged when the month ends unless you choose to keep it.
After that it’s $3 a month, or $29 a year. Cancel any time; nothing you’ve saved is deleted.
It’s included at no charge while a child is connected to a teacher on a paid Allegrow plan.
Getting started
Open allegrowmusic.com/app and choose who it’s for: your child or family, or just you.
Sign in with Google or an email address, so practice is saved to your account and follows you to any device.
Add your child and answer a few questions: what they play, how long a practice day should be, how many days a week.
If they’ll practice on their own device, add it from your page with a code. If their teacher sent an invite, open it.
Press Start and play.
Privacy
The practice timer never records. Sound is analyzed on the device and discarded.
Children don’t create accounts and aren’t asked for contact details.
Practice goes to a teacher only if you connect one, and you can disconnect and remove what was shared.
No ads and no tracking. You can delete your family’s information at any time, from the app.
Practicing is free: the timer, the metronome and tuner, the first levels of the theory games, the last 30 days of history, and everything your teacher sends.
Family Plus is optional: free for a month with no card, then $3 a month or $29 a year, and included at no charge when your teacher is on a paid Allegrow plan.