Who practiced, and who hasn’t touched their instrument since Tuesday. Who’s coming today, and who asked to move. Who’s paid, and who’s behind. Allegrow Studio keeps your students, schedule, assignments and billing on one screen – and for a music school, every teacher’s studio in one view – so nothing waits until someone remembers to tell you. And your students and their parents get an app of their own, where it all shows up.
Free for your first month. No card needed.
Illustration with sample students – the demo studio has the real thing.
The Overview answers the questions you’d otherwise chase by text, memory and spreadsheet.
“Who’s really practicing?”
Minutes and days for every student against their plan – timed while they play, so it’s what happened, not what was written down.
“Who am I seeing, and what changed?”
Today’s lessons, cancellations, makeup credits and requests to move a lesson – by day, week or month. Families ask in their app; you accept in a tap.
“Who’s paid?”
Balances build themselves from the lessons you teach. See what’s owed and what’s overdue, send reminders automatically, and let families pay by card.
“Who needs me this week?”
One short list: no practice in days, overdue assignments, new recordings, lesson requests, families not connected yet.
“Where were we?”
Assignments, lesson notes, repertoire, performances and theory levels on one page – ready before they walk in.
“How’s the whole school doing?”
Every teacher keeps their own studio. You see practice, lessons and billing across all of them, plan school recitals and give teachers tasks.
Everything you set in the studio lands in the Allegrow app at home. It runs in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer, children never need an account, and practicing is free for every family.
You see each student for half an hour a week. Everything that decides how they progress happens in the other 167 hours.
“Did you practice?”
“Yes!”
Practice logs are filled in the night before the lesson – if at all. You can hear the truth in the first minute, but by then the lesson has started.
“What were we working on?”
The first ten minutes go on catching up: which piece, which tempo, what happened this week. That’s a third of a lesson.
By Wednesday, it’s fading.
Motivation is highest right after the lesson. Without a nudge during the week, practice drifts – and you only find out six days later.
Most practice apps ask students to log their own time. Allegrow times real playing on the student’s own device – no claims, no recordings. Around it you get assignments with your own recordings and files, theory games with levels, lessons and a calendar feed, badges, reports and a simple billing ledger.
No hardware, no installs, nothing for families to buy.
Paste your list straight from a spreadsheet – names, instruments, lesson times, practice plans – or add them one by one.
Copy all the invite links at once or email them. A parent opens it, agrees to share, and their child is connected.
Your students practice with the free Allegrow app. It counts only real playing, privately on their device, and their week appears in your studio.
Music teacher software made for independent teachers and music schools – and the families they teach.
Minutes and days for every student, against their plan. The app times only music – talking and quiet don’t count, and time logged by hand is marked.
A short “needs attention” list: who hasn’t practiced, overdue assignments, new requests – so a quick message goes out midweek, not an awkward talk at the lesson.
Pieces, scales and tempos on their practice screen, metronome ready – with your demo recording, a photo of the page, a PDF or a video link. Students tick them off, time each one so you see the minutes per piece, or record one for you (once a parent allows it), and you reply.
Notes in any clef, rhythm, symbols, keys, intervals, chords and ear games, in the order teachers already use. Start each student at their level, or give them a placement check – and build your own sets.
An online enrollment form for new families – your questions, the days that work, siblings, a class to join, or your waitlist. Families cancel by your cutoff, earn makeup credits and book a makeup.
Theory club, ensembles, group piano: a roster with a size limit and a waitlist, attendance for each meeting, one assignment for the whole class, and a price per meeting, month or term.
A running balance from your schedule, per lesson, month or semester, with packages, late fees and automatic reminders, and statements for any family.
Let families pay by card in their app, or turn on autopay so each charge is paid on its due date. The money goes to your own Stripe account – Allegrow takes no cut.
Any number of teachers, each with their own studio, and the whole school in one view. Students stay with the school, and the school or each teacher handles billing.
The Allegrow app is free for families, made for kids, and built to make practice something they want to come back to.
Every feature on every plan, and your first month is free. Your families get Family Plus at no charge.
Every feature and all your students, with no card. Choose a plan when it ends – or don’t, and your studio is paused with nothing deleted.
Up to 25 students. More? Add 25 students for $3 a month.
Or $299 a year – save 14%.
Up to 150 students, with as many teachers as you need – each with their own studio.
Pricing on request for larger schools, districts and programs. Get in touch and we’ll put a plan together.
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Allegrow Studio is software for private music teachers and music schools. It shows how much each student really practiced – the free Allegrow app times practice automatically and privately on the student’s device – and keeps the rest of the studio in one place: assignments with your own recordings and files, lessons and a live calendar, cancellations, makeups and a booking page, billing reminders, music theory games, recitals with a running order, repertoire, and progress reports. It’s free for your first month.
No. The family app is free, runs in any modern browser, and children don’t need accounts. A parent just opens your invite link and agrees to share.
No. On their Theory tab, choose Set levels and pick a starting point (Just starting, Early elementary, Elementary, Late elementary, Intermediate or Advanced – each with a rough RCM and ABRSM grade), then adjust any game. Not sure? Ask for a placement check: the student gets a short flash-card check on their theory screen, one game at a time, getting harder until they miss twice at a level. It sets each game to the level where they have something new to learn, and you see the results on their Theory tab. It usually takes 15–30 cards and leaves out Echo, which uses the microphone. New students from your booking page start from the experience their family chose, with a placement check to fine-tune it.
Yes. When you set an assignment you can record a demo right there in the lesson (up to 5 minutes), add a photo of the page or a small PDF, or add a link – a YouTube video, a backing track, a larger PDF on Google Drive. The student opens them from the assignment on their practice screen, and the assignment can be printed as a weekly practice sheet.
Yes, any time. Studio settings → Download all your data gives you a .zip of spreadsheets: students, lessons, practice by day (up to 3 years), assignments, repertoire, events and the billing ledger. They open in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers.
Yes, when the student times them. On their practice screen they tap an assignment to time it; it ticks itself off when your minutes a day are reached and points them to the next one. On the student’s Assignments page you see the minutes for each assignment, day by day, against your target. It’s optional for the student – untimed playing still counts as practice, as always.
You can still manage their lessons, assignments, notes, performances and reports in your studio. Families can also log practice by hand, and it’s shown as “logged by hand” so you know. For a family that prefers paper, send the week’s assignments as a one-page PDF practice sheet by email, or print it.
Yes. Export your student list from your current app as a CSV file and upload it – Allegrow reads the usual columns (first and last name, instrument, lesson day and time, parent email) without rearranging. Lessons and assignments can be imported the same way, by pasting rows from a spreadsheet or uploading a CSV.
Allegrow uses the device’s microphone the way a tuner does: a small sound-recognition model runs on the device itself and tells playing from talking or silence. With “Only count my instrument” on, it also checks it’s their kind of instrument – while allowing for easy mix-ups like a violin’s highest notes. Only the minutes and simple scores are kept – sound is never recorded or sent. Recordings for you happen only if a parent turns them on and the student presses Record.
It keeps a simple ledger: set a price per lesson or per hour, and each student’s balance builds from the lessons on your schedule (canceled and moved lessons don’t count; no-shows are your choice). Record, edit or delete payments, add charges like recital fees or automatic late fees, send families automatic payment reminders, copy or email a statement with your payment link, and export everything as a CSV for your spreadsheet or accounting software. Families can keep paying you the way they always have, or you can let them pay by card from their app: you connect your own Stripe account, the money goes straight to your bank, and each payment is recorded for you. Stripe takes its usual card fee; Allegrow takes nothing.
Yes. Add a class with its day, time and dates (or one of your terms), add students from your studio, and set how many it holds – when it’s full, new families join a waitlist. Take attendance at each meeting, cancel a single meeting for everyone, and send one assignment to the whole class. Charge per meeting, per month or once per term, or not separately. Families see the class in their app and can say when their child will miss a meeting; missed classes don’t earn a makeup credit unless you add one.
Yes, if you want it. Your booking page becomes an enrollment form: families tell you about each child (brothers and sisters on one form), the days and times that work, and answer your own questions. They can ask for a trial lesson, pick one of your group classes, or join your waitlist. Requests arrive in your Needs attention list for you to accept.
Yes, if you connect Stripe and turn on autopay. A family saves a card once, and each charge is paid on its due date, with an email and a notification each time. They can turn it off whenever they like, and you see who’s on autopay. The money goes to your own Stripe account; Allegrow takes no percentage.
Allegrow can add up what you received in a year – by month, by student and by how it was paid, with refunds taken off – and you can print it, save it as a PDF or download a spreadsheet for your accountant. It only adds up what you recorded; it isn’t tax advice.
Yes. Allegrow is made for music first, but a studio or school can add classes like art, dance or tutoring. For those, the timer simply runs without the microphone, and the tuner, metronome and theory games are hidden. Scheduling, assignments, billing and enrollment work the same.
Most practice apps rely on a student or parent to log the time. Allegrow counts only real playing – timed privately on the student’s device – so the minutes are trustworthy, and time logged by hand is marked. Around that it’s a full studio – lessons and calendar, assignments, theory games, performances, reports and billing – and the family app is free with no accounts for children.
You decide. Tuning, playing-time and rhythm scores can be shown as numbers, as gentle trends, or turned off – for your whole studio or just one student. Parents can also turn tuning off for their child. Badges, stars and confetti can be switched off too – for your studio or one student – for a calm, plain practice screen.
Any instrument, including voice. Tuning scores are only used where the player shapes every note (strings, voice, winds and brass) – never for piano, guitar, ukulele or drums.
Yes. Start a music school from Studio settings and invite as many teachers as you need. Each teacher runs their own studio; you see the whole school rolled up by teacher (students, practice, lessons, billing), open any teacher’s studio, plan school recitals with students from several teachers, send teachers tasks, and choose per teacher whether the school or the teacher handles billing. If a teacher leaves, their students stay with the school.
Paid plans are month to month, paid by card through Stripe, a secure payment company – Allegrow never sees or stores your card number, and Stripe emails you a receipt each month. Change your plan or cancel anytime from your studio (Studio settings → Change plan or Manage billing). If you cancel, your plan lasts until the end of the month you’ve paid for, and after that your studio is paused: nothing is deleted, you keep all your students and records, and everyone reconnects if you choose a plan again.
Set up your studio this afternoon and see your first students’ practice this week.
Questions? Email hello@allegrowmusic.com.