Free piano apps that teach any song (2026)

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What each free plan includes

Every app here is free to download. They differ in what you can practice before you pay, and in whether the songs are ones you picked or ones from the app’s own catalog. Prices are US prices from each company’s own pages in November 2026.

Every source is listed under How we checked.

What Anything Piano’s free plan gets you

A free song conversion turns one song into a lesson. You can search YouTube inside the app, paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, upload an audio file, record the song playing in the room, or import a song from Songscription with its QR code. If you only remember how it goes or a line of the lyrics, Annie, the app’s AI practice companion, can find it for you. In about a minute the song becomes a piano roll split into parts, and you learn each part right hand, then left, then both, with your progress saved.

The conversion runs on Play Anything’s own music transcription model. In our October 2026 benchmark, Songscription, built on that model, ranked first in transcription and piano arrangements against Klang.io, Mirelo, and five open-source models.

Nothing in the practice screen is held back for Pro. Anything Piano hears any piano through your iPhone or iPad microphone, or a digital piano over Bluetooth MIDI or USB MIDI, and shows each right and wrong note as you play. Wait mode holds the song until you play the right note. You can lower the playback speed, loop a part until it sits, practice one hand or both, and turn on finger numbers, which show in the song’s original key where a song has them. You also get the free songs in the public library.

The limit is on how many new songs you convert, and your profile shows how many free conversions you have left. Pro removes that limit and opens the full song catalog, for $19.99 a month or $143.99 a year. The help article on the free plan has the details. Anything Piano shows a piano roll rather than sheet music, and it runs on iPhone and iPad, with Android and web on a waitlist.

The other apps’ free plans

flowkey, Simply Piano, Skoove, and Yousician teach from their own catalogs, so their free tiers are a sample of that catalog. flowkey’s is a limited selection of beginner lessons and classical songs. Simply Piano gives every user two free courses, and its song library needs a subscription. Skoove Basic has selected lessons, with song search kept for Premium. Yousician advertises a seven-day Premium+ trial, and its pages don’t list what stays free afterward. None of the four describes a way to add a song of your own.

Piano Marvel has the largest free library here, 150+ songs plus exercises and video lessons, and it teaches reading sheet music, which Anything Piano doesn’t. Uploading your own music is on its paid plan, and the company says copyrighted music isn’t available during the free trial.

Synthesia plays any MIDI or MusicXML file, so its free version can open outside songs if you have the file, with a time limit until you buy the one-time unlock. It takes no audio or links. Pianodemy and Lumikey both take songs from links or audio. Pianodemy’s free plan plays the opening of three songs you bring, and it runs on the web and iOS. Lumikey gives eight imports in its free trial and runs only on a Mac with Apple silicon or a Windows computer.

If you’re choosing among the apps that take your own songs, piano apps that let you practice any song goes through them beyond the free plan. For a first app, see the best piano app for beginners, and the Songscription blog has its own list of free piano learning apps.

How we checked

We read each app’s own website, help center, or App Store listing in November 2026 for what its free plan includes, what songs it lets you practice free, and what it charges. App Store prices are from the US store. Anything Piano’s details come from the app itself and its help center. Free plans change, so check each app before you subscribe. We didn’t test the apps against each other, so this article makes no claim about which one teaches better.

Sources, checked November 2026:

• flowkey: website, App Store listing
• Simply Piano: App Store listing, how the song library works
• Skoove: App Store listing, prices, songs
• Yousician: piano, App Store listing
• Piano Marvel: pricing, uploads, App Store listing
• Synthesia: unlock, App Store listing
• Pianodemy: website
• Lumikey: website

Get Anything Piano and use a free conversion on the song you want to play first.

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