Frequently asked questions

No. Instruzic starts from your actual level and introduces reading when it becomes useful. You learn to understand music by playing it.

Your instrument and a computer, tablet or phone with a recent browser. For listened exercises, your device’s built-in microphone is enough; a reasonably quiet spot helps.

Piano, guitar and voice: the app listens to your playing and shows an estimated score based on your device’s microphone input. Kora is in preview: listening is experimental there. Violin and flute are played without automatic scoring, and the exercise tells you so before you start.

No. The microphone only turns on during the exercise that needs it, after you allow it, and never in the background. You can withdraw that permission at any time in your browser or device settings.

No, and the exercise says so. Accuracy depends on your instrument, your microphone and the noise around you. Our measurements on real recordings still fall short of the thresholds we set for ourselves: we’ll publish those figures once they hold up.

The web app needs a connection. In the mobile app, once it’s released, lessons you’ve already opened stay available without a network, images and audio included; features that go through the server wait until you’re back online.

Yes. Your progress is tied to your account: you’ll find it in the web app today, then in the mobile app once it’s released, on Android first, then on iPhone.

Six guided programs: piano, guitar, violin, voice, flute and kora, for a total of 219 modules and 876 lessons written instrument by instrument. These are the only instruments offered, on the web and in the mobile app alike.

The web app works in a recent browser, on a computer, tablet or phone. The mobile app is being developed for Android and iOS; only the Android version has been tested on a real phone so far, and nothing has been published in the stores yet.

The first module of each instrument (piano, guitar, violin, voice, flute and kora) with its assessment, the placement test, and 2 minutes of microphone a week. No credit card needed and no time limit.

Prices are set and sales open soon; the Pricing page shows whether they’re open. Until they are, no payment is requested.

It comes with the Premium annual subscription. A credit card is requested at the start, but nothing is charged for 7 days. If you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing; otherwise, the annual subscription starts at the price shown.

The subscription holder invites members of their household, up to 5 people in total. Everyone keeps their own account, instrument and progress. Profiles for children aren’t available yet.