Clef: Sight Reading Trainer

Mel Owen · Education

Free

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Aug 26, 2026
New version 1.0.2 → 1.0.3

A design pass over every screen, driven by a full audit of the app. The keyboard no longer inverts in dark mode. Black keys stayed black and white keys stayed ivory all along on paper, but the app was painting them with the same tokens it used for chrome, so in dark mode the sharps came out white. Fixed everywhere the keyboard appears, along with the badges and guides drawn on top of it. Right and wrong now carry a mark, not just a colour, and a missed answer no longer files itself under a heading that reads CORRECT. The purchase screen states what full access actually gets you, which it never did. Bigger drill cards with the instruction beside its subject instead of stranded at the bottom of the card. Proper iPad layout instead of phone screens stretched wide. Countdown, results and prompts that hold together at the largest accessibility text sizes rather than clipping each other. Bigger tap targets, honest tiles, and Reduce Motion respected throughout.

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About

Clef - Piano Practice Three minutes of piano drills a day, scheduled around what you're about to forget. Clef is a practice app for people who play piano, or want to. Not songs, not videos: focused drills, graded by how fast you actually answer and resurfaced by a spaced-repetition engine (FSRS) at the moment you're about to forget. READING - Note Naming - treble and bass, landmark notes first - Grand Staff - both clefs, interleaved - Ledger Notes - the notes hanging above and below the staff - Intervals - the distance between two notes, at a glance - Key Signatures - sharps and flats, in circle-of-fifths order AT THE KEYBOARD - Keyboard Mapping - find any note on the keys - Five-Finger Patterns - the shapes your hand learns first - Triads and Inversions - and how they move - Seventh Chords - the next layer of harmony - Major and Minor Scales - fingering included - Arpeggios - broken chords, across the octave - Hands Together - the coordination drill nobody practises enough Fifteen tracks in total. Each one teaches the idea before it drills you on it, so you are never guessing at something nobody explained. BUILT FOR THE INSTRUMENT Connect any MIDI keyboard and play your answers. Any octave counts. Or tap the note names and the on-screen keys. Note names follow do-re-mi or letters, whichever you think in. THREE MINUTES, HONESTLY SPENT Every session is a countdown. Every answer is timed. No lives, no gems, no guilt trips. Just a results screen that tells you the truth: what you got, your best run, and the odds you will still remember it next week. MADE FOR ADULTS Paper, ink, and one gold accent. Serif type. Tell Clef what you are working toward, whether that is reading sheet music fluently, getting a rusty skill back, or passing a grade exam, and your daily practice weights itself accordingly. Three minutes a day. That is the whole ask. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://clefdrills.com/privacy/

What's new · 1.0.3

A design pass over every screen, driven by a full audit of the app. The keyboard no longer inverts in dark mode. Black keys stayed black and white keys stayed ivory all along on paper, but the app was painting them with the same tokens it used for chrome, so in dark mode the sharps came out white. Fixed everywhere the keyboard appears, along with the badges and guides drawn on top of it. Right and wrong now carry a mark, not just a colour, and a missed answer no longer files itself under a heading that reads CORRECT. The purchase screen states what full access actually gets you, which it never did. Bigger drill cards with the instruction beside its subject instead of stranded at the bottom of the card. Proper iPad layout instead of phone screens stretched wide. Countdown, results and prompts that hold together at the largest accessibility text sizes rather than clipping each other. Bigger tap targets, honest tiles, and Reduce Motion respected throughout.

Details

DeveloperMel Owen
ReleasedJul 2026
UpdatedJul 2026
Version1.0.3
Size3.9 MB
RequiresiOS 26.0 or later
Age rating4+
LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
PriceFree
Categories EducationMusic
Bundle IDcom.clef-app.clef