Settings
Your preferences stay on this device.
Privacy
Your call — these stay off unless you turn them on.
Share anonymous usage analytics (Google Analytics) so we can see which features get used and make Plinky better. It loads only while this is on, never sends anything that identifies you, and you can switch it off any time. How your data is handled
Appearance
How Plinky looks, and which language it speaks.
Key colours
Sound
Plinky can play every note you press. Press Test to hear one!
Mastery
How well a song has to go before it counts as learned.
A score counts as learned once a run reaches this grade, which schedules it for review. Lower the bar to mark scores learned sooner.
Grades
What happens to your grades when you take a break.
Your grades never drop — pieces just lose their shine until you refresh them. The kind default.
How many due pieces a review session offers in one go, so it stays a finishable batch rather than a pile.
Finger Position
Little helpers that show which key and finger to use.
A wrong key always flashes red. This sets when the correct key lights up — keeping it hidden leaves the reading to you.
Note names printed on the keys while you learn where they live. "Just C" marks only the C keys — the white key left of each pair of black keys — as a landmark to orient by.
Try it! This little piano shows your choice.
Hand size
Tell Plinky how far you reach and the suggested finger positions follow your hands. With one hand, just set that one.
Reading
How the music reads while you play, and the aids that help you find the next note.
Sets the reading aids together — pick where you are, then fine-tune any of them below.
Each notehead takes a colour from its name — every C red, every D orange, and so on — so you can read by hue while the names sink in.
The notes to come stack above the keys and fall onto them as you play, so you can see which key is next.
The piece reads as one line that scrolls as you play, instead of stacked rows.
Numbers the first bar of each row, so a passage is easy to find. Turn it off for a cleaner staff.
Forces this many bars onto each row for bigger notation; Auto fits them to your screen.
Magnifies the whole score for bigger, easier-to-read notes — handy on a small screen, or when you're starting out.
Beams join fast notes into beat groups. Hide them to read one note at a time while you're learning; Auto shows them on harder pieces, where the grouping helps.
A translucent replay of your best run on this piece plays alongside you.
Play by ear: the notes start hidden and reveal as you find them — green when you get one, red when the tries run out. Have a listen first, then play back what you heard.
Metronome
The steady click that helps you keep time.
Clicks per beat — 1 on the beat, 2 for eighths, 3 for triplets, 4 for sixteenths.
Computer keyboard
No piano? These keys play the notes. Tap a note, then press the key you'd like it on — or keep the standard layout with Reset.
Bind a key to each pedal — Space suits the sustain pedal. Tap a pedal, then press a key (or Backspace to clear).
Connect MIDI
Plug in a real piano keyboard, and Plinky can hear you play.
No piano? Your computer keyboard plays just fine — or Plinky can listen to a real piano through the microphone:
Left hand — Z X C V B N M white keys (C–G), S D G H J black keys.
Right hand — Q W E R T Y U white keys (C–G), 2 3 5 6 7 black keys.
↑ / ↓ shift both hands an octave — current offset 0.
Inputs
No inputs detected.
Held notes
Press a key…
Send what Plinky plays back to your piano, so a keyboard with lights shows the notes as they sound. Off by default — it also makes a sound module play along.
Play on a real piano
No cable needed — Plinky can listen through the microphone while you play your own piano.
A quick tune-up, so Plinky hears your piano clearly.
Help
Your progress
Everything you've played lives on this device and nowhere else. A backup carries the lot — grades, saved takes, fingerings, settings and scores — to a new phone or laptop, or back here if this one is ever cleared.
This device holds 0 items. Restoring replaces everything here with the backup.
Danger zone
Erases everything on this device — your scores, progress, and settings. This can't be undone, so grab a backup from the Library first if you'd like to keep your scores.