Rhythm Sight Reading Trainer14.01 - App Store

Accelerate your sight reading skills with instant feedback on timing accuracy. Our carefully graduated levels, from beginner to professional, allow you to start at your optimal skill level and progress at your own pace. You'll improve more rapidly than practicing solely on your instrument. Practice anytime and anywhere. Many advanced features.

KEY FEATURES

DIVERSE EXERCISES

- Explore common and rare rhythms from 2 to 12 beats per bar (2/2, 3/2, 4/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 9/8, 12/8).

- More than 200 fixed exercises (100 (longer ones) on iPad).

- Thousands of random exercises.

- Suitable for absolute beginners as well as professionals.

- Challenge yourself with exercises involving rests, ties, syncopations, duplets, triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets.

- Add swing to quarter note meter exercises with varying degrees of swing intensity.

- Automatic count-off with one or two bars.

- Longer (random) exercises in landscape orientation.
PRACTICE & TEST MODE

- Practice mode: listen or tap along while the rhythm is played.

- Test mode: hear the metronome and read/tap the rhythm.

- Visual feedback instantly displays accuracy with each tap (color and position).

- Easily adjust metronome tempo by sliding or keypad.

- Two tap buttons for higher tempos or tapping with alternating fingers.
RHYTHM EDITOR

- Edit any exercise to suit your preferences.

- Intuitive editor with minimal taps.

- Includes an editor for ties.

- Unlimited undo.

- Add your exercises to favorites.

- Share exercises with others.
EXTRA CHALLENGES

- Expert mode: higher default tempo and more accuracy required.

- Endurance test (continuous reading).

- Speeding-up tests.

- Left- and right-hand independence: tap the beat and rhythm with two buttons.

- Note duration test.

- Count 6/8 in two (dotted quarter as the beat).

- Ear training function for rhythmic dictation.

- Maintain rhythm focus while notes from a chord progression are played.
REPORTING

- View a frequency chart of your tap results.

- Access progress reports for fixed and random exercises.

- Share your results, such as a 100% score graphic or progress reports, via email.
SOUNDS

- Choose from various percussive instruments for app player, metronome, and taps.

- Play chord progressions with guitar, e-piano, marimba, or bass.

- Optional stereo sound with taps in the right ear and metronome/player in the left ear.

- Optional beat-counting voice function.
MICROPHONE

- Utilize the microphone for an alternative to tap buttons.

- Play rhythms with hand claps, finger-snaps, or an instrument.

- Adjust sensitivity settings.

- Supports external microphones.
MIDI

- Receive taps from a Midi device connected via Apple USB camera adapter or USB-C (e.g., keyboard, guitar, drum kit).

- Automatic device detection.

- Touch-sensitivity support.

- Export any exercise as a MIDI file.
OTHER FEATURES

- Experience very low latency with instant response.

- Support for left-handed tapping.

- Choose between classical and flat interface themes.

- Support for dark mode (iOS13+).

- Universal app (iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad).

- Supports all screen sizes.

- Tested on iOS and iPadOS 27.

Version History Added iPhone Duo support and various layout refinements. 14.01 17h ago Various text & screenshot improvements. 12.24 May 25 Various text improvements. 12.23 May 25 Added a B harmonic minor chord progression on request. 12.22 May 18 Added extra PDF files to the Export Documentation feature.
iOS 26.5 support. 12.21 May 12 - Some workarounds for iOS 26.4 problems and other minor improvements. 12.19 May 6 Minor improvements and optimizations. 12.18 Apr 28 Fix: workaround for an issue in iPadOS 26.4.1 that prevented closing the mail composer. 12.17 Apr 10 Fix: workaround for an issue in iPadOS 26.4 that prevented closing the mail composer. 12.16 Apr 2 Fixes a text display issue on iOS 26.4. 12.15 Mar 26 Minor bug fixes. 12.14 Mar 10 - Some performance improvements. 12.12 Feb 26 - Fixed an issue on iPhone where Test or Practice mode was not stopped when rotating the device from landscape to portrait. 12.11 Jan 2 - Fix for layout issue on iPhone in landscape mode.
- Updated for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
- In iPadOS 26, the app supports proportional scaling. iPadOS saves your layout in both orientations automatically. 12.09 09/12/2025 - Updated for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26.
- In iPadOS 26, the app supports proportional scaling. iPadOS saves your layout in both orientations automatically. 12.08 09/11/2025 - iOS 18.6 adjustments. 12.07 08/03/2025 - iOS 18.5 adjustments. 12.01 06/15/2025 Polished some help texts and instructions. 11.11 02/27/2025 - Adjustments for iOS 18.0.1 11.10 10/06/2024 - Minor adjustments for iOS 18 and added support for new devices. 11.09 09/15/2024 - Adds the famous Pachelbel's Canon chord progression in D major (Extra challenges menu).
- The Display menu includes color options for both the settings background and cells. 11.08 12/12/2023 - Added some color options for the settings screens within the Display menu.
- Implemented textual changes and made various minor adjustments. 11.07 12/01/2023 Now you can personalize your 'light' interface style with a range of background color options. To get started:
- select the 'light' style from the Display/Theme menu in settings.
- then open the Display/Background menu.
- choose from a variety of light colors to create your ideal look.

Staff background: also new customization choices in the Display/Staff Background menu. 11.06 11/06/2023 iOS, iPadOS 17 adjustments (still supports iOS 12.1).

Chord progression function extras:
- arpeggio patterns. These can be effective for ear training or play-along purposes.
- a list of play-along tips, based on the experience of a group of students.
- some new chord progressions.

Mail current exercise (in Exercise options menu) attaches a second MIDI file, generated by the Chord progression function.

Hide staff lines option (in Display menu). This may be helpful when playing along with the chords. 11.05 10/01/2023 Chord progression function changes:
- Marimba added to instruments.
- Option to play the chord roots only. 11.04 06/12/2023