Best Music Education Apps for Android (2025 Update)

By Grosse Pointe Music Academy Staff

If you’re learning music, whether as a beginner or an advanced musician, your Android device can be a powerful practice companion. With today’s apps, you can improve sight-reading, ear training, rhythm skills, and even compose or record your own music — all from your phone or tablet!

Here are some of the best Android apps for music students and teachers to check out this year:

🎶 Sight-Reading and Music Theory Apps

1. Music Tutor (Sight Reading Trainer)
A simple, clean app that helps you practice reading notes quickly on both treble and bass clef. You can customize session length and difficulty, making it perfect for all ages.
(Free with in-app purchases)

2. Tenuto (via browser for Android)
While Tenuto is officially iOS-only, Android users can access a web version that offers all the powerful drills on intervals, chords, scales, and note identification that make it a must-have theory tool.
(Web access, paid version available)

3. Complete Music Reading Trainer
Designed like a full course, this app starts easy and gradually increases difficulty. Excellent for those preparing for exams or simply wanting to improve sight-reading speed.
(Paid app, free demo available)

🎧 Ear Training and Rhythm Apps

4. Perfect Ear 3
An outstanding app for ear training, rhythm exercises, sight-singing, and even basic theory. You can build custom exercises depending on your skill level.
(Free with optional upgrades)

5. Complete Ear Trainer
Perfect for musicians serious about aural skills. Practice interval recognition, chord qualities, scale types, and cadences with fun, progressive tests.
(Free and Pro version available)

6. Rhythm Trainer by Soundbrenner
Not your typical metronome app — this one trains your internal sense of timing through rhythm dictation, tapping, and polyrhythm practice.
(Free, with Pro features available)

🎸 Instrument-Specific Apps

7. Yousician
A full-service app for guitar, bass, ukulele, piano, and voice! Yousician listens to you play and offers real-time feedback as you work through lessons and songs.
(Free with optional subscription)

8. Simply Piano by JoyTunes
A great app for beginners looking to develop piano skills quickly. Follow along with step-by-step lessons that move at your pace.
(Free trial, subscription required for full version)

9. Justin Guitar Lessons & Songs
Created by world-famous guitar teacher Justin Sandercoe, this app is packed with beginner and intermediate guitar courses, play-along songs, and practice schedules.
(Free and subscription versions)

🧠 Creative Music Tools

10. BandLab
One of the best free mobile digital audio workstations (DAWs) available today. Record, mix, collaborate with others, and even add beats to your practice sessions!
(Completely free)

11. Flat: Music Score Editor
If you want to notate your own music, Flat is a lightweight and easy-to-use notation app perfect for Android devices. Compatible with Google Drive for saving and sharing.
(Free with upgrades available)

⏱️ Metronome and Tuner Apps

12. Soundbrenner Metronome
A beautiful, highly customizable metronome app. Adjust tempo, subdivisions, accents, and time signatures easily. Works even better if paired with the Soundbrenner wearable metronome!
(Free, with optional Pro features)

13. Tuner – Pitched Tuner
One of the most accurate free tuners for Android. Works for guitar, violin, cello, piano, brass, and wind instruments.
(Free)

Final Thoughts

Music education apps today are more powerful and accessible than ever. Whether you’re fine-tuning your rhythm, mastering sight-reading, improving ear training, or composing original songs, there’s an app to make your practice time more productive and enjoyable.

At Grosse Pointe Music Academy, we encourage our students to integrate technology thoughtfully into their lessons. These tools are great supplements to private instruction — but nothing replaces the feedback, correction, and motivation that a live teacher can offer.

🎶 Interested in private lessons for guitar, piano, drums, voice, violin, and more?
Visit www.grossepointemusicacademy.com today!