Help & Support

Tap the import button and choose your source: pick a PDF, or import a MusicXML file. Klavia reads the notation and engraves it into a clean, interactive score in your library.

PDFs and MusicXML (.musicxml / .mxl). MusicXML gives the most accurate result because it already contains the exact notes; PDFs are read using Optical Music Recognition (OMR).

OMR works very well on clean, printed scores. For the best results: use a clean, good-quality PDF, avoid handwritten or heavily annotated music, and always check the converted score against your original — recognition isn’t perfect and small corrections are sometimes needed. If you have a MusicXML file, use that for a note-perfect import.

Listen plays the piece back for you with a moving cursor that follows the notes and auto-scrolls — great for hearing how it should sound. Practice is wait-mode: the next note glows and the score waits for you to play it (on a MIDI keyboard or through the microphone) before moving on, so you learn at your own pace.

Yes. Switch between Both, Right, and Left. The score genuinely re-engraves to a single staff for the hand you choose, so you can drill each part on its own before putting them together.

Turn on the Abc labels to show the note name above each note — C-D-E or Do-Re-Mi. Labels are colour-coded by hand (blue for the right hand, green for the left) while you’re learning, and you can switch them off again for a clean score.

A Synthesia-style view where the notes fall down onto a full 88-key keyboard, so you can see exactly which key to press and when. It’s an alternative to reading the notation — handy if you prefer learning by watching the keys.

Open the tempo control and drag the slider — 100% is the score’s own notated tempo, so you can take it right down while learning and speed up as you improve. You can also add a metronome click or a one-bar count-in. To loop a passage, select a bar range and it repeats until you turn the loop off.

Connect your keyboard to your iPhone or iPad over USB (using Apple’s USB adapter or a USB-C cable) or pair it over Bluetooth MIDI. Once connected, the notes you play are detected automatically in Practice and falling-notes modes.

Yes. You can listen, read, and follow along without any hardware at all. For wait-mode play-along on an acoustic piano, you can also use your device’s microphone to detect single-note melodies — no cables needed.

Every piece you import is saved on your device, in your library. Nothing is stored in the cloud once a piece has been converted.

Yes — once a piece is in your library it plays, engraves, and practises fully offline. Converting a PDF needs an internet connection for the recognition step; importing a MusicXML file works entirely on-device with no connection at all.

Open your library, and remove any song from there at any time. Because everything lives on your device, deleting it removes it completely.

No tracking, no ads. Files sent for conversion are processed and not retained afterwards, and microphone audio is analysed on-device and never recorded. Full details are in our Privacy Policy.

OMR can misread busy or low-quality scans. Try re-importing a cleaner, higher-quality PDF, and always compare the result with your original. For a note-perfect score, import a MusicXML file instead — it doesn’t rely on recognition.

Check that:

• the cable is fully seated, or the keyboard is powered on for Bluetooth;
• for Bluetooth MIDI, the keyboard is paired within the app rather than only in iOS Settings;
• no other app is currently using the keyboard.

If it still doesn’t show up, reconnect the cable or re-pair, then reopen the piece.

Make sure it’s one of the supported types — PDF or MusicXML (.musicxml/.mxl). Very large PDFs can take a moment to process. If a specific file keeps failing, email it to us and we’ll take a look.

iPhone and iPad running iOS 16 or later at launch. An Android version is planned for after the initial iOS release.