Modacity vs Vivid Practice

Modacity is an app for organizing and tracking musicians’ practice. It combines a recorder, metronome, tone generator, timer, and note-taking tools, while tracking practice time and progress and supporting reminders. Users can compare recordings and keep to-do lists or journal notes that appear on the practice screen. The app guides deliberate practice around a musician’s highest-priority pieces. It is intended for students, professionals, teachers, and amateur musicians; the maker says it can be used with any instrument or voice type and any genre. Supported platforms are iOS, Android, and macOS, with listed devices including iPhones, iPads, iPod touch, Apple Silicon Macs, Apple Vision, and Android phones, tablets, and laptops. Practice data and recordings sync to Modacity’s servers when the app has an internet connection. Manual export is available by request. The free plan includes 10 practice items, two lists, and one folder, with limits on notes, recordings, practice cycles, reminders, and other tools. Premium Individual costs $11.99 a month. Studio starts from $199 a year for up to 30 students.

Vivid Practice helps music teachers organize student assignments and encourage regular practice. Teachers can bulk upload assignments from spreadsheet templates, track student progress, attach audio, video, and PDFs, and arrange work in folders. Students use the mobile app to work in Blocked, Interleaved, Pomodoro, or Focused practice modes. Students or parents can set practice schedules and receive reminders, and students can message teachers between lessons. Teachers use the website, whose dashboard is mobile responsive in a browser. The service is designed for one teacher per account; schools can share an account or create one for each teacher. It does not set required practice times for individual pieces, though teachers can write time guidance in assignment notes, and it has no practice listening or compare-recording feature. The free plan covers one student. Paid plans start at $9 a month for 2–10 students, with tiers for larger studios and schools up to 500 students at $39 a month. Vivid Practice is available on the web, Android, and iOS.