Appcompanist

4.3
89 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Appcompanist gives classical and musical theater singers and voice teachers full control over the world’s best piano accompaniment recordings, including tempo, key, melody help, fermata and more.

Appcompanist puts a level of control in your hand never before possible with recorded accompaniments. Transpose to any key; set any tempo; blend a melody guide track in and out in various octaves as piece plays; create additional rubato, fermatas of any length, ritardandos and accelerandos; set markers and create cuts and loop sections, all using simple on-screen motions that can be done with one hand while teaching or singing, and all without affecting musical quality. You can even save your tempo changes and fermatti to create custom versions that play exactly the way you want every time, but still respond to any changes you decide to make on the fly!

Appcompanist also includes over 850 Vocal Exercises and Warm-ups as part of the free version, all with full app functionality. Repeating exercises also let you choose direction (up, down, or repeat the same key) prior to each repeat. 10 full-length sample songs are also included so you can explore all of the app’s unique playback features.

Top-level collaborative pianists from around the world are recording high quality, singer-sensitive accompaniments for every aria, art song, and musical theater piece in the vocal repertoire for use in Appcompanist. Thousands of titles are already available in the fastest growing accompaniment library available.

Features:

Transpose instantly up or down 11 half-steps from the originally recorded key with no change in audio quality.

Turn a melody guide track on or off any time during play, adjust the level of melody you hear against the full accompaniment, and choose to hear melody in one of three octaves.

Hold and sustain the accompaniment, then bring it back in with perfect accuracy for musical pauses, cadenzas, recitatives, or other times in which a fermata is indicated. The fermata button can also be used to start playback at any point in the piece precisely when you're ready.

Check next melody pitch when stopped and start in perfect sync with the accompaniment every time.

Adjust tempo during play to suit any interpretation or set a new tempo with the tempo slider.

Add markers, create cuts, and set loop sections anywhere in any piece.

Create Custom Versions that can be controlled just like the original accompaniment.

Set a countdown timer to delay the start of playback from any point in the accompaniment.

Sort the library list or use keywords to find the perfect piece.

Create and edit playlists and share songs and playlists with other users.

Appcompanist recordings are played by some of the world’s top collaborative pianists and coaches.
Updated on
Mar 8, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
86 reviews
Amy Phillips
February 19, 2024
As a high school choir teacher with limited piano skills, Appcompanist has been a game changer when it comes to rehearsals and sectionals. The versatility of the app allows for me to run sectionals more effectively, gives a little extra help in full rehearsals and assists my rehearsal accompanist to cover every part AND the accompaniment when I ask for the impossible. After using Appcompanist regularly, I can't imagine going back to the way I did things before.
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T Whyte
March 25, 2024
Overall love this app. Wish it wasn't so expensive. Price is hard on a substitute teacher's budget. Transpose feature & adding melody line great features. Please add a feature where it at least "stars" songs you've already added to a playlist. Would save a lot of time. Showing what playlist it's in would be even better.
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Appcompanist, LLC
March 25, 2024
Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll add your great idea of showing which songs are already on playlists to our development list. Also, this Spring we will be introducing some new subscription options to help save teachers and students a little money and improve access. Keep an eye out for announcements on that! So glad you love the app!
Marc Abbott
April 24, 2022
Normally this app is great. However, there are a few key bugs - on Android, the search bar disappears when you lose focus on the app, and you have to close and re-open the app. Also, if you type the word "still" into the search bar on Android, the app crashes. "Stim" and "stick" don't crash it. Looks like some kind of string parser issue or integer overflow error. Please fix - a lot of English songs have "still" in their titles.
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Appcompanist, LLC
April 25, 2022
Thanks for the heads up on the crash. There's an update now live (2.0.2) that fixes the problem. However we can't reproduce the search bar disappearing using pretty much the same config you have. Could you reach out to us at info@appcompanist.com and give us some more details? Thanks.

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