LumaKeys
Learn, record, edit and export, on Mac
- Price
- Free tier · Pro $69 launch price · $99 after
- Platforms
- macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel)
I learned piano from Synthesia videos and built LumaKeys for everything around them. Learn a piece from falling notes with loop, slow-down and hands split. Record your version with a MIDI keyboard or your computer keys, fix notes in the piano roll, turn piano audio into MIDI on your Mac, keep your pieces by composer, and export a video up to 4K/60, widescreen or vertical.
It's Mac only for now, and Pro costs more than Synthesia: $69 one-time for a limited time, then $99. Free is the full app with caps: 10 imported pieces at a time, 5 transcriptions, and 1080p export with a small watermark.
LumaKeys pricing
Piano From Above
Free player for Windows
- Price
- Free, open source
- Platforms
- Windows
Open any MIDI file and play along as the notes fall, with a MIDI keyboard plugged in. Open source, last release in 2019. It's a player only: no recording, editing, library or video export, and the visuals are basic.
github.com/brian-pantano/PianoFromAbove
Neothesia
Free player for Windows, Mac and Linux
- Price
- Free, open source
- Platforms
- Windows · macOS · Linux
An open-source falling-note player: drop in a MIDI file and play along over a virtual keyboard. Actively developed, last release January 2026. No library and no recording in the current release. Video export is a separate command-line renderer, prebuilt for Windows and Linux; on a Mac you compile it yourself.
polymeilex.github.io/Neothesia
SeeMusic
Piano videos with hands-cam sync
- Price
- Free with watermark · Pro subscription (~$8.99/mo or ~$79.99/yr)
- Platforms
- macOS · Windows · iOS · Android
A falling-note video maker that can sync your notes to overhead footage of your hands. 3D notes, particles, presets, and export up to 4K/60. It also records from a MIDI keyboard, edits notes, shows MusicXML scores and converts piano audio to MIDI.
Free exports carry a watermark. Pro is a subscription, about $8.99 a month or $79.99 a year on the Mac App Store.
www.seemusicapp.com
Embers
Cinematic renders from MIDI, on Windows
- Price
- Free to play · rendering from $10/mo (Patreon)
- Platforms
- Windows
A small indie app for making MIDI files look cinematic: load or record a MIDI, tune the colors and glow, render the video. No learning features, no note editing, no library.
Windows only and funded through Patreon: rendering from $10 a month, watermark-free export from $20. The latest public download is version 2.3, from June 2021.
embers.app
Falling Note
A waterfall over your piano video, on iPhone
- Price
- Free · Pro $19.99/mo or $149.99/yr (also $9.99/week)
- Platforms
- iPhone · iPad · Web · Apple Silicon Macs (as an iPad app)
Load a piano video, audio, MIDI or a link, and it draws a falling-note waterfall synced to the footage. Practice mode with speed control, note editing for velocity and duration, trim, crop and export. Export needs Pro. Rated 4.7 on the App Store.
A phone app first, with a web version. On Apple Silicon Macs it runs as an iPad app. Pro is a subscription.
apps.apple.com/us/app/falling-note/id6760156164
Flowkey
Lessons with a licensed song library
- Price
- Free tier · from $99.99/yr
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android · works on any piano
Thousands of licensed songs, a curriculum, wait mode, hands-separate practice, and a video of a pianist's hands above the sheet music. It teaches with sheet music, not falling notes. It's a subscription, and the full library goes when you stop paying.
www.flowkey.com
Anything Piano
Any song from a link, on iPhone
- Price
- Free · Pro $24.99/mo or $179.99/yr
- Platforms
- iPhone · iPad
Paste a YouTube link or upload a song, and its AI builds a piano roll in a few minutes. Practice with wait mode, hand split, loop and finger labels. It listens through the microphone, so it works at an acoustic piano. Made by Songscription.
Transcription runs on their servers. No note editing, no MIDI recording of your takes, no video export.
playanything.com/anythingpiano
Pianotify
Falling notes in the browser
- Price
- Free with 30-second previews · Premium $6.99/mo or $46.95/yr
- Platforms
- Any browser
Falling-note practice and a song catalog in the browser, nothing to install, so it works on a Chromebook or a work laptop. Free plays 30-second previews without practice tools. Premium adds A-B loop, tempo and transposition. No video export and no library of your own recordings.
pianotify.com