Scheduling, attendance-driven autopay billing, and parent & student apps — plus a practice game students open on their own. Fuller calendars, on-time payments, fewer quiet quits.
Your view is the business. Everyone else gets an app built for exactly what they need — and nothing they don't.
Revenue, who's about to quit, leads waiting on a reply — with the next best action spelled out.
Pick a song or skill, attach materials, set a quest. Attendance is one tap — and it's what drives billing.
Streaks, quests and a skill map on the student side. Autopay, invoices and Pay Now on the parent side.
Older tools schedule lessons and send invoices — then stop. Practice happens in the dark, motivation fizzles, and students quietly drift away. Methodica closes that loop.
The admin you need to keep the lights on, plus the engagement layer that keeps students practicing between lessons.
Recurring lessons, rooms, make-ups, online lessons and a booking widget for your website. Fewer gaps, fewer no-shows to chase.
Price per student, bill by attendance, charge cards on file on your schedule. Per-lesson, monthly or hourly — packages and late-cancel rules optional. Payments built in.
XP, streaks, weekly quests and nine practice games turn "go practice" into the part of the day students look forward to.
A visual map of every skill and song learned. Students feel momentum; parents see exactly what they're paying for.
Pick a song or skill, attach the materials, set a quest. The whole plan is ready before the student sits down.
Leads land with a timer on them (speed-to-lead wins), revenue and retention in one dashboard, and prompts that say who needs attention next.
Import from My Music Staff with one token, or start fresh. Add your locations, connect a bank account per location, set your prices and invoice day.
Teachers get a login and a one-tap attendance habit. Families save a card once and get the parent app; students get the practice app.
Lessons happen, teachers mark them, invoices build themselves on your schedule, cards get charged. You watch the dashboard instead of chasing checks.
Note reading, rhythm, ears, chords, scales — drilled in five-minute arcade runs that reinforce what the teacher assigns. Capped off by World Tour: 96 hand-tuned gigs where their 3D avatar plays ever-bigger venues.
Don't want games? Flip one switch in studio settings and students get a clean, focused studio app. Optional, free, never forced.
Explore the arcade →Owners, teachers, parents and students each get a view built for exactly what they need — and nothing they don't.
Revenue, retention and a leads funnel — with prompts that tell you the next best move. Teach too? One login switches views.
Build lessons in seconds, see what each student practiced since last week, and set quests they race to finish.
Watch your child level up, save a card once, and book or cancel lessons — all from your phone.
Streaks, XP, quests and a 3D avatar that plays bigger stages make daily practice feel like leveling up.
"I run a two-location lessons studio. I built Methodica because the software we paid for stopped at the invoice — and the thing that actually keeps a family enrolled is a kid who practices. So I made the practice part of the product."
Methodica lives on the web and as a real app on iPhone and Android — students practicing on the couch, teachers at the piano, you running the studio from anywhere.
Start free for 30 days — no credit card. Every plan includes the full practice game, built-in family billing & payments, and the student & parent apps.
Prices in USD. "Active students" = enrolled with a lesson in the last 30 days — paused and archived students never count toward your cap. See the full plan comparison →
Practical, no-fluff playbooks on billing, retention and getting students — the stuff we figured out the hard way.
Export, import, map your billing, and the one email to send. A weekend, not a month.
Read the guide → BillingWhat to charge, how to bill by attendance, and how autopay fixes collections.
Read the guide → RetentionWhy students quit, the five signals that predict it, and what to do in the two weeks before.
Read the guide →Five tactics the best studios use to keep students practicing and enrolled — streak boards, 30-second quests, parent progress pings, at-risk saves, and level ladders. One per day, all runnable this week with zero software.
Also handy: the free Student Churn Calculator — see what quitting students cost you per year.
Set up your studio in an afternoon, invite your teachers and families, and watch practice turn into progress. 30-day free trial — no credit card, cancel anytime.