Duende

Music practice, logged as training.

Duende times every session, tags what you worked on, and keeps three months of it on one screen.

Download on the App Store iPhone · free
The Duende profile screen: a ten day streak, 56 sessions, 21 hours in the last 30 days and 43 hours all time, above a weekly bar chart.

Three months of work on one screen

Every session adds to the picture. A few weeks in you can see the whole thing at once: the good stretches, the gaps, the weeks you lost.

  • A running streak
  • Thirteen weeks on the heatmap, all of it in history
10 day streak · 53 of the last 91 days · 43h 04m

Know what you worked on, not just how long

Tag a session by what you were doing, and the record can tell you where the month went and which piece has had the hours.

  • Nine kinds of practice, from technique to composition
  • Notes mid-session, without stopping the clock
  • Search by instrument or note
The Duende history screen, listing recent sessions by instrument with their focus tags, date and duration.

The hours are your training

Connect Strava and every session lands in the same feed as your runs and rides.

Joe Luca Today at 09:12 · Workout

Saxophone

Time: 47:12
Long tones then scales in all twelve keys.
Playing time: 41m 08s of 47m 12s
Tracked with Duende · getduende.app
#ScalesTechnique #Repertoire

The details

The clock is the clock

Time runs against your phone’s clock, not against the app staying awake. Lock it, set it on the stand, walk away. Force-quit it and the session survives.

It notices when you stop

Allow the microphone and a session separates playing from silence, whether the phone is in your hand, on the stand or in your pocket. The audio is read on the device and deleted when you finish.

Whatever you play

Forty-plus instruments across strings, keys, wind, percussion and voice. Track as many as you play.

The name

Duende is Lorca’s word for the thing that turns up in a performance and cannot be taught. It only ever visits people who have done the hours.

Practice is the part nobody sees. No finish line, no race number, no personal best. Duende keeps the count.

Find out where the hours go.

Free, and your history stays private to your account.