The violin tutor that actually talks back.
Violin AI listens to your intonation, tone and rhythm — then coaches you in plain language, like a real teacher. Not another app that just hands you a score.
Listening…
A4 · +6 cents sharp
Cents-level
intonation precision
Vibrato-aware
not flagged as 'wrong'
Your pieces
not a fixed song list
Teacher-first
assign, don't replace
The gap
Pianists and guitarists got great apps. Violinists got left behind.
Fretless. Bowed. Impossibly sensitive to intonation. The violin is the hardest instrument to build feedback for — so most apps either avoid it or bolt on a generic pitch score that breaks the moment you add vibrato. You deserve feedback that understands the instrument.
What you get
Feedback built for the instrument, not adapted from guitar.
Real-time intonation engine
Purpose-built pitch tracking for the violin — engineered for the hard cases other apps skip: vibrato, string crossings and double stops. It shows you exactly which notes drift and by how many cents.
A tutor that talks back
Scoring apps tell you that you were wrong. Violin AI tells you why — in plain language, like a real teacher. Ask follow-up questions and get specific, prioritized fixes for your next run.
Tone & bow-arm feedback
Contact point, bow distribution and pressure shape your sound. We surface the tone habits a metronome and a score can never catch, then coach the fix.
Passage-level practice loops
Isolate the two bars that keep falling apart, loop them at your tempo, and let the tutor track whether the shift is actually getting cleaner over the week.
Real repertoire, not just exercises
Bring the pieces you're actually studying — études, sonatas, orchestral excerpts — instead of grinding a fixed song library built for pop guitar.
Practice memory
Violin AI remembers last week's notes, so feedback builds on your history instead of resetting every session. Progress you can actually see.
See the difference
A score can't teach. A conversation can.
This is the core of Violin AI. Tell the tutor what you're working on and get the kind of specific, prioritized feedback a great teacher gives — right here, live on this page.
- Explains why a note drifted, not just that it did
- Prioritizes the one fix that matters most next
- Ends with a focused 5-minute drill to try
Powered by a real language model via your own OpenAI or Gemini key — no data resold, no lock-in.
Live tutor preview
Real conversational critique — not a score
Try the sample, or describe your own passage. Powered by your OpenAI or Gemini key.
How we compare
Where the other apps stop, we start.
An honest look at the gaps scoring-first apps leave open for violinists.
Violin AI | tonestro | Yousician | Trala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built specifically for violin | Limited | Limited | ||
| Conversational critique (not just a score) | ||||
| Handles vibrato & double stops | Limited | |||
| Bring your own repertoire | Limited | Limited | ||
| Teacher assignment & progress tools | Limited | |||
| Follow-up questions to the tutor |
Comparison reflects each product's primary published focus and may evolve as features change. “Limited” means partial or non-violin-specific support.
For teachers
The tool you assign — not the one that replaces you.
Violin AI handles the repetitive intonation and tone drills between lessons so your lesson time goes deeper. Assign focused practice, see what your students actually did, and walk into every lesson with them further along.
Assign practice
Set intonation and passage drills for each student.
See real progress
Track accuracy trends between lessons, not guesses.
Protect lesson time
Spend lessons on musicianship, not tuning drills.
Priority studio access
Teachers get early invites for their whole studio.
How it works
Three steps. No setup, no hardware.
Play a passage
Open the piece you're studying and play. Violin AI listens through your device mic — no extra hardware.
Get a real critique
See exactly where intonation and tone drifted, then read a plain-language critique that prioritizes what to fix first.
Loop, ask, improve
Loop the hard bars, ask the tutor follow-ups, and watch your accuracy climb across the week.
Early voices
Learners and teachers, in their words.
Illustrative testimonials from our private preview.
“I stopped guessing whether my A was sharp. It just tells me — and then tells me how to fix the shift. It's the closest thing to a lesson between lessons.”
Elena Márquez
Adult returner · self-taught
“I assign it for daily intonation drills and my students show up to lessons further along. It doesn't replace me — it protects my lesson time.”
David Kwon
Suzuki teacher · 14 students
“The feedback actually understands vibrato instead of flagging it as 'out of tune'. That alone made me trust it for real repertoire.”
Priya Raman
Conservatory prep student
Pricing
Start free. Go deep when you're ready.
Founding-member pricing for everyone who joins the waitlist.
Practice
To get the feel of it.
$0/forever
- Daily intonation checks
- Limited passage loops
- Basic tone feedback
Premium
The full conversational tutor.
$9.99/mo
or $79.99/year — save 33%
- Everything in Practice
- Unlimited conversational critiques
- Vibrato & double-stop analysis
- Your own repertoire, unlimited
- Practice memory & progress trends
Studio
For teachers & their students.
Custom
- Assign practice to students
- Studio-wide progress dashboard
- Priority onboarding
- Volume pricing per seat
FAQ
Questions, answered.
No. Violin AI listens through your phone, tablet or laptop microphone. A quiet room helps accuracy, but there's nothing to buy or plug in.
Practice like you've got a teacher listening.
Join the waitlist for founding-member pricing and early access. Teachers get priority for their studios.