Tiny Instrument · Accessibility
Designed to work for more people.
Tiny Instrument follows the accessibility settings you already rely on, and adds its own learning aids on top. Here's exactly how the app maps to Apple's App Store accessibility features today, and what we're building next. No overclaiming.
Get Tiny Instrument freeBuilt on your settings
It starts with the settings you already use.
Tiny Instrument inherits the appearance, motion, and text-size preferences you've set across iPhone, iPad, and Mac instead of overriding them. On top of that, the app adds its own controls for narration, keyboard guidance, and input, so you can shape music learning around the way you work best.
Apple accessibility features
Where we stand, feature by feature.
Apple lets apps declare support for a set of accessibility features. This is our honest status against the full list. Captions and Audio Descriptions are marked not applicable — the app has no video or audio-only media.
Dark Interface
Applies a dark color scheme to screens, menus, and controls to reduce eye strain.
Reduced Motion
Modifies or reduces certain types of animation that may cause motion sickness or discomfort.
Larger Text
Increases the text size in the app to 200% or more.
VoiceOver
Navigate and explore the app using gestures, keyboard, braille, and speech output.
Voice Control
Navigate and interact with the app using your voice to tap, swipe, click, type, and more.
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Uses shapes or text, in addition to or instead of color, to distinguish key information.
Sufficient Contrast
Increases or adjusts the contrast between text or iconography and background.
Captions
Follow dialogue and relevant sounds of video or audio-only content with text. Not applicable — the app has no video or audio-only media.
Audio Descriptions
Hear audio descriptions of video content. Not applicable — the app has no video content.
Dark Interface
SupportedDark mode, light mode, and visual tuning.
The app is built dark-first and fully supports light mode, following your system appearance automatically. The keyboard, the staff, and every lesson surface adapt cleanly, so nothing is left low-contrast or hard to read when you switch.
Dark
Light
Reduced Motion
SupportedCalmer when you need it.
Tiny Instrument honors the system Reduce Motion setting. When it's on, the motion-heavy moments — the flying-note overlay in Play mode and the launch animation — are simplified or switched off, so movement on screen doesn't get in the way of learning. We're extending that coverage to every remaining transition.
Larger Text
PartialReadable at the size you need.
Most text in the app already scales with your system font-size setting. Some screens still use fixed sizes, so we're auditing those so the whole app scales to the largest Dynamic Type sizes without breaking the layout. That's why Larger Text is marked partial for now.
On the way
Coming soonWhat we're building next.
These Apple accessibility features aren't supported yet. We'd rather say so than overclaim. Here's what each one needs and where we are.
VoiceOver
Coming soonWe're labeling the keyboard, lessons, and chord and scale views for a full VoiceOver pass, including finger-placement narration.
Voice Control
Coming soonLands alongside the VoiceOver labeling work, so the app can be driven entirely by voice.
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Coming soonAdding shape and text cues to the scale-degree and interval colors the app leans on today.
Sufficient Contrast
Coming soonAn Increase Contrast pass across text, iconography, and key UI surfaces.
Also built in
Beyond Apple's standard features, Tiny Instrument includes its own learning aids that help more people get to the music.
Narration
Hear the lesson, not just read it.
Lessons, Aria, and guided retry steps can read their content aloud, so the learning layer doesn't have to be purely visual. Choose the narration voice from the voices installed on your device.
Change the narration voice →
Visual anchors
Note labels and keyboard guides, always on.
Key names, note labels, and right-hand fingering guides can be shown on the keyboard at all times. For anyone who needs a visual anchor rather than relying on memory, the keyboard can always show what you're looking at and where your fingers go.
Set up fingering hints →Alternative input
Play the whole app from a physical keyboard.
A physical MIDI keyboard can replace touch entirely, across lessons, ear training, and practice. For anyone who finds touch surfaces difficult, or who simply prefers real keys, every mode is playable from hardware.
Learn music on your own terms.
Free to download on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.