Learn Mode · Progress
Understand Your Lesson Progress
See your accuracy, build a streak, and let the Today sheet tell you exactly what to work on next.
Review your results after each lesson
When you complete a lesson, a summary screen shows your accuracy percentage, how many exercises you answered correctly, and a recap of the key concepts you covered. Tap any completed lesson in the list to revisit this summary at any time — the accuracy from your most recent session and the completion date are both stored.
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LearnHow chapters and lessons unlock
Lessons inside a chapter unlock in sequence as you complete earlier ones. Chapters themselves unlock once you finish the lessons that precede them — there is no minimum accuracy required, only completion. This means you can move forward at any pace and return to refine your understanding later without being blocked.
Build a streak with daily practice
Tiny Instrument tracks a daily streak — the number of consecutive days you have completed at least one activity. Your streak resets if you miss a day, but your best-ever streak is saved separately. You can set a daily goal in Settings → Progress & Notifications: the default is one activity per day, or you can switch to a time-based goal and choose a target in minutes.
Open the Today sheet
Tap the streak pill in the header bar — or tap Progress in the menu — to open the Today sheet. On iPhone it slides up as a half-sheet you can drag to full height. On iPad and Mac it appears as a pinned card at the top of the sidebar. The sheet shows your streak ring (how close you are to today's goal), a coaching card with a suggestion based on your recent activity, and a list of focus areas ranked by how long it has been since you last practiced each one.
Read the coaching card and focus areas
The coaching card at the top of the Today sheet highlights the one area that needs the most attention, based on how many days have passed since your last session and your recent accuracy. Below it, a row of chips shows your top weak spots colour-coded from red (most urgent) to green (on track). Tap 'View full journal' to see a scrollable timeline of everything you have done — every lesson, practice session, and milestone, in chronological order.
Review past lessons through Aria
You can ask Aria (the sparkles button ✦ inside any lesson) to navigate directly to a past lesson. Aria's response cards show a green checkmark for completed lessons along with your accuracy percentage and how long ago you finished it, so you can quickly gauge which concepts are worth revisiting before moving to harder chapters.
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Tiny Instrument teaches music theory through interactive lessons, ear training, and playful practice — all connected in one app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
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