Everything you’d ask before trusting us with your studio.

Drive stores files; it doesn’t teach. There’s no “this is what Emma practices this week,” no instructions attached to the piece, no voice note, no status, no student view that makes sense to a 10-year-old. You’d have to build all of that with folder names and willpower - which is exactly the system that’s failing now.

Email works - once. Then the attachment is buried under thirty newer emails, the instructions live in a different thread than the file, and you genuinely can’t remember if you sent the corrected version. Multiply by every student, every week. Email is where assignments go to be forgotten.

Yes - that’s the whole first step. Bulk-upload PDFs, scan paper with your phone camera, or import forScore files including setlists. Your library is searchable by title, composer and tags. See iPad & forScore for the details.

Honest answer: it’s one (short) evening of setup to get your most important sheet music in and creating student invites. After that, an assignment is about 30 seconds, which replaces the message you’d send anyway plus the re-sends and the “what page?” follow-ups.

Or, import sheet music on the fly during lesson via Dropbox or forScore and assign right away.

If a new tool added more admin work to your week, you’d drop it by Friday. So would we.

Melopal runs in the browser on anything - laptop, iPad, phone. There are iOS & Android apps too: the iOS app is live, and the Android app is in the making. The apps add the camera scanner for getting paper music into your library. Students mostly live on their phones; it’s built for that.

Because it’s not “another app” to them - it’s the only place their music exists. They’re not choosing between Melopal and nothing; they’re choosing between Melopal and digging through four chats. Joining is one QR scan in your lesson, and after that the path of least resistance finally points toward practicing.

They don’t need it. You add a student with just a name and instrument; the email is optional and can be added later - typically a parent’s. The invite is a QR code or a link a parent can open. Built for real studios, where half the roster is under 12.

Yes - for young students it’s usually a parent’s device the invite lands on, and the assignment view is plain enough that any parent instantly gets it: this piece, these bars, this recording. The “what was Emma supposed to practice?” text retires. See the student side.

A student account can also have two email addresses on it - so the student and a parent can each log in from their own device, looking at the same assignments.

No. Teachers are the customer; students and parents ride free. Pricing details here.

No. If your teaching involves anything on paper or PDF - lead sheets, tabs, charts, method books, your own exercises, exam pieces - Melopal works the same. Jazz, pop, folk, brass band, choir: an assignment is an assignment.

The same rules apply as with photocopies, email or Drive today: what you may share with your own students depends on the licenses and copyright law in your country. Melopal doesn’t change your rights or responsibilities - it changes where the file lives.

What Melopal does do: your library is private to you, and music reaches only the specific students you assign it to - there’s no public sharing, no open folders. That’s a tighter ship than a link-shared cloud folder.

Melopal is built data-minimal by design: a student can exist as just a first name and an instrument. No email, no birthday, no photos required. Invites are private, per-student links that you control.

You stay in control of your studio: you add students, you archive them, and your library and assignments aren’t visible to anyone you haven’t invited.

You, and only you. Students see exactly what you assign to them - nothing else. There’s no social layer, no discovery feed, no other teachers browsing your material.

Deliberately not. No invoicing, no scheduling, no attendance, no parent portals with seventeen tabs. Melopal does one job extremely well: your students always know what to practice, with the right music and instructions in one place. The heavy admin systems can keep their meetings.

Individual teachers at music schools use Melopal for their own studios today. Proper school features - shared libraries, admin overview, integrations with school systems - are on the longer-term map. If that’s you, say hello; school needs are being shaped by exactly these conversations.

A working music teacher who lived the WhatsApp-PDF chaos for years and finally built the tool he couldn’t buy. Melopal is shaped in real lessons, with real students, every week - which is why it does less than the big platforms, on purpose.