Practice guides

The tools you actually open every day — plus an ear that listens back

Sadhana AI is a practice app for Carnatic, Hindustani and Western classical music. It carries the everyday kit — a tanpura drone, tuners, a metronome with tala modes, a loop for the phrase you keep missing — and it can also listen to a take you record and tell you where the pitch drifted.

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Both install links, with QR codes →

Start with the tool you need

Tanpura, tala and tuning The drone, the metronome with tala modes, and the tuners — what each one does and when to reach for it. Looping a difficult passage Set two points, slow it down, change the pitch to your kattai, and repeat until it sits. Checking your shruti and swaras What the app can measure on a recorded take — and what it deliberately does not judge. Ear training and sight reading Interval and swara recognition, and reading practice in your own notation system. Notation you can edit Generate sargam or staff notation from a recording, correct it, then play along with it. For teachers Classes, assignments with reference recordings, student submissions and progress. Three puzzles a day Ragadle, Connections and Ladder — free, public on the web, in all three traditions.

By tradition

These are three genuinely different configurations, not one app with the labels swapped. Each guide says what is set up for that tradition and where its support is thinner.

Carnatic

Tanpura at your kattai, tala on the metronome, Carnatic sargam, and raga and shruti identification from a recording — the tradition the analysis was built on.

Carnatic practice →

Hindustani

Bhatkhande sargam with komal swaras lowercase and tivra Ma uppercase, a tanpura on Sa and Pa, taal-based rhythm, and bansuri, violin and tabla modes.

Hindustani riyaz →

Western classical

Concert pitch rather than Sa-relative, staff notation in your instrument's clef, transposing instruments offset, open-string tuner presets, MusicXML export, and metre rather than tala.

Western classical →

What this app is, and what it is not

Being straight about this saves everyone time, so it is on every page here.

It is a practice aid that measures pitch and timing. It can tell you that a phrase sat flat of the reference, or that you drifted from the shruti. That is a measurement.
It does not grade musicianship. Nothing here assesses whether a gamaka was shaped correctly, whether your bhava suited the kriti, or whether you are ready for a concert. Those judgements belong to a teacher, and the app is built to sit alongside one.
Analysis runs on a take you record or upload, not as a live score while you sing. The tuner is the live surface; raga detection and note-by-note comparison happen after the take.
It does not ship a graded syllabus. There is no built-in progression through sarali varisai, alankaram and varnam. You bring the material; the app gives you the tools and the measurements.

Availability. Free to download on iPhone and Android, and usable in a browser at sadhana-ai.com. An optional Sadhana AI Pro subscription is offered inside the app; availability differs by platform, so check the current price and terms in the app itself rather than trusting a number on a web page.