lightmotif is a pane of light for your piano — a translucent acrylic overlay where the right keys glow and you simply play them. No lessons to book, no notation to decode. It fits an acoustic upright and a digital keyboard alike.
A translucent acrylic overlay rests over your keys — an even field of light across the whole piano. It settles just as easily on an acoustic upright as on a digital keyboard.
Choose a piece and the right keys begin to glow across the overlay, one after another, in time with the music.
Press the glowing key. That's the whole idea — you're making music before your mind can name the note, no reading required.
A single sheet of translucent acrylic, shaped into a piece for every key — and every piece lights on its own. One hue leads the left hand, another the right, so the whole keyboard becomes a score you can read at a glance. It rests over your piano and asks nothing permanent of it.
Everything the overlay shows, the app shapes — patient, painterly, and paced to you.
A quiet on-screen stream shows what's coming next, so your eyes can read ahead while your hands stay on the lit keys.
Public-domain masterworks, arranged three ways — Simpler, Your level, or Full — so any piece meets you where you are.
Left, right, or both. Slow any passage to ½× and loop a single phrase until it's yours.
Turn on Wait mode and each note holds, patiently, until you find the right key. No rush, no fail state.
Giverny by day, a sunlit garden. Nocturne by night, deep blue with gold sparks. The room sets the mood.
Open the box, lay on the light, and play. Sign in later, only when you want your progress to follow you.
lightmotif follows every note against the light and tells you, gently, what to fix — you rushed bars nine through twelve — then hands you the exact drill to smooth it. Streaks, levels, and a quiet garden of badges keep drawing you back to the bench.
Open the Studio and see your whole roster at a glance — who practiced, who's rushing the left hand, who's due Friday. Assign a drill, leave a note, and let the light carry the lesson home between sessions.
Request a Studio invite →Any acoustic or digital piano or keyboard. The overlay rests over the keys and adapts to your instrument — the same lightmotif works on an upright, a grand, or a digital board.
Not to begin — the lights show you what to play from your very first minute. Reading notation is something the app will help you learn over time, but it's never a wall between you and the music.
Pricing will be revealed this fall, alongside early access. Waitlist members hear first — and best. The app opens with no account required, so you can play from the very first minute.
They're a pair. The app is the teacher; the overlay is the light. Together they turn any piano into a guided one — the lesson on screen, the glow on the keys under your hands.
We're in pre-launch now, tuning the light. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first to light up when early access opens this fall.