Is Yousician free?

Only a little of it. A free Yousician account gets the guided learning path on phone, tablet and computer, with limited lesson time. Everything else needs Premium, Premium+ or Premium+ Family, from $14.99 a month or $89.99 a year in the US. A 7-day trial is offered on the yearly plans.

The plans, from Yousician's own page

The page's compare table ticks two rows for Free, the guided learning path and access across devices, and leaves “Unlimited lesson time” unticked. It prints no daily allowance. “Save up to 50%” undersells the bigger plans: against twelve monthly payments, yearly saves 50% on Premium, 56% on Premium+ and 61% on Family (derived).

One instrument or five?

The plans page lists Premium with “1 instrument of your choice” and ticks “Access to learn all 5 instruments” only for Premium+ and Family. The help center's “Yousician Premium plans” article, updated 30 October 2026, says all Premium plans include unlimited lessons for guitar, piano, bass, ukulele and singing, and its table ticks all five instruments for Premium too. Apple's list names the plan “One Instrument”, which agrees with the plans page. Read the payment screen before choosing Premium to learn two instruments.

What Apple lists

Through Apple, the one-instrument plan costs $5 a month or $30 a year more than Premium on the web. Premium+ matches the web at $29.99 and $159.99, beside a $179.99 yearly item and a 3-month plan the web page does not offer. Ukulele by Yousician lists the lowest prices of the three, and the help center says one subscription works in every Yousician app. Apple does not say which buyer sees which price, and each list is capped at ten items. No Family item appears in any of them. There is no promoted purchase above App Privacy. Google Play shows an “In-app purchases” badge and no items-and-offers section, read once on 1 November 2026.

Before you subscribe

• Starting the 7-day trial takes a card or other payment method. Only the yearly plans have one, and the first year is charged when it ends unless you cancel first.
• Payments are final under the payment terms. The 14-day withdrawal right applies only if the paid parts were never opened, and the plans page says there is no refund after the trial.
• Family is bought on the website. Upgrading from an Apple subscription starts a new one billed by Yousician, and the Apple one keeps running until you cancel it yourself; Yousician says it cannot refund Apple's charge. A Google Play subscription is canceled for you.
• If the Family plan's owner cancels, every member loses Premium+.
• Popular songs are licensed. Yousician's replies to reviews say songs are removed when a license expires.
• GuitarTuna sells its own plans (Tools, Play, Learn and Pro on Apple's list) and has its own cancel article in the help center.

The privacy price

Apple's App Privacy panel lists identifiers as data that may be used to track you across other companies' apps and websites. It links purchases, coarse location, email address, user ID, device ID and product interaction to your identity, for purposes that include the developer's advertising or marketing. The Information row on all four Yousician apps reads “Contains Advertising”; the Google Play listing shows no “Contains ads” label. Google Play's data safety summary says personal info, financial info and three other types may be shared with third parties.

Other guitar apps, and how they price

Simply Guitar's item names carry no billing period; the other three name the month or year. For piano apps, see is flowkey free and is Simply Piano free.

What Yousician does better

• It teaches. The app listens through the microphone and scores each note and chord as you play, across five instruments and over 10,000 lessons, exercises and songs on Premium+. Practice Proof has no lessons at all.
• It runs on phones, tablets and computers, and one subscription carries across its guitar, piano and ukulele apps.
• Eleven years of track record: on the App Store since February 2015, 139,114 ratings there, 50 million-plus Google Play downloads and an Editors' Choice badge. Practice Proof launched in October 2026.