Hear it. See it. Play it.
Upload any recording and see the notes, chords, and rhythm on a piano keyboard โ beat by beat, downbeat or upbeat. Built by transcribers, for transcribers.
No credit card required ยท $4.99/month 14-day free trial
The transcription workbench
๐น Notes & chords on a real keyboard
Select half a second of audio and see the voicing on an 88-key piano โ bass note in green, chord tones in blue, with the chord name (Dm7, Fฮ7, slash chords) worked out for you.
๐ฅ A beat grid you can trust
Measures and beats detected and drawn on the waveform โ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 โ with a metronome click you can toggle to verify by ear. Renumber measure 1 with one tap.
๐ท Downbeat or upbeat? Instantly visible.
Our comp finder tells piano hits apart from drums and paints every off-beat hit cyan on the waveform. See exactly where the comping anticipates the bar โ nobody else shows you this.
๐ข Slow down without changing pitch
Loop a passage at 25โ70% speed, pitch-perfect. Hone in on two beats or two bars; the loop stays glued to your selection.
๐ Hear what it detected
One tap plays the whole song back on a sampled grand piano โ only the detected chords, struck where the pianist actually struck them. Your ears confirm the analysis.
๐ฅ Bring any recording
Upload mp3, wav, m4a and more โ or paste a YouTube link and we fetch the audio. Your library lives in the cloud, ready on any device.
Downbeat or upbeat? Instantly visible.
Three steps to the voicing
1 ยท Add a recording
Drag in a file or paste a YouTube link.
2 ยท Select what caught your ear
Drag across the waveform. Beats, measures and chords appear automatically.
3 ยท See it, slow it, play it
Read the voicing off the keyboard, loop it slowly, and check the rhythm against the click.
Made for pianists. Loved by ears everywhere.
PianoTranscribe was built to answer the transcriber's eternal questions: what are those notes, and exactly when do they land? Pianists studying comping get the most out of it โ but guitarists, bassists, arrangers and educators use the same tools on any harmonic material.
One plan. Everything included.
- Unlimited analysis on your recordings
- Note, chord, beat & comp detection
- Pitch-perfect slow-down looping
- Sampled-piano playback of the analysis
- YouTube import + cloud library
- Cancel anytime, self-service
14-day free trial ยท no credit card to start
Questions
How accurate is the detection?
Very good on piano-forward material โ it identifies voicings, slash chords and beat positions that we verify against hand-made transcriptions. Dense mixes are harder; the keyboard view always shows you the evidence so your ear has the final say.
What formats can I upload?
mp3, wav, m4a, aac, ogg, flac and aiff โ or paste a YouTube link.
How do I cancel?
From your billing page, one click into the Stripe customer portal. Your library stays intact if you come back.
I need help with something else.
Email us at support@pianotranscribe.com โ a human reads every message.