Move your music studio off spreadsheets
Most private teachers run their studio on a patchwork — a spreadsheet for rates, a calendar for lessons, a notes app for assignments, and a bank app for who paid. Note & Key puts the roster, schedule, and billing in one connected place, so marking a lesson taught is also what bills the parent and totals your year — built for the solo teacher, not a music school.
Free to start · Pro adds unlimited students and invoicing · Also on the iPhone App Store.
How it works
- 1Bring your studio in once: add students with their rates, and import your existing lessons from Google Calendar instead of retyping them.
- 2Teach as usual and mark lessons completed — the same record drives attendance, invoices, and year-end totals, so you're never re-entering the same data.
- 3Generate invoices from those lessons and send them to parents, with a family portal that replaces the back-and-forth texts.
Common questions
Why move my music studio off spreadsheets?
A spreadsheet can hold rates, but it can't connect them to your calendar, your invoices, or your parents. In Note & Key those are one system: a lesson you mark completed already carries its date and rate, so it flows straight into an invoice and your year-end totals. You stop re-entering the same numbers in three places and stop reconciling who paid by hand.
What does Note & Key replace?
For most solo teachers it replaces a lesson spreadsheet, a separate scheduling calendar, a notes app for assignments, and the manual tally of who has paid — with one place that ties students, lessons, invoices, and a parent portal together.
Can I bring my existing schedule and students with me?
Yes. If your lessons already live in Google Calendar, you can import them — including a full past year — and the import suggests a student for each recurring lesson or creates new students from the event titles, so you build your roster and your history in one pass.
Is it built for solo teachers or big schools?
Note & Key is designed for independent, solo music teachers and small studios — the scheduling, billing, and student management a single teacher actually needs, without the overhead of school-scale administration software.
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