We are building a social side to Ultimidi: a place to make a small home your own, connect with friends and look back at what you have played. The aim is to give your piano journey a little company, while keeping the music at the centre.
What you can play now
You can already start Ultimidi: Piano Journey for free, without an account. Follow short guided lessons with a MIDI keyboard, the on-screen piano or computer keys. Your player profile and progress stay on your device; the public version does not sync them between devices.
If this is your first visit, try a first lesson on computer keys, or use our MIDI setup and practice guide. You do not need to wait for the social features to begin.
A home for your progress
The homes in our development version are small cottages you can decorate. We are working with different cottage styles, decorations, earned badges and pets that greet visitors. The idea is to make the things you earn through play part of a place that feels like yours.
A home gives a friend something to visit beyond a score. You might notice a new decoration or a badge from a chapter they have finished. Those small changes can be a reason to ask what they have been practising.
Friends, replays and friendly competition
We are developing friend invitations and short player tags to help people find each other. Performance replays and leaderboards are also part of the work: ways to revisit an attempt or compare a result.
A score can give you a specific target, such as improving the timing in one exercise. It cannot tell the whole story of your playing. Tone, phrasing and how comfortable you feel at an instrument matter too. We want the social side to leave room for both people who enjoy a challenge and people who prefer to practise quietly.
This is a preview of work in progress, so details may change before release. It is not an invitation to join an online room today.
Try a small practice exchange with a friend today
You can share a useful piano session without a leaderboard or an online game account. Try this in the same room, taking turns at a keyboard:
- Choose one short phrase each. It can be just a few notes. Pick something you can repeat without starting a whole song again.
- Ask the listener one question. For example: “Did the beat stay steady?” or “Could you hear where the phrase ended?”
- Play once, then swap. Give one concrete observation about what you heard. Avoid ranking each other or trying to correct everything.
- Repeat with one change. Slow down, listen for the cue or make the ending clearer. Finish by naming what felt different.
If you are at different levels, choose different phrases and share the same listening task. Neither person needs to catch up to the other. If playing for someone feels uncomfortable, keep your session private and compare practice notes afterwards.
That is the kind of exchange we want to make space for in Ultimidi: a little attention to someone else’s music, alongside your own next step.