Dino Kids
A free piano app for kids: learn piano from zero, no note reading needed
Dino Kids is a free piano app for kids from age 3. Notes fall down the exact key column they name, as tall as they are long, so a child sees where a finger goes without reading note names. There are 27 lessons in 6 stages, 100 songs and a piano to play freely — all in the Music corner of the app.
- Free
- No advertising
- No in-app purchases
- No account needed
- Works without a network
iPad and iPhone (iOS 15 and later) · Android phones and tablets (7.0 and later) · Rated 4+ · Vietnamese, Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese
- 27lessons in 6 stages
- 100songs, from easy to hard
- 2ways to play: Practice and Perform
- 3tempos: tortoise, hare, horse
Learn piano for kids without reading music
A three-year-old cannot read a staff yet, so the app does not ask them to. Each note is a block falling straight down the column of the key to press; a long note is a tall block, a short note a small one. Your child only has to touch the key when the block reaches it.
- One octave at a time. The keys are laid out wide enough for a small finger, rather than the narrow keys of a real piano.
- Keys show Do Re Mi with C D E. Your child gets used to both ways of naming notes without having to memorize them.
- Every key sounds, even a wrong one. Your child learns how the piano works by ear.
27 lessons, starting from the very first key
The lessons are grouped into six stages, each building on the one before. Every lesson has three stars; a child never gets zero, and after two wrong presses the app shows the right key.
- Meet the piano: touch to play, the groups of two and three black keys, high and low, finding C.
- Five fingers: Do Re Mi, finger numbers 1–5, five fingers on five keys.
- Beat and rhythm: a steady beat, long and short notes. The app counts in four beats before it starts listening.
- Three-note songs, then all five fingers: leaps, longer phrases and three-note chords.
- Moving hands: the full octave, the octave below, and two Vietnamese folk songs, Lý cây xanh and Xòe hoa.
100 songs to pick from
Songs sit outside the lesson path, so your child does not have to finish the lessons first. They are laid out in a grid from easy to hard — from Hello C D E, barely a dozen notes, through Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jingle Bells and Ode to Joy, up to Für Elise for a child whose fingers have grown confident.
- Hear it before playing. Each song opens with the app playing it once, the sounding key lit up; Hear it replays it as often as your child likes.
- Practice waits on every note, however long it takes. Perform keeps tempo and counts only the notes caught, never the ones missed.
- A tempo button — tortoise, hare, horse: slower for a new tune, faster once it is known.
- Songs that span many keys turn the screen landscape, so the keys never get squeezed.
- A Next song button at the end, so there is no going back to the grid to find the next one.
Free play, and your family's own songs
For a three-year-old, a piano is a toy before it is a lesson. Free play has no lessons, no stars, no right or wrong: every key sounds, the keys move up to the high notes or down to the low ones, and note names on the keys can be shown or hidden.
Want your child to play the song your family always sings? In Songs, a parent taps Add a song and imports a MusicXML file — the common format of music notation software. Scores with several staves (both hands, several parts) are kept whole: your child picks one staff to play and the piano accompanies the rest. The song stays on the device and is never sent anywhere. Every step is in Add MusicXML songs for piano practice.
Questions parents ask
What age can a child start learning piano with an app?
The Dino Kids lessons are written for children from age 3. The first stage needs only one finger on the keys; finger numbers 1–5 wait until stage 2, and three-note chords until stage 5. Older children can move quickly through the early stages, or go straight to Songs and Free play.
Do we need a real piano or keyboard?
No. The keyboard is right on the screen of the iPad, iPhone or Android device, and every key plays a piano note when touched. The app shows one octave at a time so each key is wide enough for a small finger.
Is this piano app really free?
Yes. Dino Kids is free on the App Store and Google Play, with no subscription, no in-app purchases and no advertising. All 27 lessons and 100 songs are open from the start.
Can my child practice piano offline, without the internet?
Yes. The 27 lessons, the 100 songs and the piano sounds are all inside the app from the moment it is installed. When there is a connection, the app only fetches anything added since.
In the same app
Piano is one corner of it. The same app also has:
Install it and hand it over
Free, no advertising, no in-app purchases. Your child can start playing straight away, with no account to create.