outloud

Learn to sing
in the car.

A piano leads, a coach talks you through it, and nothing needs your eyes. Pick five, ten, fifteen or twenty minutes and outloud rolls a fresh warmup from the exercises singers have always used.

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Android 9 and up · Android Auto · free

The outloud home screen: Hello, Maya, a Standard warmup playing, and four lesson cards, 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes, each on a crop of an engraved forest.

Listen

This is what the drive sounds like.

A real miniature lesson, stitched from the clips in the app: the coach, then the piano climbing from C4 by half steps, then the close. A full lesson does this for five to twenty minutes across twelve keys.

Five-note scale, climbing · Mezzo 0:00 / 0:42
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How it goes

Three taps before you leave the driveway. None after.

  1. The preview screen: a ten-minute Standard warmup of seven exercises, listed with their durations, and a Start lesson button.

    01

    Pick how long you have.

    Five, ten, fifteen or twenty minutes. outloud rolls a lesson on the spot and shows you the roll. Don’t like it? Shuffle.

  2. The session screen, dark: phase two of nine, Five-note scale, there and back, a ring of twelve ticks with the current key E4 in the centre.

    02

    Press play. Sing along.

    A piano leads and a coach talks you through it: what the exercise is, one thing to do, what vowel to sing it on. Nothing to read, nothing to tap.

  3. The complete screen: Nice drive, voice is warm, with minutes practised, phases, and the day streak.

    03

    Arrive warm.

    Every lesson climbs twelve half steps from your range and comes back down to cool off. The last thing you hear is the coach telling you to drive safe.

Android Auto

Built for the car, not just allowed in it.

The head unit lists the four warmups. Tap one and it rolls a lesson at your range and starts. Play, pause and skip work from the steering wheel, the lock screen and your earbuds, and the whole thing is a media session, so navigation talks over it and it waits.

outloud Warmups
  • 5 min · Quick warmup Fresh every time
  • 10 min · Standard warmup A solid morning warmup
  • 15 min · Deep warmup Range + control
  • 20 min · Full set Everything, slowly
Five-note scale, there and back Phase 2 of 9 · Standard warmup

The head unit view, illustrated. The browse list and now-playing bar are what Android Auto draws from the app’s media session.

Android's own media player card for outloud: the lesson artwork, Five-note scale, there and back, Phase 2 of 9, and a pause button.
Real: the system media card on the phone, with the lesson’s artwork. The same controls reach the lock screen and the car.

Rolled, not written

Eighteen exercises. Thousands of lessons.

Every lesson is generated from a small vocabulary: eighteen exercises, three ladder shapes, four tempos, twelve keys and a coach with a few hundred sentences. Ladders climb, descend, or go there and back. The starting key drifts. Tempos change with the exercise. You never settle into a rut, and neither does your voice.

  • Long tones
  • Sirens
  • Five-note scale
  • Scale five up
  • Five-note descent
  • Full-octave scale
  • Octave descent
  • Triad arpeggios
  • Octave arpeggios
  • Held-top arpeggios
  • Ninth arpeggios
  • Staccato triads
  • Octave jumps
  • Octave round trip
  • Thirds
  • Fifths
  • Cadence
  • Soft triads
Shapes
Climbing · Descending · There and back
Tempos
72 · 88 · 104 · 110 in eighths
Keys
Twelve half steps from your range
Ranges
Bass E2 to Soprano E4
Sing to the windshield, not the wheel.Half the effort, same sound.If it cracks, let it.Think of a slow ambulance, not a fast one.Think of hopping stones across a stream.Breathe out slowly, as if fogging a window.Keep it conversational, no opera yet.The hard part was pressing play.Think of the scale as a hill, not a wall.Shoulders down.Reach the top without reaching.Let the voice come home.Sing to the windshield, not the wheel.Half the effort, same sound.If it cracks, let it.Think of a slow ambulance, not a fast one.Think of hopping stones across a stream.Breathe out slowly, as if fogging a window.Keep it conversational, no opera yet.The hard part was pressing play.Think of the scale as a hill, not a wall.Shoulders down.Reach the top without reaching.Let the voice come home.

Work on something

Same exercises, different recipe.

A focus is a recipe over the same vocabulary. Range leans the start key upward and favours there-and-back ladders. Agility keeps ladders one-way at brisk tempos. Tone stays slow. The fifteen and twenty minute warmups are programmes: a short warmup, a work block from whichever technique you did least recently, and a cool-down.

  • The Range preview: ten minutes of sirens, octave arpeggios, fifths and held-top arpeggios, with duration chips for 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes.

    Range

    Light on top

    Sirens, octaves and ninths that go a little past your usual top, and spend more time coming down.

  • The Agility preview in the night theme: long tones, a brisk full-octave scale, staccato triads and triad arpeggios.

    Agility

    Quick and clean

    Staccato triads and fast scales. Short ladders, more keys, the pulse is the point.

  • The Deep warmup preview: a programme in three acts, warmup, range and cool-down, with the middle act chosen from what you did last.

    Tone

    Slow and steady

    Long tones, slow scales and cadences. Fewer keys, longer holds, breath and steadiness.

Paper and night

Cream by day, indigo by night. The session is always dark.

Choose your range once, from Bass to Soprano, and every lesson starts where your voice does. Give it your name and the coach’s greeting knows the time of day and your streak.

  • Home, scrolled: the three technique cards, Range in indigo, Agility in mint, Tone in amber, and a streak card.
  • Settings in the paper theme: practice streak, starting range from Bass E2 to Soprano E4 with Mezzo C4 selected, name, and theme.
  • Home in the night theme: the same lesson cards on an indigo-tinted dark ground.
  • Settings in the night theme.

The small print

Nothing between you and the warmup.

Free
No ads, no account, no subscription. The whole library is in the app.
Offline
Nothing streams. Every piano clip and every coach line is rendered ahead of time and bundled.
Yours
Lessons, streaks and your range stay on the phone. The only thing that ever leaves it is a crash report.
Polite
Pauses for calls and navigation prompts, then picks up where it left off.

“The best singers are the ones who keep showing up.”

Put it on before you pull out.

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