Slow Burn
Smouldering slow minor blues in C — take your time and let every note cry.
Jam this track with live chords →Yousician review, and what it really costs
Yousician is the most polished beginner path in guitar apps, and the hardest to price — the company doesn't publish rates on its marketing site at all. Here are the actual numbers from its plans page, what the free tier allows, and the point in your playing where the app stops helping.
What Yousician is
A guided, gamified music course for five instruments — guitar, bass, piano, ukulele and singing. It listens through your device's microphone (no cable, no interface), scores you note by note as you play, and moves you along a learning path built from thousands of teacher-made lessons and songs. The company says it has been used by more than 25 million people across 154 countries.
What it costs
Yousician's support pages say only "visit our website to view pricing", and its marketing site never shows a number. The prices live at account.yousician.com/plans. Read there on 20 August 2026, on yearly billing, in euros:
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Premium | €4.99/month | One instrument, unlimited lesson time, 900+ Yousician lessons and songs |
| Premium+ | €6.91/month, billed €82.99/year | All five instruments, 10,000+ lessons and popular licensed songs |
| Premium+ Family | €10.33/month | Everything in Premium+ for up to 4 accounts, each tracked separately |
Those are the yearly-billing rates; monthly billing is also offered, and only yearly plans include the 7-day free trial. Prices vary by region, currency and promotion, and in-app purchases are billed by Apple or Google rather than Yousician.
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What the free version allows
You can use Yousician without paying, but the free tier is capped by time, not by content: on Yousician's own plan comparison, "unlimited lesson time with progress tracking" is a benefit of all three paid tiers. In practice you get a short daily allowance, and the app stops until the next day.
What it is genuinely good at
- The ordering problem. Beginners fail because they don't know what to practise next. Yousician always has an answer, and it is a sensible one.
- Turning up. The streaks, challenges and daily exercises work. Motivation is the actual product.
- Instant feedback. Being told you were flat or late, in the moment, is worth a lot when nobody is in the room with you.
- Value across instruments. If two people in the house play different instruments, Premium+ Family is the cheapest per-head deal in this whole category.
Where it stops working
- It grades the wrong thing for improvising. The engine rewards playing the written note at the written time. Improvising has no written note — the skill is choosing one and phrasing it. An app that scores you against a script cannot teach that, and past a certain point that is exactly the wall players hit.
- Mic detection struggles. Noisy rooms, distorted electric tones and fast passages all cost you scores you deserved.
- Opaque pricing. A product you cannot price without creating an account is a design choice, and it is why "how much is Yousician" is such a common search.
How to cancel
Cancel in your account on the Yousician website if you subscribed there; through Apple ID subscriptions if you bought in the iOS app; through Google Play if you bought on Android. Yousician's own FAQ is explicit that you will not get a refund if you cancel after the trial has ended, so if you are trialling, set a reminder a day before the renewal.
Buy it if you are a beginner, or you're buying for a household with more than one player. It does the beginner job better than almost anything else.
Don't buy it if you can already play chords and songs and what you actually want is to sound like a musician rather than a scorer of points. That is a different skill with a different practice method.
Hear what we're talking about
The other kind of practice: no score, no written note, just a band and space to play. Free and playable right here.
Greasy Shuffle
Swaggering blues shuffle in E — open position, wide-open jam.
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Common questions
How much does Yousician cost?
On yearly billing, from Yousician's own plans page on 20 August 2026 (in euros): Premium €4.99/month for one instrument, Premium+ €6.91/month billed €82.99/year for all five instruments and the popular-song library, and Premium+ Family €10.33/month for four accounts. Yousician does not publish these prices on its marketing site, and they vary by region, currency and promotion.
Is Yousician free?
There is a free tier, but it is time-capped: "unlimited lesson time" is listed as a paid benefit on Yousician's own plan comparison. Yearly plans also include a 7-day free trial; monthly plans do not.
Is Yousician good for beginners?
Yes — it is one of the best-built beginner paths available, and the mic feedback plus the game loop solve the two things beginners actually fail at: knowing what to do next, and doing it often enough.
Is Yousician worth it for intermediate players?
Less so. Yousician grades you on hitting the written note at the written time, which is the wrong instrument for the intermediate plateau — phrasing, timing feel and improvising. If that is where you are stuck, reps against real music will move you further than another graded lesson.
How do I cancel my Yousician subscription?
If you subscribed on the website, cancel in your account on the Yousician site. If you subscribed in the iOS app, cancel through your Apple ID subscriptions; on Android, through Google Play. Yousician's FAQ states there is no refund if you cancel after the trial has ended, so cancel before the renewal date.
Weighing up other options? See Yousician alternatives and the full app comparison.