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But if you need to practice singing accurately, with immediate honest feedback, Vanido is a great pocket voice coach. The best part is the real-time visual of what your voice is doing. You need to use the app with headphones: it plays piano notes through the headphones, and then uses the microphone to listen to your voice.

And then the app gives you a slightly higher note to start on, and you keep going for maybe a dozen repetitions. You only get three per day, but if you come back tomorrow there will be a different selection of exercises. Once the app knows what notes you can sing, it can give you your daily voice exercises. First, though, you get to find out what your range is, and how it compares to terms like bass, tenor, soprano, and so on.
