# Minutes, and the daily goal

The app times your practice while you play, adds it up for each day and checks it against the daily goal you set.

## Counted while you play

There is no timer to start or stop. Time counts while you are practicing and stops when you walk away, so a tab left open does not add minutes to your day.

When you are signed in, the total covers your whole account: time on the tablet by the piano and on the laptop at work adds up to one day’s practice.

![The stats page: today, the last seven days, the current and best streak, and coins.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/practice-time/stats.webp)

## Your daily goal

Choose a number of minutes a day that you can really keep up; fifteen minutes that happen are worth more than sixty that stay a plan. The streak badge turns from green to orange once you reach the goal, so you can see at a glance that you are done for the day.

You also earn coins: one for practicing and another for reaching the goal.

![The daily target setting, in minutes.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/practice-time/goal.webp)

![The dashboard band with the current exercise, the practice button and the streak card showing today’s minutes.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/practice-time/today.webp)

## A month at a glance

A single day says little, but a month shows whether practice has become a habit. The charts cover the last thirty days and the last thirty weeks, so you can tell two weeks of five-minute sessions from two weeks with no practice, or from a week when you managed an hour a day.

Below the charts are the total, the daily average and your best day, and a list of every session with what you played in it.

![The daily practice chart for the last thirty days, with a seven-day and thirty-day toggle.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/practice-time/chart.webp)

> If a teacher or parent follows your practice, they see this too: their student list shows each student’s minutes for the week. See [Planning a lesson](https://pianokitty.com/features/lesson-planning).

## Start the clock

- Try it: [Your stats page](https://pianokitty.com/stats): Today, the week, the month, every session.
- Try it: [Set the daily goal](https://pianokitty.com/preferences): Minutes a day, in Preferences.
- Try it: [Add ten minutes now](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=chords&ct=0,1&bn=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11&inv=0): Triads in every key — the clock starts by itself.
- Try it: [What the minutes earn](https://pianokitty.com/stats/coins): Coins for practicing, and for reaching the goal.

Related: [Daily streaks](https://pianokitty.com/features/streaks.md), [Coins](https://pianokitty.com/features/coins.md), [What the app tells you, and when](https://pianokitty.com/features/notifications.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/practice-time