A guitar practice log app you can actually keep
Guitar practice splits into more pieces than most instruments: a couple of songs, some scale or arpeggio work, a chord-change drill, maybe ear training, and whatever the band needs by Thursday. A practice log is worth keeping precisely because it shows you the split — and almost every guitarist who keeps one is surprised by it at least once. This page is about logging that split without it becoming a chore.
Log the parts, not the hour
"I played for an hour" hides the thing you want to know. Forty minutes of the song you already enjoy and six minutes of the drill you are avoiding is a completely different hour from the other way round, and only one of them moves you forward.
So give each part its own entry — "Blues scale, position 2", "Chord changes G–C", "Wonderwall, bridge" — and tap between them as you move. In practicebook, tapping Start on something else stops the current one and logs it automatically, which is what switching actually feels like with a guitar in your hands.
A metronome in the same page as the log
Most of the drills worth logging are metronome drills, and a log you have to leave in order to find a metronome is a log you stop using. practicebook has one built in: tempo, beats in a bar with an accented downbeat, a tap-tempo button, and a tuning drone if you want a reference pitch to play against.
Both are generated in the browser from plain tones rather than downloaded samples, so they add nothing to the page and they work with no connection at all — which matters in a rehearsal room with concrete walls.
What a week of logging actually tells you
After a week or two the totals start doing something a notebook never did. Per piece, you see where the time really went. Per day, the fourteen-day chart shows which days you missed — including the empty days, which are shown rather than quietly skipped, because the gaps are half the information.
No targets, no streak and no badge. Just minutes, days, and the chance to look at them and decide something.
Keeping the log when you change phone or app
Guitarists tend to accumulate practice apps and abandon them. The only defence is an export you can actually use: practicebook writes a CSV with one row per session and reads that same CSV back in, merging rather than replacing. Restoring a phone, or pulling an old file in beside a new one, costs you nothing.
There is also a Markdown file for reading, and an optional calendar export if you would rather see your practice in the calendar you already keep.
Frequently asked questions
Can I log songs, scales and exercises separately?
Yes, and that is the intended use. Add as many as you like — a song, a drill, a scale shape, ear training — and each keeps its own totals for today, this week, this month and all time.
Does the timer keep going if I lock my phone?
Yes. Starting a timer records the moment it began and nothing else, so the number is always now minus then. A locked screen, a backgrounded tab, a reload or even a browser restart all come back with the right elapsed time.
Is there a metronome?
Yes, in the same page as the log, along with a tuning drone. Both are made in the browser from plain tones, so there is nothing to download and they work offline.
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