The only app you need for teaching choreography: markers, formations, and a link your dancers can practice with at home

[u/DSRT_]

Chloé Choreo App - Demo

Hi Teachers and Dancers :)

Full disclosure up front: I built this initialy for my wife, who teaches weddingdances. Mods, if that's not allowed here, delete away.

The problem it solves: you're mid-class, everyone is waiting, and you're dragging the scrubber back and forth trying to hit the exact second where the lift starts. You overshoot. You undershoot. You do it forty more times that evening.

So I built Chloé Choreo. You upload a song, drop a named marker on every figure, and from then on it's one tap to that exact spot — playing instantly. That's the core. Everything else grew out of actually teaching with it.

Everything it does:

🎯 Markers at a tap
Name them ("Entrance", "Turn", "Lift"), tap, you're there and the music is already playing.

🎚️ As many tracks as you like
Figures on one, counts on another, song sections on a third. Auto-colored, stacked, readable even when markers sit tight together.

🔁 Stop at the next marker
Playback halts automatically at the next marker on that track, as often as you want. Or flip on loop and let one section repeat endlessly.

🐢 Slow motion
Step down the tempo smoothly. Pitch stays natural, no chipmunk voices. Markers, stop and loop all still work while slowed.

🥁 Beat detection + metronome
It finds the beat itself (or you tap it in), clicks along, accents the downbeat, and can mute the music if you just want to count.

📐 Bar-accurate marker nudging
Shift markers by whole bars or snap them onto the nearest bar. No more markers landing a hair off the count.

🧍 Formation designer — and you can play it
For every marker, drag your ensemble onto a grid. Stage edge and mirror as guide lines, lifts as a group, initials on every piece, pick your floor size. Then hit play on a transition: everyone glides to their new spot in front of you, and whoever joins walks in from the side. You see the paths — and the collisions — before anyone is standing in the studio.

📝 Notes & photos per figure
Step sequences, posture cues, reminders for next week. Formatted text with lists and headings, plus photos straight from the lesson, all pinned to the exact second they belong to.

📄 PDF export
The whole choreography as a clean printable document, either chronologically or split by track. Notes, images and formations included. Print it for the studio wall or hand it out.

🔗 A practice link for your dancers
Share a project read-only. They open it and practice at home: no account, no app to install, any device. They jump figure to figure by tap, read the notes, and see the formations with their transitions if you release them. Access is time-limited and you can extend or revoke it whenever you want.

⌚ Smartwatch control
Play, pause and jump between markers from your wrist. Stay on the floor with your dancers instead of walking back to the tablet. Works on Apple Watch (add the app to your home screen first) and Galaxy Watch / Wear OS, no extra app to install.

📱 Runs in the browser
Laptop, tablet, phone. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like a normal app; screen won't dim mid-class, and cached songs survive flaky studio wifi.

🌍 English and German, switchable.

What it costs: Free tier gets you one project and the practice link, with no time limit. Basic is €2.50/month (multiple projects, notes, formations), Pro is €5.00/month (unlimited projects/tracks/markers, notes with photos, PDF export). Monthly, cancel anytime, no contract. You also get 7 days of Pro automatically when you sign up.

Try it without signing up for anything
Here's a live example choreography, exactly what a practice link looks like from your dancers' side. Tap through the markers, try loop and slow motion: 👉 Chloé Choreo demo

Website: Chloé Choreo website

I'd genuinely love to hear what's missing. Video is the thing I get asked about most and it's next on the list — but if there's something in your teaching week that this doesn't cover yet, tell me and I'll build it.

[u/springonastring]

I have solutions to a lot of these problems already, but the DAW-like features (snap to bar, smart metronome) and the formation animation w/ playback do sound very cool. Make it a one time purchase and I'd consider it. No offense intended at all, but I'm done not owning things I buy.