Audio that keeps the gamakas
Five audio profiles (Speech, Vocal, Instrument, Drone and Speakers) turn off the meeting filters that flatten music, at up to 192 kbps stereo. A 10-second mic check recommends the right one.
For Carnatic & Hindustani teachers
The tanpura is already playing.
Svaraswati is a live lesson room with the shruti, taalam, tanpura and metronome built in. You set the sruti once. Your student hears every gamaka, in tune and in time. There's nothing else to open.
Runs in the browser. Students never pay, and never install anything.
Tanpura Sa = C# · 1½ kattai
This is the product's own tanpura, synthesised live in your browser.
svara
Svara is the note: not just the pitch, but how it's held and approached. The name joins svara with Saraswati, of music and learning, and that's the promise: every note arrives the way it was sung.
One room, not five apps
Video calls were made for meetings. Music asks for more.
Most online music lessons today are held together with apps that were never meant to work together. Svaraswati brings them into one calm room.
Today
- A video call that filters out the soft notes
- A tanpura app on a second phone
- A talam app on a third
- Notation over WhatsApp
- Recordings nobody can find next week
With Svaraswati
- Audio tuned for voice and instrument, not meetings
- One shared tanpura and shruti, set by the teacher
- Talam and metronome on a synced clock
- Swara notation, whiteboard and PDFs in the room
- Lessons recorded, with consent, into one library
The lesson room
A room that listens like a teacher.
Everything a music lesson needs sits one tap away, and nothing gets in the way of the music.
GS Guru · Smt. Lakshmi
AR Ananya
Hands cam · veena
Instruments shared with the class
Open the tanpura or taalam once and every student hears it on their own device, started together on a synced clock. You can let students play too.
See the hands, not just the face
Add a second camera for the veena, violin or mridangam. Spotlight whoever is playing, so the whole class sees the same view.
Notation where you teach
Type swaras in chat with a Carnatic or Hindustani keypad. Share a PDF, write on it with five pens, and sketch on a whiteboard with music templates.
A calm, well-run class
Raise hand, reactions, mute and lock mics, and a class panel for groups. A delay indicator tells you when to switch to call-and-response.
Recitals for family
Invite parents and friends to watch and listen with an audience link. They join without a camera or mic, and with no account.
Practice tools
Every instrument of the riyaz room, in one place.
Use them inside the lesson, share them with the class, or open them on their own for daily practice. There's no separate app to buy.
Carnatic & Hindustani
Taalam
16 talas, from Adi and Rupaka to Misra Chapu and Teentaal, with sam, tali and khali shown as you go. Share it and the whole class keeps the same cycle.
Sruti practice
Swara graph
Sing, and see your pitch drawn against the swaras of your Sa. The line turns green when you're within 10 cents, and the raga's notes are highlighted.
Tanpura
Any kattai, fine-tuned to the cent. Pa, Ma or Ni first string, male or female range.
Shruti box
Choose the reeds (Sa–Pa–Sa′, a tivra Ma for colour) in just or equal temperament.
Tabla & mridangam
Tabla thekas from recorded strokes, and mridangam patterns tuned to your Sa, at 40–400 BPM.
Metronome
Tap tempo, subdivisions and time signatures from 2/4 to 7/8, plus a count-in for the class.
Tuner
21 presets, including Sa-relative, Carnatic violin, veena and sitar.
Keyboard
An on-screen or MIDI keyboard that everyone in the lesson can hear.
Reference track
Slow a recording to 50% or shift its key. Loop the hard phrase, then sing along and record.
Lesson settings
Set Sa, tala, BPM and raga once. Every student’s tools follow along.
Between lessons
The lesson ends. The riyaz continues.
Most of the learning happens between classes. Svaraswati keeps it gentle and visible, for teachers and for students.
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Homework with a voice
Set homework during the lesson. Students record a take and submit it, and you reply with comments on their own recording.
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Guided riyaz routines
Build a routine of up to 12 steps, such as 3 minutes of tanpura, then Adi at 60 BPM, then the swara graph in Mayamalavagowla. Every tool opens already set up.
- 03
Practice log and streaks
Students log a few minutes of practice a day, and guided routines add their own time. Streaks keep the habit going.
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Progress at a glance
See each student’s minutes this week, their streak, homework completion and attendance, with an 8-week chart.
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A library of lessons
Recordings are kept with the moments you marked during class. Share a recording, or turn a moment into homework.
How it works
From “shall we begin?” to teaching in under a minute.
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Start a lesson
Open a room in one click and give it a title.
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Send the invite
Share a link for a student, a co-teacher or a watch-only audience. They join from the browser, with no account.
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Teach, record, assign
Set the sruti, share the tala, record the lesson and leave homework before you say goodbye.
For academies
Many teachers. One quiet, well-kept home.
Svaraswati is being built first for music academies, with each teacher's classroom inside a space that's yours.
Your academy’s own address
Your teachers and students go to yourname.svaraswati.com, a home that belongs to your academy.
Teachers, roles and sign-in
Invite teachers, and set who is an owner, an admin or a teacher. Sign in with email or Google.
Your name, logo and colours
Brand the lesson room, and set your academy’s timezone and language.
An admin view of every class
See lessons, attendance and recordings across the academy, and close a lesson when you need to.
Care with student data
Recording consent is asked for before anyone joins, lessons can be end-to-end encrypted, and staff actions are written to an audit log.
An API for platforms
Booking platforms can create lessons and personal join links through our API and receive webhooks.
Roadmap
Built with care, one svara at a time.
Here's what works today, what we're building now, and what comes next. Early-access members help us decide the order.
Available now In use in live lessons today
- Live 1:1 and group lesson room
- Five music audio profiles and a mic check
- Tanpura, shruti box, taalam, metronome, tabla, mridangam
- Tuner, swara graph, keyboard, reference track
- Instruments shared with the class on a synced clock
- Swara notation, PDF sharing and whiteboard
- Recording, lesson library and marked moments
- Homework, guided routines and progress
- Audience links for recitals
- Watch together (YouTube, Vimeo, mp4)
Being built For our launch
- Academy accounts on your own address
- Sign in with email, Google, Microsoft or Apple
- Team management: owners, admins, teachers
- Academy branding, timezone and language
- Plans and monthly usage reports
- Self-serve sign-up for independent teachers
Coming soon On the roadmap
- Scheduling, recurring lessons and reminders
- UPI and card payments
- Student accounts across lessons
- Android, iOS and desktop apps
- AI lesson notes
- Lehra and nagma for Hindustani practice
- All 35 suladi talas and a custom tala builder
- Notation in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Devanagari
- Offline practice tools
- Your phone as a second camera
Pricing
Simple plans. Prices coming soon.
We'll publish prices in rupees and dollars before launch. Early-access members hear them first. Students never pay: teachers and academies do.
Teacher
For an independent teacher
Coming soon
- 1:1 and group lessons
- Every practice tool
- Shared instruments and notation
Teacher Pro
For a teacher with a full studio
Coming soon
- Everything in Teacher
- Recording and lesson library
- Homework, routines and progress
Academy
For a school of teachers
Coming soon
- Five teachers to start
- Your academy’s own address and branding
- Admin dashboard
Platform
For booking and learning platforms
Coming soon
- Lessons through our API
- Webhooks for your systems
- Terms made for you
Do my students need to install anything?
No. Students open the invite link in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, on a laptop or a phone. They don’t need an account either.
Can I set any sruti, like 4½ kattai?
Yes. Pick any of the twelve keys and fine-tune in cents, with the tanpura’s first string on Pa, Ma or Ni. Set Sa once in the lesson settings and your students’ tools follow it.
Does my student hear the tanpura too?
Yes. Share it with the class and it plays on each student’s own device, clean and in sync, rather than through your microphone. You can also mix a tool into your own mic if you prefer.
Can we sing together in real time?
The internet always adds a little delay, so singing in perfect unison over a call isn’t possible on any platform. Svaraswati shows you the delay live, starts shared instruments together on a synced clock, and works best with call-and-response teaching.
Is it only for Carnatic music?
Carnatic comes first, but the Hindustani talas, the tabla, the swara names and the notation are all there. Western teachers use the metronome, tuner and reference track too.
What about poor mobile connections?
If a connection drops, the lesson reconnects on its own and tells you when it’s back. The delay indicator helps you choose a teaching style that suits the connection.
Are lessons private?
Lessons are invite-only. Everyone agrees to recording on the join screen before they can enter, and you can switch on end-to-end encryption for lessons you don’t record.
Early access
Be among the first to teach on Svaraswati.
We're opening Svaraswati to a small group of teachers and academies first. Leave your details and we'll write when your place is ready. We won't send spam.