Practice at home does not keep you current.

You can open IFR Suite at home. That session is still one procedure. It is not a cockpit you build, and it does not keep you current.

Time in the app is not flight time, instrument time, or credit toward the regulation that says whether you may fly under instrument rules. It does not log an approach, a hold, or an intercept for you.

What the session is

One procedure, so the picture is familiar before you spend airplane time.

• A departure, until the runway and the first turns are familiar.
• The traffic pattern, until you can describe the circuit.
• An approach, from the initial segment through the missed approach.
• A hold. The entry is direct, teardrop, or parallel, chosen from your heading and from where you are relative to the inbound course.
• An intercept, and a DME arc.

There are more than 9,800 airports and navaids. Glass or round gauges. The instruments stay in English. The session panel follows the language you choose.

Whether you are current belongs to the regulation and to your instructor. The app does not copy a clearance, it is not a source of charts, and it does not read the weather. It is not for a real flight.

Use a short session, then fly the same procedure with your instructor.