# Apollo MIDI Controller — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of Apollo MIDI Controller by Secret Base Design, rated 4.00/5 from 8 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apollo-midi-controller/id720942905/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/apollo-midi-controller/id720942905.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (12 of 39) ### 4/5 — Worked great….now crashes! *2024-10-07, version 2.2* It worked great….but on iPadOS 17.51 it crashes and does Not open…. Please fix it….thank you for this great app. ### 4/5 — Doesn't work with Yosemite. *2015-03-01, version 1.2* Great app. Needs a better looking UI. Videos in the website should be updated and more on point with a detailed step by step guide. I've seen what this app does and it's amazing. We all want Logic Pro talking with our iOS fav synth!!! ### 5/5 — Love it. *2014-12-04, version 1.2* Works great with other gadget. ### 4/5 — Wider keys for a 5-star winner *2014-09-25* Definitely does what it claims, though I had to search from both the a and b sides for a remote. Please give us the open for wider keys in the GUI. They're really too narrow to be of any use. ### 5/5 — Background Awesomeness!!! *2014-09-07* Understand what this app does. It is a background utility that provides an extremely low latency midi connection to other devices. Set it, forget it, then open your favorite midi controller app and jam. ALL bad reviews are from people who didn't take the time to RTFM. Sometimes I like to go to public places for a change of scenery. With this app, i can have a midi connection to my mac WITHOUT setting up an ad-hoc network, so wifi is still available if i need to procrastinate on the web :). TIP: When setting up on the mac side, you may need to open 'Audio Midi Setup' to test. I have found that leaving AMS open will disrupt the Apollo connection, so make sure to quit AMS for solid performance. Big thanks to an awesome dev for a great app!!! ### 5/5 — You'll swear it's physically connected. *2014-08-27* I never thought bluetooth le could deliver it's full promised bandwidth usably, but I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I swear you'll be shocked at how quick this is—there's no noticeable latency added by using Apollo instead of a wire. Shocking. Secret Base Design does it again! ### 5/5 — Remote Midi is flawless! *2014-07-11* I use this app all the time in performances. People are flabbergasted when I tell them about Apollo! Every musician I tell immediately gets it and is using it. ### 5/5 — Great app, period *2014-05-14, version 1.2* This developer LISTENS. Well done. The app works flawlessly for me. iPhone talking to iPad without a hitch. Great! ### 5/5 — Sweet *2014-03-23, version 1.2* It Just Works ### 5/5 — Works perfect! *2014-02-03* Didn't even have to set up an IAC bus. I was sequencing Alchemy Mobile from Ableton Live within minutes after downloading ### 3/5 — Awesome! But... *2014-01-01* It will semi-randomly disconnect when I'm connecting to Ableton... no instructions on how to work around this, or isolate and fix the problem is unfortunate... The speed of midi transfer when it works is phenomenal, but as of now, it is not usable for me yet... ### 5/5 — Just works! *2013-12-29* I've had unreliable connections with wifi until Apollo, and latency is very low! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Wait a second - obsolete *2017-02-20* Apple has already integrated Bluetooth over iOS - making this kind of obsolete (in my opinion). Sorry if that's not correct, but right now I'm wishing I didn't make the purchase so quickly (and that they hadn't jacked up the price from what it was before...) ### 1/5 — No Windows Support *2017-01-20, version 2.1* OS X only. ### 1/5 — Broken *2017-01-17* I have been using your product for months with major success. You just updated your app with keyboards and now the only thing that works is your new keyboards. All mid messages I send from any other apps are not transmitted. Please help. ### 1/5 — Complete waste of money *2016-10-07, version 1.4* Save yourself and do not buy this piece of crap. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2015-12-04, version 1.4* Doesn't detect my MacBook when iPad connected to it so completely useless. Shame. ### 1/5 — It doesn't work since last update *2015-08-13, version 1.4* Version 1.4 can't find each other (Mac and iPad ). I'm sorry for making the update.... ### 1/5 — useless *2014-10-30, version 1.2* I pair my iPad air to my current iMac over bluetooth… then wait for the app to connect to the ‘remote' iPad… I keep waiting. And that’s as far as I’ve gotten. If the process is more complex that this… then it needs to be simplified…. because as far as I’m aware that’s what it’s supposed to do. ### 1/5 — Time code is not working *2014-09-27, version 1.2* So time code is not working and the developer knows he made a mistake. I was told it would be fixed by the end of the week but no update. Great app if it worked right and was fixed quickly like they said it would be. ### 1/5 — Does Not Work. *2013-11-24, version 1.0* Does not work at all. ### 1/5 — doesn’t work *2013-11-24, version 1.0* my mac does not detect my iPad. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Simple and robust *2023-02-12, version 2.2* I find iOS Bluetooth Low Energy MIDI connections incredibly flaky and, according to forums, I’m not on my own. Apollo has been robustly connecting my old and new iPads so old iPad can MIDI remote things hidden on the other… effectively doubles my screen size, so that I can see into back of my newer iPad. Stays connected for hours at a time. Simply fabulous!! ### 5/5 — A winner from a family of winners *2017-01-28* Another great app from SPD! It allows me to use my iPad and iPhone as an integrated system. This has greatly changed and improved my workflow. Thanks again for this! ### 5/5 — Another winner from this Dev *2017-01-27, version 2.1* Another fun to use music making superstar app. I thought infinite looper was amazing and how can a developer come out with more so fast. Well here it is. There is a handful of iOS developers that I consider to be superstars that are honest, hard working, open to criticism and suggestions, and super talented that only come out with fantastic apps. This is one of those developers. I won't list the others because you will surely find them by reading mobile music blogs and web site reviews and watching YouTube app reviews. ### 5/5 — It just works! *2016-12-06* I love this! I use it with an iRig keys and iPhone to send Midi to my iPad which already has a Microphone plugged in. ### 5/5 — Works exactly as advertised! *2016-04-08* It's one of those rare situations where the thing does exactly what it says on the label. Perfect! This enables my workflow and never fails on me. For me it's critical, and performs just like I expect. Great app! ### 5/5 — Fresh Air *2015-12-14* I half expected I would need to blunder about trying to configure everything in order to have a hope of it working. Instead, I downloaded to iPad and iPhone, opened apollo on each, then opened a synth on the iPad and Lemur on the iPhone. All I had to do then was set Lemur to apollo and just like that I'm controlling my iPad synth with my iPhone Lemur "keyboard/LFO lab" template. MIDI learn worked just as it does when on the same device. Super! ### 5/5 — Still Relevant: Apollo Succeeds where Apple Fails *2015-09-03* Despite midi-over-bluetooth functionality being baked into OS X, this app is still relevant because it can connect apps that don’t work over Apple’s native midi-over-bluetooth solution. 5 Stars!! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2015-08-22, version 1.4* Brilliantly easy connectivity between iPhone <-> iPad, iPad <-> iPad, etc. Also there is a desktop version and apparently another app now which supports MIDI over USB. ### 5/5 — Wireless keytar sweetness *2015-07-28* I've been looking for a cheap option to create a wireless keytar and this works nicely. Time to get my geek on. ### 5/5 — Good but... *2015-05-11* This app is pure amazingness. I had occasional trouble getting it connected at first, then learned you have to hit the connect button at the same time on both devices. Great stuff. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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