8 Best Giying Alternatives: Apps Like Giying for iPhone (2026)

Gamelan Gender by Otmar Kramis

Editor's Choice

🎵 Music

5.0(3 ratings)

$2.99

This app is an iOS implementation of a Balinese Gamelan Gender Wayang, a 10-key metallophone. It offers tunable keys, Inter-App Audio/Audiobus support, and MIDI file playback for learning and practice.

Autoharp by Arlo Leach

Strong Contender

🎵 Music

3.8😐(9 ratings)

$1.99In-App Purchases

Experience the realistic sound of an autoharp with intuitive chord buttons and strumming. Enhance your music with built-in effects and use it as a MIDI controller. Customize string and chord layouts for advanced control.

What We Love

🎶 Lovely, natural sound
🤩 Addictive to fidget with
📚 Great for learning chords
💰 Free and not collecting data
✨ Rich and full sounds
🛠️ Fully customizable
👍 Love the love for detail
💯 Works flawlessly
🎵 Perfect for background practice
✍️ Great for songwriting
🎛️ Familiar with autoharp
🚀 Amazingly expressive
💡 Innovative MIDI controller potential
🎛️ Easy to configure and play
🎚️ Good for melody playing
🎧 Silent practice with earbuds
🎶 Great practice features
✨ Top-end sparkle
🔊 Great volume
🎶 Realistic sounds
🎚️ Captures real autoharp feel
🌟 Charming and delightful
🎚️ Easy to finger chords
✨ Crisp sound
🎛️ Works well with MIDI
🚀 Speedy and spot-on support
🎶 Great sound quality
🎚️ Dynamic range
🎵 Touch sensitive strings
💯 Worth the purchase
🎶 Fun to play
🎚️ Realistic simulation
🎵 Great for old-time music
🔊 Great sound quality
🎚️ Touch-sensitive option
🎶 Looks and sounds fun
🎶 Great taste of autoharp
🎵 Instant music creation
🎚️ More "me" than guitar apps
💰 Complete bargain
🎶 Good sound
🚀 No lag in response
🎚️ Fluid two-handed operation
🎶 Crisp sound
🔊 Belts out sound
🎛️ Latest update effects are welcome
🎶 Great sounding app
🎶 Sweet singing sustain
🎚️ Easy to finger chord bars
💡 Highlights active strings
🎚️ Good for combining techniques
💖 Developer responds quickly
✨ Keeps making app better
💖 Developer gives 5 stars
🎶 App gets 5 stars
👨‍👧‍👦 Granddaughter loves it
💯 For that joy, priceless
🎶 Great for writing songs on the go
🤩 Fun for old-time musicians
👍 Good idea
🚀 Great start
💡 Lovingly created virtual instrument
💰 Well worth the money
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Great for non-musicians
🤩 Great for autoharp enthusiasts
👍 Keep up the good work
🚀 Updated for improvements
🎚️ Improves playability
🎶 Great sound
👍 Works fine on iPad 2 and iPhone 4
🤩 Everyone loves it
🎶 Sounds good
🎚️ Touch sensitive for dynamics
🎶 Works perfectly
💡 Good for recording
🎚️ Zoom feature works fine
🎶 Fun to play
🎚️ Added flexibility to iPad version
🎶 Charming and very fun
🎚️ Good when on the go
🎶 Great little program
👍 Good idea
🎚️ User interface is faster
🎶 Chords sound great
🎚️ Great job
🎶 Fine start
🎚️ Very playable

Room to Improve

💥 App crashes
🤔 App won't open
🗑️ Custom tunings lost on reinstall
📱 Chord buttons too hard to control
📏 Chord buttons too small
🎛️ Too limited
🔌 No audio integration
🔋 Drains batteries significantly
🤏 Buttons too small for iPhone
🎛️ Buttons could be easier to hit
⚙️ Needs easier chord button reconfiguration
🎛️ Strings seem backwards on iPad
🔇 Unwanted loud volume blasts
🎚️ Volume has a mind of its own
🐛 Full of bugs
🎛️ Choppy performance
🎛️ Annoying to strum for sound
👆 Strings not completely responsive
👆 Does not respond to simple touch
👆 Hinders application
👆 Difficult to keep tune going
🚫 Doesn't work
🎶 Strings are NOT working
🚫 Program doesn't work
🚫 Não funciona!
🚫 Rubbish
🎛️ Volume issue
🎛️ Stuck on loud volume
🐛 Too many sound 'cutouts'
🎛️ Polyphony not sufficient
🎛️ New chord doesn't always cut out previous
🎛️ Sound level sometimes drops suddenly
🎛️ Zoomed-in mode doesn't detect off-screen swipes
🎛️ Too random related to what you play
🎨 Slightly cheesy graphics
🎛️ Eb still odd sounding
🎛️ Chord keys small even when enlarged
🎛️ Not enough room to pluck strings
🐛 Bugs
🎛️ Random increase and decrease of volume
🐛 Sound 'cutouts' when played fast
🎛️ New chord doesn't always dampen previous
🎛️ Needs ability to damp individual strings
🎛️ Needs ability to pluck or strum above keyboard
🎛️ Latency problems
🎛️ Does not work most of the time
💸 Feel ripped off
🎛️ Broken on iPad 2
🎛️ Almost painful to play
🐛 Sound cutouts
🎛️ Chord transition issues
🎛️ Zoomed-in mode issues
🎛️ Randomness in playing

Balalaika by Alper Kahriman

Balalaika Simulator

Worth Considering

🎵 Music

5.0(2 ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

Experience the authentic sound and feel of a balalaika with this simulator. It offers realistic sounds, microtonal tuning, and customizable keys for both beginners and experienced musicians. Record and share your musical creations effortlessly.

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Gamelan Gender by Otmar Kramis

Autoharp by Arlo Leach

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Balalaika by Alper Kahriman

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