Temperaments Lite vs Piano Solo Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Temperaments Lite
Explore historical and unconventional musical tunings. This app retunes MIDI music in real-time, allowing you to hear how pieces sounded in different eras or compose with unique scales. Share your creations via email or social media.
- Real-time MIDI retuning
- Historical temperament exploration
- Custom tuning composition
- Instant temperament comparison
- Expandable tuning display
- MIDI file export
- Social sharing
Read full descriptionHide full description
The Lite version of the Temperaments application. In-app purchases can upgrade Lite to the full Temperaments app. Temperaments: Tune your music and your ears. Temperaments is an application for learning about musical tunings and temperaments used throughout history. Want to play Bach in a tuning he actually used? Would you like to try early music as it was heard at the time? How about composing new music with an unconventional tuning? Temperaments tunes your music and your ears. Temperaments uses MIDI to retune your music on the fly. You can play any standard MIDI file, apply a temperament, and hear the result in real time. You can connect an external keyboard, let Temperaments retune your performance, and send it to any synthesizer you choose. You can even record your music to standard MIDI files and export them to play on any sequencer. Your recordings can be sent to anyone via email. They can be dropped onto Dropbox, and you can tell the world about them on Facebook, all from within Temperaments. Temperaments includes fourteen temperaments in addition to Equal Temperament, with both meantone and unequal-interval types. You can switch back to Equal Temperament instantly just by pressing a button for instant comparison - even while notes are sounding. You can even change to an entirely different temperament instantly, any time, even in the middle of a performance. Temperaments includes a large, expandable display showing the differences between Equal Temperament and a chosen temperament. And, of course, you can select any note to be the root key of any temperament, so that your temperament matches the key of any file or performance. Use Temperaments to learn about nonstandard tunings. Use Temperaments to compose new music in unusual ways. Or experiment with applying a temperament to your MIDI files. Any way you want to use it, Temperaments tunes your music and your ears.
Piano Solo Studio
Learn and play piano with a versatile app featuring a full keyboard, 47 songs, 21 instruments, and MIDI controller support. Record your performances and export them in various formats. Suitable for all skill levels.
- Full 85-key piano with adjustable display
- 47 songs across four difficulty levels
- 21 virtual instruments
- MIDI keyboard connectivity (USB/Bluetooth)
- Song recording and export (MP3, WAV, MIDI)
- Four chord modes
Read full descriptionHide full description
Why use Piano Solo Studio? Because it is the definitive tool for playing piano on your iPhone or iPad. Easy to use, forty-seven songs to learn, twenty-one virtual instruments, four chord modes and advanced features make it suitable for beginners and for advanced musicians alike. You can record what you play and export it to several formats, and you can connect a MIDI keyboard over USB or Bluetooth and multiply your creativity. The main features are: - Easy and intuitive user interface - Full 85-key piano, and you set how many keys fit on screen, from 6 to 26. A strip with the whole keyboard shows where you are and lights up what is playing - Four chord modes: Autochord, with major and minor chord strips above the keys; Dual Piano, with two keyboards; Face to Face, so two people can play with the tablet flat on the table; and Chord Pads, a grid of chords next to the keyboard - Forty-seven popular and classic songs to learn, in four levels: beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert. Slow them down, jump to any point and play along - Twenty-one instruments: grand piano, bright piano, honky tonk, harpsichord, FM synthesizer, synthesizer, pipe organ, classical guitar, overdriven guitar, acoustic guitar, xylophone, 8-bit, harp, saxophone, violin, accordion, clarinet, choir, sitar, banjo and tuba - Note labels on the keys: on every key, only on the C keys, or none at all - Five notations to choose from: C D E F G A B, German (H), DO RE MI, Japanese and Bengali - Connect a keyboard controller over MIDI USB, or pair a wireless one over Bluetooth MIDI from the settings screen. Notes, velocity, pitch bend and sustain pedal, all live - Pitch bend wheel, on the left or on the right, wherever your hand is - Easy to use metronome, from 40 to 300 BPM - Transposition up to ten semitones either way - Equalizer, delay, reverb and compressor, with presets - Record your songs in any mode and export them to MP3, OGG, WAV or MIDI, chords and effects included. Share the file with your friends - Playback speed control. Set position and speed both in the included songs and in your own recordings - Low latency, tuned so the note sounds the instant you touch the key - This app is free, but you can acquire a permanent premium license to remove the ads and unlock every instrument and every lesson. One payment, no subscription Questions or ideas? Write to info@batalsoft.com
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Temperaments Lite at none against Piano Solo Studio's shown. Temperaments Lite also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Piano Solo Studio's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 32 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Temperaments Lite sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Piano Solo Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Temperaments Lite against 5.0 for Piano Solo Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Temperaments Lite ships an update every 32 months, Piano Solo Studio every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Temperaments Lite | Piano Solo Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 32 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HUMBLE EARTH PRODUCTIONS INC | Batalsoft |
In-app purchases
Temperaments Lite
- Record and Export$1.99
- Temperaments Pack 1$1.99
- External MIDI$1.99
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- The Whole Shebang$4.99
Piano Solo Studio
- Premium$7.99
Questions
Is Temperaments Lite free?
Is Piano Solo Studio free?
Which has better reviews, Temperaments Lite or Piano Solo Studio?
Do Temperaments Lite or Piano Solo Studio have ads?
Which is updated more often, Temperaments Lite or Piano Solo Studio?
Other comparisons















