KIYOLA Remote Control vs JAX MIDI ModulePlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KIYOLA Remote Control
Control your digital piano wirelessly via Bluetooth. Select tones, manage internal songs, adjust volume, and use the metronome. Customize the app's look to match your piano's color and play along with other music apps.
- Wireless Bluetooth control
- Tone selection
- Internal song playback
- Volume control
- Metronome function
- App appearance customization
- Apple Watch compatibility
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KIYLOA Remote Control is an app for the KIYOLA KF-10 digital piano, a collaboration between Roland and Japanese furniture designer Karimoku. The app lets you use KIYOLA KF-10 wirelessly, by connecting the piano to your iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth® technology. The app offers fast and intuitive control of the piano, letting you select the piano’s tones, play the internal songs and control the volume and built-in metronome. Connecting your phone or tablet also makes practice a lot more enjoyable as you can play along with some of the many music apps available. You can even change the app’s appearance to match the body color of KIYOLA KF-10 digital piano. The app also works with Apple Watch, offering the ability to control and play the piano’s internal songs. The Apple Watch version can be installed from your iPhone, once it is running.
JAX MIDI ModulePlayer
This app functions as a General MIDI compatible multi-timbre synthesizer and file player. It can be used as a sound module for external MIDI signals or as an audio unit within compatible host applications. Create and play back standard MIDI files with over 370 instruments and drum sets.
- GM/GS compatible synthesizer
- Plays standard MIDI files
- Over 370 instruments and drum sets
- 16 MIDI channels simultaneously
- Audio Unit (AUv3) support
- Standalone host functionality
- Universal app for Apple devices
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There is a manual at: https://midi.digitster.com/JAX%20MIDI/JAX%20MIDI%20ModulePlayer.pdf And a demonstration video at: https://youtu.be/DKwRxcfgy8s JAX MIDI Module & Player can be used as a GM/GS (General MIDI) compatible multi-timbre synthesizer for playing live or as a file player. It is usable as a sound module for external MIDI signals and as audio unit for usage in any host application, which supports Apples AUv3 format. With JAX MIDI Module & Player you can load available standard MIDI files and just play them back. It has inbuilt a fully featured GM/GS synthesizer with over 370 different instruments and drum sets, which is also playable in realtime on 16 MIDI channels simultaneously. The module works like the classic external hardware modules of the late 90s. If used as an audio unit, the MIDI stream is passed thru, so that other apps (like synthesizers and drum machines) can profit from the file playback. Internal sound generation can muted with the main volume slider. Important GM MIDI controllers are supported and also displayed for overview. The playing state of all channels is displayed in realtime. For JAX MIDI Module & Player, you may create your own MIDI files with notes with any external MIDI editor that can create standard MIDI files format 0 or 1, with controllers and tempo changes and all and then play back thru it with the internal or any external instrumentation. AudioUnits (AUv3) require a supporting host application to perform. But our app is able to perform as a standalone host for the embedded unit and provide basic Core MIDI functionality for communicating outside the sandbox. This build is truly 'universal', meaning, the unit is available for: - MacOS (Silicon M1) - iOS (iPhone) - iPadOS (iPads) Note: We now will separate the native macOS release (Mac Catalyst) from the iOS universal release, because native macOS releases need special optimizations. There also will be different prices for the native macOS apps. Making AUv3 technology available across all devices (for usage with GarageBand, Logic Pro X, MainStage 3 on the Mac), is quite a challenge. And we have chosen to deliver the releases across all devices instead of asking multiple times for money. Our builds come with latest technology support for all Apple devices (at the point of release). We therefore always develop with latest Apple frameworks and compilers. But we try to keep the compatibility at minimum requirements as far as even possible. Especially the latest M1/2/3 and cross platform optimizations forced us to drop all the legacy device support (below iOS 14). This is also true for all our older apps, which will be updated step by step to reflect the latest technologies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: KIYOLA Remote Control at Free against JAX MIDI ModulePlayer's $29.99. KIYOLA Remote Control also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 14.0). JAX MIDI ModulePlayer's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 20%) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
KIYOLA Remote Control is free to download; JAX MIDI ModulePlayer costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KIYOLA Remote Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: JAX MIDI ModulePlayer has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of KIYOLA Remote Control's written reviews are positive against 50% of JAX MIDI ModulePlayer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
KIYOLA Remote Control ships an update every 7 months, JAX MIDI ModulePlayer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KIYOLA Remote Control | JAX MIDI ModulePlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roland Corporation | Jens Guell |
Customer experience
KIYOLA Remote Control
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In-app purchases
KIYOLA Remote Control
No in-app purchases
JAX MIDI ModulePlayer
No in-app purchases
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