KIYOLA Remote Control vs MS
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.
MS
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MS-12 is a 16-pad sampler and step sequencer built around the sound of classic 12-bit hardware. Sample anything through the microphone, trim it, and play it straight from the pads. The sample rate and bit depth engine gives you the gritty, saturated character early digital samplers were loved for — not a filter placed on top, but the sound of the conversion itself. SAMPLING • Record from the built-in mic, a USB or Lightning interface, or line input • Resample the app's own output to bounce layers down • Threshold recording starts the moment sound arrives • Stereo or mono (L/R) capture SOUND • Adjustable sample rate (8–44.1 kHz) and bit depth (4–32 bit) • Presets for classic 12-bit voicings • Ring modulator, compressor, punch and saturation per pad EDITING • Trim, fade in and out, normalize, reverse, gain, silence • Time stretch • Auto slice by transient detection, or set slice points live with the pads • Split a stereo sample into separate mono left and right samples SEQUENCER • Step sequencer with velocity and tune per step • Real-time recording with selectable quantize • Up to 4 bars per pattern • Note Repeat • Song Mode chains patterns into a full track PLAYBACK AND MIXING • Volume and pan per pad, mute and solo • Mute groups so pads cut each other off, like a real drum machine • Pad Link to trigger several pads at once • Multi Level and Multi Pitch to spread one sample across the grid • 13 effects: tape echo, delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo/pan, distortion, overdrive, fuzz, wah, isolator and a 4-band EQ EXPORT • Bounce a pattern to a WAV file • Save projects on the device and reopen them later FREE VERSION MS-12 is free to try, and the sound engine is not held back — nothing about the audio is degraded in the free version. You get Bank A (16 pads), one 1-bar pattern, two effects, and microphone sampling up to 10 seconds per pad. A single one-time purchase unlocks everything: all four banks (64 pads), unlimited patterns up to 4 bars, Song Mode, all 13 effects, unlimited sampling time, loading your own audio files, project save and load, and WAV export. Anything you made before buying carries straight over. No subscription. No ads. No account required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MS at every 5 days against KIYOLA Remote Control's every 7 months. KIYOLA Remote Control's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KIYOLA Remote Control ships an update every 7 months, MS every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KIYOLA Remote Control | MS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roland Corporation | yuji yoshie |
In-app purchases
KIYOLA Remote Control
No in-app purchases
MS
No in-app purchases









