Pocket Jam vs Midi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Jam
Practice and play along with your favorite songs by adjusting their pitch and tempo in real time. Loop specific song sections, gradually increase speed with a speed trainer, and mark important parts for quick access. Add songs from Apple Music or your device files.
- Change pitch in real time
- Adjust song tempo
- Loop specific song sections
- Speed trainer for gradual tempo increase
- Section markers for quick navigation
- Import songs from Apple Music and Files
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Pocket Jam is for musicians wanting to practice and play along with their favourite songs. Loop specific sections of songs, or change the pitch or tempo in real time. If you don't have a capo to hand — or worse, the song is in a lower tuning than you, Pocket Jam has you covered. You can change the pitch up and down — in real time — to any amount of semitones up to an octave. Looping lets you pick specific parts of the song you want to practise. Once enabled, drag the left and right handles on the play bar to set the start and end of the loop, and it'll loop between them. And when looping isn't enough, you can use the speed trainer. With a loop set up up, you can have it start each loop playing slowly, and gradually get faster after each loop. You can customise how slow it starts, and how many loops it takes to reach the full tempo. Mark specific times in a song with section markers. It'll let you jump to parts or set up loops quicker. You can add songs from your Apple Music library — streaming or downloads — or from your Files on device, and play them back in real time, or export them. Pitch adjustments and file exporting are not available when streaming from Apple Music. Terms & Conditions: https://pocketjam.app/terms/
Midi
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Seven MIDI controllers you'd actually want, in one app. MidiMorf is a suite of expressive iOS controllers with a deep 32-voice synth to play them through. Grab your phone, put on headphones, and you're jamming in ten seconds. Or connect the free companion server to your Mac and turn it into a wireless MIDI rig for Ableton, Logic, GarageBand, and any DAW that speaks MIDI. THE SEVEN CONTROLLERS • Morf-Pad — XY morphing pad with scale-locked notes • Strum-Chord — Omnichord-inspired chord grid + strum plate • Morf-Chord — 7 diatonic chord pads with per-chord XY voicing • Rose-Chord — Orchid-inspired: hold chord types, tap the keyboard • Dual M-Pad — two independent XY pads side-by-side • Transport — Play/Stop/Record + Mackie Control utility buttons • Morf-FX — XY effects pad with assignable FX buttons TWO WAYS TO PLAY Local mode — the built-in synth makes the sound. Headphones or a Bluetooth speaker. Never touch a computer. WiFi mode — run the free MidiMorf Server on your Mac. Every note, CC, and transport message flies over WiFi into your DAW. No cables, no MIDI interface, no latency headaches. THE SYNTH 32-voice polyphony. Dual oscillators (sine, triangle, saw, square) with PolyBLEP anti-aliasing plus a sub. Analog-modelled 4-pole ladder filter with resonance. Full ADSR on amp and filter. LFO. 4-slot modulation matrix routing accelerometer tilt, velocity, mod wheel, and LFO to filter, pitch, gain, and effect parameters. Distortion, tempo-friendly delay, reverb. MORE • Tilt your phone — the accelerometer is a live mod source • Custom color theme per controller • Favorite button — long-press to assign, tap to jump • Landscape-only, wood-frame Free. Made by Retro Relic. Get the Mac server at retro-relic.com/downloads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Midi at none against Pocket Jam's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pocket Jam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Midi asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Jam ships an update monthly, Midi every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Jam | Midi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (41 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Hoeller | john Watson |
In-app purchases
Pocket Jam
- Weekly Plan$2.997 Days
- Monthly Plan3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Yearly Plan$29.991 Year
Midi
No in-app purchases








