MIDI Sprout vs Affine Tuning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MIDI Sprout
Connect a MIDI Sprout device to your iOS device to hear your plants produce harmonious sounds. Experience how environmental changes influence unique melodies and patterns.
- Listen to plant sounds
- Harmonious melodies
- Environmental pattern changes
- Connects via MIDI Sprout device
- Artist-designed sounds
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Use this app with your MIDI Sprout to listen to your plants! Plug your MIDI Sprout into the Lightning port using an iConnectMIDI1 cable. Turn on your MIDI Sprout and listen to your plants play harmonious sounds designed by our team of artists. Experience the way patterns and melodies change in relationship to fluctuations in your environment.
Affine Tuning
Experience music interactively by connecting your body to sound. Five compositions react to your movements in real-time, ensuring harmonious feedback for creative expression. It's an experience focused on personal creation, not a game or instrument.
- Body-interactive music creation
- Real-time movement response
- Five interactive compositions
- Harmonious musical feedback
- Focus on personal expression
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Affine Tuning connects your body with sound in a new way to create unique musical experiences. Bring the music to life in five interactive compositions which react to your movements in real-time. And you don't have to be a dancer for that: the musical feedback will always sound in tune, which lets you focus on your own expression. Affine Tuning is not a game, or an instrument, and there are no rules to follow. The only goal lies in the experience which YOU create by playing. Affine Tuning is a growing collection, new songs will be released in future updates.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Affine Tuning at 5.0 against MIDI Sprout's 4.2. Affine Tuning also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 14 months). MIDI Sprout's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Affine Tuning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of MIDI Sprout's written reviews are positive against 100% of Affine Tuning's.
MIDI Sprout ships an update every 14 months, Affine Tuning monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MIDI Sprout | Affine Tuning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 332 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Data Garden | Marc-Andre Weibezahn |
Customer experience
MIDI Sprout
Affine Tuning
In-app purchases
MIDI Sprout
No in-app purchases
Affine Tuning
No in-app purchases
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