Piano Modoki vs Mini Piano Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Modoki
This app offers a simple, ad-free musical keyboard experience with piano-like sounds generated through FM synthesis. It provides customizable keyboard layouts, a metronome, and various tuning options for musicians.
- Ad-free musical keyboard
- Customizable key size and layout
- Metronome included
- Adjustable reference pitch
- Key transposition
- Multiple temperament options
- MIDI device support
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A Simple Ad-Free Piano-like Musical Keyboard. Easy to Play, Good Response and Small Application Size. Just Enjoy the Instrument. "Modoki" is a Japanese word that refers to something similar, an imitation, or a mock version of the original. - You can scale key size. - The keyboard can be double rows. - You can flip the second keyboard. - It has a metronome. - You can adjust the frequency of the reference pitch. - You can transpose keys. - It can sound in a just intonation. The app doesn't use sampled real sounds but use FM synthesis. It sounds like piano though it's artificial. Supported temperament: Equal temperament, Just Intonation, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III. You can connect External and Virtual MIDI devices. Some DAW can import this app's sound via Inter-App Audio. Two sounds, FM Piano-like and FM E.Piano are included by default. "Piano Modoki" can load KQ Dixie's current patch. This app and its description contain machine-translated text.
Mini Piano Pro
This multitouch piano app offers a realistic playing experience with 88 keys and high-quality sampled piano sounds. Choose from 128 MIDI instruments, zoom to adjust key size, and transpose melodies. Record and export your creations in various audio and MIDI formats.
- 88-key keyboard
- 128 MIDI instruments
- Zoom functionality
- Transpose feature
- Record and export audio/MIDI
- Multitouch support
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Mini Piano Pro is a great multitouch piano for iOS. It's designed to be very fast and responsive, and it allows you to choose a beautiful sampled piano or select one of the 128 different midi instruments. You can use 88 keys to play and zoom in and out to get the keys to the size you want them. This app is standalone, pay once, no subscription needed. App is optimized for iPhone and iPad. ==Features== - Fast, responsive and beautiful. - full 88 keys keyboard - Great Sampled piano sound - 128 midi sounds - Optimized for iPad and iPhone. - Multitouch - Zoom - Transpose - Record, play and export to MIDI, AAC, MP3 or WAV - Label keys with note names
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Piano Modoki at Free against Mini Piano Pro's $1.99. Piano Modoki also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (86% vs 70%). On rating, 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
Piano Modoki is free to download; Mini Piano Pro costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Piano Modoki against 4.8 for Mini Piano Pro. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 57 and 36 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Piano Modoki's written reviews are positive against 70% of Mini Piano Pro's.
Piano Modoki ships an update every 3 weeks, Mini Piano Pro every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Piano Modoki | Mini Piano Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (57 ratings) | 4.8 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryouta Kira | Umito |
Customer experience
Piano Modoki
Mini Piano Pro
In-app purchases
Piano Modoki
No in-app purchases
Mini Piano Pro
No in-app purchases
