Piano Modoki vs Gradation Piano
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.
Gradation Piano
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Play the piano and watch your music come alive. Gradation Piano turns every note into a burst of color. Press a key and vibrant fluid — unique to that pitch — erupts from the keyboard and swirls across the display in real time, powered by a Metal-based fluid simulation. Features Full 88-key range — scroll freely from A0 to C8 Color-coded keys — each of the 12 pitches has its own hue, making it easy to recognize notes by sight Live fluid visuals — Metal GPU simulation reacts instantly to every touch, blending colors as you play chords Adjustable keyboard width — zoom in for larger keys or zoom out to see more of the keyboard at once Multi-touch — play full chords and let the colors mix
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Piano Modoki at 3 against Gradation Piano's 1. Piano Modoki also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). 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.
| Parameter | Piano Modoki | Gradation Piano |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (56 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 56 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryouta Kira | MASATO MISAWA |
In-app purchases
Piano Modoki
No in-app purchases
Gradation Piano
No in-app purchases
Questions
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