Conji vs ShowMIDI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Conji
Easily connect Bluetooth MIDI devices to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. This app allows for one-tap connection and disconnection of nearby devices, simplifying your wireless music setup for both stage and studio use.
- Connect Bluetooth MIDI devices
- One-tap connect/disconnect
- Home screen widget
- Connection notifications
- App icon badge
- Light, Dark, and Auto modes
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Conji — Bluetooth MIDI Manager Conji makes connecting Bluetooth MIDI devices to your iPhone, iPad, or Mac effortless. Open the app, tap once to connect or disconnect any nearby device, and you're ready to play. What's included: - Browse and connect all discoverable Bluetooth MIDI devices in one place - Home screen widget showing your connected device count at a glance - Notifications when devices connect or disconnect - App icon badge displaying the number of active connections - Light, Dark, and Auto appearance Whether you're setting up on stage or in the studio, Conji keeps your wireless MIDI workflow fast and simple.
ShowMIDI
This application provides a real-time, glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. It visualizes various MIDI messages and allows you to pause the flow for a data snapshot. It can be used as a standalone tool or an AUv3 plugin within your DAW.
- Real-time MIDI visualization
- Auto-hides irrelevant messages
- Pause and snapshot data
- Standalone application
- AUv3 plugin support
- Supports MPE configuration
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ShowMIDI is an open-source multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity. Instead of wading through logs of MIDI messages to correlate relevant ones and identify what is happening, ShowMIDI visualizes the current activity and auto-hides what you don't care about anymore. It provides you with a real-time glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. ShowMIDI is designed to be always on, using the spacebar or play/pause button you can pause the flow and focus on a data snapshot with the latest state of any MIDI entity. ShowMIDI can be ran as a standalone application that automatically detects all your MIDI devices, or as an AUv3 plugin in your DAW or host to visualize MIDI data in your sessions. ShowMIDI visualizes: * MIDI ports * channels * program change * note on/off * channel pressure * polyphonic pressure * continuous control change * pitchbend * RPN and NRPN * MPE configuration and channel modes ShowMIDI supports: * themes * standalone operation * AUv3 operation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ShowMIDI at every 2 months against Conji's every 61 months. ShowMIDI also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Conji's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, rating, 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.
Conji holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Conji's written reviews are positive against 88% of ShowMIDI's.
Conji ships an update every 61 months, ShowMIDI every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Conji | ShowMIDI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.8 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 61 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marc Teichmann | Uwyn, LLC |
Customer experience
Conji
ShowMIDI
In-app purchases
Conji
No in-app purchases
ShowMIDI
No in-app purchases
