Bluetooth Midi Keyboard vs ShowMIDI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bluetooth Midi Keyboard
Transform your iPhone or iPad into a wireless MIDI keyboard. Control your favorite music software and hardware from your device using Bluetooth Low Energy. Offers customizable note settings and velocity sensitivity for expressive playing.
- Wireless MIDI keyboard
- Bluetooth Low Energy MIDI
- Selectable base note
- Selectable number of notes
- Velocity sensitive
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Bluetooth Midi Keyboard turns your iOS and iPadOS devices in a wireless keyboard. Play your iOS, iPadOS, desktop or hardware BLE Midi DAWs and instruments from your iPhone and iPad. -Selectable base note. -Selectable number of notes. -Velocity sensitive. -Bluetooth Low Energy Midi. How does it works: Push connect button and in the opened view turn on the switch button. This will make your device discoverable by your Bluetooth MIDI Host, connect it from it and you will can play your MIDI Host from B.M.K.. If your MIDI Host don't support Bluetooth MIDI there are some free apps on the market that creates virtual Bluetooth MIDI Ports. B.M.K.. uses MIDI channel 1. Demo video on the developer's page.
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 rating: ShowMIDI at 4.8 against Bluetooth Midi Keyboard's 3.0. ShowMIDI also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 33 months) and review sentiment (88% vs 67%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ShowMIDI holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Bluetooth Midi Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 88% of ShowMIDI's.
Bluetooth Midi Keyboard ships an update every 33 months, ShowMIDI every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bluetooth Midi Keyboard | ShowMIDI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | pablo lopez | Uwyn, LLC |
Customer experience
Bluetooth Midi Keyboard
ShowMIDI
In-app purchases
Bluetooth Midi Keyboard
No in-app purchases
ShowMIDI
No in-app purchases
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