UxMIDI Tools vs ShowMIDI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UxMIDI Tools
Configure and update firmware for CME USB MIDI devices. Manage routing, mapping, and filtering of MIDI events for precise control over your music production hardware. Requires a USB lightning adapter for connection.
- Firmware updates for CME USB MIDI products
- Full product configuration
- MIDI routing management
- MIDI mapping capabilities
- MIDI event filtering
- USB lightning adapter required
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UxMIDI Tools, the application dedicated to CME USB MIDI products owners. With this software, you will be able to update the firmware of your CME Pro USB products (C2MIDI Pro, U2MIDI Pro, U4MIDI-WC, U6MIDI Pro, etc). The software is also used to fully configure your product, you have an access to the routing, mapping and filtering features. With this software you will be able to configure routing to each MIDI and USB input, you can decide to route any input to any output. You can also decide to filter any incoming MIDI event so it is not forwarded to the routed output. The latest version also offers the possibility to map any incoming MIDI event to another one. This application requires using a USB lightning adapter connected to the iPad or iPhone to connect to CME device through USB cable.
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 UxMIDI Tools's 4.0. ShowMIDI also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 50%) and ratings volume (18 vs 1). UxMIDI Tools's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 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 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowMIDI has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of UxMIDI Tools's written reviews are positive against 88% of ShowMIDI's.
UxMIDI Tools ships an update weekly, ShowMIDI every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UxMIDI Tools | ShowMIDI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CME PTE. LTD. | Uwyn, LLC |
Customer experience
UxMIDI Tools
ShowMIDI
In-app purchases
UxMIDI Tools
No in-app purchases
ShowMIDI
No in-app purchases
