Isotope MIDI Keyboard vs FrequencyCat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Isotope MIDI Keyboard
This app offers an intuitive and accessible way to play music and learn music theory. Its unique isomorphic grid layout simplifies chord playing and understanding note relationships, making it ideal for both beginners and experienced musicians.
- Isomorphic grid layout for intuitive playing
- Built-in Element sound engine
- Audio Unit v3 plugin support
- MIDI and MIDI over Bluetooth connectivity
- Velocity-based touch and accelerometer input
- Customizable themes and layouts
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Isotope is an isomorphic MIDI keyboard app for iOS. Isotope makes playing music fun and intuitive, while also making music theory more accessible. Unlike traditional keyboard, Isotope's isomorphic grid layout is based on mathematical and geometrical properties of sound itself. When you play it, it's much more intuitive. When you want to learn about music, it shows how notes relate to one another. # Isomorphic Keyboard - If the interval stays the same, the form of your hand stays the same. For instance, when you put your first finger on the C, third finger on the E and the second finger on the G, it's the C major chord. Now that your fingers are in a triangle, if you just go up by one row, now it becomes the F major chord. - Square-based isomorphic keyboards like Isotope resembles stringed instruments tuned in perfect 4th apart from one string to the next. Therefore, if you have an experience in playing stringed instruments like the guitar, the bass, the violin, or the cello, you will get learn to play Isotope quickly. # Element - Built-in Sound Engine for Isotope - Available as an Audio Unit v3 plugin - Element has a versatile sound characteristics resembles double bass and bass guitars in the lower range, electric piano in the mid range and woodwind in the higher frequency range. # Connectivity - Supports MIDI (Garageband, Drambo, FL Studio Mobile etcs.) - MIDI over Bluetooth (For connecting Isotope to your computers / or any other devices that support MIDI over Bluetooth) # Usability - Multi-window and Slide Over support on iPadOS - Velocity based on touch area and accelerometer - 3rd party Audio Unit instrument plugins # Customizability - Row Interval adjustment - Fully customizable themes - Resizable buttons / app windows
FrequencyCat
Transform your photos into unique sound art using advanced image-to-sound technology. Explore, enjoy, and share your creative audio-visual pieces. Embrace your inner artist and discover the unexpected.
- Morph images into sound art
- Create spectrogram oddities
- Share sound art creations
- Unique audio-visual experience
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Hide an image inside sound. FrequencyCat is a playful tool for exploring the connection between images, sound, and spectrograms. Choose an image, and FrequencyCat transforms it into a unique audio signal. Play the sound and view its spectrogram, and you’ll see the original image emerge again from the frequencies. With FrequencyCat, you can: - Turn images into sound - View audio spectrograms in real time - Play sounds and reveal the images hidden inside them - Explore how different images create different sounds - Discover the relationship between sound, frequency, and Fourier transforms in an intuitive way There’s no magic behind it. Just frequencies, phases, an inverse Fourier transform, and a little curiosity about sound. Whether you’re interested in acoustics, music, signal processing, or simply wondering what an image might sound like, FrequencyCat gives you a new way to explore. Pick an image. Hear what it sounds like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FrequencyCat at Free against Isotope MIDI Keyboard's $6.99. FrequencyCat also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%). Isotope MIDI Keyboard's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 40 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
FrequencyCat is free to download; Isotope MIDI Keyboard costs $6.99 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 — 4.9 for Isotope MIDI Keyboard against 5.0 for FrequencyCat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Isotope MIDI Keyboard has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Isotope MIDI Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 100% of FrequencyCat's.
Isotope MIDI Keyboard ships an update every 2 days, FrequencyCat every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Isotope MIDI Keyboard | FrequencyCat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 40 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaewon Choi | Xuesong Zhang |
Customer experience
Isotope MIDI Keyboard
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In-app purchases
Isotope MIDI Keyboard
No in-app purchases
FrequencyCat
No in-app purchases
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