Piano vs Vinyl Record
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano
This virtual piano app offers a full 88-key experience with recording capabilities for both piano play and voice. It features intuitive keyboard switching and a dual keyboard display, making it versatile for entertainment, training, and sharing musical creations.
- 88-key virtual piano
- Record piano and voice
- Intuitive keyboard switching
- Dual keyboard display
- Share soundtracks and sheet music
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This is a full 88-key virtual piano designed for ease of use and versatility. **Discover a fun and easy way to play piano while building real skills.** This app is designed for users who want more than just a virtual keyboard. You can enjoy playing piano anytime, and also improve step by step through **87 training levels** created to help develop your music skills in a simple and engaging way. Whether you are a beginner starting your first notes or someone who wants to strengthen rhythm, accuracy, and finger control, this app gives you a smooth path to practice and progress. **Features:** * Play piano directly on your device * Train your skills with **80+ guided levels** * Improve note recognition, timing, rhythm, and coordination * Practice in a fun and interactive way * Suitable for beginners and growing learners * Learn at your own pace, anytime and anywhere Each training level is designed to help you build confidence little by little, so learning feels rewarding instead of overwhelming. You can enjoy the fun of playing songs while also sharpening the core skills needed for better piano performance. Turn practice into progress and make piano learning more enjoyable every day.
Vinyl Record
Experience your music library with a visual vinyl player emulator. Choose from various record patterns and colors to personalize your listening experience. This app requires music to be present in your Apple Music library.
- Plays music from Apple Music
- Animated vinyl record display
- Customizable record patterns
- Color customization for records
- No advertising
- No in-app purchases
- No tracking
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Vinyl records are back Vinyl Record is a vinyl player emulator for vinyl lovers It plays your music from the Apple Music app and shows an animated vinyl record. You have all your songs from your iPhone in the library ready. You have countless records with many patterns, for each pattern you can set any color no advertising! no in app purchases! no tracking! Have fun with the App! THIS APP ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE MUSIC IN THE APPLE MUSIC APP!!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vinyl Record at 100% against Piano's 9%. Vinyl Record also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months). Piano's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ratings volume, ads 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
Piano is free to download; Vinyl Record costs $3.99 up front. Piano sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vinyl Record asks for nothing beyond the download.
Piano holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 9% of Piano's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vinyl Record's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Piano ships an update every 12 months, Vinyl Record fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano | Vinyl Record |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 8.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #174 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alteru Inc. | Alexander Rutkowskij |
Customer experience
Piano
Vinyl Record
Bugs and requests
Piano
Reported bugs
24 issues- Record feature overlaps with microphone
- App crashes when trying to record
- Recorder doesn't work
- Screen stick/arrow doesn't work
- Keys are too small
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- Cannot amplify keys
- No settings or options available
- Keyboard is too small to use effectively
- App stopped working, no longer makes noise
- App is slow
- Piano sound does not come out of headphones
- Cannot hear what you are playing
- Double keyboards are oriented incorrectly
- Keys not working properly
- Recording is impossible and crashes the application
- Cannot confirm if recording was successful
- Buttons freeze
- Older version worked better than the current one
- Music sheet file will not open on PC or iPhone
- Recorded tune sounds like a succession of similar short notes
- App causes phone to freeze
- Generated sheet music is restricted to whole notes and does not account for rhythm
- Playback does not work properly on iPhone
- Playback not working on iPod Touch
Requested features
9 requests- Instructions needed
- Sound stops when finger leaves screen
- Option to choose number of keys displayed
- Option to choose sound
- Information symbols for how everything works
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- Make keys bigger
- Improve double keyboard orientation
- Clearer boundary between upper and lower keyboards
- Move left/right keyboard navigation buttons higher
Vinyl Record
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piano
- Piano Ads Free$1.99
Vinyl Record
No in-app purchases
