Piano+ 88 vs Temperaments Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano+ 88
Experience realistic piano playing with a streamlined, intuitive interface. Choose from multiple instruments, 88 keys, and adjustable note displays. Accompaniment loops are included to enhance your musical creations.
- Realistic sound rendering
- 88-key sliding keyboard
- 5 high-quality instruments
- 10 rhythmic loops
- Adjustable note display options
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Piano+ turns your iPhone and iPad into a real 88-key piano. Play, learn your favorite songs and record your music, all in a clean, modern app. PLAY LIKE ON A REAL PIANO • 88 keys, from A0 to C8, with a realistic piano sound • Play chords with several fingers and slide from one key to the next • Move along the keyboard with the mini-map or the arrows, and adjust the key size • Touch-sensitive volume, sustain and a sustain pedal button • Note names on the keys: C D E F G or DO RE MI FA SOL 16 INSTRUMENTS Piano, electric piano, organ, harpsichord, synth, guitar, harp, bass, violin, cello, flute, recorder, saxophone, trumpet, marimba and vibraphone. LEARN 25 SONGS • Classics, folk tunes and Piano+ originals: Für Elise, Ode to Joy, Canon in D, The Entertainer, Gymnopédie No. 1 and many more • Listen to each song at 80 %, 100 % or 120 % speed • Play along, or learn step by step with falling notes • Right hand, left hand or both hands • The tempo goes up as you improve • Earn stars, beat your best score and see your progress RECORD AND SHARE Record what you play, replay it, rename it and share it as an audio file or a MIDI file. FOR MUSICIANS • Connect a MIDI keyboard by USB or Bluetooth, sustain pedal supported • One-finger chords: major, minor, seventh, diminished, augmented, suspended • Metronome with adjustable tempo and beats per bar • 10 rhythm loops with their own volume • Transpose and tuning of A4 (440 Hz, 415 Hz for baroque music)
Temperaments Lite
Explore historical and unconventional musical tunings. This app retunes MIDI music in real-time, allowing you to hear how pieces sounded in different eras or compose with unique scales. Share your creations via email or social media.
- Real-time MIDI retuning
- Historical temperament exploration
- Custom tuning composition
- Instant temperament comparison
- Expandable tuning display
- MIDI file export
- Social sharing
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The Lite version of the Temperaments application. In-app purchases can upgrade Lite to the full Temperaments app. Temperaments: Tune your music and your ears. Temperaments is an application for learning about musical tunings and temperaments used throughout history. Want to play Bach in a tuning he actually used? Would you like to try early music as it was heard at the time? How about composing new music with an unconventional tuning? Temperaments tunes your music and your ears. Temperaments uses MIDI to retune your music on the fly. You can play any standard MIDI file, apply a temperament, and hear the result in real time. You can connect an external keyboard, let Temperaments retune your performance, and send it to any synthesizer you choose. You can even record your music to standard MIDI files and export them to play on any sequencer. Your recordings can be sent to anyone via email. They can be dropped onto Dropbox, and you can tell the world about them on Facebook, all from within Temperaments. Temperaments includes fourteen temperaments in addition to Equal Temperament, with both meantone and unequal-interval types. You can switch back to Equal Temperament instantly just by pressing a button for instant comparison - even while notes are sounding. You can even change to an entirely different temperament instantly, any time, even in the middle of a performance. Temperaments includes a large, expandable display showing the differences between Equal Temperament and a chosen temperament. And, of course, you can select any note to be the root key of any temperament, so that your temperament matches the key of any file or performance. Use Temperaments to learn about nonstandard tunings. Use Temperaments to compose new music in unusual ways. Or experiment with applying a temperament to your MIDI files. Any way you want to use it, Temperaments tunes your music and your ears.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Temperaments Lite at 5.0 against Piano+ 88's 3.8. Temperaments Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 31%). Piano+ 88's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Temperaments Lite sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Piano+ 88 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Temperaments Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piano+ 88 has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Piano+ 88's written reviews are positive against 50% of Temperaments Lite's.
Piano+ 88 ships an update every 17 months, Temperaments Lite every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano+ 88 | Temperaments Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | iTasbih | HUMBLE EARTH PRODUCTIONS INC |
Customer experience
Piano+ 88
Temperaments Lite
Bugs and requests
Piano+ 88
Reported bugs
13 issues- No sound output on many devices
- Keys don't produce sound or produce incorrect notes
- App won't download or install properly
- Backwards/inverted note sequence in some modes
- Fuzzy and distorted audio with static noise
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- Excessive echo and reverb
- App crashes and freezes during use
- Volume buttons don't control app volume
- Ads open unintentionally
- Octave switching takes too long
- Notes sustain for 3+ seconds causing overlap
- Inconsistent note-to-key mapping
- App doesn't load after installation
Requested features
14 requests- Update app with new features and improvements
- Add record/save functionality
- Implement volume control buttons
- Add piano pedals (sustain, soft, sostenuto)
- Enable finger sliding between notes
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- Expand keyboard range to full piano
- Smooth octave switching without pauses
- Add sharp and flat note support
- Remove or make ads optional
- Add multiple instrument sounds
- Implement piano roll feature
- Allow background music to be toggled off
- Reduce sustain/reverb duration
- Add English-only language option
Temperaments Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piano+ 88
No in-app purchases
Temperaments Lite
- Record and Export$1.99
- Temperaments Pack 1$1.99
- External MIDI$1.99
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- The Whole Shebang$4.99
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