Piano Diary vs MusicSoft Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piano Diary
Record, archive, and share your piano performances. Monitor practice time with detailed statistics and upload videos to YouTube. Listen to your music anywhere using the built-in synthesizer.
- Record piano performances
- Monitor practice time statistics
- Cloud backup for performances
- Upload performances to YouTube
- Listen to performances via software synthesizer
- Supports all MIDI capable instruments
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Have you ever wished you could keep a record of your piano performance improvements? Have you ever wished you could share your best performances with your family and your friends? Piano Diary is a free iPhone/iPad application based on Core MIDI, designed to manage, archive and share your piano performances. Piano Diary features (1) Record your performance You can record your daily performances in Piano Diary, for later playback to your instrument; exactly as the you played - or to perform as a duet with yourself! You can easily search and find your performances stored in Piano Diary by date/time or name. Plus, don't worry if you lose your iPhone/iPad, as all performance data is automatically stored to the 'Cloud' in the *Piano Diary servers! Simply log onto Piano Diary with another iPhone/iPad to restore all of your performances! *A guest mode is available if you do not wish to store your performances to the Piano Diary servers. (2) Monitor your practice time Do you want to monitor your practice time precisely? Piano Diary will keep track of all important statistics, such as how long you have been playing and how many notes you have played. You can even compare your practice time to other users of Piano Diary. (3) Upload your performances to YouTube Do you wish to share your best performances with family and friends? Simply add a slideshow of your favourite photos and automatically upload as a movie to YouTube. Then share the YouTube movie to family and friends over the Internet for playback without Piano Diary. (4) Carry your performances everywhere No need to carry your instrument with you! You can listen to your performance from the iPhone/iPad using the Piano Diary software synthesizer. Enjoy your performances whenever and wherever you are - from the iPhone/iPad or over the Internet from shared YouTube movies. The more you use Piano Diary, the more valuable it becomes! Yamaha hopes Piano Diary will both motivate and enhance your daily piano practice/performance - today and in the future - Enjoy! Compatible instruments All MIDI capable instruments.
MusicSoft Manager
Connect your Yamaha digital instrument to your iOS device to transfer content via Wi-Fi. Easily back up and restore instrument data, manage files, and share data with your computer and cloud storage.
- Wi-Fi instrument connection
- Content transfer to instrument
- Instrument data backup
- Instrument data restore
- File name management
- Cloud storage integration
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You can use this app to connect your Yamaha digital instrument with an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Compatible instrument users can transfer the content to the instrument using a Wi-Fi connection. You can also back up your instrument data or restore data to your instrument. **Use the iOS/iPadOS "Files" app or iTunes file sharing feature to transfer data from your computer or various cloud storage services to your instrument.** [Functions] - Backup data on your instrument to the app, or restore data to your instrument from the app. Compatible Yamaha instruments with Wi-Fi capability can connect to an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad via Wi-Fi connection and transfer content. You can also connect your instrument to an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and backup your song data to the MusicSoft Manager. You can then transfer the song data stored in the app back to your instrument. - Data management Changing file names and other functions that are more time consuming to perform on the instrument can be done directly and easily from the app itself. - Seamlessly share data with your computer and cloud storage using the "Files" app and iTunes file sharing. The "Files" app integration allows you to transfer data from your preferred storage services (such as iCloud Drive, etc.) or your computer to MusicSoft Manager. Data stored in MusicSoft Manager can also be backed up to your preferred locations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Piano Diary at none against MusicSoft Manager's 20. Piano Diary also leads on review sentiment (23% vs 14%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. MusicSoft Manager sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Piano Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.5 for Piano Diary against 2.6 for MusicSoft Manager. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 18 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 23% of Piano Diary's written reviews are positive against 14% of MusicSoft Manager's.
Piano Diary ships an update every 12 months, MusicSoft Manager every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Piano Diary | MusicSoft Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (24 ratings) | 2.6 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamaha Corporation of America | Yamaha Corporation |
Customer experience
Piano Diary
MusicSoft Manager
In-app purchases
Piano Diary
No in-app purchases
MusicSoft Manager
- The Entertainer$0.99
- Piano Man$2.99
- Star Wars$3.99
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- Hallelujah$3.99
- You Raise Me Up$3.99
- Someone Like You$3.99
- Desperado$3.99
- Happy$3.99
- Imagine$3.99
- Let It Go (from Frozen)$3.99
- Deck the Halls$3.99
- Crush$3.99
- Blue$3.99
- Boom!Boom!Boom!Boom!$3.99
- Better Off Alone$3.99
- When the Going Gets Tough$3.99
- You Gotta Be$3.99
- Cloud No. 9$3.99
- Be Yourself$3.99
- Waiting For Tonight$3.99
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