Piano Diary vs Jamcorder
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.
Jamcorder
This app allows you to automatically record everything you play on your digital piano. It offers over 25,000 hours of storage, enabling you to create a personal archive of your musical journey. Turn everyday practice into visible progress and share your performances.
- Automatic play detection
- Over 25,000 hours of storage
- Effortless recording
- Personal music archive
- Shareable performances
- Visible practice progress
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Have you ever thought, “wow, I wish I recorded that”? Now, it is. Jamcorder is a tiny device you attach to your digital piano that quietly captures everything you play — effortlessly, for life. With automatic play detection and over 25,000 hours of included storage, that’s 3 non-stop years of music, it turns everyday practice into visible progress and a growing personal archive to revisit and share. Requires Jamcorder hardware. Sold separately.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Jamcorder at 100% against Piano Diary's 23%. Jamcorder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 12 months). Piano Diary's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Jamcorder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 67 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Piano Diary's written reviews are positive against 100% of Jamcorder's.
Piano Diary ships an update every 12 months, Jamcorder every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piano Diary | Jamcorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (67 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 67 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamaha Corporation of America | Jamcorder |
Customer experience
Piano Diary
Jamcorder
In-app purchases
Piano Diary
No in-app purchases
Jamcorder
No in-app purchases
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