Musical Autoharp vs Keylimba
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musical Autoharp
Experience a classical recreation of a user-friendly instrument. This app makes playing music accessible and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of age or musical experience.
- Classical autoharp recreation
- Simple and easy to play
- Suitable for all ages
- Digital instrument simulation
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Make a little music, one strum at a time. Musical Autoharp turns your iPhone or iPad into a touch instrument. Sweep across the strings to strum, tap individual strings to pick out a melody, and choose a chord to shape the notes that ring. Explore a tune, accompany your singing, or simply enjoy the sound of the strings. Start with a few chords and see where the music takes you. • 36 playable strings to strum or pluck. • 15 chord buttons, including major, minor and seventh chords. • Tap the selected chord again to return to open strings. • Play with more than one finger. • String highlights and subtle animation respond to your touch. • Play in portrait or landscape on iPhone and iPad. Open Musical Autoharp and enjoy a moment of music.
Keylimba
Experience the soothing sounds of a kalimba on your device. This app offers a cute and customizable interface with adjustable key ranges and a built-in looper for recording and playback. Personalize your musical experience with custom key markings and backgrounds.
- Cute and lightweight interface
- Adjustable 9-21 key range
- Built-in looper for recording and playback
- Customizable key markings
- Customizable background colors
- Ad-free experience
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Keylimba is a cute and customizable app version of the kalimba instrument! - cute & lightweight interface - adjustable 9-21 key range - built-in looper to record and playback sound - customizable key markings and background colors - absolutely NO ADS!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Keylimba at Free against Musical Autoharp's $2.99. Keylimba also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 27 months). Musical Autoharp's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). On 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
Keylimba is free to download; Musical Autoharp costs $2.99 up front. Keylimba sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Musical Autoharp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Keylimba holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Keylimba has 3.1K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Musical Autoharp's written reviews are positive against 94% of Keylimba's.
Musical Autoharp ships an update every 27 months, Keylimba every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Musical Autoharp | Keylimba |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (27 ratings) | 4.8 (3.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.0% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 3.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #190 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thumb Wizards | David Fu |
Customer experience
Musical Autoharp
Keylimba
User reviews
Musical Autoharp
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and simple
- 🎶 Lovely sound
- 🎵 Great instrument app
- 🤩 Wonderful and awesome
- 🎶 Sounds really nice
Room to improve
- 🎶 Sound does not sound real
- 🤔 Hard to use
- 🎶 Not very realistic
- 📱 Side swipe opens other screens
- 🎶 Sound is rather strident
Keylimba
From 3.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💞 Adorable and cute
- 🙏 Responsive developer support
- 🎶 Calming and relaxing
- 🌈 Supports LGBTQ+ pride
- 🎨 Highly customizable
Room to improve
- 🔑 Some features require payment
- 🔇 Occasional audio issues
- 🕹️ Difficulty playing adjacent notes
- 🎨 Limited color customization options
Bugs and requests
Musical Autoharp
Reported bugs
14 issues- Side swipe opens other screens
- Will not remain open
- Flashes onto screen then disappears
- Crashes all the time
- Barely usable
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- No Sound after update!
- Beautiful sound has disappeared
- No sound is very frustrating
- Too slow for useful strumming
- Distractingly slow
- One strum will be okay, the next might be nothing at all
- Unusable as a tool
- Response is terrible
- Latency prevents this from being useable
Requested features
9 requests- Larger choice of chords/keys
- Volume control
- Some lessons
- A small music book added
- Chords on the left side
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- Background sounds to add in
- More accurate chord changes
- Increase the size of the keys
- Publishing tunes to play on it
Keylimba
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional app crashes
- Delayed note response on some devices
Requested features
6 requests- Add more pride flag options
- Allow custom color selection
- Implement a built-in tuner
- Add ability to save/load recordings
- Provide song tutorials or sheet music
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- Enable picture-in-picture mode
In-app purchases
Musical Autoharp
No in-app purchases
Keylimba
- Keylimba Plus$1.99
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