Echo Guitar™ Lite vs Colossus Piano
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Echo Guitar™ Lite
This app helps you compose guitar music by offering tools like automatic arpeggios, chord tapboards, and pattern libraries. Easily record and playback your songs with animated visuals and access a comprehensive chords library.
- Automatic arpeggio generation
- Chord and pattern tapboards
- Record and playback songs
- Animated song playback
- Real-time chord fingering hints
- Extensive chords and patterns library
- AudioBus and Inter-App Audio support
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Echo Guitar™ is a convenient tool for composing guitar songs. You can quickly record musical inspirations with it's unique features such as "Automatic-arpeggio" "Chords Tapboard" "Patterns Tapboard"... Main Features 1. Automatic arpeggio. 2. Velocity strings. 3. Record / Playback your songs. 4. Songs playback with animations. 5. Hints the selected guitar chord's fingering by real time. 6. Chords library. 7. Patterns library . 8. Supports AudioBus and Inter-App Audio. 9. Four guitar sounds optional : Classical acoustic, Steel string acoustic, Clean electric, Muted electric. 10.Virtual MIDI Out.
Colossus Piano
Experience incredibly realistic piano sounds with a vast library of acoustic and electric piano models. This app offers advanced features like multi-velocity layers, pedal support, and MIDI integration for a professional playing experience.
- 13 high-quality piano models
- 24 velocity layers per key
- Sustain, Sostenuto, and Soft pedal support
- MIDI integration (In/Out)
- Audio Unit v3 and Inter-App Audio support
- Low latency disk streaming
- Adjustable tuning options
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Colossus Piano sets a new standard in terms of realism, detail and overall quality of piano sounds on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. There are 8 acoustic piano models available as 8 individual in-app purchases, plus 5 E-Piano legends bundled as 1 sound set with this app, together those 13 piano models make up 30 Gigabyte of sound material. All keys of all piano models were recorded in full length with a recording quality of 24 bit and 96 kHz stereo. Note: this app requires in-app purchases to provide its functionalities! Minimum Requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2 / iPhone 5 / iPod touch 6th gen. Recommended: iPad Air 2 / iPad mini 4 / iPad Pro / iPhone SE / iPhone 6s or higher. The dark brown „Colossus Concert Grand” model:³ • 24 velocity layers per key. • Dedicated sustain samples. • Release hammer sound. • Optional pad sound. • 14 GB in size (SSD space). The white „Baby Grand” model: • 12 velocity layers per key. • Dedicated sustain samples. • Release hammer sound. • Optional pad sound. • 6 GB in size (SSD space). The „Upright Piano” model: • 8 velocity layers per key. • Dedicated sustain samples. • Release hammer sound. • Optional pad sound. • 3.4 GB in size (SSD space). The „E-Piano” sound set: • 5 legendary E-Piano models (plus different model generations or configurations). • 17 E-Piano sounds in total. • Optional pad sound. • Optional tremolo effect. • 1.6 GB in size (SSD space). For information about the other piano models, please visit our product website! This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio and Bluetooth LE MIDI ! Software features: • Modulation wheel support for controlling the most relevant sound parameter of the currently selected sound. • Warm pad sound of a well known analogue synthesizer (not available for all models) can be turned on/off as support for the piano sound; volume can be controlled by mod. wheel and expr. controller. • Sustain pedal support for holding notes. • Sostenuto pedal support for holding individual notes. • Soft pedal support for a more gentle sound. • Expression pedal support for controlling optional pad layer's volume. • Hammer sound when releasing keys, uses round robin, can be turned on/off and volume controlled (some acoustic pianos only). • Polyphony of up to several hundred stereo voices.² • Low latency disk streaming. • Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms. • Integrated effects (18 presets). • App States: Save app's entire state as user presets. • MIDI velocity response curve editor. • App can keep running in the background. • Master Tune, Scale Tuning & Hermode Tuning. • Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within 3rd party multi-track DAW apps. • Supports Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system. • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable. MIDI Player / Recorder: • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format. • Share your songs easily as audio file. • Unlimited amount of tracks. • Unlimited recording and playback length. • Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail). • Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes. • Metronome. • Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time, learn your favorite songs more easily. ¹ For more information about supported adapters and MIDI keyboards, please visit our product website. ² Some sounds might use several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website. ³ Important: the dark brown „Colossus Grand” piano model requires a large amount of main memory, so we only recommend this piano model for device models mentioned as „recommended” above.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Echo Guitar™ Lite at 5.0 against Colossus Piano's 3.3. Echo Guitar™ Lite also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and review sentiment (75% vs 54%). Colossus Piano's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (65 vs 2). On price and ads 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. Colossus Piano sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Echo Guitar™ Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Echo Guitar™ Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colossus Piano has 65 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Echo Guitar™ Lite's written reviews are positive against 54% of Colossus Piano's.
Echo Guitar™ Lite ships an update every 7 months, Colossus Piano every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Echo Guitar™ Lite | Colossus Piano |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.3 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.1 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 384 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Supertintin Co., Ltd | Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte |
Customer experience
Echo Guitar™ Lite
Colossus Piano
Bugs and requests
Echo Guitar™ Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Colossus Piano
Reported bugs
27 issues- Crashes when exporting to WAV/M4A in GarageBand
- App crashes when switching piano models
- Audio Unit extension crashes
- No sound when exporting to GarageBand
- Plugin crashes in DAWs during export/freeze
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- App crashes when loading MIDI files
- Hammer sound too loud even at lowest settings
- Low C1 note out of tune
- Electric Grand F4 note sample start time issue
- Electric Grand G#4, D5 notes have noise on attack
- Plugin not loading properly in hosts
- AUv3 interface scaled back
- Exporting to WAV results in silence
- App crashes during export/freeze
- Japanese Grand has low volume
- Colossus Concert Grand needs improvement
- G1 key has loud, annoying noise
- B flat 3 key sounds too flat
- Crashing in AU mode
- Bass notes drop out when holding damper pedal
- Voice stealing makes piano perform unacceptably
- Bass is muddy in Concert Grand
- Note 26 (Bb2) sounds like an upright
- Subtle nuance playing is nearly impossible
- App crashes or freezes randomly
- MIDI player doesn't work with GarageBand
- Audio Units extension terminates unexpectedly
Requested features
14 requests- Add chorus effect
- Global EQ
- Release control
- Tap tempo for modulation speed
- Save velocity curves
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- More intuitive UI
- Zoom function for keys
- Add release samples
- MIDI export/import
- Three-band EQ
- Layering sounds on multiple MIDI keyboards
- Ability to save setups
- Improve AUv3 functionality
- Add more piano models
In-app purchases
Echo Guitar™ Lite
No in-app purchases
Colossus Piano
- Vintage Upright$9.99
- Historic S Grand$9.99
- Pianino$12.99
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- Japanese Grand$12.99
- Classic B Grand$15.99
- Upright Piano$19.99
- Colossus E-Piano Set$19.99
- Baby Grand Piano$26.99
- Colossus Concert Grand$49.99
Questions
Is Echo Guitar™ Lite free?
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