John Cage Piano vs ASCAP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
John Cage Piano
Experience the unique sounds of John Cage's "prepared piano" on your iPad. This app features meticulously sampled sounds from a piano prepared with materials used by Cage himself, offering a new instrumental experience.
- Simulates prepared piano sounds
- Features sampled sounds from original preparations
- Based on John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes
- Interactive musical experience
- Developed with supervision from the John Cage Trust
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Celebrate the music of John Cage by playing the John Cage Piano app on your iPad. One of the many ingenious innovations of American composer/writer/artist John Cage was his creation of the "prepared piano", in which he placed objects beneath and between the strings of a grand piano to create an entirely new instrument. The sounds of John Cage's prepared piano are now available for you to play on your iPad with this innovative app. Play meticulously sampled sounds of a piano prepared with the actual materials used by John Cage in the preparations for his Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48) as sampled under the supervision of the John Cage Trust.
ASCAP
This app helps ASCAP members manage their music catalog, register new works, and track royalty distributions. It also offers tools for finding collaborators, accessing educational resources, and discovering industry events.
- Manage music and metadata
- Register new music
- Scan catalog for data health
- Check royalty distributions
- Find collaborators
- Access music industry education
- Discover events
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If you're an ASCAP songwriter, composer or music publisher, you've come to the right place. The ASCAP app connects you to your ASCAP account, with innovative tools to help you get the most out of your membership, and boost your music career. Think of it as a music manager in your pocket. With the ASCAP app you can: - Manage your music and metadata to make sure you’re set up to get paid for your creative work - Add to your ASCAP catalog with our step-by-step guided or quick registration options - Take a work registration quiz for guidance on how to register your new music - Scan your entire catalog with our data health check, and quickly add any missing metadata to help ASCAP get you paid - Check up on your latest ASCAP royalty distributions - Find new collaborators and mentors with the ASCAP Connections messaging platform - Educate yourself on how the money flows in the music industry, and learn how to sustain your music career, whether you’re an experienced creator or just starting out - Find workshops, competitions and networking events near you What is ASCAP? ASCAP is the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, a performing rights organization (PRO) representing over 1.1 million of the greatest songwriters, composers and music publishers in the world. We’re the only PRO in America operating on a not-for-profit basis, and the only one that puts creators first. We get you paid when your music is played ASCAP’s main job is to pay you royalties when your music is played publicly by the businesses we license. And we’re really good at what we do! In 2024, we achieved revenues of $1.835 billion, and distributed $1.696 billion to our songwriter, composer and publisher members. We put music creators first We pay our members all of the music licensing revenue we take in, minus our operating expenses (among the lowest in the industry). Our governing documents require us to pay music creators first – a claim that only ASCAP can make. We’re led by music creators like you ASCAP is the only PRO in the US founded and governed by songwriters, composers and music publishers. Every decision about how we operate is made by music creators like you – not broadcasters, corporations and investors, like our competitors. We innovate ASCAP offers the most advanced data processing systems of any PRO, to ensure that you get paid fairly and accurately. Our ASCAP Lab explores how new technologies and new business approaches can drive value for our members and the businesses that use their music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ASCAP at Free against John Cage Piano's $0.99. ASCAP also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (35 vs 4). John Cage Piano's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.1). On ads, in-app purchases 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
ASCAP is free to download; John Cage Piano costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
John Cage Piano holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ASCAP has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of John Cage Piano's written reviews are positive against 69% of ASCAP's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
John Cage Piano ships an update every 30 months, ASCAP monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | John Cage Piano | ASCAP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 69.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Larson Associates | ASCAP |
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John Cage Piano
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John Cage Piano
No in-app purchases
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