Comparison

iGrand Piano for iPad vs Audio Evolution Mobile Studio

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iGrand Piano for iPad

Experience concert-quality grand and upright pianos with ultra-realistic sound and multiple velocity layers. Compose, rehearse, perform, and record your music with a built-in recorder and metronome. Expand your instrument library through in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Concert-quality acoustic pianos
  • High-definition stereo samples
  • Built-in MIDI recorder
  • Instrument editor with real-time controls
  • Expandable instrument libraries
  • Audiobus and Inter-App Audio support
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THE CONCERT QUALITY PIANO APP UPDATED FOR AUDIOBUS AND INTER-APP AUDIO WITH NEW EXPANSION PACK, EQ AND USER VARIATIONS The ultimate piano instrument provides you with an extraordinary collection of ultra-realistic acoustic pianos along with built-in recording! Use the iRig KEYS and KEYS PRO portable keyboards (www.irigkeys.com) or the iRig MIDI 2 interface (www.irigmidi.com) to connect your external keyboard, and you're ready to compose, rehearse, perform and record with the very best instruments for your mobile world. You can now edit your sound even further with the new 3-band EQ and save up to 4 user variations per instrument. iGrand Piano puts an entire gallery of the world's finest pianos right at your fingertips with studio-grade quality never heard before in any other app that stands up to the most powerful virtual instruments available on a computer. With high-definition stereo samples across multiple velocities, iGrand Piano brings you the most playable, expressive and beautiful sounding grand, baby grand, upright and specialty piano instruments available on a mobile device that you can play anytime and everywhere. iGrand Piano gives you 8 world-class pianos (including one by registering) along with a capable recorder and metronome. Add the Piano Expansion 1 via in-app purchase to extend your piano library with 9 additional high-quality instruments or the Piano Expansion 2 with 22 all-new instruments including the Hollywood Piano, piano + strings layers and harpsichords. Record your rehearsals or performances as MIDI with both overdubbing and punch-in capability, then export your track as audio via E-mail or File Sharing or Audio Copy to other iOS apps. With the built-in MIDI Recorder, you can change the tempo of your piece or even choose to use a different piano AFTER you've completed your performance! For composers of any level, the MIDI Recorder lets you capture and develop ideas anywhere your mobile life takes you. iGrand Piano also includes some professional MIDI performances to help you audition the various piano instruments or just inspire your own creative muse! The easy-to-use instrument editor puts real-time controls on the panel just above the keys to let you adjust the amount of ambience, the position of the lid (open, closed or anything in between), brightness, envelope release, key transposition and tuning. All edit knobs can be assigned to your choice of MIDI controllers for external fine-crafting of your instrument's sonic details. Virtual MIDI and MIDI Program Change are also supported along with Audiobus and Inter-App Audio for iOS 8. iGrand Piano features: - 8 world-class, multi-velocity stereo grand and upright piano instruments (including one by registering) - Expandable libraries offer 31 additional studio-grade instruments instantly available via in-app purchase - Intuitive instrument edit controls including ambience, lid, brightness, release, tuning and transpose - Included MIDI Recorder with overdub and punch-in capability - Export performances via E-mail, File Sharing and Audio Copy - Large visual metronome with variable click volume and adjustable tempo - Easy-to-use instrument editor with transpose to adjust ambience, tonality and tuning with 4 user variations per instrument - Audiobus and Inter-App Audio support for iOS 8 - Virtual MIDI and MIDI Program Change support - Low-latency for real-time playing - More than 64-voice polyphony on the latest devices - Designed in concert with iRig KEYS and iRig KEYS PRO portable MIDI keyboards and iRig MIDI 2 interface - Free version also available For more information: www.ikmultimedia.com/igrand www.irigkeys.com www.irigmidi.com

About

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio

A portable multitrack audio and MIDI recording studio for mobile devices. It offers virtual instruments, pitch and time editing, mixing, real-time effects, and automation for creating music on the go.

Highlights
  • Multitrack audio recording and playback
  • MIDI sequencing with piano roll editor
  • Vocal pitch and time correction
  • Real-time effects and virtual instruments
  • Non-linear editing with undo/redo
  • Export stems to other DAWs
Features
Currently charting
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Record your ideas on the go or create entire music productions from scratch, we'll leave it up to you! This app is a portable multitrack audio and MIDI recording studio featuring virtual instruments, pitch and time editing of vocals (*), unlimited undo/redo, mixing, real-time effects, automation and much more! Features: • Multitrack audio recording / playback • MIDI sequencing with piano roll editor and MPE support • Drum pattern editor (including triplets, use your own samples and effects chain per drum sound) • Automatically or manually tune your vocals with Vocal Tune Studio (*) : an editor to correct pitch and time of vocal recordings and the timing of any audio material. It features retune time, retune amount, volume and formant correction per note as well as vibrato controls. • Add tempo and time signature changes including gradual tempo change • Real-time effects including: chorus, compressor, delay, dual delay, reverse delay, reverb, flanger, noise gate and many more! • Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) with TONE3000 integration offering access to a massive library of NAM captures and IRs of real analog amps, pedals and cabs • Flexible effect routing: an unlimited number of effects can be placed on a grid, featuring parallel effect paths. • Assign LFO's to effect parameters or lock parameters to tempo • Sidechain on the compressor effects • Inter-app audio effects and instruments • AudioBus support (including AudioBus remote) • Audio Unit instruments, effects and AU MIDI • Multi-output support for Audio Unit instruments • Virtual analog synthesizer 'Evolution One' featuring morphing oscillators, FM, Sub Osc, Noise, Portamento, 2 LFO's that can be routed to 12 targets, Moog type filtering, effects, ARP, sequencer and more! • Soundfont (sf2/sf3/sfz) support: free GS/GM Soundfont included, add more from the Soundfont shop or from your own collection • Special Live performance mode for playing virtual instruments live (worship etc.) with more easy access to instruments, track volume and effects. • Non-linear editing with move, trim, split, cut/copy/paste, remove, cross-fade, time-stretching etc. with full undo/redo • Virtual instruments (comes with free instruments and more instrument packs to download) • Track freezing to save CPU usage • Clip volume and fade points • Automation of mixer and effect parameters • Mix-down to WAV, AIFF and ALAC • MIDI clock sync • MIDI remote control • Unlimited number of tracks and groups • Non-realtime effects: fade in/out, normalize, reverse, pitch shift, time stretching • Export to other DAW's by rendering all tracks to separate audio files (stems) • Media server to access your files easily from a desktop computer • Multi-core support • AudioShare support • Cloud sync using Google Drive and Dropbox In short: a complete portable multitrack music studio that will replace your fourtrack recorder or tape machine! (*) The following in-app purchases are available to expand your studio: • ToneBoosters effect pack 1 (Barricade, DeEsser, Gate, Reverb) • ToneBoosters EQ with frequency analyzer • ToneBoosters Compressor • ToneBoosters Ferox • ToneBoosters V4 Barricade • ToneBoosters V4 BitJuggler • ToneBoosters V4 Compressor • ToneBoosters V4 Enhancer • ToneBoosters V4 EQ • ToneBoosters V4 MBC (multi-band compressor) • ToneBoosters V4 ReelBus • ToneBoosters V4 Reverb • ToneBoosters V4 Sibilance • ToneBoosters V4 Voice Pitcher • Vocal Tune with two-voice harmonizer and Vocal Tune PRO, both real-time vocal pitch correction effects • Vocal Tune Studio: auto tune your vocals, pitch and time correction • Soundfont instrument packs • Loop packs from Function Loops The 'PRO' in-app purchase is only for people who downloaded version 1.x in the past and is not applicable to version 2.0 or higher. If you have any suggestions, questions or want to report a bug, please contact us! We'll gladly solve any problem! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AudioEvolutionMobile Forum: https://www.extreamsd.com/forum

Screenshots

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Audio Evolution Mobile Studio at $11.99 against iGrand Piano for iPad's $24.99. Audio Evolution Mobile Studio also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (64% vs 47%). iGrand Piano for iPad's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iGrand Piano for iPad costs $24.99 and Audio Evolution Mobile Studio $11.99 up front. iGrand Piano for iPad sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Audio Evolution Mobile Studio sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iGrand Piano for iPad ships an update every 5 months, Audio Evolution Mobile Studio every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
iGrand Piano for iPad versus Audio Evolution Mobile Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriGrand Piano for iPadAudio Evolution Mobile Studio
Price$24.99$11.99 — better
Rating—4.2 (172 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.0% of reviews64.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—172 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#57 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size643 MB163 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIK Multimedia US, LLCDavy Wentzler

Customer experience

iGrand Piano for iPad

All ratings20 ratings
Positive65.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews185 reviews
Positive47.0%
Neutral14.1%
Negative38.9%

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio

All ratings172 ratings
Positive78.5%
Neutral7.6%
Negative14.0%
Written reviews176 reviews
Positive64.2%
Neutral10.2%
Negative25.6%

Bugs and requests

iGrand Piano for iPad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Undo function causes freezing
  • MIDI files not importing correctly
  • Audio sync issues when using external interfaces
  • AU plugins not integrating smoothly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a global swing/groove track
  • Improve MIDI editing capabilities
  • Implement a more intuitive mixer layout
  • Add support for MP3 export
  • Integrate better with other iOS apps

In-app purchases

2 purchases

iGrand Piano for iPad

One-time2
  • Piano Expansion Pack$14.99
  • Piano Expansion Pack 2$14.99
10 purchases

Audio Evolution Mobile Studio

One-time10
  • FX pack 1$1.99
  • FX pack 2 (Graphic EQ)$1.99
  • ToneBoosters Compressor$1.99
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  • ToneBoosters EQ$1.99
  • ToneBoosters Ferox$1.99
  • Toneboosters Reverb V4$4.99
  • Vocal Tune$4.99
  • ToneBoosters FX pack 1$4.99
  • PRO (very old versions only)$6.99
  • Vocal Tune Studio$12.99

Questions

Is iGrand Piano for iPad free?
iGrand Piano for iPad costs $24.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Audio Evolution Mobile Studio free?
Audio Evolution Mobile Studio costs $11.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do iGrand Piano for iPad or Audio Evolution Mobile Studio have ads?
Neither iGrand Piano for iPad nor Audio Evolution Mobile Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iGrand Piano for iPad or Audio Evolution Mobile Studio?
iGrand Piano for iPad ships an update every 5 months, and Audio Evolution Mobile Studio every 8 days. Most recently, iGrand Piano for iPad was updated on November 10, 2026 and Audio Evolution Mobile Studio on November 11, 2026.

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