Comparison

Musix Pro vs Polly

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

Head to head
About

Musix Pro

This app offers an intuitive musical instrument and MIDI controller with an isomorphic layout that arranges notes based on harmonic relationships. It allows users of all skill levels to explore music theory, create melodies easily, and connect with DAWs and synthesizers.

Highlights
  • Isomorphic note arrangement
  • Customizable layouts
  • MIDI and OSC support
  • Audiobus integration
  • Built-in instruments
  • Note labeling and coloring
Features
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Are you a Pro Musician who wants the best MIDI playing surface or a music newcomer who wants to play melodies more intuitively? Musix Pro packs more notes on the screen than any other app and does so with customizable layouts that bake music theory in. Step up your musical abilities by downloading now. What do people say about Musix Pro? "Anyone who loves music, regardless of skill level, owes it to themselves to experience Musix. Simply exploring the app will open musical doors you never knew existed." - 148apps.com "Musix is a Killer App!" - apps4idevices.com See Musix Pro in action: http://www.youtube.com/shiverware Traditional musical instruments are difficult to learn because notes are arranged based on physical constraints. Musix Pro arranges notes based on their harmonic and musical relationships instead, allowing shapes and patterns to emerge that unlock the mathematical beauty of music. What is Musix Pro: - A professional musical instrument and midi controller - Learn one pattern and instantly play in any key - Explore the harmonic relationships between notes - Play music easily without sacrificing virtousity - An isomorphic layout creator and experimentation app - A melody exploration device Features: - Core / Virtual / Bluetooth Midi, OSC - Supports all MIDI / Audiobus DAWs - Touch Velocity Dynamics - 8 Built-in instruments - AudioBus Support (MIDI sender, Audio sender, State Saving) - Hexagonal and Rectangular layouts - Multiple built-in note arrangements - Custom layout generation and saving - Colourize different notes based on key, scale, and mode - Label notes based on Solfege, or Note name - Multiple note sizes - Multiple color patterns - Note Overlap (play 3-note chords with one finger) - Full iPhone Support Unlike other music apps, Musix Pro provides a wide range of octaves, scales, keys, chords and modes, without limiting your creativity. With multiple built-in instruments and support for OSC and Core/Virtual Midi, most existing synthesizers work beautifully with Musix Pro as a controller. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Musix Pro is key agnostic, which means is that once you have learned a musical pattern (like a chord or a scale) that pattern is the same for all keys, even the dreaded A-Flat! Sharps and flats appear in the right place automatically, through the mathematical magic of isomorphism. You can learn to play melodies on a traditional keyboard by playing them on Musix Pro and watching where the sharps and flats go. Songwriters benefit by discovering new melodies and musical relationships. Novices find it easy to learn to play. Experienced musicians are rewarded with an intuitive interface. Keys can be resized to fit your style - start with "epic"-sized keys, and as you get better you can shrink the keys fill the screen with notes. Isomorphic keyboards are found on traditional and new instruments, from concertinas, accordions, and "jammers" to Janko keyboards, harmonic-table devices and more. Musix Pro is the only way to access all isomorphic note arrangements in one powerful customizable application. Musix Pro comes with a set of built-in layouts, each with its own pros and cons. The harmonic table layout allows you to play any major chord by touching three hexes with one finger. Wicki-Hayden makes modulating between pentatonic scales a breeze. Try them all and find one that works for you. Musix Pro allows you to change the colour of the notes in your layout. You can colour the notes white and black like a piano; you can colour the notes of any scale or mode (like D-flat mixolidian) and you can colour notes based on tone centre.

About

Polly

Explore complex rhythms with a versatile metronome app. It offers five tracks for accents, subdivisions, polyrhythms, and hypertuplets, with options to mute tracks for customized assistance. Designed for accessibility, it supports VoiceOver and offers stereo or mono audio.

Highlights
  • Polyrhythm exploration
  • Five customizable tracks
  • Accent and subdivision support
  • VoiceOver compatibility
  • Background audio playback
  • MIDI output for DAWs
Features
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Polly is designed as a polyrhythm explorer, and also works great as a standard metronome! Use Polly's five tracks for: • Accents • Subdivisions • Polyrhythms • Hypertuplets Each track can be muted, so Polly can provide as much or as little help as you want. Polly is accessible, providing: • Voiceover support • Accessible color theme • Stereo or Mono audio Polly supports your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Mac with: • Background use • Light and Dark modes • Bluetooth Audio • Keyboard shortcuts • Multi-tasking support MIDI Support • Connect Polly on your iOS or iPadOS device to your computer to drive drum kits in your computer's digital audio workstation software • Use Polly on your Apple Silicon Mac to send General MIDI Percussion to your digital audio workstation drum kits • Use Polly to drive MIDI drum machines

Screenshots

Musix Pro4 screens
Polly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Polly at $0.99 against Musix Pro's $9.99. Polly also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Musix Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (136 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Musix Pro costs $9.99 and Polly $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Polly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Musix Pro has 136 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Musix Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Polly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Musix Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Polly every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Musix Pro versus Polly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusix ProPolly
Price$9.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.6 (136 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings136 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.2 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShiverware591 Group Ltd.

Customer experience

Musix Pro

All ratings136 ratings
Positive90.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive77.9%
Neutral7.4%
Negative14.7%

Polly

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Musix Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Polly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Musix Pro free?
Musix Pro costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polly free?
Polly costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Musix Pro or Polly?
Polly is rated higher. Musix Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 136 ratings, while Polly averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Musix Pro or Polly have ads?
Neither Musix Pro nor Polly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Musix Pro or Polly?
Musix Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, and Polly every 9 months. Most recently, Musix Pro was updated on October 26, 2026 and Polly on October 24, 2026.

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