Mini Piano ® vs Mini Piano Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mini Piano ®
This app offers a portable piano experience with 88 resizable keys and a variety of instrument sounds. Users can record their own music, learn to play existing tunes, and enjoy new songs added regularly. It provides a fun way to engage with music on mobile devices.
- 88 resizable piano keys
- Multiple instrument sounds
- High-quality sampled audio
- Record and save tunes
- Learn and play songs
- Regularly added new tunes
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Mini Piano is a fun on the go App which you can use right off the bat - Full set of 88 resizable piano keys. - Choose from different instruments to play. - Mini Piano features custom engineered 44100khz sampled audio. - Record and save your own piano tunes. - Learn and play tunes. - New tunes added regularly.
Mini Piano Lite
This app offers a minimalist multitouch piano experience with a fast and responsive interface. Choose from a sampled piano or 128 MIDI instruments, with 88 keys and zoom functionality. Record and export your music in various formats.
- Fast and responsive interface
- Full 88 keys keyboard
- Sampled piano sound
- 128 MIDI sounds
- Multitouch support
- Record and export music
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Mini Piano Lite is a great multitouch piano for iOS. It's designed to be very fast and responsive, and it allows you to choose a beautiful sampled piano or select one of the 128 different midi instruments. You can use 88 keys to play and zoom in and out to get the keys to the size you want them. This free app contains a single banner ad, no popups, videos or other frustrating ads. App is also optimized for iPad. ==Features== - Fast, responsive and beautiful. - full 88 keys keyboard - Great Sampled piano sound - 128 midi sounds - Optimized for iPad and iPhone. - Multitouch - Zoom - Transpose - Tune (432Hz or something else instead of 440Hz) - Record, play and export to MIDI, AAC, MP3 or WAV - Label keys with note names
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mini Piano Lite at none against Mini Piano ®'s 6. Mini Piano Lite also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (76% vs 48%). Mini Piano ®'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Mini Piano ® sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Mini Piano Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mini Piano Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mini Piano Lite has 682 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 48% of Mini Piano ®'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Mini Piano Lite's.
Mini Piano ® ships an update every 2 months, Mini Piano Lite monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mini Piano ® | Mini Piano Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (13 ratings) | 4.6 (682 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.8% of reviews | 76.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 682 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edgeway Software | Umito |
Customer experience
Mini Piano ®
Mini Piano Lite
In-app purchases
Mini Piano ®
- Main Sound Pack$0.99
- 1000 Credits$0.99
- Remove ADS$2.99
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- Unlimited Tunes$3.99
- Unlimited Instruments$4.99
- Unlimited Play$9.99
Mini Piano Lite
No in-app purchases
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