AUMI vs Patatap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AUMI
This app allows individuals with limited mobility to create music through movement and gestures. It focuses on improvisation and self-expression, making music accessible to a wider range of people, including those with profound physical disabilities.
- Music creation through movement and gestures
- Focus on improvisation and self-expression
- Accessible for individuals with profound physical disabilities
- Uses device cameras for input
- Configurable sound sensitivity
- MIDI controller functionality
- Import audio from other apps
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Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) software interface enables people who have very limited controlled (voluntary) movement to independently engage in music making. The Adaptive Use Musical Instruments software interface enables the user to play sounds and musical phrases through movement and gestures. This is an entry to improvisation rather than “hitting the right notes” or playing set pieces of music. Instead, the software uses music as a way for participants to express a range of affects, both by themselves and in response to, or in conversation with, others. While the AUMI interface can be used by anyone, the focus has been on working with people who have profound physical disabilities. In taking these participants as its starting point, the project attempts to make musical improvisation and collaboration accessible to the widest possible range of individuals. This approach also opens up the possibility of learning more about the relations between ability, the body, creativity and improvisation, from within a cultural context that does not always acknowledge or accept people with disabilities. This iOS version of AUMI runs on devices with cameras, and can run on iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. A large assortment of sounds can be triggered with configurable amounts of sensitivity. AUMI also can be used as a MIDI controller to access other iOS based synthesizers or external equipment (using the iPad's Camera Connection kit or via Core MIDI over WiFi.) AUMI can also import audio from other iOS or desktop apps to be used as melodic or percussive instruments. AUMI can capture a record of the movement in the session, which can be exported and turned into reports in a clinical setting.
Patatap
Create music and animations with a touch. This app offers a portable sound and animation kit, allowing users to generate melodies accompanied by dynamic visual shapes. It's an offline version of a popular web-based tool.
- Portable animation and sound kit
- Create melodies with moving shapes
- Touch-based interaction
- Offline functionality
- Visualizer
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Patatap is a portable animation and sound kit. With the touch of a finger create melodies charged with moving shapes. Warning: contains flashing images. This is the official offline port of the popular website http://www.patatap.com/ —————————— By buying this app you're supporting the makers who publish and host this website to millions of people to enjoy for free. Thank you for your support and happy music making!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: AUMI at Free against Patatap's $1.99. AUMI also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 36 months) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 17.2). Patatap's advantage is review sentiment (66% vs 50%) and ratings volume (22 vs 4). On rating, 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
AUMI is free to download; Patatap costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AUMI against 5.0 for Patatap. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Patatap has 22 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of AUMI's written reviews are positive against 66% of Patatap's.
AUMI ships an update every 6 months, Patatap every 36 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AUMI | Patatap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 5.0 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 65.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 36 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Jono LLC |
Customer experience
AUMI
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In-app purchases
AUMI
No in-app purchases
Patatap
No in-app purchases









