ShowMIDI vs BAZER
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShowMIDI
This application provides a real-time, glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. It visualizes various MIDI messages and allows you to pause the flow for a data snapshot. It can be used as a standalone tool or an AUv3 plugin within your DAW.
- Real-time MIDI visualization
- Auto-hides irrelevant messages
- Pause and snapshot data
- Standalone application
- AUv3 plugin support
- Supports MPE configuration
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ShowMIDI is an open-source multi-platform GUI application to effortlessly visualize MIDI activity. Instead of wading through logs of MIDI messages to correlate relevant ones and identify what is happening, ShowMIDI visualizes the current activity and auto-hides what you don't care about anymore. It provides you with a real-time glanceable view of all MIDI activity on your computer. ShowMIDI is designed to be always on, using the spacebar or play/pause button you can pause the flow and focus on a data snapshot with the latest state of any MIDI entity. ShowMIDI can be ran as a standalone application that automatically detects all your MIDI devices, or as an AUv3 plugin in your DAW or host to visualize MIDI data in your sessions. ShowMIDI visualizes: * MIDI ports * channels * program change * note on/off * channel pressure * polyphonic pressure * continuous control change * pitchbend * RPN and NRPN * MPE configuration and channel modes ShowMIDI supports: * themes * standalone operation * AUv3 operation
BAZER
Explore your musical creativity with three distinct tools. Craft beats, play rhythm games, and control sounds using intuitive hand and face gestures. Save and experiment with your musical ideas all within one application.
- Hand and face gesture sound control
- Beat-making playground
- Rhythm game for timing practice
- Create, play, and experiment
- Save musical ideas
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BAZER is a playful music app with three creative instruments: BAZER lets you control sound with your hands and face BEATS is a fast beat-making playground for building patterns and loops. RhythmKING is a rhythm game for practicing timing and musical feel. Create, play, experiment, and save your musical ideas from one app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: ShowMIDI at 18 against BAZER's 1. ShowMIDI also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). BAZER's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BAZER holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShowMIDI has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of ShowMIDI's written reviews are positive against 100% of BAZER's.
| Parameter | ShowMIDI | BAZER |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uwyn, LLC | Yehonatan Bazer |
Customer experience
ShowMIDI
BAZER
In-app purchases
ShowMIDI
No in-app purchases
BAZER
No in-app purchases
