Comparison

Midify vs Some Might Play

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

Head to head
About

Midify

Compose music anywhere with AI assistance. This app lets you sketch melodies and rhythms using a piano roll or ABC notation, with real-time sheet music display. An integrated chat assistant offers creative suggestions and edits to refine your compositions.

Highlights
  • AI-powered composition assistant
  • Piano roll and ABC notation input
  • Real-time sheet music display
  • Audio to MIDI conversion
  • Import and edit MIDI files
  • Conversational editing suggestions
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Compose music anywhere with the help of AI. Midify is a cross-platform AI MIDI editor and music composition app that makes it easy to turn ideas into music on the go. Whether you’re a hobbyist songwriter, learning music theory, or a pro needing a quick scratchpad, Midify helps you sketch melodies and rhythms quickly and refine them with an intelligent assistant. Simply tap notes on a piano roll or type them in using simple ABC notation, and watch your composition come to life in real-time. Need inspiration or fixes? Just ask Midify’s built-in chat assistant – it understands your MIDI/ABC notation context and offers suggestions to improve your rhythm, expand your melody, or tweak your chords in a natural conversational way.  Features: Integrated AI Assistant: Get creative tips and instant edits via a chat-based AI. Ask for a harmony, rhythm fix, or new melody – the AI analyzes your current piece and makes context-aware suggestions right in the app. Piano Roll & ABC Notation Editing: Input music the way you prefer. Use the intuitive piano roll to draw notes, or type using ABC notation (A–G) for quick edits. Every change updates instantly in the MIDI playback and sheet music view. Real-time Sheet Music Display: See traditional sheet music as you compose. Midify converts your MIDI and ABC inputs into standard notation on the fly, helping you learn and fine-tune compositions visually. Audio-to-MIDI Conversion: Have a tune in your head or a recorded riff? Import a WAV audio file and Midify will convert it to MIDI notes. Instantly edit the generated MIDI to perfect your idea using the piano roll and AI suggestions. Full MIDI Editing Suite: Import existing MIDI files to edit or build new songs from scratch. Copy, paste, and adjust notes, velocities, and tempos with ease in a lightweight interface (not a full DAW, but focused on quick creation). Have you recorded a live instrument track that you'd like to edit as MIDI? Now you can—simply upload your recording and let the tool work its magic. Whether you're refining melodies or composing new pieces from scratch, this tool makes it effortless to transform your musical ideas into reality.

About

Some Might Play

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You arrive with a feeling. You leave with chords you can play. Pick a mood — melancholic, britpop, 90s rock, dreamy, defiant — and Some Might Play gives you progressions that sound like it, in any of the twelve keys, with real fingerings for the guitar and a loop you can hear while you write over the top. WHAT IT DOES • Moods to progressions. Sixteen moods, fifty-seven progressions, each stored as roman numerals so it transposes to any key without losing what makes it work. • Real fingerings, not pictures. Open shapes where they exist, movable shapes everywhere else, left-handed for free, and every position of every chord. • Capo advice. Bb F Gm Eb is four barre chords. A capo on 3 turns it into G D Em C, and the app spots it and offers the swap in one tap. • Hear it. Progressions play back as a looping guitar part with six strumming feels, a tempo you set, and an optional click. • What to solo with. The scales that fit and why, drawn on the neck by scale degree, with the note to aim for on each chord and the ones to hold through a change. • Tools that stay free. A chromatic tuner that works in a room with noise, a metronome, and a game for learning the neck. • Write your own. Pick a key, add a chord, and get ranked continuations with the reason each one was offered. Save what you write, keep favorites, chain progressions into songs. PRO, BOUGHT ONCE • Drums and bass under any progression, in six styles, following your chords, your tempo and your key, with a mixer. • Solo mode: a solo written over your progression, scrolling past as live tablature with the neck lighting up underneath. Hear it, slow it down, mute it and take it over. • Every position on the neck for every chord, its triads, and where it sits as a CAGED shape. • A one-page chart you can print or share as a PDF, in black on white, made to sit on a music stand. • Save your own progressions, keep favorites, and arrange them into songs. No subscription. No account. No advertising. Nothing is collected, and the app has no network code at all: the chords, the sound, the scales and the charts are all made on your iPhone. English and French throughout, including every mood and every progression.

Screenshots

Midify4 screens
Some Might Play4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Midify at 4 against Some Might Play's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Midify sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and Some Might Play sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Midify versus Some Might Play: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMidifySome Might Play
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (48 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings48 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHERWYN LEANDER DSOUZARemi Corson

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Midify

Subscriptions1
  • Midify Core$3.991 Month
1 purchases

Some Might Play

One-time1
  • Some Might Play Pro$6.99

Questions

Is Midify free?
Midify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Some Might Play free?
Some Might Play is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Midify or Some Might Play have ads?
Neither Midify nor Some Might Play shows ads.

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