Comparison

G.UITAR vs Midiary

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

Head to head
About

G.UITAR

Experience the charm of 80s digital guitars on your smartphone. This app offers customizable sounds, versatile playing modes, and smart chord recognition to help you create unique music.

Highlights
  • Six unique guitar sounds
  • Pluck and tap playing modes
  • Mute individual strings
  • Built-in transpose and auto-tuning
  • Smart chord recognition engine
  • Dynamic fretboard scaling
  • Adjustable fret count (3, 4, or 5)
Features
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G.UITAR – Your Retro Digital Guitar Companion G.UITAR brings the charm of 80s digital guitars straight to your smartphone, reimagined for modern creativity. Whether you're exploring new chord shapes or adding a vintage twist to your sound, G.UITAR offers an expressive, customizable experience for players and producers alike. Choose from six unique guitar sounds and switch effortlessly between pluck and tap modes to match your playing style. Mute individual strings for more percussive textures or open tunings—perfect for crafting original voicings. With built-in transpose and auto-tuning systems, switching keys or tunings takes just a tap. G.UITAR also includes a smart chord recognition engine to help you visualize and learn new shapes in real time—ideal for students, creators, or curious hands. Adjust the fretboard layout with dynamic scaling options to fit any screen or hand size, and select between 3, 4, or 5 frets for new chordal possibilities. Coming soon: MIDI out, theme customization, and AUv3 support—because your digital guitar should evolve with your music.

About

Midiary

This app allows musicians to edit and refine MIDI files by extracting and applying groove information, adjusting note parameters, and inspecting file structure. It preserves the original file while offering robust editing and auditioning capabilities.

Highlights
  • Groove extraction and application
  • Note pitch, velocity, and timing adjustment
  • Offline MIDI file editing
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • File inspection and auditioning
  • Export MIDI and CSV formats
Features
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NEW IN 5.0 — PLAY, PRACTISE AND CONVERT - Instrument voices: every part plays with a voice chosen by its General MIDI program family (piano, organ, guitar, bass, strings, brass, winds, synths) and channel 10 plays a drum kit. The voices are Midiary's own sounds; they sketch the arrangement rather than reproduce a General MIDI sound set. - Practice & mix: mute or solo any part, change speed from 25% to 200% without changing pitch, shift the key up or down 12 semitones for singers, and loop any range of bars. - Play to MIDI gear: send the file to a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard, module or interface, with its own program changes. SysEx is sent only if you turn it on. - Key and chords: an estimated key and a chord for every bar, with a shareable chord chart. Tap a bar to play from it. - Lyrics and karaoke: lyric events and .kar files follow playback line by line. - File tools: convert format 1 to format 0 for keyboards, arrangers and player pianos, or split a file into one track per channel for your DAW. Set or scale the tempo, change resolution, set a channel's General MIDI instrument, rename, move or delete tracks. Every change is verified and undoable. - Extract: copy a range of bars and the parts you choose into a new MIDI file, with tempo and sounds set up at its start. - Audio export: render M4A or WAV with the current mix, key and speed — a practice backing track in seconds. - Bars and beats throughout: event list, note list, piano roll grid and a playhead. - Open MIDI files from Files, Mail or other apps, use Shortcuts actions (file info, format conversion, transpose, tempo), and iPad keyboard shortcuts. Midiary is an offline studio for Standard MIDI Files on iPhone and iPad. Your imported original always stays intact. MAKE MUSICAL CORRECTIONS Select tracks and channels, transpose, adjust velocity, or move note starts toward straight and triplet grids with variable strength. Drum protection keeps channel 10 out of batch edits. EDIT THE EXACT NOTE Search by pitch, filter and page through long files. Change a note's pitch, velocity, start and duration. Review the actual changes before saving; ambiguous overlaps and unsafe edits are blocked with an explanation. GROOVE BENCH Extract the timing and velocity feel of a passage and apply it to another part with separate timing and dynamics strengths. Up to 64 templates are kept on the device. KEEP THE ORIGINAL Imported MIDI bytes stay unchanged. Edits save locally with undo and redo that survive closing the app, up to 20 steps within 48 MB. Restore the original as an undoable step. Damaged sessions are preserved for recovery. INSPECT THE FILE Tracks with their instruments, channels and note ranges; tempo map; time and key signatures; markers; structural findings; a channel-coloured piano roll; and an event desk with bar, time and tick. Metrical and SMPTE timing and format 2 sequences are supported. EXPORT YOUR WORK Share the untouched original, the edited MIDI, a cleaned copy with missing End-of-Track events added and hanging notes closed, an event CSV, or rendered audio. Start with your own .mid, .midi or .kar file, or open the bundled piano sample or the band sample with lyrics. Imports support up to 8 MB, 1,024 tracks and 100,000 events. Playback runs in the foreground. No account, subscription, in-app purchase, advertising or tracking. Files and editing sessions stay on your device unless you export or share them. Midiary does not record from the microphone. Bluetooth is used only if you open Bluetooth MIDI pairing.

Screenshots

G.UITAR3 screens
Midiary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Midiary at 5.0 against G.UITAR's 4.0. Midiary also leads on price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

G.UITAR costs $4.99 and Midiary $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Midiary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
G.UITAR versus Midiary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterG.UITARMidiary
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPaolo GiorgiRobert Corbin

Customer experience

G.UITAR

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Midiary

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

G.UITAR

No in-app purchases

None

Midiary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is G.UITAR free?
G.UITAR costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Midiary free?
Midiary costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, G.UITAR or Midiary?
Midiary is rated higher. G.UITAR averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Midiary averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do G.UITAR or Midiary have ads?
Neither G.UITAR nor Midiary shows ads.

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