Comparison

StrumLab Jam vs Midiary

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

Head to head
About

StrumLab Jam

Enhance your guitar practice with a vast library of YouTube backing tracks. Visualize your fretboard in real-time, filter by genre and key, and receive practice reminders. Unlock over 1000 tracks and advanced features with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • 100+ free backing tracks
  • 1000+ premium tracks
  • Real-time fretboard visualization
  • Genre, key, and scale filtering
  • Scheduled practice reminders
  • Full fretboard view (0-12 frets)
Features
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StrumLab Jam turns practice into a full-band experience. Jam along with over 100 free backing tracks, or unlock 1,000+ with Premium. Filter by style, mode and key, so you're always playing exactly what you want to play. Premium also lets you jam over generated songs. A full band plays a fresh chord progression in your chosen key, scale and genre, and each chord lights up as it plays. WHAT'S INSIDE • 1,000+ jam tracks across rock, funk, blues and more • Filter by style, from Rock and Funk to Blues and beyond • Filter by mode, from Major and Minor to Dorian and beyond • Filter by key • Generated songs with a full band, swing feels and slash chords • A scale fretboard showing the notes that fit, with root notes highlighted • Play the scale or a pentatonic run, and jump between positions • Choose your fret range, from open position to the 24th fret • Left-handed fretboard and a choice of wood finishes • Streaks and badges to track your progress • Practice reminders to keep you consistent Whether you're working on scales, learning a new mode, or just want to play instead of practising alone, StrumLab Jam gives you a band that's always ready, and the visual feedback to build real improvisational confidence. This is where skills become music. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.strumlab.app/privacy-policy

About

Midiary

This app allows musicians to practice MIDI files by slowing down passages, looping sections, and muting specific instrument parts. It also offers tools to edit MIDI data, analyze chords and keys, and export audio or MIDI files.

Highlights
  • Practice difficult passages with speed and key adjustments
  • Loop specific bars for focused repetition
  • Mute or solo instrument parts
  • Analyze estimated keys and chords
  • Edit MIDI notes, tempo, and resolution
  • Export audio (M4A/WAV) and MIDI files
Features
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Turn a MIDI file into a focused rehearsal. Slow down a difficult passage, loop its bars, mute your part and practise with the rest of the arrangement. Keep the imported original intact while you explore, edit and export. YOUR PRACTICE PLAN Save named sections with their bar range, speed, key shift, muted and solo parts, and rehearsal notes. Recall a section after reopening the app; it pauses at the beginning, ready when you are. Move to the previous or next passage without shrinking the loop. Reorder your sections and share a text checklist with their settings and notes. Saved sections stay on this device and belong to the exact musical revision. If you edit the music, return to that revision or save a new section. The shared checklist contains no audio or MIDI and is not a backup. HEAR AND UNDERSTAND YOUR MUSIC - Change playback speed from 25% to 200%, shift the key up or down 12 semitones, and mute or solo individual parts. Drums stay untransposed. - See an estimated key and chords by bar. Tap a bar to play from it or touch and hold to loop that bar. Share the chord chart. - Follow embedded lyrics and .kar files during playback. - Inspect tracks, instruments, channels, note ranges, tempo changes, time signatures, markers and MIDI events. Explore a piano roll with bars and beats. EDIT WITHOUT LOSING THE ORIGINAL Convert format 1 to format 0, split tracks by channel, change tempo or resolution, and set a channel's instrument. Review edits before saving. Select notes, transpose, adjust velocity, quantise timing or edit an individual note. Extract a passage and chosen parts to a new MIDI file. Groove Bench captures timing and velocity from a passage for reuse on another part. The imported MIDI bytes remain unchanged. Local editing sessions retain undo and redo within their storage limits. Restore the original as an undoable step. PLAY AND EXPORT Render M4A or WAV with your current speed, key and mix. Share edited MIDI, the untouched original, a cleaned copy or an event CSV. Send MIDI to a compatible USB or Bluetooth instrument; SysEx is off unless you enable it. Shortcuts actions support file information, conversion, transpose and tempo. KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT Built-in voices sketch instrument families and drums; they do not reproduce a complete General MIDI sound set. Chords and keys are estimates. Saved bar sections require a metrical, non-sequential file; SMPTE timing and format 2 sequences retain their inspection and playback workflows. Imports support up to 8 MB, 1,024 tracks and 100,000 events. Playback runs in the foreground. Start with your own .mid, .midi or .kar file, or use the included piano and band samples. Interface and screenshots are in English. One purchase. No subscription, in-app purchases, advertising or account. Files and practice sections stay on your device unless you export or share them. No microphone recording.

Screenshots

StrumLab Jam4 screens
Midiary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: StrumLab Jam at Free against Midiary's $3.99. Midiary's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ratings volume, ads, device support 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

StrumLab Jam is free to download; Midiary costs $3.99 up front. StrumLab Jam sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. Midiary asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Midiary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StrumLab Jam ships an update fortnightly, Midiary weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
StrumLab Jam versus Midiary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrumLab JamMidiary
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGary HarknessRobert Corbin

Customer experience

StrumLab Jam

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Midiary

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

StrumLab Jam

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Plan7 Days trial$2.991 Year
  • StrumLab Jam Pro1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • StrumLab All Access1 Year trial$49.991 Year
None

Midiary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StrumLab Jam free?
StrumLab Jam is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Midiary free?
Midiary costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StrumLab Jam or Midiary?
Midiary is rated higher. StrumLab Jam averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Midiary averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do StrumLab Jam or Midiary have ads?
Neither StrumLab Jam nor Midiary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StrumLab Jam or Midiary?
StrumLab Jam ships an update fortnightly, and Midiary weekly. Most recently, StrumLab Jam was updated on October 30, 2026 and Midiary on November 10, 2026.

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