Comparison

midigarden vs Tailsync

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

Head to head
About

midigarden

Features
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midigarden is a touch-based synthesizer that turns your iPhone or iPad into a musical instrument. Play melodies on an 5x8 grid mapped to musical scales. Each pad triggers notes with 8-voice polyphony, letting you play chords and melodies with your fingers. FEATURES • Touch Grid - Play notes on a responsive grid. Choose from multiple scales including major, minor, pentatonic, and chromatic. • Retrospective Looper - Captures what you just played, even if you weren't recording. Never lose a good take. • Custom Patches - Load your own Pure Data patches via the Files app. The app automatically wraps them with voice allocation and mixing. • Live Parameters - Every knob and slider in your patch becomes a touchable control. Drag to adjust in real-time. • Built-in Synthesizers - Ships with patches ready to play, physical models, fm and drum synths. • Camera Background - Optional live camera feed behind the grid for screen-recorded performances. PURE DATA POWERED Under the hood, midigarden runs Pure Data patches - the same open-source audio engine used by professional musicians and sound designers worldwide. Create patches on your computer and load them into the app. PERFECT FOR • Live performance and jamming • Sketching musical ideas • Learning synthesis • Use iOS screen capture with background camera to make performance videos that capture the mood and environment • Sound design experiments No music theory required. Just touch and play.

About

Tailsync

Features
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Make your reverb groove with your music. When your reverb tail matches your track's tempo, the decay fades naturally between beats. This creates a cleaner, more cohesive mix where the reverb enhances the rhythm instead of fighting it. Tailsync calculates pre-delay and decay times instantly based on your BPM and desired room size. Just copy the values into your reverb plugin. FEATURES - Instant tempo-synced calculations - 5 reverb sizes from tight to hall - One-tap copy to clipboard - Beautiful, minimalist interface - Haptic feedback - Works completely offline PRO TIP With iCloud Universal Clipboard enabled, tap any value on your iPhone and paste it directly into your DAW on Mac. No typing required. Perfect for music producers, mix engineers, and sound designers who want their reverb to feel musical, not random. Made with care by AKER.

Screenshots

midigarden3 screens
Tailsync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tailsync at 14.0 against midigarden's 17.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 4 level
midigarden versus Tailsync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermidigardenTailsync
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam SharkeyAKER SARL

In-app purchases

None

midigarden

No in-app purchases

None

Tailsync

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is midigarden free?
midigarden is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tailsync free?
Tailsync is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do midigarden or Tailsync have ads?
Neither midigarden nor Tailsync shows ads.

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