Comparison

Guitar Scale Console vs Midi

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

Head to head
About

Guitar Scale Console

Features
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Step into the ultimate music theory console. Designed for modern guitarists and musicians, this app turns your device into an interactive fretboard and a dynamic backing track generator. Whether you are exploring complex scales, mastering new tunings, or practicing your solos over drone, pad, organ, and piano sounds, everything you need is right at your fingertips. Key Features: Interactive Fretboard: Visualize scales, root notes, and intervals instantly across multiple alternate tunings. Practice Instruments: Jam and practice your solos over rich, real-time Drone, Pad, Organ, and Piano backing sounds. Emotion-Driven Chord Discovery: Preserve the exact feeling you want in your solos and instantly discover the chords that fit that mood. Features over 20 scales including Major, Minor, Pentatonic, Blues, Dorian, Lydian, Harmonic Minor, and many more. Premium Dark UI: A sleek, hardware-inspired, and distraction-free interface designed for deep focus and creativity. Reach pro-level in your solos, map out the fretboard, and take your musical journey to new dimensions!

About

Midi

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Midi-Morf is a four-track groovebox for your phone. Build a beat, chop a break, sample your voice and play it all live, with no extra gear. REMIX GRID Load any loop and it splits into 16 pads, locked to the tempo. Tap a pad to jump there, hold two to loop between them, and play rows against each other. Each row can LOOP, play a single SLICE, or GATE while you hold. Record your moves with two pattern recorders, store whole setups in recall slots, and everything stays on the beat. SAMPLER Record from the mic or load your own WAV files. Play a sample across the keys, as one-shots, or chopped into slices. Say "macaroni and cheese" into it and turn it into a beat. DRUMS A synthesized drum machine with kits from 808 and Boom Bap to Jungle, House, Trap, Lo-fi, Disco and Techno, played from a step grid with swing. SYNTH A wavetable synth with a library of presets โ€” basses, keys, pads and leads โ€” and deep editing when you want it. FOUR TRACKS, EIGHT SCENES Give each track an instrument and a sound. Launch clips and scenes in time, mix with volume, inserts and delay/reverb sends, and record what you play. PLAY IT YOUR WAY Step sequencer, a break slicer, a piano roll and drum editor, plus the original Midi-Morf controllers: Morf-Chord, Rose-Chord, Strum-Chord, Morf-Pad and Dual M-Pad. Tilt the phone to move the sound. PERFORM Punch in master FX live: filter, stutter, tape stop, delay throw, reverb wash, bitcrush, trance gate and vinyl brake. GET STARTED IN A MINUTE Take the tour and it builds a beat with you, step by step. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Everything is included. Made by Retro Relic โ€” retro-relic.com

Screenshots

Guitar Scale Console4 screens
Midi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Guitar Scale Console at $0.99 against Midi's $6.99. Guitar Scale Console also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Guitar Scale Console costs $0.99 and Midi $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Guitar Scale Console ships an update every 3 months, Midi every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Guitar Scale Console versus Midi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar Scale ConsoleMidi
Price$0.99 โ€” better$6.99
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.5
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBatikan Bozkurt Kursatjohn Watson

In-app purchases

None

Guitar Scale Console

No in-app purchases

None

Midi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guitar Scale Console free?
Guitar Scale Console costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Midi free?
Midi costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Guitar Scale Console or Midi have ads?
Neither Guitar Scale Console nor Midi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Guitar Scale Console or Midi?
Guitar Scale Console ships an update every 3 months, and Midi every 2 months. Most recently, Guitar Scale Console was updated on November 13, 2026 and Midi on November 9, 2026.

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