Comparison

Guitar Scale Console vs MidiCanvas

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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

MidiCanvas

Create music by dragging and dropping notes onto a staff. Compose with four instrument tracks and one percussion track, each with adjustable volume, instrument choice, and transposition. Save your compositions as MIDI files.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop note placement
  • Four instrument tracks
  • One percussion track
  • Adjustable volume and transposition per track
  • Color-coded instrument tracks
  • MIDI export
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Tune Canvas gives you a palette of musical notes and rests that you can drag on to a staff. You can play 4 instruments and one percussion track simultaneously. Each instrument track is color coded. You can control the volume, instrument and transpose each track separately. Tune Canvas can export your musical creation to a midi file. The only time an Ad is played is when you save/load a file.

Screenshots

Guitar Scale Console4 screens
MidiCanvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MidiCanvas at Free against Guitar Scale Console's $1.99. MidiCanvas also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months). Guitar Scale Console's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, 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

MidiCanvas is free to download; Guitar Scale Console costs $1.99 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, MidiCanvas every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Guitar Scale Console versus MidiCanvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGuitar Scale ConsoleMidiCanvas
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBatikan Bozkurt KursatMitra Geeban

In-app purchases

None

Guitar Scale Console

No in-app purchases

None

MidiCanvas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Guitar Scale Console free?
Guitar Scale Console costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MidiCanvas free?
MidiCanvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Guitar Scale Console or MidiCanvas have ads?
MidiCanvas shows ads; Guitar Scale Console does not.
Which is updated more often, Guitar Scale Console or MidiCanvas?
Guitar Scale Console ships an update every 3 months, and MidiCanvas every 6 days. Most recently, Guitar Scale Console was updated on October 4, 2026 and MidiCanvas on October 26, 2026.

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