Windy vs Musizi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Windy
This app transforms your device into a playable musical instrument. Learn to play songs interactively by blowing into your device's microphone and using its tilt controls for different notes and octaves. Enjoy playing along with guided songs or improvising freely.
- Play like a real instrument
- Interactive song playback
- Tilt controls for notes
- Octave control
- Guided songs
- Device microphone input
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Windy is a fully functioning musical instrument. Play Happy Birthday and other songs in a fully interactive way on your iPhone and iPad—no musical experience or talent necessary! To play, simply hold down the keys on the screen and blow lightly into the microphone at the same time. - Tilt your device to the left to play flat notes - Tilt your device to the right to play sharp notes - Tilt your device up and down to play across three successive octaves Play through the list of guided songs, or whatever you want! Make sure to unmute your iPhone or iPad and turn up the volume. Play over your device's speakers, wireless headphones, regular headphones, or REALLY LOUD over wireless Bluetooth-enabled speakers! Enjoy!
Musizi
Explore and create unique musical instruments by experimenting with sound, harmony, and texture. This app allows you to redefine musical systems, shape your own tones, and discover how structural changes transform harmony. Unlock the full version to save and share your creations.
- Customizable digital instrument
- Experiment with sound, harmony, and texture
- Shape unique tones
- Explore alternative note spacing
- Visualize harmonic ratios
- Overtone synthesis
- Save and share setups (full version)
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Musizi is a highly customizable digital instrument. Experiment with sound, harmony, and texture while discovering how musical systems actually work. Shape your own tones, explore unusual combinations, and create instruments that feel uniquely yours. Unlock the full version to save and share your setups. Have an idea? Leave a rating and send a feature request. Musizi grows with its users. --------------------------------------------------- Western music is built on historical decisions: A4 at 440 Hz. Twelve equal divisions of the octave. Five staff lines. Octaves starting on C. But none of these are natural laws. Musizi lets you rebuild music from the inside. Redefine how an octave is divided. Explore alternative note spacing. Visualize harmonic ratios. Shape sound through overtone synthesis. Discover how small structural changes transform harmony. Music didn’t have to be the way it is. With Musizi, you can find out why.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Windy at 4.0 against Musizi's 1.0. Windy also leads on ratings volume (40 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.3 vs 15.6). Musizi's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 52%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Windy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Musizi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Windy holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Windy has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Windy's written reviews are positive against 80% of Musizi's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Windy | Musizi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (40 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.9% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.3 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kindred, Inc. | appricot |
Customer experience
Windy
Musizi
Bugs and requests
Windy
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes after update
- App stops working after first minute
- App closes when phone is tilted
- No sound output from the app
- Sound not working at all
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- App does not work as intended
- Notes do not prolong
- Notes play randomly or not at all
- Poor recognition of microphone input
- App not set up for iPad, defaults to iPhone position
Requested features
10 requests- Add more instruments (harmonica, clarinet, oboe, french horn)
- Allow resizing and moving buttons on screen
- Add dynamic range (volume) for each note
- Add reverb
- Prevent sound dropout when changing fingers
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- Add chromatids
- Compress buttons on iPad display
- Make sounds better
- Make app less complicated
- Add ability to play eighth notes on one note
Musizi
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Windy
- Windy Plus$1.99
Musizi
- Support Musizi Development$4.99
