Comparison

Gridplay vs Temperaments

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

Head to head
About

Gridplay

Create dynamic, multi-clip music videos with an innovative grid interface. Combine and divide cells, adjust individual clips, and add music to produce unique visual content for social media.

Highlights
  • Multi-clip grid interface
  • Combine and divide cells
  • Independent clip sound control
  • Timeline editing
  • Clip rotation and scaling
  • Save to camera roll
  • Share to social media
Features
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Make quality quick-cut style music videos straight from your phone with Gridplay. Giving even the most experienced filmmakers a new experience, the innovative grid screen allows users to combine and divide cells at will in order to create dynamic videos. Add a song, trim clips, and adjust and scale each cell for extra flair. Turn your inspirational moments into the movie of your life with Gridplay. Features: 1. Takes up to 16 4x4 videoclips (These can be recorded or uploaded.) 2. Swipe to combine or divide the cells 3. Create and edit a timeline with multiple frames 4. Optimized for low-resolution (640p) on Instagram 5. Records up to 15 seconds. (5 minutes with extension) 6. Self-timer 7. Each clip has an independent sound control 8. Ability to save video to camera roll 9. Frame thickness and color settings 10. Automatically saves rough draft 11. Rotate, adjust, scale, and mirror each clip 12. Share to Vine Instructions: 1. Pick a cell and choose the camera mode. (Full screen vs. split screen, and back camera vs. front camera) 2. Swipe to combine cells, and swipe again to divide. 3. Press the "Film" button. 4. Set the timer up to 15 seconds. (If you have unlocked the extension, you can set the timer up to 5 minutes.) 5. When you finish with one frame, it will go to the next automatically. You need to set the timer for each frame. 6. If you don't like what you have recorded, tap to delete. If you don't want to fill up the other cells? No problem, just go to the next step. 7. Adjust the volume and position of each clip. 8. Trim the clips and add background music. 9. Save and share on Vine, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr, and email.

About

Temperaments

Explore historical and unconventional musical tunings. This app allows you to retune MIDI files and live performances in real-time, offering instant comparisons between different temperaments and the ability to compose with unique sounds.

Highlights
  • Learn historical musical tunings
  • Retune MIDI files in real-time
  • Apply temperaments to live performances
  • Instant comparison of tunings
  • Compose with unconventional tunings
  • Export retuned MIDI files
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Temperaments: Tune your music and your ears. Temperaments is an application for learning about musical tunings and temperaments used throughout history. Want to play Bach in a tuning he actually used? Would you like to try early music as it was heard at the time? How about composing new music with an unconventional tuning? Temperaments tunes your music and your ears. Temperaments uses MIDI to retune your music on the fly. You can play any standard MIDI file, apply a temperament, and hear the result in real time. You can connect an external keyboard, let Temperaments retune your performance, and send it to any synthesizer you choose. You can even record your music to standard MIDI files and export them to play on any sequencer. Your recordings can be sent to anyone via email. They can be dropped onto Dropbox, and you can tell the world about them on Facebook, all from within Temperaments. Temperaments includes twenty six temperaments in addition to Equal Temperament, with both meantone and unequal-interval types. You can switch back to Equal Temperament instantly just by pressing a button for instant comparison - even while notes are sounding. You can even change to an entirely different temperament instantly, any time, even in the middle of a performance. Temperaments includes a large, expandable display showing the differences between Equal Temperament and a chosen temperament. And, of course, you can select any note to be the root key of any temperament, so that your temperament matches the key of any file or performance. Use Temperaments to learn about nonstandard tunings. Use Temperaments to compose new music in unusual ways. Or experiment with applying a temperament to your MIDI files. Any way you want to use it, Temperaments tunes your music and your ears.

Screenshots

Gridplay4 screens
Temperaments2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Temperaments at 100% against Gridplay's 36%. Temperaments also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Gridplay's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (77 vs 3). On ads, monetization model 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

Gridplay costs $1.99 and Temperaments $4.99 up front. Gridplay sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Temperaments asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Temperaments holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gridplay has 77 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Gridplay's written reviews are positive against 100% of Temperaments's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gridplay ships an update monthly, Temperaments every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Gridplay versus Temperaments: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGridplayTemperaments
Price$1.99 — better$4.99
Rating2.4 (77 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77 — better3
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 30 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.39.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeta VisionHUMBLE EARTH PRODUCTIONS INC

Customer experience

Gridplay

All ratings77 ratings
Positive31.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative62.3%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive35.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative52.7%

Temperaments

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Gridplay

One-time1
  • Expend video length to 5minute$0.99
None

Temperaments

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gridplay free?
Gridplay costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Temperaments free?
Temperaments costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gridplay or Temperaments?
Temperaments is rated higher. Gridplay averages 2.4 out of 5 from 77 ratings, while Temperaments averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Gridplay or Temperaments have ads?
Neither Gridplay nor Temperaments shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gridplay or Temperaments?
Gridplay ships an update monthly, and Temperaments every 30 months. Most recently, Gridplay was updated on September 29, 2026 and Temperaments on June 3, 2026.

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