Virtual Technician vs MobileSheets®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Virtual Technician
This app allows musicians to digitally adjust the sound, touch, and tuning of their Kawai digital piano. Shape the piano's character in real-time with an intuitive interface, learning about acoustic piano adjustments.
- Adjust sound, touch, and tuning
- Simulates professional piano technician refinements
- Shape piano character to personal preferences
- Regulate hammer and key release noises
- Fine-tune string, lid, and damper resonances
- Intuitive iPad app interface
- Learn acoustic piano characteristics
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Adjust various sound, touch, and tuning characteristics of your Kawai digital piano, as if you were a professional concert tuner. The knowledge and skill of an experienced piano technician is essential to realise the full potential of a fine acoustic piano. In addition to meticulously tuning each note, the technician also performs numerous regulation and voicing adjustments that allow the instrument to truly sing. The Virtual Technician feature of Kawai digital pianos simulates these refinements digitally, allowing musicians to shape various aspects of the piano’s character to suit their personal preferences. Perform touch weight and voicing adjustments, regulate subtle hammer and key release noises, and fine-tune string, lid, and damper resonances – all in real-time, from the comfort of an intuitive iPad app. ・Attractive interface created by Kawai’s award-winning design group, following the same traditional philosophies expressed in our acoustic and digital pianos. ・Learn to adjust various acoustic piano characteristics through the app’s elegant graphical interface and detailed explanations. ・Use the app’s Preview function to hear a sample passage that demonstrates the current setting with the instrument’s piano sound. Compatible models: Kawai CN39/CN29/CN37/CN27/CN17/CN35/CN25/KDP110, CS11/CS8, ES110/ES8, CA58/CA48/CA28/CA97/CA67/CA17/CA33, CP1/CP2/CP3 * The ‘Lightning to USB Camera Adapter’ or ‘Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit’ accessory is required in order to connect an iPad to the Kawai digital piano using a USB cable. It is also possible to connect the iPad wirelessly using the Quicco Sound ‘mi.1’ Bluetooth MIDI device. * A software update may be required in order to utilise the Virtual Technician app with CN37, CA97/CA67 v1.05+ and CP Series (CP1/CP2/CP3 v1.04+) instruments. Please visit the support pages at www.kawai-global.com (CN37, CA97/CA67) and www.kawaius.com (CP Series) for further information. Compatibility: Requires iOS8.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.
MobileSheets®
This app is a digital sheet music manager and viewer for musicians. It allows you to store, organize, and access your entire music library on your device, eliminating the need for physical copies. Features include hands-free page turns, annotation tools, and custom audio playback.
- Digital sheet music management
- Hands-free page turns
- Music annotation tools
- Custom audio player
- Library synchronization
- Metronome
- Setlist creation
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MobileSheets is the ultimate sheet music viewer for the iPhone, iPad and Mac. It frees you from having to lug around books and binders, and gives you the ability to access any score in your library in seconds. It also comes with a number of powerful features for musicians including: - Connect to other devices running MobileSheets on any platform, and easily share songs and setlists. - Synchronize device libraries using WiFi, bluetooth or the cloud - Multiple modes of operation including two pages side-by-side, half page turns, and vertically scrolling pages. - Hands-free page turns using any bluetooth or usb devices (including two and four pedal models), through the automatic scrolling feature, or by using face gestures such as an open mouth or smile. - Annotations for marking up music including support for freeform drawing, basic shapes, text and stamps - Connect multiple tablets over WiFi or bluetooth in book mode to display two pages at once - A custom audio player for playing audio tracks with your scores. Audio player supports a-b looping and multiple sizes. - Custom page ordering, making it easy to cut out unnecessary pages, repeat pages or change the sequence of pages without affecting the original document. - A metronome with multiple display modes and sound effects - Bookmarks for quick and easy access to sections in scores - Link points for handling repeats and quickly jumping between pages - Smart buttons that can be placed on a score to activate configurable actions when pressed - Support for multiple file types including images, PDFs, text files and chord pro files. - Support for importing CSV index files to break up large PDF songbooks - Support for communicating with MIDI devices over USB, Bluetooth and WiFi to load songs or trigger actions. - The ability to transpose chords in text and chord pro files. - Manual and automatic cropping to completely eliminate unnecessary margins - Support for setlists and collections to efficiently group songs for playback. - Powerful library management features with a huge list of supported metadata fields, giving you complete control over the data in your library - A free companion application for the PC that makes it a breeze to create and edit songs Give MobileSheets a try today and experience the freedom of having all your scores just a simple tap away. NOTE: This application does not include any sheet music - you must provide your own. This application can not play back PDFs, images or text/chord pro files. It can only display those files and play back audio files. The companion app is for your PC and is not included. You can download the companion app for free here: https://www.zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/companion.php Privacy Policy: https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/privacy_policy_ios.html Terms of Use: https://zubersoft.com/mobilesheets/terms_and_conditions_ios.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Virtual Technician at Free against MobileSheets®'s $15.99. Virtual Technician also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). MobileSheets®'s advantage is rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and review sentiment (81% vs 39%). On 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
Virtual Technician is free to download; MobileSheets® costs $15.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MobileSheets® holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MobileSheets® has 66 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Virtual Technician's written reviews are positive against 81% of MobileSheets®'s.
Virtual Technician ships an update every 7 months, MobileSheets® every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Virtual Technician | MobileSheets® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $15.99 |
| Rating | 2.6 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (66 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.7% of reviews | 81.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #137 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kawai Musical Instruments Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Michael Zuber |
Customer experience
Virtual Technician
MobileSheets®
Bugs and requests
Virtual Technician
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
MobileSheets®
Reported bugs
19 issues- App not opening after update
- Slider bar gets stuck and glitches
- Menu bar not appearing when clicked
- Synchronization lag between devices
- First pages are black during sync
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- Titles disappear after backup
- App crashes when entering annotations
- App crashes after opening sheet music
- App not working after iOS 18 update (metronome, page turning)
- Syncing deleting files from computer instead of adding to iPad
- Two-way sync does not synchronize annotations
- App freezes on 'please wait' when exiting editing mode
- Annotations lost after app crashes
- Difficult to reconnect devices after crashes
- Import not working on iPad
- App crashes when downloading too many pages simultaneously
- Titles no longer available after recent updates
- Sheets covered with gray background after update
- Edit mode for .cho files is difficult to handle
Requested features
15 requests- Ability to adjust display and page turning options per song
- Save custom colors for annotations
- Shortcuts or faster access to sync button
- Display time during app usage
- Integrated tuner
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- Keyboard with transpose function
- Better PDF cropping and scaling
- Ability to set custom colors for drawing tools
- Button for direct start of scroll function
- Support for more file types (Word Docs, images)
- Move shortcut box to center bottom of screen
- Add more templates for blank pages
- Auto-sync option for cloud services
- iCloud file access support
- Tabs for multiple songs open simultaneously
In-app purchases
Virtual Technician
No in-app purchases
MobileSheets®
No in-app purchases
Questions
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