Mini Piano Lite vs Piano Modoki
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mini Piano Lite
This app offers a minimalist multitouch piano experience with a fast and responsive interface. Choose from a sampled piano or 128 MIDI instruments, with 88 keys and zoom functionality. Record and export your music in various formats.
- Fast and responsive interface
- Full 88 keys keyboard
- Sampled piano sound
- 128 MIDI sounds
- Multitouch support
- Record and export music
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Mini Piano Lite is a great multitouch piano for iOS. It's designed to be very fast and responsive, and it allows you to choose a beautiful sampled piano or select one of the 128 different midi instruments. You can use 88 keys to play and zoom in and out to get the keys to the size you want them. This free app contains a single banner ad, no popups, videos or other frustrating ads. App is also optimized for iPad. ==Features== - Fast, responsive and beautiful. - full 88 keys keyboard - Great Sampled piano sound - 128 midi sounds - Optimized for iPad and iPhone. - Multitouch - Zoom - Transpose - Tune (432Hz or something else instead of 440Hz) - Record, play and export to MIDI, AAC, MP3 or WAV - Label keys with note names
Piano Modoki
This app offers a simple, ad-free musical keyboard experience with piano-like sounds generated through FM synthesis. It provides customizable keyboard layouts, a metronome, and various tuning options for musicians.
- Ad-free musical keyboard
- Customizable key size and layout
- Metronome included
- Adjustable reference pitch
- Key transposition
- Multiple temperament options
- MIDI device support
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A Simple Ad-Free Piano-like Musical Keyboard. Easy to Play, Good Response and Small Application Size. Just Enjoy the Instrument. "Modoki" is a Japanese word that refers to something similar, an imitation, or a mock version of the original. - You can scale key size. - The keyboard can be double rows. - You can flip the second keyboard. - It has a metronome. - You can adjust the frequency of the reference pitch. - You can transpose keys. - It can sound in a just intonation. The app doesn't use sampled real sounds but use FM synthesis. It sounds like piano though it's artificial. Supported temperament: Equal temperament, Just Intonation, Werckmeister III, Kirnberger III. You can connect External and Virtual MIDI devices. Some DAW can import this app's sound via Inter-App Audio. Two sounds, FM Piano-like and FM E.Piano are included by default. "Piano Modoki" can load KQ Dixie's current patch. This app and its description contain machine-translated text.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Piano Modoki at none against Mini Piano Lite's shown. Piano Modoki also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Mini Piano Lite's advantage is ratings volume (684 vs 57). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Piano Modoki holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mini Piano Lite has 684 ratings behind it against 57, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Mini Piano Lite's written reviews are positive against 86% of Piano Modoki's.
Mini Piano Lite ships an update monthly, Piano Modoki every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mini Piano Lite | Piano Modoki |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (684 ratings) | 4.8 (57 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.0% of reviews | 85.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 684 — better | 57 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Umito | Ryouta Kira |
Customer experience
Mini Piano Lite
Piano Modoki
In-app purchases
Mini Piano Lite
No in-app purchases
Piano Modoki
No in-app purchases
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