Comparison

Mini Piano Lite vs Piano Modoki

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Fast and responsive interface
  • Full 88 keys keyboard
  • Sampled piano sound
  • 128 MIDI sounds
  • Multitouch support
  • Record and export music
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Ad-free musical keyboard
  • Customizable key size and layout
  • Metronome included
  • Adjustable reference pitch
  • Key transposition
  • Multiple temperament options
  • MIDI device support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Mini Piano Lite4 screens
Piano Modoki3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mini Piano Lite versus Piano Modoki: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMini Piano LitePiano Modoki
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (684 ratings)4.8 (57 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.0% of reviews85.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings684 — better57
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUmitoRyouta Kira

Customer experience

Mini Piano Lite

All ratings679 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative16.0%

Piano Modoki

All ratings57 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive85.5%
Neutral4.3%
Negative10.1%

In-app purchases

None

Mini Piano Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Piano Modoki

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mini Piano Lite free?
Mini Piano Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Piano Modoki free?
Piano Modoki is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mini Piano Lite or Piano Modoki?
Piano Modoki is rated higher. Mini Piano Lite averages 4.6 out of 5 from 684 ratings, while Piano Modoki averages 4.8 from 57 ratings.
Do Mini Piano Lite or Piano Modoki have ads?
Mini Piano Lite shows ads; Piano Modoki does not.
Which is updated more often, Mini Piano Lite or Piano Modoki?
Mini Piano Lite ships an update monthly, and Piano Modoki every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mini Piano Lite was updated on November 6, 2026 and Piano Modoki on November 7, 2026.

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