Mobile MIDI
Touch, motion and face control
$8.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Turn your iPhone into an expressive MIDI controller. Touch pads, motion, face and hand tracking, and AirPods head movement — all mappable to any DAW.
Turn your iPhone or iPad into a wireless MIDI controller. Almost any sensor in your phone can be a knob.
Touch:
• Drum pads, keyboard, XY, faders, build-your-own layouts
Motion:
• Accelerometer + gyro (6 axes)
• Gravity, attitude (pitch/roll/yaw), user acceleration
• Compass heading, magnetic field
• Barometric pressure
• Step cadence, shake triggers
Device & environment:
• Battery level, charging state, thermal state
• Screen brightness
• Microphone loudness (analyzed on-device, never recorded)
Tracking:
• ARKit face blendshapes — 52 expressions
• Hand gestures via Vision
• AirPods head tracking — nod, tilt, turn
Output: Bluetooth LE, USB, or Wi-Fi (Network MIDI) to any DAW. Save and share presets.
Built for musicians, producers, and experimentalists. No extra hardware. No subscription. Pay once.
TOUCH
• 16-pad drum grid with MPE polyphonic pressure
• Keyboard with configurable range and octave, MPE-capable
• XY pad for two-dimensional continuous control
• 8-fader CC bank
• Custom layout designer — drag-and-drop your own surfaces
MOVE
• 6-axis device motion — accelerometer and gyro
• Tilt, shake, gravity (X, Y, Z)
• Compass heading
• Barometric pressure
• Per-axis smoothing, deadzone, and scaling
EXPRESS
• ARKit face tracking — 52 facial blendshapes as continuous CCs
• Hand tracking — gesture-based control via the front camera
• AirPods head tracking — hands-free expression for live performance
SENSE
• Battery level and charging state
• Screen brightness
• Thermal state
• Any system signal can drive MIDI
MUSICAL TOOLKIT
• 27 scales, 31 chords
• Chord, strum, trigger, and toggle modes
• Intelligent note-off handling — no stuck notes
• MPE channel allocation with LRU across channels 2–16
PRESETS
• Save, load, import, export
• Five built-in templates to get started fast
• Share presets with other Mobile MIDI users
CONNECTIVITY
• Bluetooth MIDI (BLE)
• USB MIDI (via adapter)
• Wi-Fi / Network MIDI
• Auto-reconnect and device picker
DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE
• Low-latency native audio path
• Wakelock keeps the screen on during gigs
• MIDI activity indicator
• Clean, minimalist interface built for low-light stages
Every control source is mappable to any CC, note, or pitch bend, on any channel. Build the controller you actually want.
One-time purchase. No accounts. No telemetry. No subscriptions.
Made by Pounding Systems.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Connecting is clearer. The MIDI Devices screen now tells you what to do when no devices are found, shows progress while connecting, and stops Bluetooth scanning by itself once you're connected.
Network MIDI (RTP over Wi-Fi) has been removed — it required too much setup on the desktop side to be dependable. Bluetooth and USB are unchanged. Mobile MIDI no longer requests Local Network access.
The developer, Adam Hammad, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Adam Hammad
- Size
- 22.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 14.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pounding Systems
