An instrument, not a soundboard
Turn the phone sideways and it becomes a two-octave keyboard with a drum kit above it. Sound is generated as you play, by SoundFont synthesis, rather than by triggering pre-recorded clips — so notes sustain, overlap and decay the way they do on an instrument.
Two octaves, multi-touch
Fourteen white keys and ten black ones, each tracking a separate finger. Chords ring together, and a glissando across the keys sounds every note it crosses.
The full range, C1 to B7
The visible two-octave window slides up and down the range with on-screen arrows, from the bass at C1 to the top of the 88-key span at B7.
Eight drum pads
Kick, Snare, Rim, Tom 1, Tom 2, Tom 3, Hi-Hat and Crash, in two rows of four above the keys — and playable at the same time as them.
Six voices
Grand Piano, Electric Piano, Vibraphone, Church Organ, Nylon Guitar and Strings, changed from the selector in the top bar.
Synthesized on the device
A General MIDI SoundFont ships inside the app and is rendered in real time. There is nothing to stream, nothing to download first, and no clip library to browse.
It answers immediately
About 16 ms from touch to sound on a modern device — inside the window where a note feels like it happened when you pressed the key, rather than after it.
No permissions at all
The app requests none — not even internet access. It cannot reach the network, it does not record audio, and it stores nothing on your device.
Nothing in the way
No account, no sign-in, no first-run setup, no advertising. Open it and the keys are already there.
At a glance
What the app is, in the terms a store listing asks for.
- Publisher
- Methodox Technologies, Inc.
- Package name
io.methodox.virtualkeyboard.mobile- Version
- 0.5
- Platform
- Android
- Orientation
- Landscape only — the keyboard needs the width
- Permissions requested
- None
- Network access
- None. The app holds no internet permission
- Sound engine
- Live SoundFont synthesis (General MIDI), bundled in the app
- Contact
- contact@methodox.io