# MusicBox: Catalog and Organize — user reviews > 87 indexed App Store user reviews of MusicBox by Loop Apps LTDA, rated 4.80/5 from 215 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musicbox-catalog-and-organize/id1614730313/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/musicbox-catalog-and-organize/id1614730313.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 194 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of MusicBox? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface - 🎵 Perfect companion app for Apple Music - 🏷️ Powerful tagging and organization system - 💾 One-time purchase model (no subscriptions) - 🔄 Seamless syncing across Apple devices - 📱 Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV - 🎯 Solves music library clutter problem - ✨ Clean and well-designed interface - 🚀 Efficient album and music curation - 📚 Great for tracking 'listen later' content - 🎨 Customizable organization with smart searches - 💡 Innovative concept filling Apple Music gap **Cons** - 💰 Significant price increase from $2.99 to $12.99-$29.99 - 🐛 Buggy performance on macOS - 🎵 Limited to Apple Music (no Spotify/Tidal integration) - 📊 Rudimentary UI despite good features - 🔌 Background sync issues with Apple TV - 🎯 Steep learning curve for some users - ⚠️ Free tier limited to 5 songs **Commonly reported bugs** - Widgets not appearing in latest version - App crashes frequently on macOS - iPad XL widget shows empty slots with 'Random' sort - Background sync not working automatically with Apple TV - Metadata errors when adding local radio stations - Spotify integration not working as smoothly as Apple Music **Most requested features** - Spotify and Tidal streaming service support - Direct search and add from Apple Music/Spotify within app - Siri integration for hands-free adding - CarPlay support - Multi-select for bulk tagging - Ability to hide default MusicBox tags in sidebar - Quick tag creation button on iPhone home screen - Play/shuffle all saved songs feature - Export functionality for backup purposes - Option to toggle/hide default panels on start screen - Artist list in sidebar (all artists, not just new releases) - Song-level organization within tags - Toggle to hide added/played date metadata - Support for additional streaming services (Musi, Qobuz) - Transfer organization data to Apple Music ## Newest reviews (15 of 87) ### 4/5 — Great but just broke all my widgets *2026-08-10* I love this app but all my (50+) widgets are now broken with the new update. Like that there’s new options. Wish you could have added it without forcing me to recreate all my widgets **Developer response:** Thank you for the review, and I’m sorry about the widgets. The change was necessary to move them forward, but this won’t happen again. ### 5/5 — Finally a way to note any musician, anytime *2025-07-16, version 1.5.5* Look, its a playlist with organization capabilities. Its simply genius ### 5/5 — Super App *2025-06-03* Das Hinzufügen von Songs oder Alben geht recht fix via Share Button aus den gängigen Music Apps. Für das schnelle Speichern von Songs aus Webbrowsern kann man MusicBox noch mit dem Quick-Share-Pop-Up-Feature von Anybox kombinieren. Dann sind es 2 Klicks. Besonders schick ist die Verfügbarkeit auch auf Apple TV. Auf dem Apple TV geht systembedingt leider nur von das Abspielen von Apple Music, da Spotify und Co von Apple nicht zugelassen sind. Daher empfiehlt sich das iPad z.B. als Abspielgerät mit Mirroring. Gute Ergänzung auch zu roon. ### 5/5 — Simple, efficace *2025-04-24* Le concept de l’application est très simple mais c’est pile ce qu’il fallait. Le widget fait toute la différence. Marre de repousser à plus tard des albums et ne jamais les écouter. Là c’est chose réglée ### 5/5 — Album management + *2025-04-20* This digital age is rife with information overload. While some are able to navigate the miasma of cyber clutter deftly, I am easily overwhelmed. Listening to new albums is one of my favorite pastimes; this app certainly helps. **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your review! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2025-03-31* Took me a bit to get into using it - has made a big difference to how I listen to and compare different recordings of specific works. Really a great app! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! ### 5/5 — Simply Superb *2025-03-28, version 1.5.0* The more I’ve used this and the more I’ve learned how I can use it, the better it gets. My mailbox is quickly cleared up and when I want to focus on checking out the latest releases, I can use this app and quit my mailbox, removing all the noise. ### 4/5 — A little advice *2025-02-28* Thank you for developing such an app. It would be better for me if I could specify which app to play music in the app instead of jumping to a third-party website. I also hope to add more functions to the left and right swipe. ### 5/5 — Lovely *2025-02-20* Exactly what I was looking for. I would love the ability to hide the MusicBox tags (New, Played, All, No Tag). I use my own tags and the MusicBox, Pinned, Artists sections on the sidebar can get very cluttered very quickly. ### 5/5 — Super application pour les boulimiques de musique *2024-12-03* MusicBox permet très facilement de se constituer une réserve de disques à découvrir à partir de diverses sources (réseaux sociaux, bouche à oreille, recommandation des plateformes…), sans pour autant surcharger directement sa bibliothèque ou risquer l’oubli. La synchronisation entre Devices est un autre atout, et l’application est très flexible, on peut l’adapter à nos envies. J’utilise par exemple les tags pour ne pas oublier quelle personne m’a recommandé d’écouter tel album. ### 5/5 — A fantastic little app *2024-10-23* I’ve been looking for a way to organise my music library for years - this is finally the tool I was searching for! It’s very easy to use, lets you tag and sort by genre, release date and anything else you might want. You can focus on the music and let it get on with the organisation. Just get it - you won’t be disappointed ! ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2024-09-28* Musicbox is hands down one of the best music apps I’ve ever come across! First off, the one-time purchase fee is an absolute steal. In an era where everything is a monthly subscription, it’s refreshing to see an app that values simplicity and affordability without sacrificing quality. The app itself is incredibly user-friendly, with a clean and intuitive interface that works seamlessly across all my Apple devices—Mac, iPhone, and iPad. I love that I can manage my music collection on my Mac and have it instantly synced to my phone and tablet without any hassle. ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2024-09-18* MusicBox has earned a spot alongside Marvis Pro as an essential app to use with Apple Music. I love the new iOS 18 control center feature to play a random saved item. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! ### 5/5 — A truly great app *2024-09-18* The level of quality is astonishing. Such a useful and well thought out piece of software. Thank you for your devotion and continuous development! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! ### 4/5 — Love *2024-08-02, version 1.3.5* Please make the option to add a singular song or an entire discography straight from the music box search feature 🤍 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Can’t Access The App *2026-07-27* When launching the app I get a window with the release notes asking me to review the app. I cannot clear the window, making the app unusable. **Developer response:** This bug is now fixed in version 1.8.0. ### 1/5 — Share sheet support not working, wants premium now *2026-06-24* One of the recent updates broke the sharing from Apple Music. It asks for it to be upgraded for this feature. I should be grandfathered in. I tried to restore from the app, but does nothing. I am going to try an older version using iMazing for now to see if this gets around this bug or new app requirement. I hope this is a bug. **Developer response:** Yes, it is indeed a bug. After restoring from the app, you should be able to add from the share sheet without any issues. Have you tried again since then? On a different note, app reviews aren’t the ideal way to get customer support. You should have sent me an email, and we could have resolved this much more quickly. ### 1/5 — It's useless. *2025-01-02* It's useless. ### 2/5 — Why has the price drastically increased *2026-02-13* I have been looking for an app like this for years, it seems perfect for me who knows about tons of music but is having a hard time with Apple Music and other platform libraries, it seems like you can only add 5 songs for free, then the app asks you to pay 12.99 (on sale from 29.99) this is extremely disapointing as I found a few Reddit threads from a year+ ago that praised the app for its fair price of 2.99. How could you guys increase the price of this app by 900% in just a couple of years?? Also, the app does seems to have great features but still has a very rudimentary UI and was quite buggy for me, I would have paid the 2.99 in a split second, even would’ve paid 5.99, but I’m sorry this price is ridiculous for what it is, I will look for alternatives thank you ### 2/5 — Widgets broken *2023-09-18, version 1.2.3* Widgets don't appear in the latest version. Please fix ### 3/5 — Can’t Use since update *2026-06-28* The latest update forces you to review the product before allowing you access **Developer response:** This bug is now fixed in version 1.8.0. ### 3/5 — Leider keine Verbindung *2024-01-27* mit iCloudmediathek von Apple Music. Hinzufügen der Alben ist sehr mühselig. ### 3/5 — I love this app on ios but it crashes sm on macos *2023-08-13, version 1.2.2* Would be happy to send a crash report if you want ### 3/5 — Good, But Doesn’t Sync In Background *2023-07-14* Nice that this has an Apple TV app. But what’s frustrating about this app is that if you add something from your device, you must be sure to then manually open the app for it to sync to the Apple TV app. You shouldn’t need to remember to open the app to see everything you’ve synced. ### 3/5 — Need support for Tidal *2023-06-09, version 1.2.0* This app seems perfect for me but I primarily use Tidal. Hope support can be added soon ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — This is my favourite app. *2026-05-28* I love being able to organise my music recommendations, finally I can listen to them in my own time and through the notes I always know who recommended it, and have conversations about it afterwards. It being a one time purchase, that works across all my apple devices and no ads makes this a real gem. It also just works flawlessly and new features get added all the time. I’m in love! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words! I’m happy to hear you’re enjoying MusicBox. ### 5/5 — Essencial *2026-05-11* Uso para salvar músicas, álbuns, e artigos. Mantém tudo mais organizado, e eu adoro! **Developer response:** Que bom saber disso! Obrigado pela avaliação. ### 5/5 — You can use this for more than songs! *2026-04-28* I use this to not only save songs and albums, but to save articles from Tonearm, The Wire, The Quietus, etc. A complete “read it later” for music. I love it. **Developer response:** Thanks so much for the review! Happy to have you using the app. ### 5/5 — Great App for All Music Lovers *2026-03-01* Great App for All Music Lovers ### 5/5 — Thee Apple Music companion *2026-02-23* Great app and companion to Apple Music especially if your like me and like to add albums to your playlist to listen to later. Without cluttering up your apple playlist ### 5/5 — 👍 *2025-12-28* I’ve tried a few different apps for adding and organizing albums into a “todo list” but they were more broadly focused, combining TV/Game/Book/Music into one app. This as a music specific app with music focused features has been a more useful solution for me. One thing I do wish the iPhone version of the app had (that is more simple to access on the Mac app) is just a quick button on the front page to create new tags. I may be missing it but I think the only way to create tags on iPhone is by managing the tags on an album you’ve added. ### 5/5 — So Good ! *2025-11-27* Has completely changed the way I manage my albums and especially those that are queued up to listen too ! ### 5/5 — Game changer for me *2025-11-10* Love this app. Taken my ocd indexing to the next level ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2025-10-08* Can't believe it took so many years for some genius to make this. I'm also so glad it's available on Macs. Thanks for your hard work with this! The only thing I wish you could do is search Apple Music of Spotify for an album within the app, rather than add music in the app via URL, but in reality I rarely need this feature. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the review! I recently added the ability to add albums and songs via searching Apple Music. It is available in File > Add With Search. ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2025-08-29* I didn’t know that I need an app like MusicBox until I tried it out. I often check recommendations for new albums (e.g. from Resident Advisor, an online magazine), and previously just dumped it all into my Apple Music / Spotify library. Now, with MusicBox, I create a queue of music I want to check out, and just add the ones that I really want to keep to my library, much cleaner! Thanks for making this awesome app! Well worth the price! **Developer response:** Thank you very much for your review! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-01.*