Discogs vs Cassetto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discogs
Catalog your physical music collection, discover new releases, and shop for vinyl, CDs, and more. Track your wantlist, compare prices from global sellers, and get personalized listening suggestions based on your collection.
- Catalog music collection
- Search millions of artists/albums
- Find albums by barcode
- Shop vinyl, CDs, cassettes
- Compare prices from sellers
- Track wantlist and get notifications
- Get collection value estimates
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The official Discogs App is the best way to catalog your music collection, find that hidden gem, check pricing and buy music from the world’s largest discography of physical music. Explore a Rich Universe of Music • Search millions of artists and albums. • Find an album by its barcode. • Stay informed about the latest events, artists, albums and genres you love. • View trending albums, most collected and most wanted by Discogs users. Catalog your Collection • Keep track of the albums you own. • Share with your friends. • Let your Collection make listening suggestions for you. Buy the Music you Love from Anywhere • Shop for vinyl records, CDs, cassettes and more. • Compare prices. • Browse the inventory of thousands of sellers worldwide. Track your Wantlist • Keep tabs on the albums you’re looking for. • Receive notifications about new listings. • Reference your Wantlist while record shopping. Hey it’s your Discogs! • Edit your profile. • Quickly check your Collection value. • See albums you have recently added to your Wantlist and Collection. • Manage your Discogs orders. Join our Community! • Discogs: www.discogs.com • Facebook: www.facebook.com/Discogs • Instagram: www.instagram.com/Discogs • Twitter: www.twitter.com/Discogs For Feedback and Help • Share your thoughts: app@discogs.com
Cassetto
Discover new music through social sharing rather than algorithms. Users share songs with personal context, allowing others to discover, react, and pass them on. Build a profile that reflects your evolving taste and connect with others through shared musical experiences.
- Share songs with personal comments
- Explore a public Discover feed
- Follow friends and their music taste
- Like and react to shared songs
- Play music through your streaming service
- Build a personal music taste profile
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Most music discovery today feels passive. You open a streaming app, something is already waiting for you, and within a few minutes you’re hearing music that technically fits your taste but doesn’t really move it anywhere. The system is efficient, but it tends to keep you circling the same sounds instead of actually finding something new. Cassetto is built on a different assumption: that people are better at discovering music than algorithms. Every song on Cassetto is there because someone chose to share it. Not because it was predicted to perform well, not because it matches a pattern, but because it meant something to them. That decision becomes the starting point for how music moves through the app. When you post a song, you can attach your own context—whether that’s a quick thought, a memory, or just a reason you think it’s worth hearing. From there, other people can listen, react, and engage with it. Over time, you start to see which songs land, which ones travel, and how your taste connects with others. Discovery is shaped by how you move through the app. The Discover feed opens up a broader view of what people are sharing publicly, while Friends and Following pages let you stay closer to the people you actually trust to put you onto something good. Instead of being pushed toward content, you decide where to look and whose taste you want to spend time with. Listening stays connected to the platforms you already use. Songs are shared through direct links and can be played through your streaming service, so you’re not switching environments just to explore something new. As you listen, you can like and react to posts, adding a layer of interaction that reflects how music is actually exchanged between people. Your profile becomes a record of your taste over time. Every song you post is saved, making it easy to look back at what you’ve shared and how your music has evolved. Nothing disappears into a feed or gets lost after a moment—it stays tied to you. Available now: - Post songs using direct links, with optional comments - Explore the Discover feed - Follow friends and browse Friends and Following pages - Like and react to songs - Play songs through your streaming service in the background - Build your profile and keep track of what you’ve shared Coming soon: - Groups (public and private spaces for sharing within communities) - Mixtapes (save songs into collections and export them to your streaming service) - Influence tracking (see how people engage with what you share, and how your music moves across the network) Cassetto is designed around a simple loop: someone shares a song, someone else discovers it, saves it, and passes it on. Over time, that loop starts to build something you can actually see—how music spreads, where it resonates, and who’s shaping what gets heard. It doesn’t try to replace the way you listen to music. It changes how you find it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cassetto at 100% against Discogs's 40%. Cassetto also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). Discogs's advantage is ratings volume (67K vs 19) and chart position (#123 vs unranked). On price, ads, 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.
Cassetto holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Discogs has 67K ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Discogs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cassetto's.
Discogs ships an update monthly, Cassetto every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Discogs | Cassetto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (67K ratings) | 5.0 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67K — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #123 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zink Media LLC | Ryan Hendrickson |
Customer experience
Discogs
Cassetto
Bugs and requests
Discogs
Reported bugs
4 issues- Repeated log-outs and login issues
- Inconsistent display of album details and metadata
- Unreliable barcode scanning and album addition
- Glitches when navigating search results and collections
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to sort and filter collection by various criteria
- Integration of seller reviews and ratings
- Push notifications for new listings of wanted items
- Improved browsing and searching of seller inventories
- Seamless in-app purchasing and order tracking
Cassetto
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Discogs
No in-app purchases
Cassetto
No in-app purchases









