Nerve DJs vs Spinstatz
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nerve DJs
This app connects DJs and musicians for economic empowerment, offering promotional music and industry partnerships. It provides a platform for artists and DJs to benefit from collaborations with major audio manufacturers and software suppliers.
- DJ and musician networking
- Promotional music distribution
- Economic empowerment for artists
- Partnerships with industry giants
- Workshops and conferences
- Mixtape platform
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Nerve DJs was established by four prominent disc jockeys in Cleveland, Ohio. Not satisfied with simply getting music from a local record pool, these four disc jockeys established a union where local and regional disc jockeys could benefit from a union or an association of DJs and musicians in the area for the purpose of economic empowerment. The Association was incorporated in 2003. Nerve Djs realized that bringing disc jockeys together under one house, an economic force to be reckoned with would be established in northern Ohio. After achieving immediate success, this philosophy was used to branch out to other states. Today, Nerve DJs has members throughout the states and beyond. The purpose of the Nerve DJs is not to just distribute promotional MP3s for establishing a music library, but again, to create an organization were both artists and disc jockeys would benefit economically by partnerships with each other and industry giants such as Monster Products, Rane, Stanton, Pioneer, Numark, Native Instruments, and other industry giants, audio manufacturers and software suppliers. Unlike record pools and MP3 pools that simply distribute promotional tracks to disc jockeys and those who claim to be disc jockeys, Nerve DJs boasts that they are providing a service that far outweighs anything that a MP3 pool and a record pool could ever provide. Since the early days of Nerve DJs, we have presented showcases, conferences, tours, conference calls and workshops that demonstrate hands-on techniques from some of the biggest manufacturers of DJ Products. At our 2007 event Rane sponsored us and sent DJ Jazzy Jay to present the new TTM 57 Rane. With much success as a DJ Coalition and our membership growing into the thousands, in 2010 we added The NerveDJs Industry Bi-Weekly Conference call bridging the Artists with the DJs that break trax. 2012 we began working on www.NerveDJsMixtapes.com and went public February 2013, it was a slow start but has since gained a lot.
Spinstatz
This system enables musicians to pay DJs for playing their tracks. Artists receive video proof and detailed information for each play, allowing them to track their music's performance across multiple venues.
- Pay DJs to play music
- Receive video proof of plays
- Track music performance
- Verify plays in venues
- Artist compensation system
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Spinstatz is a system that allows musical artists to compensate DJs to play their music. Each time your music is played by a DJ proof is given in the form of a video clip of the DJ playing music in a venue along with detailed information. Using this system there is a new reality. Artists can now say my music was played in over 50 venues over the weekend.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nerve DJs at 100% against Spinstatz's 0%. Nerve DJs also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (93 vs 8). Spinstatz's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price and in-app purchases 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.
Nerve DJs holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nerve DJs has 93 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Nerve DJs's written reviews are positive against 0% of Spinstatz's.
Nerve DJs ships an update every 5 months, Spinstatz every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 25, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nerve DJs | Spinstatz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (93 ratings) — better | 3.8 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | NERVEDJS.COM, L.L.C. | Micah Otis |
Customer experience
Nerve DJs
Spinstatz
In-app purchases
Nerve DJs
No in-app purchases
Spinstatz
No in-app purchases







