Comparison

Music Library Tracker vs Longplay

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Music Library Tracker

This app automatically monitors your music library for any changes, including additions, deletions, and metadata updates. It can also track upgrades to Spatial Audio and provide daily summaries of your library's activity.

Highlights
  • Automatic library monitoring
  • Tracks metadata changes
  • Monitors Spatial Audio upgrades
  • Daily change summaries
  • Customizable display filters
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
Features
Currently charting
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Music Library Tracker keeps an eye on your music library and automatically monitors additions, deletions, and any changes to your songs as well as upgrades to Spatial Audio. With streaming becoming more popular, it is very easy for song metadata to change or for songs to disappear as licensing deals expire; with Music Library Tracker you will always know when something in your library changes. Features - Automatic monitoring of the media library on your iPhone or iPad (including iCloud Music Library if enabled on your device). Music Tracker checks the title, artist, album, album artist, genre, year of release, disc number, track number, rating, and Spatial Audio status. - See which of your tracks have been upgraded to Spatial Audio and have them placed into an automatic playlist within Apple Music. You can also opt-in to receive notifications when tracks are upgraded. - View an overview of changes to your library with filters to personalise the display to your requirements - Drill down into the detail of individual tracks to see exactly which metadata changed and when along with dates for when tracks were added or deleted from your library - A daily notification giving you a summary of changes in the previous day (this can be customised to just tell you about added, changed, or deleted tracks) - Automation via x-callback-url allowing you to see changes to your library in the Shortcuts app or with Siri - Full support for split screen views on iPad along with trackpad and keyboard integration - Dark mode Music Library Tracker contains no in-app purchases and does not require an internet connection; I believe in your privacy so none of your media library data ever leaves your device and I do not collect usage data or perform any data analytics. Spatial Audio matching is "opt-in" as it requires the app to send your music identifiers to my server; no personally identifiable information is ever sent and the data is kept only for as long as it takes to serve the request (typically less than a couple of seconds). You can read more about this in my privacy policy at https://dodoapps.io/music-tracker/privacy/ If you have any issues at all, please email support@dodoapps.io and I'll help you.

About

Longplay

Rediscover your music library with this app that beautifully displays your album artwork. Explore forgotten favorites and play music with smart sorting options like addiction, brightness, and recency. Organize albums into collections and enjoy infinite shuffle.

Highlights
  • Album artwork display
  • Smart sorting options
  • Album collections
  • Infinite album shuffle
  • Home screen widget
  • CarPlay and Siri support
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you. Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favorites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options: - Orderliness: by artist, then by album - Addiction: by amount of time spent listening - Brightness: by the primary color of the album artwork - Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating - Recency: by date added - Memory: by last played - Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song - Random: a new order, every time you tap it You can organize your albums into collections, which sync across your devices. Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order. It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them. It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.t supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts. It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually. --- Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focusing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs. --- Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection. It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists. Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.

Screenshots

Music Library Tracker4 screens
Longplay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Music Library Tracker at none against Longplay's 3. Music Library Tracker also leads on price ($1.99 vs $7.49) and chart position (#145 vs unranked). Longplay's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Music Library Tracker costs $1.99 and Longplay $7.49 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Music Library Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Music Library Tracker against 4.6 for Longplay. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 104 and 166 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Music Library Tracker's written reviews are positive against 78% of Longplay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Music Library Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Longplay every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Music Library Tracker versus Longplay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic Library TrackerLongplay
Price$1.99 — better$7.49
Rating4.5 (104 ratings)4.6 (166 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.8% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings104166 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#145 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDodo AppsAdrian Schoenig

Customer experience

Music Library Tracker

All ratings104 ratings
Positive88.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative9.6%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive64.8%
Neutral4.5%
Negative30.7%

Longplay

All ratings166 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral3.6%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral9.0%
Negative13.0%

User reviews

Music Library Tracker

From 104 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💡 Identifies Spatial Audio tracks
  • 🚀 Fills Apple's gap
  • ⏱️ Saves time finding Atmos
  • ✅ Works as advertised
  • ✨ Helpful for large libraries

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Only indexes favorites
  • 🐛 Doesn't find Spatial Audio
  • 🐛 Erratic since iOS 26.x
  • 🐛 Needs library updates
  • 🐛 Misses Spatial Audio tracks

Longplay

From 166 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎵 Excellent album-focused listening experience
  • 👍 Intuitive and minimalist user interface
  • 🎨 Beautiful visual presentation of album artwork
  • 🔍 Unique sorting options (Addiction, Negligence, Brightness)
  • 🚗 CarPlay support for album browsing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes with large music libraries
  • ❄️ UI freezing and performance issues
  • 🔥 Device overheating during operation
  • ⏱️ Slow album loading and updating process
  • 🚫 Doesn't display all albums in library

Bugs and requests

Music Library Tracker

Reported bugs

22 issues
  • App crashes on Mac
  • App crashes on scan
  • Notification bugs
  • App crashes when attempting to update search
  • App explodes library, fragmenting albums
Show 17 more
  • App crashes on startup
  • App spins infinitely
  • App does not update automatically
  • App fails to manually update
  • App no longer runs in background
  • App is slow to scroll
  • App freezes
  • App duplicates reports
  • App doesn't detect changes in 'Year' metadata
  • App not updated for iOS 10
  • App doesn't show up in Media & Apple Music privacy settings
  • App crashes when selecting 'Enable Notification'
  • App doesn't automatically scan library
  • App doesn't update automatically or track accurate dates
  • App doesn't work at all
  • App lists same track additions multiple times
  • App reports incorrect deletion/addition numbers

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add songs to specific playlists
  • Add playlist support to scan
  • More hierarchical sort options (artist, album, song)
  • Search function
  • Ability to jump to tracks in Apple Music
Show 9 more
  • Filter by audio quality
  • Dark mode app icon
  • Apple Watch app
  • Track "love" status
  • Track when songs are removed from playlists
  • Link out to Apple Music albums/songs
  • Support for Apple TV
  • Sort by album
  • Ability to 'open in' Apple Music

Longplay

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes on startup with large libraries
  • UI constantly freezes during album loading
  • Device becomes very hot during operation
  • Doesn't load entire music library
  • Gapless playback creates overlapping songs
Show 11 more
  • Purity option for gapless play doesn't work
  • Scrobbling incomplete (only first few tracks)
  • CarPlay support broken after updates
  • Vision Pro immersive view crashes
  • Settings window cannot be minimized
  • Allow selection toggle loses memory
  • Widget doesn't show album artwork
  • Sort by feature missing since iOS 26
  • Album library not syncing with Apple Music
  • Crashes when immersive view selected
  • Player window too large in panorama mode

Requested features

20 requests
  • Search functionality for albums and artists
  • Track listing display during playback
  • Skip/back track controls
  • Volume control in app
  • Sort by release year
Show 15 more
  • Sort by genre/categories
  • Show album information and metadata
  • Play Next/Play Later queue management
  • Open album in Apple Music link
  • Delete albums from library option
  • View only complete albums toggle
  • Exclude specific albums (e.g., Christmas albums)
  • macOS version of the app
  • tvOS app version
  • Higher resolution album artwork
  • Album cover size randomization in grid
  • Immersive listening room environments
  • Album liner notes viewing
  • Widget improvements for album display
  • Autocorrect toggle for search

In-app purchases

None

Music Library Tracker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Longplay

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • Medium Tip$5.00
  • Large Tip$10.00

Questions

Is Music Library Tracker free?
Music Library Tracker costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Music Library Tracker or Longplay?
Longplay is rated higher. Music Library Tracker averages 4.5 out of 5 from 104 ratings, while Longplay averages 4.6 from 166 ratings.
Do Music Library Tracker or Longplay have ads?
Neither Music Library Tracker nor Longplay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Music Library Tracker or Longplay?
Music Library Tracker ships an update every 2 months, and Longplay every 3 weeks. Most recently, Music Library Tracker was updated on September 22, 2026 and Longplay on September 22, 2026.

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