Shoutify vs Palette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shoutify
Listen to your favorite music playlists and share them with friends. Create custom groups to invite others and enjoy music together.
- Listen to music playlists
- Share playlists with friends
- Create custom crowds
- Invite friends to crowds
- Social music discovery
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Now listen to your favorite music service playlists AND your friends. Create your own Crowds and invite your friends to join in the fun!
Palette
This app helps users discover and share music based on mood rather than genre. Create playlists by categorizing songs by how they make you feel, and explore others' mood-based selections. Save tracks you like to your library and add them to your Apple Music playlists.
- Discover music by mood
- Create mood-based playlists
- Share song snippets
- Save tracks to library
- Add songs to Apple Music playlists
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Palette is music discovery built on a simple idea: your taste has layers. Build a separate space for each one: upbeat, late-night, dad rock, you name it (literally). Then you can dive deeper into each vibe and grow your taste. Give Palette a few songs that capture a specific sound, and it finds new ones that match that vibe. Palette learns from how you respond to its suggestions and helps refine what that sound means to you. Palette isn’t a streaming app. Think of it like the friend who keeps sending you music recommendations that eventually become part of your regular rotation. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Create a Palette for any vibe or mood • Discover new songs that match it, one focused session at a time • Watch your taste profile sharpen with every session • Save the songs that fit and export them as a playlist (Apple Music listeners) Available to everyone, regardless of your streaming service. Your taste isn’t one thing. Your music shouldn’t be either.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Palette at 5.0 against Shoutify's 4.6. Palette also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). Shoutify's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Palette holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shoutify has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Shoutify's written reviews are positive against 100% of Palette's.
Shoutify ships an update every 2 months, Palette every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shoutify | Palette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shoudout LLC | Marquis Simmons |
Customer experience
Shoutify
Palette
In-app purchases
Shoutify
No in-app purchases
Palette
No in-app purchases
