Last.fm vs snd.wave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Last.fm
Track your music listening habits and access personalized reports, stats, and charts on your mobile device. Explore your listening history, view charts by artist, album, and track, and manually submit scrobbles. Connect streaming services for comprehensive tracking.
- Personalized listening reports
- Artist, album, and track charts
- Listening history exploration
- Manual scrobble submission
- Streaming service integration
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Your stats. On the Go. Listening counts with the Last.fm App. Track the music you stream and access personalized listening reports, stats, and charts, all on the go.* Free on the Last.fm app: - Access to your Last.week & Last.year listening reports. - View your personal artist, album and track charts from all-time to the last 7 days - Explore your listening history - Scan & submit scrobbles manually (works with Apple Music**) - View tag, artist, similar artist, and track information Join millions of users. All for free. Last.fm. Music Counts *To track your music, connect your streaming service accounts to your Last.fm profile, or, via our web client, app or a browser plugin for other services. **Only songs added to your library can be scrobbled Love Last.fm? Follow us on: www.youtube.com/user/lastfm www.facebook.com/lastfm x.com/lastfm instagram.com/last_fm bsky.app/profile/last.fm Privacy Policy: https://www.last.fm/legal/privacy
snd.wave
This app analyzes your music library to provide detailed statistics on your listening habits. Discover your favorite artists, songs, albums, and genres with comprehensive charts, graphs, and leaderboards. It also helps you manage your library by identifying and allowing you to delete unwanted tracks.
- Comprehensive music statistics
- Top lists for artists, songs, albums, genres
- Monthly and yearly listening stats
- Playlist analytics
- Leaderboards for friends and global comparison
- Music library cleaner
- Visual charts and graphs
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We all listen to music, we all love music, but no one really knows how much we listen to music. snd.wave is here to fix that. snd.wave analyzes your music library and presents you with stats about how you listen to music. snd.wave features: • Stats about EVERYTHING. Seriously. Any song, album, genre, or artist in your library can be searched and viewed. • Top Lists: see you favorite artists, songs, albums and genres. • Monthly and Yearly Stats. (Stat recording begins when you install snd.wave) • Playlist analytics: see tons of stats and play your playlists in snd.wave! • Leaderboards: see how your music stats stack up against your friends and the world. • Sharing: What good is cool info without the ability to post about it? snd.wave can export data from anywhere in the app to social media or your photos. • Cleaner: Sometimes you download a song or two that are just terrible. snd.wave can help! Let snd.wave find those songs so you can delete them! • Force Touch: peek and pop your way throughout snd.wave. • Charts and Graphs: See your music stats visualized. • Stat Player: a music player that also displays stats for the now playing song. • Swipe to Play: swipe any song to start playback. • Library View: see your entire library as a list. • Discover: see recently added, recently played and more in snd.wave. • Dark Mode for easy viewing at night! • iCloud Support: back up your data and send it to your other devices. • Your Music Quick View: a lock screen widget that displays stats about currently playing music. Still reading? Stop! Download snd.wave and check it out! Note: snd.wave is only compatible with the standard music app or Apple Music at this time. snd.wave is not affiliated with Apple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: snd.wave at 4.4 against Last.fm's 2.3. snd.wave also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (38% vs 19%). Last.fm's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). On price, 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
Both are free to download. snd.wave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Last.fm asks for nothing beyond the download.
snd.wave holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: snd.wave has 11K ratings behind it against 1.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of Last.fm's written reviews are positive against 38% of snd.wave's.
Last.fm ships an update every 6 months, snd.wave monthly. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Last.fm | snd.wave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (1.6K ratings) | 4.4 (11K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.3% of reviews | 38.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K | 11K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #103 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Last.fm | Lucas Klein |
Customer experience
Last.fm
snd.wave
User reviews
Last.fm
From 1.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💖 Great app
- 🤩 Awesome
- 🤗 Helpful for tracking music
- 👍 Useful stats and reports
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🔨 Buggy and unreliable
- 🤯 Frustrating issues
- 🤔 Limited functionality
- 🤷♀️ Inconsistent performance
snd.wave
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 👍 Useful features
- 💡 Interesting concept
- 🚀 Comprehensive stats
- 👍 Intuitive interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate data
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
- 🐛 Glitchy performance
- 🐛 Unreliable tracking
- 🐛 Outdated information
Bugs and requests
Last.fm
Reported bugs
5 issues- Doesn't scrobble songs properly
- Duplicate scrobbles
- Animated album art causes crashes
- Login and sign-up issues
- Randomly stops tracking music
Requested features
5 requests- Update the app
- Improve Apple Music integration
- Add more time range options
- Bring back old features
- Make the UI more user-friendly
snd.wave
Reported bugs
5 issues- White screen on launch
- Incorrect artist/album rankings
- Missing song/album data
- Inconsistent data across views
- Refreshing causes loss of functionality
Requested features
5 requests- Add Spotify support
- Improve monthly/weekly stats
- Allow hiding of certain artists
- Sort by play count instead of time
- Provide more filtering and sorting options
In-app purchases
Last.fm
No in-app purchases
snd.wave
- snd.wave Pro$1.99
Questions
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