Comparison

Last.fm vs MatchRanker

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Personalized listening reports
  • Artist, album, and track charts
  • Listening history exploration
  • Manual scrobble submission
  • Streaming service integration
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

MatchRanker

This app allows users to create personalized rankings of their favorite songs through head-to-head "matches." Users select winners and losers, and the app dynamically updates song ratings based on these choices, creating a unique, ordered list of music within each user's personal universe.

Highlights
  • Head-to-head song matching
  • Dynamic song rating system
  • Personalized song universes
  • Unique user rankings
  • Randomized match-ups
Features
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Match-Ranker is a highly versatile and inimitable app designed to help users rank their favorite songs through a series of head to head “matches” between pairs of songs. In each match one song is the winner and one song is the loser. Each song in a user’s universe has a rating score. After each match, the winning song will gain rating points while the losing song will lose rating points. Songs can be compared to each other and ordered in a holistic way by looking at their rating scores, these will continue to get more and more accurate as the user completes more matches. Each user will have their own universe of songs. Their choices of which songs win and lose match ups will drive a song’s rating within their universe. Each user’s ratings are unique. Their choices will not influence the ratings of songs for other users. A song can be rated highly by one user while the same song has a low rating with another user. These are completely independent. Match-Ranker will randomly generate match ups of songs from within a user’s universe. For each match up generated, the user picks which of the two songs wins. Every song in the user’s universe has a rating score, and each time it's in a match up, afterward its rating will change according to the result. A song that wins a match up will increase its rating points and a song that loses will decrease its rating. So it’s an ultimate doorway to your songs universe. Make sure every matchup speaks for you and your favorite song leads the rest! Disclaimer : Matchranker is not using any 3rd Party but Apple Music for getting songs. And that too only would work for users who have their paid subscription enabled on the Apple ID. It is not actually storing any data on the server but calling the Apple Music services within its interface using the following official documentation and APIs end-points. This is, to fetch most played songs, play counts and calculate ranking of the songs user has been playing for a certain chunk of time via Each user will have their own universe of songs. Their choices of which songs win and lose match ups will drive a song’s rating within their universe. Each user’s ratings are unique. Their choices will not influence the ratings of songs for other users. A song can be rated highly by one user while the same song has a low rating with another user. These are completely independent. Match-Ranker will randomly generate match ups of songs from within a user’s universe. For each match up generated, the user picks which of the two songs wins. Every song in the user’s universe has a rating score, and each time it's in a match up, afterward its rating will change according to the result. A song that wins a match up will increase its rating points and a song that loses will decrease its rating. So it’s an ultimate doorway to your songs universe. Make sure every matchup speaks for you and your favorite song leads the rest! their Apple Music public ID : - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/ If any additional information like artist, etc are coming through it, we are not storing or using that at all within our app.

Screenshots

Last.fm4 screens
MatchRanker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MatchRanker at 5.0 against Last.fm's 2.3. MatchRanker also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 months). Last.fm's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 2) and chart position (#112 vs unranked). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MatchRanker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Last.fm has 1.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Last.fm ships an update every 6 months, MatchRanker every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Last.fm versus MatchRanker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLast.fmMatchRanker
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (1.6K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.6K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#112 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB18 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLast.fmMuhammad Irfan Zafar

Customer experience

Last.fm

All ratings1,570 ratings
Positive25.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative70.0%
Written reviews1,220 reviews
Positive19.3%
Neutral9.5%
Negative71.1%

MatchRanker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

MatchRanker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Last.fm

No in-app purchases

None

MatchRanker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Last.fm free?
Last.fm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MatchRanker free?
MatchRanker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Last.fm or MatchRanker?
MatchRanker is rated higher. Last.fm averages 2.3 out of 5 from 1.6K ratings, while MatchRanker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Last.fm or MatchRanker have ads?
Neither Last.fm nor MatchRanker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Last.fm or MatchRanker?
Last.fm ships an update every 6 months, and MatchRanker every 8 days. Most recently, Last.fm was updated on October 18, 2026 and MatchRanker on October 4, 2026.

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