crabhands vs Listen Later
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
crabhands
Stay updated on your favorite artists' new music releases with instant notifications. Connect your Spotify account to track followed artists and discover upcoming tracks. New music is automatically added to a dedicated Spotify playlist for easy listening.
- Artist tracking
- New music notifications
- Upcoming release alerts
- Spotify integration
- Automatic playlist creation
- Push notifications
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Let us track your favourite artists and send you notification alerts when they release new music on Spotify, or when we discover any upcoming releases for them! To set up a new account, just hit the Sign Up button, follow the instructions and then login to your Spotify account. We will scan for the artists that you follow. A list of the latest new releases will then be available in the app. If we find any upcoming releases for them we will also display these in the app. If you've enabled push notifications then we'll notify you when we find new and upcoming releases for your artists. New music releases are by default added to a playlist which we create within your Spotify account so that you have one easy place to listen to new music. You can change this option at any time from the Settings screen. We sync the artists you follow on Spotify before we check for new releases, so if you have followed new artists then they'll get included when we scan for new releases. Please note: you cannot listen to the releases within the app - you do this within Spotify as usual.
Listen Later
This app acts as a music to-do list, helping you save albums and tracks you discover. It allows you to create personal listening queues and collections for any mood or event, then play them through your preferred music service.
- Music to-do list
- Save albums and tracks
- Personal listening queue
- Create music collections
- Play through favorite services
- Build listening history
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Listen Later – your music to-do list Listen Later is your reminder and play-queue companion for music — a to-listen list for albums and tracks you don’t want to forget. Save music as you discover it, then come back and play it through your favourite service — Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and more. Use On Rotation as your personal listening queue. Add albums you want to check out, or keep track of the ones you currently have on repeat — your “best of the best”. Whether it’s a new release, a friend’s recommendation, or a timeless classic, they’ll all be waiting when you’re ready to listen. Want to keep a record of what you’ve been loving lately? Every so often, save your On Rotation list to the Collections Library to build a history of your listening journey — a musical time capsule. You can also create standalone Collections for any mood, event, or era: your all-time favourite dance albums, the soundtracks of your teenage years, or the perfect mix for an upcoming road trip. When it’s time, just hit play. Powered by the vast Apple Music catalogue, Listen Later makes it easy to find nearly any album ever released. Then, play it wherever you like — Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and beyond. Listen Later — don’t just queue it, remember it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Listen Later at 4.3 against crabhands's 3.8. crabhands's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (50 vs 3). 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.
Listen Later holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: crabhands has 50 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
crabhands ships an update monthly, Listen Later every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | crabhands | Listen Later |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (50 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Underwood | Breakbeat Ltd. |
Customer experience
crabhands
Listen Later
Bugs and requests
crabhands
Reported bugs
15 issues- Re-login required every time the app is opened
- Incessant sign-ins after app revamp
- Login is broken after new update
- App is completely outdated (3 years)
- App freezes on iPhone 12 and iOS 16.2
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- Switched Spotify account, now uses Login with Apple ID, doesn't retrieve followed artists
- App crashes on iOS 14.2
- App gets stuck on initial loading screen
- Can't connect to Spotify
- Redirects to reset Spotify password when trying to log in
- Login issues with recaptcha on Spotify
- Doesn't show all releases from Spotify
- Some releases arrive with delay
- Notifications shown, but tapping doesn't load content
- Stopped adding new songs to the Crabhands Spotify playlist
Requested features
7 requests- More filtering options
- Option to filter by followed artists only
- In-app payment option (Apple ID)
- Donate option
- Apple Music integration
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- Browser experience
- Refined artist adding section
Listen Later
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
crabhands
No in-app purchases
Listen Later
No in-app purchases









