Comparison

UpNext Party vs Top Tracks

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

Head to head
About

UpNext Party

This app allows partygoers to collaboratively queue songs and vote on the music playlist. It aims to resolve conflicts over song selection at gatherings and ensure everyone has a say in the audio experience.

Highlights
  • Collaborative song queuing
  • Real-time voting on tracks
  • Party music playlist control
  • Resolves music selection disputes
  • iOS compatible
Features
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Are you often frustrated by the music playing at parties and pregames? If you answer yes, download UpNext! UpNext is an iOS app that enables everyone in a party to queue up songs and vote on what's played next. Have your say in the music playing with UpNext!

About

Top Tracks

Transform your Apple Music playlists into personalized Top 40 radio stations. Create custom stations based on charts or playlists, and influence song rotation based on your ratings and preferences. Share your creations with friends.

Highlights
  • Create Top 40 radio stations
  • Use Apple Music playlists or charts
  • Customize song rotation
  • Rate songs to influence playback
  • Share stations with friends
  • Automatic chart updates
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Top Tracks lets you transform your favorite Apple Music Playlists into Top 40-style radio stations. Make as many stations as you want until your personal Top Tracks station dial is overflowing. The Top 40 format was built around a core music library of 40 songs which was freshened each week. Some songs were added to the playlist and played just enough for us to get to know them. As we began to love them, the station knew to move them up into categories that were played more often. Every 10 minutes or so, we knew we’d hear one of our very favorite songs and then, when we started to tire of them, the station knew to move them down into categories that were played less often and eventually out of the core library. The 40 songs weren’t played in the same order over and over, and they weren’t played in a random order. The mix was always fresh and each hour was different. The top 10 songs repeated about every 90 minutes. The next 10 repeated every 3 hours, the next 10 every 4 hours, and the bottom 10 repeated every 6 hours. Sprinkled in now and then were the songs our favorite DJs retrieved from the music vault. Top Tracks puts you in charge of as many stations as you want to create. The app lets you create two kinds of stations - it all depends on whether your station is based on a chart or a playlist. If you start with a Top 25 City Chart or a Daily Global Top 100 Chart, Top Tracks automatically creates a station for you and updates it every day. A Top 25 station rotates the music a little more quickly than most stations, but then again, the music refreshes every day and songs move on and off and up and down the charts. A Top 100 station rotates the top 40 songs just like a classic Top 40 station and treats the remaining 60 songs as songs that can be added to spice up the mix once an hour. Want a little more control? If you build your station from an Apple Music Playlist, you can influence whether a song is played more often or less often and rotate the music on your schedule. Choose a playlist by checking out the top ranked playlists, or look for playlists by selecting a top genre, a particular mood or activity, a favorite decade, a particular International vibe, or try your luck with a search. As you listen to these playlist stations, take the time to rate the songs, and the next time you choose to rotate the music in the station, your favorite songs will move up, others will move down, and music from the vault will enter the Top 40 rotation. As Apple Music refreshes these playlists, you’ll be able to add new music to your station. Share your favorite stations with friends, and they can build their own stations from the same playlists and charts. Create and enjoy as many stations as you’d like. This app requires that you have an Apple Music Subscription.

Screenshots

UpNext Party4 screens
Top Tracks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Top Tracks at 5.0 against UpNext Party's 4.5. UpNext Party's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (35 vs 2). 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

Top Tracks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UpNext Party has 35 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UpNext Party ships an update monthly, Top Tracks every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
UpNext Party versus Top Tracks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUpNext PartyTop Tracks
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (35 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings35 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB3 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperRaymond SukantoDim Sum Thinking, Inc

Customer experience

UpNext Party

All ratings35 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%

Top Tracks

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

In-app purchases

None

UpNext Party

No in-app purchases

None

Top Tracks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UpNext Party free?
UpNext Party is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Top Tracks free?
Top Tracks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, UpNext Party or Top Tracks?
Top Tracks is rated higher. UpNext Party averages 4.5 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while Top Tracks averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do UpNext Party or Top Tracks have ads?
Neither UpNext Party nor Top Tracks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UpNext Party or Top Tracks?
UpNext Party ships an update monthly, and Top Tracks every 6 months. Most recently, UpNext Party was updated on November 6, 2026 and Top Tracks on November 3, 2026.

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