OrchardGo vs FIRSTPRESS AUDIO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OrchardGo
This app provides music labels and artists with actionable insights into consumption performance, trends across platforms, and chart performance. It offers a deep dive into data to help creators understand their audience and track success.
- Consumption performance tracking
- Trend analysis across platforms
- Social channel insights
- Top chart monitoring
- Playlist placement data
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OrchardGo is an exclusive tool created to empower labels and artists distributed by The Orchard. OrchardGo provides meaningful and actionable insights on the Go, so you never miss a beat - in the studio, on tour, or following your next release. With OrchardGo, you can: - Understand consumption performance across your tracks, artists, products and playlist placements - Deep dive into trends across platforms and social channels - Monitor top chart performance The Orchard is a leading music distribution company operating in over 45 markets worldwide. With a comprehensive artist & label services offering including full-service marketing, sync licensing, video services, transparent data analysis, advertising, rights management, digital and physical distribution and more, The Orchard empowers creators and businesses to grow and adapt in the dynamic global industry. For further information, visit www.theorchard.com.
FIRSTPRESS AUDIO
Purchase music, merchandise, and concert tickets directly from artists. Own your music library without subscriptions, and receive exclusive updates from your favorite creators. The app is designed for focused listening with no ads or autoplay.
- Direct artist purchases
- Own your music library
- Integrated merch and tickets
- Artist fanclubs
- Ad-free listening
- Shareable music cards
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Every artist on FIRSTPRESS has their music, their merch, their shows and their fanclub in one place. You buy from them, not from a shop standing in the middle. What you buy is yours to keep. WHAT YOU BUY, YOU OWN Buy a record and it stays bought. It downloads to the phone and stays there, so it plays on a plane, on the subway, in a basement venue with no bars. No subscription, so nothing lapses and there is nothing to cancel. Walk away for a year and come back, and your library is exactly where you left it. ONE RECORD AT A TIME Discover hands you a single record and thirty seconds of it. Sit with it or move on. There is no feed here to get to the bottom of. THE ARTIST'S WHOLE SHOP Their music, their merch, their shows and a fanclub they actually post in. Buy a shirt or a ticket from the same page as the record. Tickets land in a wallet in the app. HEAR IT FROM THEM Follow an artist and you hear about the new record from them, not from a chart. One notification when they put something out, and never for anything else. MADE FOR LISTENING No ads. Nothing autoplaying into a track you did not ask for. The scrubber is drawn from the track itself, so you can find the part you want by eye. PUT SOMEBODY ON TO IT Turn any track into a card and send it to Instagram or TikTok, artist credited. IF YOU MAKE THE MUSIC Your numbers on your phone: what sold, who bought it, where they came from, and the moments people go back to. Post to your fanclub from here. Listing and pricing stay on the web dashboard. Ninety percent of every sale goes to the artist.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FIRSTPRESS AUDIO at 5.0 against OrchardGo's 4.4. FIRSTPRESS AUDIO also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). OrchardGo's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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.
FIRSTPRESS AUDIO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OrchardGo has 46 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of OrchardGo's written reviews are positive against 100% of FIRSTPRESS AUDIO's.
OrchardGo ships an update every 4 weeks, FIRSTPRESS AUDIO weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | OrchardGo | FIRSTPRESS AUDIO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Orchard Enterprises NY, INC | Daytona Lab Agency LLC |
Customer experience
OrchardGo
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In-app purchases
OrchardGo
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









