OrchardGo vs Pindisco
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.
Pindisco
Discover and share music by pinning songs to real-world locations. Explore a global map of music, connect with friends' musical tastes, and build a personal music history.
- Pin songs to real-world locations
- Discover music pinned nearby
- Explore a global music map
- Connect with friends' music tastes
- Add notes and photos to pins
- Integrate with Spotify and Apple Music
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Music is all about time and place Pindisco is a shared map of music people pin to real places. Leave a song where it belongs, discover what people have pinned nearby, and build a music history that feels like yours. PIN THE MUSIC OF YOUR LIFE Choose a song, pick a nearby place, and add a note or photo. Search for a track, use what's playing in Spotify or Apple Music, or share a song into Pindisco from Shazam or your music app. Tag people in your pin and choose who can see it before you post. EXPLORE THROUGH MUSIC Zoom out and explore songs people have pinned in other neighborhoods and cities. Zoom into an area to see its pins. Open a pin to read its story and listen with your preferred connected music service. Turn on Disco to let nearby pins shape what plays next while Pindisco is open. KEEP UP WITH YOUR FRIENDS' MUSIC Feed brings together your friends' pins. Listen, heart a pin, add an available song to your music library, or join the conversation in Comments. Type @ to tag someone in a note or comment. Find friends by name or username, or invite a friend to share their music. Choose whether to receive phone notifications for friend requests, likes, comments and mentions. COLLECT MUSIC AND PUT YOUR TASTE ON DISPLAY Your Profile brings your pins together in an album-art collection. Return to a song and the moment behind it, or explore a friend's collection. Share your public profile with a few of your latest public pins and available song previews. CHOOSE WHAT YOU SHARE Set your profile and each pin to Public, Friends only or Private. Your profile sets the widest audience for your pins, and each pin can be more private. For a Friends only pin, you can leave out the location while keeping your note and photo. Tagging someone never changes who can see the pin. PIN FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Add the Pin a track widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen to open Pindisco's pin composer. Review the song, place and audience before posting. Create your account in the app. Apple Music playback requires an eligible subscription. Spotify controls require the Spotify app and an eligible account. Songs and matching availability vary by service and region. Pindisco uses location for nearby discovery, pinning and Disco while the app is open. Published pins do not show a person's live location.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pindisco at 5.0 against OrchardGo's 4.4. Pindisco also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks). OrchardGo's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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.
Pindisco 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 2, 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 Pindisco's.
OrchardGo ships an update every 4 weeks, Pindisco every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OrchardGo | Pindisco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Orchard Enterprises NY, INC | Justis Simmons |
Customer experience
OrchardGo
Pindisco
In-app purchases
OrchardGo
No in-app purchases
Pindisco
No in-app purchases









