Soor ▹ vs Longplay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Soor ▹
A premium music player for iPhone and iPad, offering a feature-rich experience for Apple Music users. Enjoy personalized content, gesture-driven navigation, and extensive customization options. Integrates with Last.fm and Musixmatch, and supports widgets and CarPlay.
- Feature-rich Apple Music app
- Personalized Apple curated content
- Gesture-driven interface
- Light, Dark, and Black themes
- Musixmatch integration
- Last.fm auto-scrobbling
- Widgets and CarPlay support
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Soor is a beautiful, premium music player for your iPhone & iPad. Features: - First feature rich 3rd party Apple Music app. - Apple curated content personalised to your listening taste. - Play, search, like, share and add songs from across the entire Apple Music catalogue. - Intuitive, fully gesture driven user interface. - Light, Dark and Black themes. - Musixmatch integration. - Last.fm auto-scrobbling. - Widgets. - Magic Mix. - Release Alerts. - iPad support including split-screen and slide-over. - CarPlay support. Requirements: - Music app is required to use Soor. - App only works with Apple Music or songs you uploaded to Music.app. No other music service is supported. In case you're wondering what Soor means, pronounced Sur (Soar), it's Hindi for melody/note. For F.A.Q. and limitations visit: soor.app/faq If you have any doubts please email: support@soor.app *Soor is a 3rd party Music player. Apple, the Apple logo, Apple Music, iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions. Album artworks used in screenshots above are not actual artwork image for the albums due to licensing concerns. Actual artworks in app will be shown correctly.
Longplay
Rediscover your music library with this app that beautifully displays your album artwork. Explore forgotten favorites and play music with smart sorting options like addiction, brightness, and recency. Organize albums into collections and enjoy infinite shuffle.
- Album artwork display
- Smart sorting options
- Album collections
- Infinite album shuffle
- Home screen widget
- CarPlay and Siri support
- Shortcuts integration
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Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you. Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favorites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options: - Orderliness: by artist, then by album - Addiction: by amount of time spent listening - Brightness: by the primary color of the album artwork - Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating - Recency: by date added - Memory: by last played - Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song - Random: a new order, every time you tap it You can organize your albums into collections, which sync across your devices. Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order. It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them. It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.t supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts. It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually. --- Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focusing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs. --- Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection. It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists. Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Soor ▹ at none against Longplay's 3. Longplay's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 57%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Soor ▹ costs $6.99 and Longplay $7.49 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Soor ▹ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Longplay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 451 and 166 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Soor ▹'s written reviews are positive against 78% of Longplay's.
Soor ▹ ships an update every 2 weeks, Longplay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soor ▹ | Longplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 — better | $7.49 |
| Rating | 4.3 (451 ratings) | 4.6 (166 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.6% of reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 451 — better | 166 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #124 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tanmay Sonawane | Adrian Schoenig |
Customer experience
Soor ▹
Longplay
User reviews
Soor ▹
From 451 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Innovative and intuitive UI
- 👍 Customizable home screen
- 🎨 Beautiful dark mode
- 🎨 Sleek and polished design
- 🎨 Smooth animations
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Buggy playback and queue management
- 🐛 Inconsistent performance and responsiveness
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 🔒 Limitations due to Apple Music API
Longplay
From 166 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎵 Excellent album-focused listening experience
- 👍 Intuitive and minimalist user interface
- 🎨 Beautiful visual presentation of album artwork
- 🔍 Unique sorting options (Addiction, Negligence, Brightness)
- 🚗 CarPlay support for album browsing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes with large music libraries
- ❄️ UI freezing and performance issues
- 🔥 Device overheating during operation
- ⏱️ Slow album loading and updating process
- 🚫 Doesn't display all albums in library
Bugs and requests
Soor ▹
Reported bugs
5 issues- Widgets not working as expected
- Inconsistent behavior when skipping songs
- Artwork not loading properly
- Sorting issues in playlists
- Conflicts with the native Apple Music app
Requested features
7 requests- Add volume controls
- Implement a true shuffle mode
- Allow reordering of playlists
- Add support for local music files
- Provide more customization options
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- Integrate with other music services like Spotify
- Add an Apple Watch app
Longplay
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on startup with large libraries
- UI constantly freezes during album loading
- Device becomes very hot during operation
- Doesn't load entire music library
- Gapless playback creates overlapping songs
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- Purity option for gapless play doesn't work
- Scrobbling incomplete (only first few tracks)
- CarPlay support broken after updates
- Vision Pro immersive view crashes
- Settings window cannot be minimized
- Allow selection toggle loses memory
- Widget doesn't show album artwork
- Sort by feature missing since iOS 26
- Album library not syncing with Apple Music
- Crashes when immersive view selected
- Player window too large in panorama mode
Requested features
20 requests- Search functionality for albums and artists
- Track listing display during playback
- Skip/back track controls
- Volume control in app
- Sort by release year
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- Sort by genre/categories
- Show album information and metadata
- Play Next/Play Later queue management
- Open album in Apple Music link
- Delete albums from library option
- View only complete albums toggle
- Exclude specific albums (e.g., Christmas albums)
- macOS version of the app
- tvOS app version
- Higher resolution album artwork
- Album cover size randomization in grid
- Immersive listening room environments
- Album liner notes viewing
- Widget improvements for album display
- Autocorrect toggle for search
In-app purchases
Soor ▹
No in-app purchases
Longplay
- Small Tip$2.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
- Large Tip$10.00






