Comparison

Marvis Pro vs Longplay

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

Head to head
About

Marvis Pro

Explore and interact with your music library in a visually appealing and customizable interface. This app enhances your listening experience by offering advanced sorting, grouping, and playback options for your Apple Music and iTunes collections.

Highlights
  • Customizable UI for music library
  • Advanced sorting and grouping
  • Drag & drop playback control
  • Last.fm scrobbling
  • Smart filtering and limiting
  • Multiple layout options
Features
Currently charting
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Interact with your music and fall in love with your library all over again. ** Featured on MacStories, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog, iMore, and more. ** ** App of the Year 2022 - MacStories ** Marvis offers a beautiful presentation of your Music Library with loads of powerful features in a minimalistic yet highly customizable UI. • For Apple Music & iTunes Library. ‣ Supports Apple Music Search, Charts, Listen Now, Radio, and more. ‣ Non-subscribers can search & browse the Apple Music catalog and play 30s preview for all available songs. • Use Drag & Drop to add one or more items to Up Next, Play, or Shuffle. • Advanced Media Details and Artist Info. • List & Grid Layout. Multiple Grid styles to choose from, like Cover Flow. • 40+ App icon choices. • Sort and Group ‣ Sort by Recently Played/Added, Year, Rating, Play Count, and more. ‣ Group Playlists and Genres into Albums, Artists, Composers, etc. • Smart Rules: Filter, Sort, and Limit. • Last.fm support. ‣ The ability to scrobble is included with your purchase. ‣ Advanced features require an additional one-time fee. IMPORTANT: • It is required to have the Music app installed on your device to use Marvis. • Due to iOS restrictions, deleting items from your library or playlists via Marvis is not allowed. Reddit: r/MarvisApp

About

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.

Highlights
  • Album artwork display
  • Smart sorting options
  • Album collections
  • Infinite album shuffle
  • Home screen widget
  • CarPlay and Siri support
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Marvis Pro4 screens
Longplay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Marvis Pro at 4.8 against Longplay's 4.6. Marvis Pro also leads on chart position (#35 vs unranked) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 166). Longplay's advantage is price ($7.49 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On review sentiment, 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

Marvis Pro costs $9.99 and Longplay $7.49 up front. Marvis Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Marvis Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marvis Pro has 1.3K ratings behind it against 166, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Marvis Pro's written reviews are positive against 78% of Longplay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marvis Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Longplay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Marvis Pro versus Longplay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarvis ProLongplay
Price$9.99$7.49 — better
Rating4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better4.6 (166 ratings)
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews — better78.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better166
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#35 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS26.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB40 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAditya RajveerAdrian Schoenig

Customer experience

Marvis Pro

All ratings1,275 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews626 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative9.9%

Longplay

All ratings166 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral3.6%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral9.0%
Negative13.0%

User reviews

Marvis Pro

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 💎 Excellent Last.fm integration
  • 🎨 Beautiful and polished UI
  • 🔍 Powerful filtering and sorting options

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes
  • 🔇 Missing EQ and audio features
  • 📚 Overwhelming customization options
  • 🔍 Difficult to discover new music
  • 🔗 Reliance on Apple Music app for some functions

Longplay

From 166 App Store ratings

What 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

Marvis Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Inconsistent scrobbling to Last.fm
  • Playback issues when switching between apps
  • Metadata not always displaying correctly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Advanced EQ and audio controls
  • Improved music discovery features
  • Ability to edit playlists and queue
  • Dedicated iPad and Apple Watch apps
  • Lyrics integration without third-party apps
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  • Sync settings and configurations across devices

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

1 purchases

Marvis Pro

One-time1
  • Last.fm⁺$5.99
3 purchases

Longplay

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • Medium Tip$5.00
  • Large Tip$10.00

Questions

Is Marvis Pro free?
Marvis Pro costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Marvis Pro or Longplay?
Marvis Pro is rated higher. Marvis Pro averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Longplay averages 4.6 from 166 ratings.
Do Marvis Pro or Longplay have ads?
Neither Marvis Pro nor Longplay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marvis Pro or Longplay?
Marvis Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, and Longplay every 3 weeks. Most recently, Marvis Pro was updated on September 23, 2026 and Longplay on September 22, 2026.

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