Marvis Pro vs Now Playing Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable UI for music library
- Advanced sorting and grouping
- Drag & drop playback control
- Last.fm scrobbling
- Smart filtering and limiting
- Multiple layout options
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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
Now Playing Plus
Enhance your Apple Watch face with convenient audio controls. This app adds corner and circular complications, allowing quick access to playback functions without navigating through menus.
- Corner complications
- Circular complications
- Audio controls
- Quick access
- Customizable watch face
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Now Playing Plus provides corner and circular complications for your Apple Watch face. This gives you easy access to audio controls, without needed to hunt around in the App List or Dock.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Now Playing Plus at Free against Marvis Pro's $9.99. Now Playing Plus also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Marvis Pro's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 9 months). On ads and device support 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
Now Playing Plus is free to download; Marvis Pro costs $9.99 up front. Marvis Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Now Playing Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Marvis Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Marvis Pro has 1.3K ratings behind it against 51, 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 71% of Now Playing Plus's.
Marvis Pro ships an update every 9 days, Now Playing Plus every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marvis Pro | Now Playing Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better | 3.7 (51 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 51 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #28 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aditya Rajveer | The Iconfactory |
Customer experience
Marvis Pro
Now Playing Plus
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
Now Playing Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Marvis Pro
- Last.fm⁺$5.99
Now Playing Plus
No in-app purchases
