Comparison

Transfer Music vs Playlist Tools

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

Head to head
About

Transfer Music

Easily move your music library between various streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. Select your source, choose tracks, and transfer them to your preferred platform, ensuring your favorite songs are always accessible.

Highlights
  • Transfer music between services
  • Support for multiple music platforms
  • Select specific tracks or entire libraries
  • Create unified music collections
  • Switch music services effortlessly
Features
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Whether you're using Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal, SoundCloud or Yandex Music, your music will always be with you. Move your playlists, albums, artists and tracks between music services in just a few taps. How it works: • Pick your source • Let the search do its thing • Choose what you want — or grab it all • Hit the Add button With Transfer, you can: • Switch to a new music service effortlessly • Take your entire music library with you • Move playlists, albums, artists, or just the tracks you want • Transfer everything at once or pick and choose • Change your mind? You can always switch back Remember, you'll need an active subscription for the destination app. Yes, subscriptions are paid. And don't worry if some tracks are missing — it depends on the track names and what's available in your region.

About

Playlist Tools

This app helps manage your music playlists by detecting and removing duplicate songs. It also allows you to import songs into your music library from text files or shared content, searching for them within a music service.

Highlights
  • Detect and remove duplicate songs
  • Create new playlists without duplicates
  • Import songs from text files
  • Import songs via Share function
  • Search for songs within a music service
  • Batch song import
Features
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Do you use the Music app? Then... Remove Duplicates ================ Do you have playlists that contain duplicates or same songs from multiple artists? Music Tools will detect and remove these duplicates without the need for iTunes. The process of removing songs detects duplicates and do preselect duplicate songs for deletion. You can adjust the preselection of songs to suit your needs. The song removal process creates a new playlist that does not contain duplicate songs. Import songs =========== If you have an Apple Music subscription and need to add lots of songs, use the feature to import songs into Music. Songs can be imported from selected text from any application using the Share function. Or from a text file (.txt extension) in any of your applications. Each song title (+ artist name) must be on one line. The song import process looks for a song title in Apple Music service. For each song title, it selects one match and offers other possible songs. After you checking the search, enter the name of the new playlist and start the import process. Import adds songs from Apple Music to your library in one batch.

Screenshots

Transfer Music4 screens
Playlist Tools4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Transfer Music at Free against Playlist Tools's $0.99. Transfer Music also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (2K vs 16). Playlist Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Transfer Music is free to download; Playlist Tools costs $0.99 up front. Transfer Music sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Playlist Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Transfer Music holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transfer Music has 2K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Transfer Music's written reviews are positive against 45% of Playlist Tools's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Transfer Music ships an update fortnightly, Playlist Tools every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Transfer Music versus Playlist Tools: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTransfer MusicPlaylist Tools
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (2K ratings) — better3.0 (16 ratings)
Positive reviews52.9% of reviews — better45.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2K — better16
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDanil VoidilovJan Tichy

Customer experience

Transfer Music

All ratings1,977 ratings
Positive86.1%
Neutral4.2%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews225 reviews
Positive52.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative42.2%

Playlist Tools

All ratings16 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.0%

Bugs and requests

Transfer Music

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Authorization issues with music services
  • Inconsistent behavior when transferring songs

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add support for more music services like SoundCloud
  • Allow selecting specific playlists to transfer
  • Improve accuracy and completeness of song transfers

Playlist Tools

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Transfer Music

One-time9
  • Ads free for 24 hours$0.99
  • Just a coffee$0.99
  • Unlimited transfer + Ad-Free2 variants$0.99
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  • Unlimited transfer + Ad-Free$1.99
  • Buy us lunch$1.99
  • Ads free for 1 month$1.99
  • Make our day$4.99
  • Ads free for 6 months$5.99
  • Ads free for 1 year$9.99
None

Playlist Tools

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Transfer Music free?
Transfer Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Playlist Tools free?
Playlist Tools costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Transfer Music or Playlist Tools?
Transfer Music is rated higher. Transfer Music averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2K ratings, while Playlist Tools averages 3.0 from 16 ratings.
Do Transfer Music or Playlist Tools have ads?
Transfer Music shows ads; Playlist Tools does not.
Which is updated more often, Transfer Music or Playlist Tools?
Transfer Music ships an update fortnightly, and Playlist Tools every 2 months. Most recently, Transfer Music was updated on November 3, 2026 and Playlist Tools on November 3, 2026.

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