Music vs YMGuide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music
Stream millions of songs from YouTube for free, import playlists, and discover personalized recommendations. Enjoy features like picture-in-picture, a powerful equalizer, and casting to your TV. Save device space and enjoy music on the go.
- Unlimited free music streaming
- YouTube playlist import
- AI-powered recommendations
- Picture-in-picture player
- 10-band equalizer
- Casting and streaming to TV
- Music recognition
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Join millions of music lovers who enjoy unlimited music with our feature-packed apps! Enjoy endless streaming of 300+ million songs from YouTube, import your favorite YouTube playlists, and stream your favorite music and movies online to save valuable device space. Effortlessly cast audio and video to your TV with AirPlay-enabled devices. Control playback effortlessly from your car or smart devices. Enjoy unlimited free movies & TV shows available in multiple languages. Discover smart playlists, AI-driven recommendations tailored just for you, and daily refreshed charts to keep your listening fresh and exciting—all wrapped in a stunning dark theme. Top features: • Unlimited Free Music: Stream over 300+ million songs from YouTube, completely free with no limits or purchases required. • YouTube Playlist Import: Effortlessly bring all your playlists together and enjoy unlimited streaming. • Smart AI Recommendations: Personalized playlists and intelligent suggestions that match your taste. • Picture-in-Picture: Multitask seamlessly with a floating popup player that you can resize and adjust. • Powerful Equalizer: 5, 10 or 32 band equalizer with Bass Boost, Treble and presets like Classical, Club, Dance, Pop, Rock, and more. • Advanced Search: Instantly find songs, albums, artists, singles, remixes, covers, and podcasts. • Variable Playback Speeds: Adjust the playback speed to fit your preferences. • Casting & Streaming: Cast or stream music and videos effortlessly to your TV or any AirPlay-enabled device. • Battery Saver Mode: Reduced brightness and tap protection to save battery while enjoying music. • Music Recognition: Discover new songs playing around you; identify nearby music and create instant playlists with similar tracks. • Daily Top Charts: Explore daily updated top hits, trending songs, and featured playlists across multiple genres. • Unlimited Playlist Management: Easily create, manage, and share playlists with unlimited songs. • Infinite Mixed Playlists: Combine any content including online music, podcasts, and radio into infinite personalized playlists. • Diverse Genres & Moods: Access thousands of categories including Pop, Rock, Rap, RnB, Jazz, Classical, Electronic, Dubstep, Drum, Reggae, and much more. • Seamlessly import and enjoy offline audio and video from Files app, Dropbox, Wi-Fi transfers, other cloud storage services, or directly from your computer via a web browser. • Rich audio/video format support: MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, OGG, AIFF, MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV, MPEG, WEBM, TS, 3GP, FLV, and many more. • Sleep Timer: Set a countdown timer to gently fade out your music as you fall asleep. • Ad-Free Option: Enjoy uninterrupted listening with an optional ad-free experience. • Seamlessly control playback from your car, home stereo, and smart devices. • Convenient CarPlay support. • Beautiful Dark Theme: Stylish, sleek design perfect for day and night listening. Experience a powerful yet simple music streaming app built for true music lovers. Download the app now and join our 200M+ Music family!
YMGuide
Organize, play, and customize your YouTube viewing experience. Trim videos, skip intros/outros, and control playback remotely on other devices. Record karaoke sessions and manage playlists with custom categories.
- Trim video streams
- Skip intros and outros
- Remote playback control
- Edit video chapters
- Karaoke recording
- Playlist organization
- Picture-in-Picture mode
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YMGuide app for iOS, play, organize, and enjoy YouTube videos. You can trim the YouTube video stream to your liking as it streams to your device.. Remote control video playback(Remote Play) on iPad/Mac/Vision Pro with your iPhone, the YMGuide app controls the other YMGuide app on another Apple device. Edit chapters* and allows you to play directly to the chapters in the order you want and skip the chapters you don't want to watch. Have you ever wanted to automatically skip intros and outros of YouTube videos? Edit the start and end times of each video* you watch and save it so that you only watch the parts that you want, using our T button. Record your karaoke singing sessions.* Listen to the original song, so you can learn how to sing it, then switch to the karaoke version of the video instantaneously at the press of a microphone button. Switch from one video to a similarly linked video that you customize. Located at the top of our Player Page: ● Y button opens video in YouTube page ● M button for connecting to Remote Player(iPhone YMGuide app connects to web player)** ● G button to generate access code for our web player(password less) ● Network button(Peer 2 Peer) - allows using iPhone(YMGuide app) as remote control of an iPad(running YMGuide app)* Remote Play** feature allows you to use your phone as a remote control for YouTube videos playing on your TV, Tesla screen, or Apple Vision Pro. Steps to connect YMGuide app to external device(web enabled TV/Laptop, on Chromecast use TV Bro browser app, on FireTV use Silk browser) Step 1. Visit our page at https://www.ymguide.org/player (if using iPad/Mac/Vision Pro/Tesla) Step 2. Login using your login or by access code. Get access code by pressing G button at the top of Player page in our mobile app. Step 3. On mobile device, press M button(located next to G button), after adding some videos, to connect app to web player. Visit our X page (formerly Twitter) for "how to" use our app: https://www.twitter.com/YMGuideApp Picture-in-Picture is available on iPhone, minimize our mobile app to allow background audio to play in the lock screen. Elite subscribers can use remote control mode on iPad/MacBook to have PiP capability, users have to open browser to https://www.ymguide.org/player where our mobile app sends the playlist to the iPad browser which can go into PiP. New with My Home, organize your favorite videos into playlists and place them in custom categories and subcategories so that you can quickly go back to them. We provide YMGuide Home, our own example playlists that update daily that we curated for users and place them in our created categories and sub categories. New widgets, allows you to select recently played, country, playlist, playlist grouping, and category to open to. *Requires Premium subscription **Requires Elite subscription -- 7 day free trial from first login. Additional Subscription information ● Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. ● Account will be charged for renewal in accordance with your plan, within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. ● Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. ● Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Legal: Terms of Use: https://www.ymguide.org/term_of_use Privacy Policy: https://www.ymguide.org/privacy_policy All the content is provided by YouTube services, please follow these: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/ https://www.youtube.com/yt/policyandsafety/ Support: Twitter/X: @YMGuideApp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: YMGuide at 5.0 against Music's 4.1. YMGuide also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). Music's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Music sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and YMGuide sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
YMGuide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Music has 1.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Music ships an update every 3 weeks, YMGuide every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Music | YMGuide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Aktis Inc | Sothear Ly |
Customer experience
Music
YMGuide
Bugs and requests
Music
Reported bugs
4 issues- Search function not working
- Playlist issues (songs not playing in order)
- Playback stops unexpectedly
- Compatibility problems with certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Offline music playback
- Ability to customize playlists
- Background music playback
- Improved search functionality
- Support for more audio formats
YMGuide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Music
- Weekly premium ad-free3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Annual premium ad-free3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime premium access$79.99
YMGuide
- YMGuide one month .$0.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- YMGuide Elite Monthly(1 Month)$4.991 Month
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- YMGuide annual subscription .$9.991 Year
- Elite Monthly$9.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
- YMGuide Elite Yearly(1 Year)$29.991 Year
- Elite Yearly$69.991 Year









