Comparison

Longplay vs Tuneshine

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

Head to head
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.

About

Tuneshine

Transform your living space with dynamic artwork synced to your music. This app connects to your music streaming services and smart speakers to display album art that complements your audio experience and home decor.

Highlights
  • Syncs album art with music playback
  • Connects to Spotify, Apple Music, last.fm
  • Supports Sonos speakers
  • Customizable settings
  • Integrates with home decor
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Tuneshine lights up your room with the artwork from the songs you listen to, bringing a new way to experience your music that fits in to the decor of your home. Set up a new Tuneshine, add your music accounts, add friends, and customize settings using the Tuneshine app. Requires a physical Tuneshine device. Supports Spotify, Apple Music, Sonos, WiiM, Plex, Roon, and last.fm. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Longplay4 screens
Tuneshine3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tuneshine at Free against Longplay's $7.49. Longplay's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (170 vs 31). On review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tuneshine is free to download; Longplay costs $7.49 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Tuneshine sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Longplay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Longplay has 170 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Longplay's written reviews are positive against 73% of Tuneshine's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Longplay ships an update every 3 weeks, Tuneshine fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Longplay versus Tuneshine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLongplayTuneshine
Price$7.49Free — better
Rating4.6 (170 ratings) — better4.2 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews — better72.7% of reviews
Number of ratings170 — better31
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB95 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperAdrian SchoenigTobias Butler

Customer experience

Longplay

All ratings170 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral9.9%
Negative12.9%

Tuneshine

All ratings31 ratings
Positive77.4%
Neutral3.2%
Negative19.4%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative22.7%

Bugs and requests

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

Tuneshine

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Longplay

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

Tuneshine

Subscriptions2
  • Tuneshine VIP Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Tuneshine VIP Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Tuneshine free?
Tuneshine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Longplay or Tuneshine?
Longplay is rated higher. Longplay averages 4.6 out of 5 from 170 ratings, while Tuneshine averages 4.2 from 31 ratings.
Do Longplay or Tuneshine have ads?
Neither Longplay nor Tuneshine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Longplay or Tuneshine?
Longplay ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tuneshine fortnightly. Most recently, Longplay was updated on October 29, 2026 and Tuneshine on October 25, 2026.

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