Longplay vs Music Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Album artwork display
- Smart sorting options
- Album collections
- Infinite album shuffle
- Home screen widget
- CarPlay and Siri support
- Shortcuts integration
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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.
Music Tracker
Organize your physical music collection, including vinyl, CDs, and cassettes. Build wishlists, track album locations, and sync your library across devices. Save favorite lyrics and integrate with Apple ecosystem features.
- Organize vinyl, CD, and cassette collections
- Build wishlists and track album locations
- Sync library across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Add custom details for rare pressings
- Categorize with Spaces and Tags
- Save and display favorite lyrics
- Import/export library data
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Music Tracker is the ultimate app for vinyl, CD, and cassette collectors on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Organize your entire physical music collection, build a wishlist of albums you want, and never lose track of what you own. Search for any album, view detailed info and stunning cover art, and add it to your Library in seconds. Can't find a rare pressing? Add it manually with custom details. Organize albums into Spaces, which are custom collections you create to group your music however you like. Key Features: - Sync Across All Devices: Save an album on your iPhone and see it instantly on your iPad and Mac. Your Library and Spaces stay perfectly in sync, so you never buy the same vinyl twice. - Organize with Spaces and Tags: Group your albums into custom Spaces and add Tags to categorize them by mood, era, genre, or anything you choose. Edit album details like title, artist, label, genre, and more. - Track the Physical Location of Your Albums: Assign each album a Position in your home. Set a Location, a Shelving unit, and a specific Shelf so you always know exactly where every record is stored. - Shazam Integration: Hear a song you love? Use the built-in Shazam feature to identify it, find the album, and add it to your Library or a Space right away. - Save Your Favorite Lyrics: Capture lyrics and quotes that resonate with you. Display them on your Home Screen with a dedicated widget. - Apple Ecosystem Integration: Take advantage of Siri, Shortcuts, and Widgets. Place your favorite quotes or quick-access Spaces right on your Home Screen. - Import and Export: Bring in your collection from Delicious Library and other services. Export your library as PDF or CSV for backup or sharing. - Privacy First: No personal data collection, no tracking. Your music collection stays yours. Music Tracker is free to download. The free version lets you add up to 5 albums and create 1 Space. Unlock Music Tracker Pro for an unlimited library and full access to every feature. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://musictracker.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Music Tracker at Free against Longplay's $7.49. Longplay's advantage is review sentiment (77% vs 66%) and ratings volume (170 vs 51). On rating, 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
Music Tracker is free to download; Longplay costs $7.49 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Music Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Music Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 170 and 51 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Longplay's written reviews are positive against 66% of Music Tracker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Longplay ships an update every 3 weeks, Music Tracker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Longplay | Music Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.49 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (170 ratings) | 4.8 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.2% of reviews — better | 65.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 51 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adrian Schoenig | Simone Montalto |
Customer experience
Longplay
Music Tracker
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
Music Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Longplay
- Small Tip$2.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
- Large Tip$10.00
Music Tracker
- Music Tracker Pro$1.491 Month
- Music Tracker Pro3 Days trial$10.991 Year
- Music Tracker Pro (Lifetime)$34.99
Questions
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