Comparison

Listen Later vs Pixel Play

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

Head to head
About

Listen Later

This app acts as a music to-do list, helping you save albums and tracks you discover. It allows you to create personal listening queues and collections for any mood or event, then play them through your preferred music service.

Highlights
  • Music to-do list
  • Save albums and tracks
  • Personal listening queue
  • Create music collections
  • Play through favorite services
  • Build listening history
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Listen Later – your music to-do list Listen Later is your reminder and play-queue companion for music — a to-listen list for albums and tracks you don’t want to forget. Save music as you discover it, then come back and play it through your favourite service — Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and more. Use On Rotation as your personal listening queue. Add albums you want to check out, or keep track of the ones you currently have on repeat — your “best of the best”. Whether it’s a new release, a friend’s recommendation, or a timeless classic, they’ll all be waiting when you’re ready to listen. Want to keep a record of what you’ve been loving lately? Every so often, save your On Rotation list to the Collections Library to build a history of your listening journey — a musical time capsule. You can also create standalone Collections for any mood, event, or era: your all-time favourite dance albums, the soundtracks of your teenage years, or the perfect mix for an upcoming road trip. When it’s time, just hit play. Powered by the vast Apple Music catalogue, Listen Later makes it easy to find nearly any album ever released. Then, play it wherever you like — Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, and beyond. Listen Later — don’t just queue it, remember it.

About

Pixel Play

Features
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Music that knows you. Every song you skip, every mood you carry, every drive you take — Pixel Play is paying attention. Not in the spy way. In the way a close friend learns what makes you smile, what calms you, what energizes you. We built Pixel Play because music players forgot why we listen to music in the first place. It is not for a trending list. Not for an algorithm built around someone else's taste. It is for that moment — when the right song meets the right second — and the world quietly aligns. HEART. The invisible intelligence. HEART quietly learns your taste — your language, your tempo, your time of day, the way you hold the disc. Within five songs, it stops guessing. It starts knowing. Whispers in your language. Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi. Over 210 hand-written messages from a system that gets you. Skip a song, it nods. Find a new artist you love, it celebrates. Silently, never in the way. Built for the moment. — Mood-aware autoplay that stays in your feel — Lock-screen and AirPlay controls that work like they should — Swipe the vinyl disc to scratch, skip, scrub — Smart Records: your library, sorted by feeling, not file name — Music-only filter: no trailers, no podcasts, no reviews slipping through — No ads. No subscriptions. No login required. Search. Play. Feel. That is all. This is version one. The best version of Pixel Play is yet to come. Made with HEART in India. creativepixels.in

Screenshots

Listen Later4 screens
Pixel Play4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pixel Play at 15.0 against Listen Later's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Listen Later versus Pixel Play: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterListen LaterPixel Play
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBreakbeat Ltd.Akshay Khandelwal

In-app purchases

None

Listen Later

No in-app purchases

None

Pixel Play

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Listen Later free?
Listen Later is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pixel Play free?
Pixel Play is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Listen Later or Pixel Play have ads?
Neither Listen Later nor Pixel Play shows ads.

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