Fintunes vs ListenNow+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fintunes
Stream your music library from Jellyfin with a beautiful interface. Enjoy high-quality audio playback, search your entire collection, or play curated playlists. Offline playback is also available for downloaded tracks.
- Jellyfin media system integration
- High-quality audio streaming
- Search entire music library
- Playlist playback
- Offline music downloads
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Fintunes is a streaming audio player for the Jellyfin media system. It features a gorgeous interface that allows you to play your favourite music with ease. You can search your entire library for any track, or just take it easy with a playlist that you've created earlier in Jellyfin. All tracks are streamed directly at the highest quality from your Jellyfin library. Streaming not always an option? Any track in your Jellyfin library can be downloaded and played offline.
ListenNow+
Stream music from Apple Music and access your personal media library via Subsonic or Navidrome. Enjoy features like crossfading, Siri integration, HomeKit lighting control, and lyrics display. Play music in your car with CarPlay and identify songs easily.
- Stream Apple Music library
- Connect to Subsonic/Navidrome servers
- Crossfading playback
- Siri integration
- HomeKit lighting control
- Singing lyrics display
- CarPlay support
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Listen to a huge selection of songs from Apple Music. Also connect to your Subsonic media server to easily access and play content from your personal library. •Play Apple Music library and recommendations. *1 •Connect to Subsonic/Navidrome media server to easily access and play content from your personal media library. •Enjoy a continuous listening experience with crossfading. *2 •Ask Siri to play songs. •Enable lighting control to work with lights in HomeKit for audio-visual feedback. *3 •Immerse yourself in your favorite music with an excellent singing lyrics experience and a beautiful user interface. *4 •Add a widget to your home screen to easily view the lyrics of the currently playing song. •Play music in your car with CarPlay App. •Easily identify music with music recognition without manual search. •Free and ad-free; no privacy data is collected. *1. You need to subscribe to Apple Music to play music from Apple Music. Apple Music availability and features vary by country, plan, or device. For more information, please refer to https://support.apple.com/en-us/118205. *2. Not all media supports audio crossfading. *3. Not all media supports lighting control. *4. Not all media have lyrics, which need to be provided in your Subsonic server.
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Verdict
Fintunes and ListenNow+ both sit at 3.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of ListenNow+'s written reviews are positive against 68% of Fintunes's. Fintunes's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Fintunes against 4.0 for ListenNow+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 56 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Fintunes's written reviews are positive against 82% of ListenNow+'s.
Fintunes ships an update every 2 months, ListenNow+ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fintunes | ListenNow+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (31 ratings) | 4.0 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews | 81.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Studio Falkland BV | Shanghai Yanghe Culture Media Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Fintunes
ListenNow+
User reviews
Fintunes
From 31 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Excellent Jellyfin audio player
- ✨ Clean and modern design
- 🚀 Performs well
- 👍 Mostly works as expected
- 👍 Native Jellyfin unusable, this is better
Room to improve
- 🐛 Downloaded files randomly not working
- 🐛 Unfocuses on server details
- 🐛 Crashes all the time
- 🐛 Playback is spotty, songs repeat
- 🐛 Offline mode could be better
ListenNow+
From 56 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Beautiful UI design
- 🌟 Smooth and fluid experience
- 🎵 Excellent Apple Music companion
- 🆓 Free to use
- 🎶 Great for self-hosted servers (Navidrome, Subsonic)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashing issues
- 🐛 Songs not playing or skipping
- 🐛 Slow response times
- 🐛 Difficult to connect to Navidrome/Subsonic
- 🐛 Certificate invalid error
Bugs and requests
Fintunes
Reported bugs
15 issues- Downloaded files randomly not working
- Unfocuses itself on entering server details
- Downloaded music no longer plays in the app after some time
- Stuck in a loading screen when logging in
- Downloaded (cached) tracks don’t play
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- Crashes all the time
- Pause/resume is flawed, cannot resume after being paused by another audio stream
- Initial connecting errors with https:// or missing port number
- Chinese albums do not support sorting
- How to listen to offline tracks? How to select Jellyfin media library?
- Download section issues, only shows cloud arrow icon
- Refuses to play music
- Playback skips and songs repeat
- Headphone volume too loud (iOS system problem)
- App startup is a bit slow
Requested features
20 requests- Add volume setting to reduce beyond Apple audio APIs
- Downloaded songs tab should act as a playlist/player
- Shuffle play all music
- Lyrics (karaoke Apple Music style)
- Improve download section and play from there
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- Artists view with posters and metadata
- Siri suggestions when connecting AirPods
- Dark mode toggle
- More blur colorful player screen
- View 'All Songs' and 'Genres'
- Create playlists in the app
- iPad version
- CarPlay support
- Google Cast support
- Switching library
- Rating
- Grid view
- Support for Jellyfin playlists
- Show all titles option
- Rename to 'Jellyfin Music'
ListenNow+
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes on opening
- Cannot add content to library
- Songs don't play or skip
- Playback issues on Mac
- App not working on macOS 13
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- Certificate invalid error
- Apple Music store selection not working
- No album art animation on Apple TV
- Inconsistent playback on Apple TV
- Server playback crashes
- Slow response
- Cannot favorite songs
- Cannot connect to Navidrome server
- Cannot connect to Subsonic server
- Navidrome latest version not playable
- No songs after adding server
- Apple TV video and music playback unresponsive
Requested features
22 requests- Add content to library
- Fix crashing issues
- Support KTV/karaoke function
- Add YouTube Music integration
- Add Plex support
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- Add playlist mixes
- Add support for adding artists & albums
- Add dark mode icon
- Load local music files
- Sync network disk music files
- Add CarPlay lyrics
- Solely focus on Subsonic Server content
- Add ability to add albums to Spotify
- Fix certificate invalid error
- Improve Navidrome/Subsonic connection
- Improve Apple TV playback interface
- Add ability to favorite songs
- Add more connection methods
- Add support for Navidrome
- Add ability to add albums & playlists to library
- Add ability to add artists & albums
- Add ability to add albums to library instead of Apple Music library
In-app purchases
Fintunes
No in-app purchases
ListenNow+
No in-app purchases
