Needle Music vs Ralbum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Needle Music
Connect with other music enthusiasts and discover new tracks. This app analyzes your taste to find a community, allowing you to save, comment on, and share music and playlists from your streaming services.
- Discover new music
- Save music to Spotify/Apple Music
- Music taste analysis
- Community matching
- Comment and engage with friends' music
- Share songs and playlists
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Needle is the home of music lovers. -Discover new music and save directly to your Spotify or Apple Music -Needle analyzes your music taste to match you with a community -Save, comment, and engage with your friend's music -Easily share songs & playlists from your streaming library Terms of Use: https://www.needlemusic.co/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.needlemusic.co/privacy-policy
Ralbum
Discover and rate music albums and artists globally. Share your opinions on album tracks, follow other users to see their music tastes, and find new music recommended by friends. Explore a vast collection of millions of items.
- Rate albums and artists
- Search millions of music items
- Rate individual album tracks
- Follow other users
- Discover music through friends
- Share opinions on music
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Ralbum is an app for rating albums and artists form all over the world. Search for any album or artist from a collection of millions of items and share your opinion about them by rating the albums tracks. Follow other users to see what others think of your favourite albums or discover new music your friends like.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ralbum at none against Needle Music's 8. Needle Music's advantage is ratings volume (368 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Needle Music sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Ralbum asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Needle Music against 4.0 for Ralbum. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Needle Music has 368 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Needle Music | Ralbum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (368 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 368 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Needle Music, LLC | Samuel de Luna |
Bugs and requests
Needle Music
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and unable to create accounts
- Syncing problems with connected music platforms
- Inconsistent UI behavior and freezing
- Notifications not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for more streaming services (Apple Music, Deezer, etc.)
- Implement dark mode
- Allow users to select song segments to share
- Add follower/following count visibility
- Improve notification system
Ralbum
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Needle Music
- Needle Premium - Weekly$0.997 Days
- Party Starter$2.001 Month
- Needle Premium - Monthly$2.991 Month
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- Needle Subscription - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Groove Guru$8.001 Month
- Diamond Certified$20.001 Month
- Needle Subscription - Yearly$24.001 Year
- Needle Premium - Yearly$24.991 Year
Ralbum
No in-app purchases
