Comparison

TrackISS vs Top Tracks

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

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About

TrackISS

Follow the International Space Station's journey across the globe in real-time. Explore its projected orbit, view live telemetry data, and browse a gallery of NASA images. Discover who is currently in space and learn about their missions.

Highlights
  • Real-time ISS movement tracking
  • Projected orbit path display
  • Live telemetry data (velocity, lat, long, altitude)
  • NASA image gallery with zoom
  • View current astronauts and biographies
  • Customizable interface settings
Features
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Welcome to TrackISS, a beautiful native experience that tracks the International Space Station in real-time. Main features include: - See the real-time movement of the ISS. - Track with two different map types. - View the projected orbit path of the ISS. - View live data from the ISS, such as velocity, latitude, longitude, and altitude. - Search for ISS images from NASA's public image database. - View search results in a beautiful gallery-like view, that supports zooming in/out. - View images and their descriptions in an efficient image viewer. - Export any image with ease. - View all current humans in space, along with their nationality, mission role, and a link to their biography (in-app). - Adjust defaults such as map annotations size, toggle haptics, reduce animations, etc. - Select alternate app icons. This app was designed with a hybrid of custom and native iOS components, to provide a space-themed experience while still maintaining the iOS feel we all know and love. Enjoy! New features and improvements coming soon. Feel free to reach out on Twitter with feature requests or feedback :)

About

Top Tracks

Transform your Apple Music playlists into personalized Top 40 radio stations. Create custom stations based on charts or playlists, and influence song rotation based on your ratings and preferences. Share your creations with friends.

Highlights
  • Create Top 40 radio stations
  • Use Apple Music playlists or charts
  • Customize song rotation
  • Rate songs to influence playback
  • Share stations with friends
  • Automatic chart updates
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Top Tracks lets you transform your favorite Apple Music Playlists into Top 40-style radio stations. Make as many stations as you want until your personal Top Tracks station dial is overflowing. The Top 40 format was built around a core music library of 40 songs which was freshened each week. Some songs were added to the playlist and played just enough for us to get to know them. As we began to love them, the station knew to move them up into categories that were played more often. Every 10 minutes or so, we knew we’d hear one of our very favorite songs and then, when we started to tire of them, the station knew to move them down into categories that were played less often and eventually out of the core library. The 40 songs weren’t played in the same order over and over, and they weren’t played in a random order. The mix was always fresh and each hour was different. The top 10 songs repeated about every 90 minutes. The next 10 repeated every 3 hours, the next 10 every 4 hours, and the bottom 10 repeated every 6 hours. Sprinkled in now and then were the songs our favorite DJs retrieved from the music vault. Top Tracks puts you in charge of as many stations as you want to create. The app lets you create two kinds of stations - it all depends on whether your station is based on a chart or a playlist. If you start with a Top 25 City Chart or a Daily Global Top 100 Chart, Top Tracks automatically creates a station for you and updates it every day. A Top 25 station rotates the music a little more quickly than most stations, but then again, the music refreshes every day and songs move on and off and up and down the charts. A Top 100 station rotates the top 40 songs just like a classic Top 40 station and treats the remaining 60 songs as songs that can be added to spice up the mix once an hour. Want a little more control? If you build your station from an Apple Music Playlist, you can influence whether a song is played more often or less often and rotate the music on your schedule. Choose a playlist by checking out the top ranked playlists, or look for playlists by selecting a top genre, a particular mood or activity, a favorite decade, a particular International vibe, or try your luck with a search. As you listen to these playlist stations, take the time to rate the songs, and the next time you choose to rotate the music in the station, your favorite songs will move up, others will move down, and music from the vault will enter the Top 40 rotation. As Apple Music refreshes these playlists, you’ll be able to add new music to your station. Share your favorite stations with friends, and they can build their own stations from the same playlists and charts. Create and enjoy as many stations as you’d like. This app requires that you have an Apple Music Subscription.

Screenshots

TrackISS4 screens
Top Tracks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Tracks at none against TrackISS's 1. TrackISS's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. TrackISS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Top Tracks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TrackISS against 5.0 for Top Tracks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrackISS has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TrackISS versus Top Tracks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrackISSTop Tracks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequency—Every 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamuel McGarryDim Sum Thinking, Inc

Customer experience

TrackISS

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Top Tracks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TrackISS

One-time1
  • Launchpad Tip$1.99
None

Top Tracks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrackISS free?
TrackISS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Top Tracks free?
Top Tracks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TrackISS or Top Tracks?
TrackISS and Top Tracks are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do TrackISS or Top Tracks have ads?
Neither TrackISS nor Top Tracks shows ads.

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