Comparison

Playback Music vs MojoDeck

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

Head to head
About

Playback Music

Rediscover forgotten songs and playlists from your Apple Music library. This app uses a unique algorithm to blend tracks by genre, tempo, and sonic similarity, and allows you to create playlists by drawing their shape. It also offers hands-free control via Siri and integrates with Shortcuts.

Highlights
  • Algorithmic song rotation
  • Playlist discovery
  • Playlist creation by drawing shapes
  • Hands-free Siri control
  • Shortcuts integration
  • Privacy-focused design
Features
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Rediscover your music. Playback spins your Apple Music library on a dial and resurfaces the songs and playlists you'd forgotten you loved. SONGS An endless rotation drawn from your own library. A bespoke algorithm blends genre lineage, tempo, and sonic similarity to walk from one track to the next β€” prioritising the songs you've played most and those that have been in your library longest. Every queue is saved to History, so you can keep the playlists you love. PLAYLISTS You've got good taste; Playback brings it to the fore. The Playlists tab spins a dial through your Apple Music playlists and lands on one at random. Your collection, reshuffled, with none of the deciding. DESIGN Build a playlist by drawing its shape. Sketch an energy curve β€” from glacial calm up to full intensity β€” and Playback fills it with songs that rise and fall to match. HANDS-FREE Every mode answers to your voice. Ask Siri to make a playlist, design one by mood, play something at random, or save what's playing to your library. Tap a Control Center button to start the music without unlocking your phone. It all runs on Shortcuts, so you can wire Playback into routines of your own. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No tracking. No subscription. Your music library stays on your device, between you and Apple Music. Playback requires an Apple Music subscription.

About

MojoDeck

Features
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MD-1 is a cassette-inspired recorder for iPhone built for people who miss warmth, instability, and happy accidents. It combines vintage tape behavior with modern recording workflows, minus broken belts, dirty heads, and finding out your favorite cassette got eaten. TAPE CHARACTER CONTROLS Five sliders. Five ways to ruin perfection. Push the input gain into the red. Add Tape Wear for softened highs and tired old cassette energy. Drive Saturation for harmonic grit and glue. Introduce Wow & Flutter for subtle instability and capstan wobble. And change Tape Speed from 0.5x to 2.0x, with pitch following along as real tape would. Digital audio has spent decades trying to eliminate these things. We put them back. TWO TAPE FORMULATIONS Ferric (Type I): warm, bass-heavy, beautifully imperfect. Chrome (Type II): brighter, cleaner, slightly more civilized. Different EQ curves. Different saturation. Different personalities. RECORD WITHOUT THE DRAMA Punch in anywhere without losing the rest of your take. Monitor your input before recording. Watch your levels on a proper analog-style VU meter. Keep track of time with a mechanical tape counter because honestly… DAW timelines are boring. EXPORT YOUR WAY AAC. WAV. Dry. Saturated. Clean-ish. Completely cooked. Send recordings anywhere via AirDrop, email, SoundCloud, or whatever app your music disappears into next. BUILT LIKE A PIECE OF GEAR Portrait for quick captures. Landscape for full control. Supports USB audio interfaces, microphones and external gear. Double-tap Tape Speed to snap back to 1.0x. And yes, the reels spin faster when you speed up the tape. We know that doesn’t improve the sound. That’s not why we added it. MojoDeck MD-1 The best cassette recorder since the death of cassette recorders.

Screenshots

Playback Music4 screens
MojoDeck3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MojoDeck at Free against Playback Music's $5.99. Playback Music's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

MojoDeck is free to download; Playback Music costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
Playback Music versus MojoDeck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlayback MusicMojoDeck
Price$5.99Free β€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size5 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDan EdenChristoph Hartwig

In-app purchases

None

Playback Music

No in-app purchases

None

MojoDeck

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Playback Music free?
Playback Music costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MojoDeck free?
MojoDeck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Playback Music or MojoDeck have ads?
Neither Playback Music nor MojoDeck shows ads.

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