Comparison

Motherbase vs MatchRanker

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

Head to head
About

Motherbase

This app allows users to stream music and listen together in real-time. Explore a global map to find others streaming, join or create listening sessions, and discover new music and friends. It supports cross-platform listening and offers features like shadowplay to see who's listening to the same track.

Highlights
  • Real-time music streaming
  • Shared listening sessions
  • Cross-platform music support
  • Global map exploration
  • Shadowplay for simultaneous listeners
  • Track profile with play history
Features
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BETA VERSION — We appreciate your support and feedback. Designed simply from the passion of sharing music, Motherbase (MBS), is a platform to stream music and listen with others in real-time. Every listener counts as a unique stream. Explore, chat, and discover new music and friends. If you’d like to help further our development, please email: contact@motherbase.us FEATURES: MAP - Travel the city-based globe and see where Players are streaming, or keep your location private. Either way, Motherbase (LAT: 0°, LONG: 0°) will remain a safe haven. SESSION - Start a session that other users can join and listen together. Join an existing session to listen in sync and discover new music. CROSS-PLATFORM - Listen to music together regardless if you use Spotify or Apple Music. SHADOWPLAY - see who else is playing the same track you are at the same time UNIQUE LISTENS - When a Session has 1,000 listeners, that earns 1,000 unique streams for the artist TRACK PROFILE - Every existing track has a dedicated profile. Users can see the play history and discover others who have similar taste in music. PLAY HARD :)

About

MatchRanker

This app allows users to create personalized rankings of their favorite songs through head-to-head "matches." Users select winners and losers, and the app dynamically updates song ratings based on these choices, creating a unique, ordered list of music within each user's personal universe.

Highlights
  • Head-to-head song matching
  • Dynamic song rating system
  • Personalized song universes
  • Unique user rankings
  • Randomized match-ups
Features
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Match-Ranker is a highly versatile and inimitable app designed to help users rank their favorite songs through a series of head to head “matches” between pairs of songs. In each match one song is the winner and one song is the loser. Each song in a user’s universe has a rating score. After each match, the winning song will gain rating points while the losing song will lose rating points. Songs can be compared to each other and ordered in a holistic way by looking at their rating scores, these will continue to get more and more accurate as the user completes more matches. Each user will have their own universe of songs. Their choices of which songs win and lose match ups will drive a song’s rating within their universe. Each user’s ratings are unique. Their choices will not influence the ratings of songs for other users. A song can be rated highly by one user while the same song has a low rating with another user. These are completely independent. Match-Ranker will randomly generate match ups of songs from within a user’s universe. For each match up generated, the user picks which of the two songs wins. Every song in the user’s universe has a rating score, and each time it's in a match up, afterward its rating will change according to the result. A song that wins a match up will increase its rating points and a song that loses will decrease its rating. So it’s an ultimate doorway to your songs universe. Make sure every matchup speaks for you and your favorite song leads the rest! Disclaimer : Matchranker is not using any 3rd Party but Apple Music for getting songs. And that too only would work for users who have their paid subscription enabled on the Apple ID. It is not actually storing any data on the server but calling the Apple Music services within its interface using the following official documentation and APIs end-points. This is, to fetch most played songs, play counts and calculate ranking of the songs user has been playing for a certain chunk of time via Each user will have their own universe of songs. Their choices of which songs win and lose match ups will drive a song’s rating within their universe. Each user’s ratings are unique. Their choices will not influence the ratings of songs for other users. A song can be rated highly by one user while the same song has a low rating with another user. These are completely independent. Match-Ranker will randomly generate match ups of songs from within a user’s universe. For each match up generated, the user picks which of the two songs wins. Every song in the user’s universe has a rating score, and each time it's in a match up, afterward its rating will change according to the result. A song that wins a match up will increase its rating points and a song that loses will decrease its rating. So it’s an ultimate doorway to your songs universe. Make sure every matchup speaks for you and your favorite song leads the rest! their Apple Music public ID : - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applemusicapi/ If any additional information like artist, etc are coming through it, we are not storing or using that at all within our app.

Screenshots

Motherbase4 screens
MatchRanker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MatchRanker at every 8 days against Motherbase's every 4 months. Motherbase's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Motherbase ships an update every 4 months, MatchRanker every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 4, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Motherbase versus MatchRanker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMotherbaseMatchRanker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (11 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMotherbaseMuhammad Irfan Zafar

Customer experience

Motherbase

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MatchRanker

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

In-app purchases

None

Motherbase

No in-app purchases

None

MatchRanker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Motherbase free?
Motherbase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MatchRanker free?
MatchRanker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Motherbase or MatchRanker?
Motherbase and MatchRanker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 11 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Motherbase or MatchRanker have ads?
Neither Motherbase nor MatchRanker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Motherbase or MatchRanker?
Motherbase ships an update every 4 months, and MatchRanker every 8 days. Most recently, Motherbase was updated on October 4, 2026 and MatchRanker on October 4, 2026.

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