Top Tracks vs GuessWise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
GuessWise
This app helps you solve and analyze five-letter word games. It offers live filtering of possible answers based on your guesses and provides detailed personal statistics on your gameplay. You can also import game progress from screenshots.
- Live candidate filtering
- Screenshot import
- Detailed personal statistics
- Core and Expanded word lists
- Wordle-style keyboard and feedback
- Private local history
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GuessWise is a private companion for solving and reflecting on five-letter Wordle-style games. Enter each guess, tap tiles to match gray, yellow, and green feedback, and see possible answers narrow instantly. Import supported Wordle and Wordly screenshots from Photos or the share sheet when you want to skip manual entry. After a game, log your solved, failed, or abandoned attempts, and explore on-device stats including solve rate, average solve length, starting-word performance, candidate reduction, and solve distribution. - Live candidate filtering with exact duplicate-letter rules - A focused Core List plus an optional offline Expanded List for additional five-letter possibilities - Wordle-style keyboard and feedback entry - Screenshot import for supported official Wordle and Wordly layouts - Private local history and detailed personal statistics - No account, advertising, or analytics - (Optional tips unlock nothing; every feature remains available for free) GuessWise is an independent companion and is not affiliated with The New York Times Company or Wordle.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Tracks at none against GuessWise's 4. Top Tracks also leads on device support (3 vs 1). GuessWise's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. GuessWise sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Top Tracks asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Top Tracks against 5.0 for GuessWise. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Top Tracks | GuessWise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dim Sum Thinking, Inc | Jacob Hawken |
Customer experience
Top Tracks
GuessWise
In-app purchases
Top Tracks
No in-app purchases
GuessWise
- Tip 1$0.99
- Tip 2$1.99
- Tip 5$4.99
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- Tip 10$9.99









