Comparison

Top Tracks vs IPlayerTV Player

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

Head to head
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.

About

IPlayerTV Player

Features
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IPlayerTV is a modern player for playlists and subscriptions that users already own. Pair a device from your IPlayerTV account, then browse Live TV, movies and series in a fast, native interface. Features include Continue Watching, favourites, search, series seasons and episodes, programme guide and catch-up where supported by the user's provider, resume and progress sync, subtitles and audio tracks, AirPlay and Picture in Picture on supported Apple devices. IPlayerTV does not provide, sell, host or retransmit channels or media. Users must supply their own lawful playlist and have the rights required to access its content. Feature availability depends on the playlist provider.

Screenshots

Top Tracks4 screens
IPlayerTV Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Top Tracks at none against IPlayerTV Player's 1. IPlayerTV Player's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. IPlayerTV Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Top Tracks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Top Tracks ships an update every 6 months, IPlayerTV Player every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Top Tracks versus IPlayerTV Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTop TracksIPlayerTV Player
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDim Sum Thinking, IncVirgil Baldovin

In-app purchases

None

Top Tracks

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

IPlayerTV Player

One-time1
  • Lifetime$3.99

Questions

Is Top Tracks free?
Top Tracks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IPlayerTV Player free?
IPlayerTV Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Top Tracks or IPlayerTV Player have ads?
Neither Top Tracks nor IPlayerTV Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Top Tracks or IPlayerTV Player?
Top Tracks ships an update every 6 months, and IPlayerTV Player every 4 days. Most recently, Top Tracks was updated on October 21, 2026 and IPlayerTV Player on October 21, 2026.

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