TapTunes vs Color Covers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TapTunes
Explore your music collection through interactive visual displays and gesture-based controls. Rediscover forgotten tracks and enjoy a more intimate connection with your audio library.
- Visual album browsing
- Gesture playback controls
- Home screen widget
- Seamless audio switching
- Personalized settings
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With TapTunes, you will experience your music collection like never before. Touch, tap, drag, shake, swipe, pinch ‒ you've never been this close to your tunes! By presenting albums visually in a random order, TapTunes brings you much closer to your music than you'd ever get by scrolling through an alphabetical list of artist names. You'll soon find yourself rediscovering old favorites and listening to those forgotten gems lurking around the edges of your music library. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, why let words alone do all the talking for your music? Features * Five unique browse displays * Gesture playback controls * Home screen widget, app icon choices, light and dark themes, Shortcut support * Seamless switching between music, audiobooks, and podcasts * Highly personalized, with over 40 settings and counting * And more...
Color Covers
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Color Covers is a revolutionary music player. It is not for everyone tho. If you just want to discover new music, it is definitely not a fit for you. With this application, you can relive your music library, scan your albums and their songs directly. If you find a collection which brings back good memories, then you can immediately start playback and get a deep dive in that. The app tries to complete your music library with metadata. This means if you did not add an artwork, but the artist and album is correct, it will most probably find and download the missing cover. If you have any question about the application, please feel free to send a mail to info@metapps.eu
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Color Covers at Free against TapTunes's $1.99. Color Covers also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Color Covers is free to download; TapTunes costs $1.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Color Covers sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapTunes | Color Covers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (23 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | Imre Katai |
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
Color Covers
- Playlist support$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Online content$0.99
Questions
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Do TapTunes or Color Covers have ads?
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