TapTunes vs MusicMachine
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...
MusicMachine
This app functions as a digital jukebox, letting users select songs for playback. It's designed for social gatherings like parties, allowing multiple people to contribute to a music queue. Users can manage the queue, control playback, and create playlists.
- Select music for playback
- Manage song queue
- Full playback controls (seek, skip, pause, stop)
- Background playback
- Create and save playlists
- Share/export non-DRM songs
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A Jukebox app that allows you to choose your music while you are listening. Ideal for parties, where there are a number of people who would like to choose some songs. *note* no music is supplied with this app. Features - Queue - you can see what songs are in the queue, and delete some if needed, or even touch a song in the queue and the player will jump to it. Control - full seek, skip (forwards and backwards), pause, and stop control (the stop button will clear the queue). Plays in background - leave the app and play a game and the music will continue. Create and save playlists. Share / export non DRM protected songs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MusicMachine at none against TapTunes's 1. MusicMachine also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 60%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). TapTunes's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On rating, update cadence, 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
TapTunes costs $1.99 and MusicMachine $0.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MusicMachine asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for TapTunes against 3.0 for MusicMachine. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TapTunes has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of TapTunes's written reviews are positive against 75% of MusicMachine's.
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, MusicMachine every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapTunes | MusicMachine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (23 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | Jason Santos |
Customer experience
TapTunes
MusicMachine
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
MusicMachine
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TapTunes free?
Is MusicMachine free?
Which has better reviews, TapTunes or MusicMachine?
Do TapTunes or MusicMachine have ads?
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