TapTunes vs TreadTunes
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...
TreadTunes
Sync your workout intensity with your favorite music. Connect to Spotify and automatically adjust song tempo to match your walking, jogging, or running pace.
- Tempo matching to music
- Spotify integration
- Automatic pace adjustment
- Supports walking, jogging, running
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Stay in rhythm. Train to your music. Match your pace to the beat with music you already love. Connect your Spotify and automatically play songs at the perfect tempo for walking, jogging, or running.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TreadTunes at Free against TapTunes's $1.99. TreadTunes also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). TapTunes's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 4). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
TreadTunes is free to download; TapTunes costs $1.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TreadTunes asks for nothing beyond the download.
TreadTunes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TapTunes has 23 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, TreadTunes every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapTunes | TreadTunes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | Kyler Knebel |
Customer experience
TapTunes
TreadTunes
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
TreadTunes
No in-app purchases
