Comparison

TapTunes vs Cloudless Music

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Visual album browsing
  • Gesture playback controls
  • Home screen widget
  • Seamless audio switching
  • Personalized settings
Features
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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...

About

Cloudless Music

This app allows parents to curate and manage music libraries for their children. It works with Apple Music to filter explicit content, hide album art, and restrict searching on child devices.

Highlights
  • Manage separate music libraries for children
  • Set up child devices for listening only
  • Filter explicit search results
  • Hide album art
  • Works with Apple Music
Features
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Cloudless Music empowers parents to decide what artists, albums, and songs your family listens to. Works with Apple Music and requires an active Apple Music subscription. • Manage separate music libraries for children and teens in your family, from your own device • Set up child devices for listening only (no searching or adding) • Filter out explicit search results • Hide album art for any album or song Note: This app is currently rated the same as Apple Music (13+) to ensure it can't be reinstalled without parental guidance, which could allow bypass of parental controls. Reach out to support@cloudlessmusic.com with any questions. Terms of Use: apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

TapTunes4 screens
Cloudless Music4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cloudless Music at Free against TapTunes's $1.99. Cloudless Music also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months). TapTunes's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 5). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Cloudless Music is free to download; TapTunes costs $1.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cloudless Music sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cloudless Music holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 5 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, Cloudless Music every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TapTunes versus Cloudless Music: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapTunesCloudless Music
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (23 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB53 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDavid BlundellCloudless Finance LLC

Customer experience

TapTunes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive52.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative39.1%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.6%
Negative29.4%

Cloudless Music

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TapTunes

One-time1
  • Stacked Mode$0.99
1 purchases

Cloudless Music

Subscriptions1
  • Cloudless Music$4.991 Month

Questions

Is TapTunes free?
TapTunes costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Cloudless Music free?
Cloudless Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TapTunes or Cloudless Music?
Cloudless Music is rated higher. TapTunes averages 3.1 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Cloudless Music averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do TapTunes or Cloudless Music have ads?
Neither TapTunes nor Cloudless Music shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TapTunes or Cloudless Music?
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, and Cloudless Music every 3 days. Most recently, TapTunes was updated on October 31, 2026 and Cloudless Music on November 5, 2026.

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