TapTunes vs Cloudless Music
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...
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.
- Manage separate music libraries for children
- Set up child devices for listening only
- Filter explicit search results
- Hide album art
- Works with Apple Music
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | TapTunes | Cloudless Music |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | Cloudless Finance LLC |
Customer experience
TapTunes
Cloudless Music
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
Cloudless Music
- Cloudless Music$4.991 Month









