TapTunes vs Melodial
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...
Melodial
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Melodial is a professional music player designed for businesses that need great-sounding background music without the hassle of public performance licensing. Built specifically for cafés, retail stores, salons, gyms, clinics, and hospitality venues, Melodial gives you access to curated playlists created for commercial spaces all cleared for public playback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Melodial at Free against TapTunes's $1.99. Melodial also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). 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
Melodial is free to download; TapTunes costs $1.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Melodial asks for nothing beyond the download.
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, Melodial weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TapTunes | Melodial |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | 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 | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | SOUNDSTREAM LICENSING PTY LTD |
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
Melodial
No in-app purchases
