Music Manager vs StarTone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music Manager
Organize and control your music collection with a streamlined interface. This app offers fast library management, playlist selection, and playback controls, including volume and track tracking. Enjoy a visually appealing "Cover Flow" experience with reflections as you navigate your songs.
- Tap to play/stop tracks
- "Cover Flow" effect with reflections
- Playlist selection
- Volume and tracking management
- Minimalistic interface
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Manage your songs library in a minimalistic and fast way. Features: - tap on the CD to play/stop the track; - beautiful "Cover Flow" effect during scroll with amazing reflection; - choose your playlist; - manage playback with volume and tracking.
StarTone
This music player allows you to rate songs with stars and love statuses directly from your device's library or audio files. It offers convenient rating options via widgets and Apple Watch, with iCloud sync for your ratings.
- Rate music with stars and love statuses
- iCloud sync for ratings across devices
- Rating support on Today Extension and Apple Watch
- Play and rate common audio formats including Flac and MIDI
- Embed lyrics and support for .lrc files
- Smart playlist creation
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StarTone is a music player which can play songs in your "Music" library and audio files stored in your device, including common format like mp3 and lossless format of Flac, also it support MIDI playback and support customize sound bank. StarTone was came out for rating music with stars and "love" statues. The rating bar stands out in the main page, so it just need one touch to make the rating, no need to open many submenus. In addition, StarTone provides Today Extension and Watch app, so you can also make music ratings on the Widget Screen and your Apple Watch. StarTone now also equips some handy features to make the music listening easy and happy. Please try to play with them. Features: 1. Quickly set star and love ratings for music on your local library, Apple Music or audio file. 2. Sync music ratings with other devices or iTunes via iCloud on the go. 3. With iCloud Sync enabled, love / dislike rating are available. 4. Support rating on today extension (widget). 5. Share music ratings with family and friends. 6. Support embed lyrics, .lrc lyrics file and online lyrics. 7. Support automatically play when launch the app. 8. Support star music rating on Apple Watch. 9. Play and rate audio files of general format and Flac lossless format. 10. Support MIDI playback. 11. Smart playlist for both Music Library and audio files. 12. Play audio files on Apple Watch. 13. Scheduled music playback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: StarTone at 4.1 against Music Manager's 2.3. StarTone also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 31%) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). Music Manager's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Music Manager costs $0.99 and StarTone $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
StarTone holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: StarTone has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of Music Manager's written reviews are positive against 67% of StarTone's.
Music Manager ships an update every 3 months, StarTone every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Manager | StarTone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.3% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giuseppe Cigala | 乃波 黄 |
Customer experience
Music Manager
StarTone
In-app purchases
Music Manager
No in-app purchases
StarTone
No in-app purchases
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