NML Jazz vs Heady Set
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NML Jazz
Access one of the most extensive online jazz music collections, featuring over 252,000 tracks from thousands of artists and labels. This app provides a fresh design and enhanced features for exploring jazz.
- Vast jazz music collection
- Over 252,000 tracks
- Thousands of jazz artists
- Recordings from numerous labels
- Fresh app design
- New features
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Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online. It offers over 252,000 tracks from more than 25,500 CDs. Over 43,000 jazz artists are represented. The service comprises recordings of 22 labels of Fantasy and over 540 other labels. The brand new Naxos Music Library Jazz mobile app comes with a fresh design and new features.
Heady Set
Track your concert experiences and share them with friends. Get personalized statistics about your favorite artists, songs, and venues. This app is free and ad-free, built for music lovers.
- Setlist tracking
- Show history
- Friend sharing
- Personalized stats
- Artist tracking
- Song tracking
- Venue tracking
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Heady Set is the setlist tracker built for the jam band and live music community. Log every show you attend, keep a running history of the songs and venues you've experienced, and unlock personalized stats about the artists you love — Grateful Dead, Phish, Billy Strings, or whoever's on your tour list this year! TRACK YOUR SHOWS Build a complete log of every concert you've been to - venue, date, setlist, and who you went with. Your show history becomes a permanent, personal archive of your live music journey. PERSONALIZED STATS See how many times you've seen your favorite songs live, which venues you frequent most, how your most-seen artists stack up against each other, and how your concert-going has evolved over time. SHARE WITH FRIENDS Compare notes with friends, see who was at the same shows as you, and relive tours together. FREE. NO ADS. NO CATCH. Heady Set is a passion project built by a fan, for fans. It's free today and will stay free and ad-free - always. No paywalls, just a tool for people who love music. Have a question, feature request, or bug to report? Reach out to me directly at aaron@headyset.net - I love hearing from users and will do my best to make your ideas come to life!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Heady Set at 5.0 against NML Jazz's 4.0. NML Jazz's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Heady Set holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NML Jazz | Heady Set |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.3 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naxos Digital Services Ltd. | AARON THEODORE KY-RIESENBACH |
Customer experience
NML Jazz
Heady Set
In-app purchases
NML Jazz
No in-app purchases
Heady Set
No in-app purchases
