Albumen vs Things
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Albumen
This app offers a straightforward way to browse and play music from your device's library. It organizes your songs by albums and playlists, providing a simple interface for playback control. Enjoy your music with a clean, uncluttered experience.
- View music library
- Organized by albums and playlists
- Simple playback interface
- Background playback support
- Now playing track indicator
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Albumen provides a simple interface for viewing and playing songs (tracks) in your device's music library, organized into albums and playlists. Back when Albumen was originally written, Apple's Music app truncated song title and artist information, whereas Albumen displayed that information in full. Apple's Music app no longer truncates, but Albumen remains useful for the sheer simplicity of its interface. Tap a song (track) to start playing it. The iPhone's music player is used, so you can then quit Albumen and playback will continue, and you can use the iPhone's standard music interface (including the Music app, the Control Center, and the lock screen) to pause and resume play and so forth. Albumen also includes a play/pause button and a track progress indicator. Albumen also tells you what track is currently playing: the Now button takes you to the currently playing track within its album, and the currently playing track has a note mark.
Things
This app transforms sounds into ambient soundscapes or adds drone vibes to tracks using granular reverb, pitch shifting, and mid/side processing. It's inspired by sound design techniques from an award-winning indie game.
- Granular reverb
- Pitch shifting
- Mid/side mode
- AUv3 plugin
- Standalone app
- Soundscape creation
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Texture is an easy to use granular reverb with pitch shifting and mid/side mode available as AUv3 and Standalone. Texture can transform any sound into an ambient soundscape, or add that drone vibe to your tracks. This plugin was inspired by the techniques used in the soundtrack and sound design of the award-winning indie game The Swapper.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Albumen at Free against Things's $6.99. Albumen also leads on update cadence (every 14 months vs every 32 months). Things's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On 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
Albumen is free to download; Things costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Things holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Things has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Albumen's written reviews are positive against 100% of Things's.
Albumen ships an update every 14 months, Things every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Albumen | Things |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matt Neuburg | AudioThing Ltd. |
Customer experience
Albumen
Things
In-app purchases
Albumen
No in-app purchases
Things
No in-app purchases









