Smooth Global vs The Jazz Groove
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smooth Global
Experience the world's first internet jazz radio station with a music and lifestyle app. Enjoy handcrafted radio stations, discover jazz festivals, listen to new music, and explore weekly airplay charts and jazz videos.
- Two handcrafted radio stations
- Travel portal with jazz festivals
- New music Listening Loft
- Weekly Airplay Charts
- Jazz videos
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SmoothJazz.com • SmoothLounge.com • SmoothTravel.net The world’s first Internet jazz radio station, SmoothJazz.com Global, presents a Smooth music and Lifestyle application offering two handcrafted radio stations, an exciting travel portal featuring the world’s hottest jazz festivals, plus a new music Listening Loft, weekly Airplay Charts, jazz videos and more! Broadcasting from the coast of California to a Global community since 2000. Tune-in, get inspired, adjust your coordinate. Smooth. Global. Living.
The Jazz Groove
Listen to a curated selection of laid-back, cool, and elegant jazz music across five unique internet radio stations. Enjoy audiophile fidelity with options to silence fund drives and promotional announcements for an uninterrupted, non-commercial listening experience.
- Five unique jazz radio stations
- Hand-selected music by professional musicologists
- Audiophile fidelity
- Silence fund drives and announcements
- Listener-supported, non-commercial
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Jazz that’s Laid-Back. Cool. Elegant. That’s The Jazz Groove (JazzGroove.org); a listener-supported, non-commercial public radio service specializing in Laid-Back Jazz, offering five unique jazz radio stations. From an incomparable collection of 10,000+ jazz recordings, each hour of music is hand-selected, meticulously-curated and artfully-blended by professional musicologists. Choose from three different Laid-Back Jazz stations as well as stations dedicated to Vocal Standards and Smooth Jazz. Enjoy best-in-class audiophile fidelity plus options to silence fund drives and promotional announcements for a pure music, non-commercial experience. For help and tips on using the app, check out the User Guide under the More page in the app. JazzGroove.org is a service of the 501(c)(3) non-profit Foundation to Advance Jazz to which donations are tax deductible in the United States.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smooth Global at 4.5 against The Jazz Groove's 4.1. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Smooth Global holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 51 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Smooth Global's written reviews are positive against 74% of The Jazz Groove's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smooth Global ships an update every 2 months, The Jazz Groove every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smooth Global | The Jazz Groove |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better | 4.1 (51 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 74.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 51 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmoothJazz.com Global | The Foundation to Advance Jazz |
Customer experience
Smooth Global
The Jazz Groove
In-app purchases
Smooth Global
No in-app purchases
The Jazz Groove
No in-app purchases
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