WhoSampled vs Crate Roulette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WhoSampled
Explore the connections within music by discovering samples, covers, and remixes. Scan music playing around you or your library to uncover the DNA of your favorite tracks and artists. Access a vast database of musical knowledge and delve deeper into the music you love.
- Scan music to find samples, covers, and remixes
- Connect to Spotify and Apple Music libraries
- Access a large database of music DNA
- Compare songs and listen to full tracks
- Detailed sample information
- Music charts and recommendations
- Save favorites
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What is the sample in this song? Who covered my favorite artists? What remixes were made for this track? WhoSampled knows! Discover the DNA of the music you love. Scan the music playing around you, or your Spotify or Apple Music library, to uncover samples, covers, and remixes - and explore WhoSampled's vast universe of musical knowledge. Awards include: - Selected by Apple as APP STORE BEST OF YEAR - The Telegraph - BEST MUSIC APP OF THE YEAR - Music Ally Digital Music Awards - BEST MUSIC APP - Named one of the world's best apps by The Next Web, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and more Explore the Music Behind the Music WhoSampled is the music DNA discovery app that reveals how songs are connected. Explore the world's largest database of sample-based music, cover songs and remixes, and discover how your favorite artists influence, and are influenced by, others. Whether you're into Hip-Hop, Electronic/Dance, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Funk, Soul, Reggae, Classical, or beyond, WhoSampled is an essential music discovery experience. Key Features - Discover music through your own collection. Scan your Spotify or Apple Music library to uncover amazing connections for the songs you love. - Identify music playing around you and instantly see its samples, covers and remixes. - Access the world’s largest and richest database of music DNA, with over 1,280,000 tracks, 398,000 artists, and continuous daily additions. Search for any artist or track even if it's not in your music library. - Beautiful, ad-free, clean interface. Simple and intuitive navigation makes exploration effortless. - Compare songs side-by-side and listen to full‐length tracks via YouTube (where available), Spotify (Premium required), or Apple Music (subscription required). Note: your iPhone must not be on silent/vibrate mode for audio playback. - "Now Playing" feature – switch from Spotify or Apple Music to the WhoSampled app to instantly see the musical DNA of the song you’re listening to. - Highly detailed information on any sample (sample timing, sample type, part sampled) lets you pinpoint exactly where and how samples were used. - Share your discoveries with your Facebook friends and X followers. - Deep and unique music charts that show you trending and top-rated music as well as the all-time most influential artists and tracks. - A host of other features and functionality including the ability to save favorites and contextual recommendations from every sample, cover and remix. Dig deeper into the music you love. Dig into the WhoSampled app! In-App Subscription Terms Payment will be charged to iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.whosampled.com/html/terms_of_use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.whosampled.com/html/privacy_policy.html
Crate Roulette
Effortlessly manage your vinyl collection and discover new music. This app helps you select records based on time, mood, and listening history, ensuring you always find the perfect spin.
- Build and organize your vinyl crate
- Scan barcodes to add records
- Select records by time and mood
- Track listening history and unplayed records
- Integrates with CoverUp game
- Private by design, no account needed
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Crate Roulette keeps track of the records you own, and picks one when you can't decide. Answer three questions: how long you've got, what the room is like, and whether to narrow the crate. The platter spins and lands on something you probably haven't played in a while, with a line on why it suits the moment. BUILD YOUR CRATE Search by title, or scan a barcode with the camera. Crate Roulette finds the pressing, the cover and the tracklist for you, and files each record on a genre shelf. PICK BY TIME AND MOOD Twenty minutes before dinner or a whole evening in? Name your rooms, tell each record what suits it, and the spin respects both. KEEP TRACK See what you haven't played yet, what you've spun this week, and how your shelf breaks down. PLAY YOUR CRATE ON COVERUP Send your collection to the CoverUp album cover game and see how well you really know your own records. Private by design. No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your crate stays on your phone. Titles, pressings and genres from MusicBrainz. Cover art from the Cover Art Archive. This application uses Discogs' API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. "Discogs" is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Crate Roulette at free against WhoSampled's free with in-app purchases. WhoSampled's advantage is ratings volume (8.6K vs 1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for WhoSampled against 5.0 for Crate Roulette. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WhoSampled has 8.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | WhoSampled | Crate Roulette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (8.6K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | WhoSampled | DAVID THOMAS WAGEMAN |
Bugs and requests
WhoSampled
Reported bugs
3 issues- Network errors when scanning Spotify
- Audio not working on sample videos
- Login issues with Spotify and other accounts
Requested features
5 requests- iPad app optimization
- More advanced search and filtering options
- Ability to submit new samples and covers
- Smoother transitions between songs and samples
- Background music playback while browsing
Crate Roulette
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WhoSampled
No in-app purchases
Crate Roulette
No in-app purchases








