Comparison

Fat Berri's vs Crankshaft

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fat Berri's

Discover and stream a curated selection of electronic and diverse music genres. This player offers a simple interface with categorized music, allowing for non-stop listening without interruptions.

Highlights
  • Curated music streams
  • Categorized genres (Downtempo, Uptempo, Chill, Mix)
  • Non-stop listening
  • Simple interface
  • AirPlay support
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Fat Berri’s music blog has been serving electronic music since May 2009. It has been well accepted and has become one of the top visited music blogs in Denmark. In the last year we have also had a boom of international visitors. The blog has been mentioned numerous times at ‘P3 Radio’ (Danish national radio) as the best music blog. It was also awarded ‘Blog of the week’ by NME.com and The Times in 2010. Even though it started as an electronic music blog, we have a variety of edit's, bootlegs and remixes from all genres. If you like good music but don't want to bother looking for it yourself, download the fatberri's player and enjoy good music non stop Simple interface with four major categories: 1: Downtempo ( A good mix of music in the slower tempo, dont let that fool you though try it out) 2: Uptempo (A higher BMP lot of bass great for getting the tempo up to the top) 3: Chill (A great mix of ambient, jazz and electronic music for chilling out ) 4: Mix (when you are not sure what you want mix it all up) Features: - AirPlay - 3G, LTE/4G and Wifi streaming - Multitasking - Native playback-controls - Unlimited good music - No Advertisements

About

Crankshaft

This music app learns your taste by analyzing how you listen, not through manual input. It creates personalized music stations based on your volume adjustments, skips, and playback duration, offering a unique way to explore your library and discover new music.

Highlights
  • Learns taste from listening behavior
  • Personalized music stations
  • Explores Apple Music catalog
  • Discovery dial for new music
  • On-demand album picks
  • Parent Mode for separate profiles
Features
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Crankshaft learns your taste from how you actually listen — how you move the volume, when you skip, what you let run to the end. Full CarPlay support, which is where it makes the most sense: hands busy, eyes on the road, so what you do to a song actually means something. Requires an active Apple Music subscription — Crankshaft plays through your existing Apple Music library. No separate account, no sign-up, and Crankshaft never sends your listening data anywhere. It stays on your device unless you choose to export it. Most music apps only know what you tell them. Crankshaft takes that too — crank a song you love, freeze one you never want to hear again — and then it reads everything else: the volume you reach for, the song you kill at four seconds, the one you let run all the way to the end. Those signals cost you nothing to give, and nearly every other app throws them away. Every session shapes a living profile of your taste that gets sharper over time. Give it real sessions and you'll feel the difference within a week. The app is free, you just bring your own Apple Music. The data is all yours, so there's no risk to you. HOW IT WORKS Crankshaft sits on top of your Apple Music library. Hit Ignite and it plays from your personal affinity ledger: a behavioral map of every song, scored by how you actually interacted with it. Crank the volume on a song you love and it learns. Skip something in the first ten seconds and it learns that too. Let a song play to the end and that quiet signal counts. Five behavioral zones, from instant skip to full completion, score every track on a curve. Buttons when you want them, physics the rest of the time. IT PLAYS LIKE A STATION YOU CAN STEER Crankshaft doesn't shuffle. It holds a mood — an era, a genre, an energy — the way a great radio station does, and keeps it there until you signal you want to move. Skip to steer: nudge it toward a different sound and it follows you down the rabbit hole; leave it alone and it holds the vibe. It's built to walk you around your own library, not loop your ten favorites. REACH BEYOND WHAT YOU OWN Declare the artists you love — even ones your library never captured — and Crankshaft opens their catalog and works them into your rotation. A single discovery dial sets how adventurous the engine gets, from comfortable and familiar to wide-open exploration. FEATURES The Crank — Turn up the volume with intent and Crankshaft feels it. That one gesture tells it more than a like ever could. Affinity Ledger — Every song earns a score from real listening behavior. Scores rise and fall with your habits, not just your clicks. CarPlay — Full CarPlay integration with Crank, Freeze, Up Next and Parent Mode controls on the dash. Station & Drift — Crank a song and Crankshaft builds a station around that vibe, holding it and drifting naturally through your library and the Apple Music catalog. Declared Artists — Name the artists you love and Crankshaft reaches their whole catalog, even music you don't own yet. Discovery Dial — Blend new and unfamiliar music into your rotation at exactly the level you choose. Pick an Album — On-demand album picks drawn from your affinity ledger, weighted toward what you love with a wildcard from deep in your library. Parent Mode — A completely separate universe with its own ledger, scoring, and visual theme. Your kids' listening never touches your profile. Road Trip Mode — A pre-cached 60-track queue built for long drives. Works offline. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your data stays on your device. Crankshaft has no cloud sync, no ad targeting, no social graph, and no tracking pixels. Your affinity ledger lives in your app's local storage and never leaves your phone. Built on Apple MusicKit.

Screenshots

Fat Berri's4 screens
Crankshaft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Crankshaft at every 9 days against Fat Berri's's every 7 months. Fat Berri's's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fat Berri's against 5.0 for Crankshaft. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fat Berri's ships an update every 7 months, Crankshaft every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fat Berri's versus Crankshaft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFat Berri'sCrankshaft
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (13 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStefan RasmussenCrankshaft LLC

Customer experience

Fat Berri's

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Crankshaft

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fat Berri's

No in-app purchases

None

Crankshaft

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fat Berri's free?
Fat Berri's is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crankshaft free?
Crankshaft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fat Berri's or Crankshaft?
Fat Berri's and Crankshaft are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 13 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Fat Berri's or Crankshaft have ads?
Neither Fat Berri's nor Crankshaft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fat Berri's or Crankshaft?
Fat Berri's ships an update every 7 months, and Crankshaft every 9 days. Most recently, Fat Berri's was updated on November 1, 2026 and Crankshaft on October 31, 2026.

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