Comparison

PlayGenie vs Longplay

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

Head to head
About

PlayGenie

Create intelligent music playlists from your existing library or other playlists. Filter and sort tracks by various criteria like play count, artist, and date added. Modify, save, and reuse your custom playlists and settings.

Highlights
  • Smart playlist generation from multiple sources
  • Filter and sort by play count, artist, date, and more
  • Modify and edit generated playlists
  • Save and restore playlists and profiles
  • Background playback and AirPlay support
  • Set song ratings within the app
Features
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PlayGenie lets you build a smart playlist from other playlists or your full music library, with filters for play count, skip count, artist, rating, and more. You can adjust the playlist and save it. Unique features include filtering by “Date Added” and “Last Skip Date.” Smart playlist generator: PlayGenie creates a smart playlist from five source playlists or your entire library. Each source can be filtered by play count, last played date, date added, last skip, skip count, artist, rating, BPM, year, and genre, and sorted by play count or last played date. Giving each source a weight produces one playlist that reflects all settings. Keep listening after you close PlayGenie: PlayGenie plays through the built-in Music app, so you can close PlayGenie and keep listening while you use other apps. You can also stream your queue to AirPlay devices. Modify playlists: The generated playlist can be edited: add, remove, or move songs, sort by play count or play date, reshuffle, or regenerate. Save generated playlists: Generated playlists can be saved and restored. A saved playlist can serve as one of the five sources. Save profiles: A profile holds the five source playlists with their filter and sorting settings. Profiles can be saved and reused. Supported filters and sorting: A source playlist can be filtered by artist, genre, rating, play count, last skip, skip count, year, BPM, and play date. It can be sorted by play date and play count. Beyond the source filters, the generated playlist can be filtered by play date and play count. Rating: Song ratings can be set within PlayGenie. Predefined smart playlists: A few predefined smart playlists work on your entire music library and can be used as a source: - All: the entire music library - Most played: the music library ordered by play count - Less played: the music library ordered by play count - Most played, not in the last month: the music library ordered by play count, taking the last played date into account - Most played, not in the last 2 months: the music library ordered by play count, taking the last played date into account - Most played, not in the last 3 months: the music library ordered by play count, taking the last played date into account

About

Longplay

Rediscover your music library with this app that beautifully displays your album artwork. Explore forgotten favorites and play music with smart sorting options like addiction, brightness, and recency. Organize albums into collections and enjoy infinite shuffle.

Highlights
  • Album artwork display
  • Smart sorting options
  • Album collections
  • Infinite album shuffle
  • Home screen widget
  • CarPlay and Siri support
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
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Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you. Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favorites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options: - Orderliness: by artist, then by album - Addiction: by amount of time spent listening - Brightness: by the primary color of the album artwork - Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating - Recency: by date added - Memory: by last played - Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song - Random: a new order, every time you tap it You can organize your albums into collections, which sync across your devices. Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order. It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them. It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.t supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts. It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually. --- Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focusing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs. --- Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection. It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists. Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.

Screenshots

PlayGenie4 screens
Longplay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Longplay at 77% against PlayGenie's 25%. Longplay also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (170 vs 1). PlayGenie's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and price ($3.99 vs $7.49). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

PlayGenie costs $3.99 and Longplay $7.49 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. PlayGenie asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Longplay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Longplay has 170 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of PlayGenie's written reviews are positive against 77% of Longplay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlayGenie ships an update every 2 months, Longplay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PlayGenie versus Longplay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlayGenieLongplay
Price$3.99 — better$7.49
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (170 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews77.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1170 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdward Van De VorstAdrian Schoenig

Customer experience

PlayGenie

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Longplay

All ratings170 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral9.9%
Negative12.9%

Bugs and requests

PlayGenie

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Longplay

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes on startup with large libraries
  • UI constantly freezes during album loading
  • Device becomes very hot during operation
  • Doesn't load entire music library
  • Gapless playback creates overlapping songs
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  • Purity option for gapless play doesn't work
  • Scrobbling incomplete (only first few tracks)
  • CarPlay support broken after updates
  • Vision Pro immersive view crashes
  • Settings window cannot be minimized
  • Allow selection toggle loses memory
  • Widget doesn't show album artwork
  • Sort by feature missing since iOS 26
  • Album library not syncing with Apple Music
  • Crashes when immersive view selected
  • Player window too large in panorama mode

Requested features

20 requests
  • Search functionality for albums and artists
  • Track listing display during playback
  • Skip/back track controls
  • Volume control in app
  • Sort by release year
Show 15 more
  • Sort by genre/categories
  • Show album information and metadata
  • Play Next/Play Later queue management
  • Open album in Apple Music link
  • Delete albums from library option
  • View only complete albums toggle
  • Exclude specific albums (e.g., Christmas albums)
  • macOS version of the app
  • tvOS app version
  • Higher resolution album artwork
  • Album cover size randomization in grid
  • Immersive listening room environments
  • Album liner notes viewing
  • Widget improvements for album display
  • Autocorrect toggle for search

In-app purchases

None

PlayGenie

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Longplay

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • Medium Tip$5.00
  • Large Tip$10.00

Questions

Is PlayGenie free?
PlayGenie costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PlayGenie or Longplay?
Longplay is rated higher. PlayGenie averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Longplay averages 4.6 from 170 ratings.
Do PlayGenie or Longplay have ads?
Neither PlayGenie nor Longplay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlayGenie or Longplay?
PlayGenie ships an update every 2 months, and Longplay every 3 weeks. Most recently, PlayGenie was updated on November 1, 2026 and Longplay on November 13, 2026.

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