Comparison

WatchMusic vs Quartet 3

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

Head to head
About

WatchMusic

Access your entire Apple Music library, including songs, albums, playlists, and stations, directly from your Apple Watch. Control playback, search the catalog, and get personalized recommendations without needing your iPhone.

Highlights
  • Apple Music library access
  • Playback control
  • Music search
  • Personalized recommendations
  • Playlist and station support
Features
Currently charting
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Introducing WatchMusic, the ultimate Apple Music app designed specifically for your Apple Watch. With WatchMusic, you can access all your favourite songs, albums, playlists, and stations right from your wrist. Our app includes your music library, recommendations retrieved straight from Apple Music for the most tailored suggestions for you as well as a comprehensive search system to search the entire Apple Music catalog You can also control music playback directly from the app, allowing you to play, pause, skip, and adjust volume with ease. The library search feature helps you quickly find your favourite tracks, and the app's support for songs, albums, playlists, and stations means you'll never miss a beat. With WatchMusic, you can take your music wherever you go, and enjoy all your favorite tracks without ever having to pull out your phone. It's the ultimate music experience for Apple Watch users! Disclaimer: This app requires an active Apple Music subscription to be able to use it. This app also cannot play music out of the Apple Watch speakers, until Apple allow it, it is simply an app to control the music that's playing on your iPhone.

About

Quartet 3

Enhance your jazz performance and practice with live studio recordings of jazz standards. Mute your instrument to play along, change keys, adjust tempo, and loop sections for focused learning. Features animated chord diagrams and playlist creation for seamless practice sessions.

Highlights
  • Live jazz standards play-along
  • Mute your instrument
  • Change key and tempo
  • Loop sections for practice
  • Animated chord diagrams
  • Multi-app playlist creation
  • Multitrack export
Features
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Practice and perform jazz standards on another level with Quartet. And with a host of brand-new features, the top-selling jazz play along apps just got even better. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Volume 3 includes another 100 stunning jazz standards recorded exclusively by 6 of the world’s best jazz musicians. All ‘live’ studio recordings with intros, endings and top line solos. Whether you play jazz piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums…simply mute your instrument from the Quartet for the ultimate jazz play along. And for jazz singers too, each edition of Quartet is an unrivalled collection of jazz backing tracks powerful enough to gig with. Change key on the fly. Speed up or slow down the audio seamlessly. Loop sections and slow them right down for practice. Select the number of repeats. Choose from preset mixes or create your own custom mix using the new onboard mixer. Arrange each song exactly the way you want it with the new automated ‘Arranger’ feature. Add a touch of reverb and you’re good to go. Improve your skills with full screen animated chord diagrams for Piano, Guitar and Ukulele. Search the entire Quartet song library (700 songs) by composer, style, BPM, associated artist and more. Build and share multi-app playlists and easily export PDF chord charts for every song. Export your stereo mix or export the multitrack if you want to develop the high quality separated parts in GarageBand or whatever DAW you use. Either way, all recordings are offered to you royalty-free giving you endless creative possibilities. The 100 jazz standards in Quartet Volume 3 include improvisations in the style of… ‘After You’ve Gone’, ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’, ‘At Last’, ‘Baubles, Bangles & Beads’, ‘Blueberry Hill’, ‘Blues’ (in all keys), ‘Breezin’’, ‘Chameleon’, ‘Down by the Riverside’, ‘Freedom Jazz Dance’, ‘How Long Has This Been Going On?’, ‘Ladies in Mercedes’, ‘On the Street Where You Live’, ‘Second Time Around’, ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’, ‘Summer Knows’, ‘Só Danço Samba’, ‘Too Marvelous for Words’, ‘Who Can I Turn To?’, ‘With a Song in My Heart’… and 80 more. Install Quartet on all of your iOS devices plus your Mac devices (M series only) at no extra cost. Ready to take your jazz standards to another level? Hear more at www.quartetapp.com Featured artists on Quartet Volume 3 Guitar Nigel Price Nigel has recorded with many big-name artists, performing on over 50 albums, most recently Van Morrison’s studio album ‘Keep Me Singing’. A former member of The James Taylor Quartet, Nigel was voted the UK’s ‘Best Guitarist’ in the 2016 British Jazz Awards and is “…probably the most dynamic and gifted guitarist on the British jazz scene today” [All About Jazz]. Trumpet Steve Fishwick Steve has performed and recorded with many leading European jazz musicians including Sir John Dankworth, George Mraz, Dado Moroni, Claus Raibler, Tony Lakatos and the WDR big band. In the USA, Steve has performed and recorded with Anita O' Day, Ron Carter, Jimmy Heath, Peter Erskine, Eric Harland, Scott Hamilton, Herb Geller Saxophones and Flutes Andy Panayi Credits include Shirley Bassey, Jessye Norman, Paul McCartney, Seth MacFarlane, Elaine Paige, Elvis Costello, Georgie Fame, Helen Shapiro, Madeline Bell, Patty Austin, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Cobham Piano Graham Harvey Credits include Incognito (MD), Stacey Kent, George Benson, M People, Hamish Stuart, The Jones Girls, Philip Bailey, Chaka Khan, The BBC Big Band, Madeline Bell, Jocelyn Brown, Mica Paris, Sir Cliff Richard Bass Geoff Gascoyne Credits include Jamie Cullum (MD), Sting, Van Morrison, Bill Bruford, Mari Wilson, Paloma Faith, Georgie Fame, Gloria Estefan, Guy Barker, Charlie Watts, Benny Golson, Jacqui Dankworth, John Martyn, Eartha Kitt Drums Sebastiaan de Krom Credits include Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Phil Woods, Dave Holland, Jamie Cullum, Guy Barker, Wynton Marsalis

Screenshots

WatchMusic4 screens
Quartet 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: WatchMusic at $0.99 against Quartet 3's $16.99. WatchMusic also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#182 vs unranked). Quartet 3's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 2.2) and review sentiment (90% vs 50%). 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

WatchMusic costs $0.99 and Quartet 3 $16.99 up front. Quartet 3 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. WatchMusic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Quartet 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of WatchMusic's written reviews are positive against 90% of Quartet 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WatchMusic ships an update fortnightly, Quartet 3 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
WatchMusic versus Quartet 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatchMusicQuartet 3
Price$0.99 — better$16.99
Rating2.2 (5 ratings)4.6 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings518 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#182 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB528 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHugo MasonUK Music Apps Ltd

Customer experience

WatchMusic

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Quartet 3

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

In-app purchases

None

WatchMusic

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Quartet 3

One-time5
  • Upgrade song$0.99
  • Buy 10 tokens$8.99
  • Buy 20 tokens$14.99
Show 2 more
  • Buy 50 tokens$22.99
  • Upgrade all songs$39.99

Questions

Is WatchMusic free?
WatchMusic costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Quartet 3 free?
Quartet 3 costs $16.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WatchMusic or Quartet 3?
Quartet 3 is rated higher. WatchMusic averages 2.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Quartet 3 averages 4.6 from 18 ratings.
Do WatchMusic or Quartet 3 have ads?
Neither WatchMusic nor Quartet 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WatchMusic or Quartet 3?
WatchMusic ships an update fortnightly, and Quartet 3 monthly. Most recently, WatchMusic was updated on October 1, 2026 and Quartet 3 on October 19, 2026.

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