Comparison

Tunly vs Spiral

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

Head to head
About

Tunly

Discover what your friends and others worldwide are listening to in real time. Connect with fellow music lovers, share your current songs, and explore new artists through an interactive map and social features.

Highlights
  • Real-time global music map
  • Connect with music enthusiasts
  • Share current songs
  • React to songs
  • Private chat
  • Customizable profile
Features
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Ever wondered what your friends or others in the world are listening to right now? With Tunly, you can see what's playing in real time, connect with fellow music enthusiasts, and expand your musical horizons. Connect your Spotify account and share your current jam, discover new artists, react to what others are listening to, connect with other people and create playlists inspired by friends around the world. Download Tunly today and tune into the world of music! Highlights: Map - Discover music around the world: Explore the interactive map to see what others are listening to worldwide. Reactions - React to other people's songs and get notified when someone reacts to your songs. Connect - Chat privately with fellow music enthusiasts, followers and friends. Get Notified on - Song reactions - Messages - New followers: Instantly see who's started following your music journey - Activity around you Hide from specific users: - Don't want specific users to see you on the map? Add them to your Hide me from list. Profile & Map Card Customization - Customize your profile with a colored map card theme, your display name, profile picture, bio and link. Terms of Use (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

About

Spiral

This app organizes and plays your existing music library from cloud storage or local files. It offers various playback and library management features, allowing you to stream or download songs for offline listening. Customize your music experience with different layouts and tag editing.

Highlights
  • Connects to cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
  • Plays local device files
  • Organizes music into library views (songs, albums, artists)
  • Offline playback via downloads
  • Editable tags and artwork
  • Multiple playback layouts
  • Background playback and lock screen controls
Features
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Spiral Player plays the music you already own. Point it at a cloud drive, a WebDAV server or the files on this device, and it reads the tags and builds a library out of what it finds — songs, albums, artists, genres, folders. There is no catalogue to subscribe to and nothing to upload anywhere new. CONNECT YOUR STORAGE • Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and pCloud • Nextcloud, ownCloud and any WebDAV server • Files already on this iPhone or iPad • More than one account per service, so two Google Drives sit side by side Stream a song straight off the drive, or keep it on the device and play it with no signal at all. A LIBRARY, NOT A FILE LIST Songs, albums, artists, genres, folders and playlists, each with its own sort order and a list or grid view. Search by title, album, artist or genre. Favourites, Most Played and Last Played build themselves. Blacklist a song or a whole folder and it stops appearing; turn on Hide Duplicates and one copy shows. PLAYBACK • MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and AC3 • Background playback, lock screen and Control Centre, AirPlay • A Now Playing widget for the home screen • Repeat one, repeat all, shuffle, and a queue you can reorder • Embedded lyrics, or search the web for the rest • Sleep timer • Playback speed, remembered across restarts if you want it FIVE NOW PLAYING LAYOUTS Classic keeps the artwork above the controls with the queue along the bottom. Immersive runs the artwork full width over a card of controls. Circle spins the cover as a record inside a ring of visualizer. Card floats the cover over its own blurred backdrop. Full puts every action on screen in two rows under the transport. TAGS AND ARTWORK Edit title, artist, album, album artist, genre, year and track number, one song or a whole selection at once. The edits live in the app; the files on your drive are left exactly as they are. Replace album art with your own picture. DOWNLOADS Save a song, an album or a whole folder to the device. Downloaded Only mode hides everything still in the cloud, so the library on a plane is the library you can actually play. Cap the streaming cache at a size you choose, or clear it. BACKUP AND RESTORE Write playlists, favourites, blacklist, bookmarks, sort orders and artist info to one file, and restore it on another device or after a reinstall. SPIRAL PLAYER PRO The free app streams from every service above with one account each, and browses, searches, sorts, queues and plays the whole library. Pro is one purchase, not a subscription, and adds: no ads; saving songs, albums and folders offline; audio bookmarks; the tag editor; playback speed; custom playlist artwork; four more Now Playing layouts and the visualizer; and a second account on any service. It is held by your Apple Account and restored with one button on any device you sign into. Twenty-two languages. VoiceOver labels throughout, Dynamic Type, and a library a screen reader reads row by row.

Screenshots

Tunly4 screens
Spiral4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tunly at 5.0 against Spiral's 4.0. Tunly also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tunly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Spiral sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tunly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tunly has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tunly ships an update every 6 weeks, Spiral every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tunly versus Spiral: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTunlySpiral
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size107 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperP4 Group, LLCRehan Shaikh

Customer experience

Tunly

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spiral

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tunly

Subscriptions2
  • Tunly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Tunly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
1 purchases

Spiral

One-time1
  • Spiral Player Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Tunly free?
Tunly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spiral free?
Spiral is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tunly or Spiral?
Tunly is rated higher. Tunly averages 5.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Spiral averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tunly or Spiral have ads?
Spiral shows ads; Tunly does not.
Which is updated more often, Tunly or Spiral?
Tunly ships an update every 6 weeks, and Spiral every 2 months. Most recently, Tunly was updated on November 3, 2026 and Spiral on October 30, 2026.

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