Cycles vs TwoTone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cycles
Explore curated music playlists and share your own collections. Preview tracks and connect with other music lovers, regardless of your streaming service. Find new inspiration or share your favorite songs.
- Discover curated playlists
- Share music collections
- Preview tracks
- Connect with music lovers
- Cross-platform music sharing
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Discover a new way to connect with music lovers! With our app, you can explore curated playlists, share your own music collections, and even preview tracks before diving in. Whether you’re a Spotify user or not, enjoy a seamless music-sharing experience that’s designed to bring people together through the love of music. Perfect for finding inspiration, exploring genres, or sharing your latest favorites with friends!
TwoTone
Discover and share music with a community of artists and listeners. Find new favorite songs, follow trusted curators, and connect with others who appreciate great music.
- Share songs
- Discover new music
- Follow trusted curators
- Sync with favorite streaming services
- Like shared tracks
- Connect with artists and listeners
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Share the songs that mean something to you and find your next favorite from curators with taste you trust. TwoTone is a home for music lovers, from playlist architects to people hunting for hidden gems. If you wanna add to the anthology you can, if you wanna listen to recommendations you can. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Share a song with the world • Sync up with curators who never miss, and see their highlights on your Anthology • Listen on your service: Spotify, Apple Music or SoundCloud. If a curator shares from a different one, we find the song for you • Give a like to the picks you love WHY TWOTONE Current algorithms feed you more of the same and we think people will always be better curators than them. TwoTone is where you wake up that curator up. Download TwoTone and start sharing what you love. PASS THE AUX BABYYY, WE GOT BANGERS!!! https://twotone.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: TwoTone at none against Cycles's shown. TwoTone also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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
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 — 5.0 for Cycles against 5.0 for TwoTone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Cycles ships an update every 3 months, TwoTone every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cycles | TwoTone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cycles Studios Inc. | Tunji Productions LLC. |
Customer experience
Cycles
TwoTone
In-app purchases
Cycles
No in-app purchases
TwoTone
No in-app purchases
