Comparison

MiniMoon vs Dissonant.

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

Head to head
About

MiniMoon

Listen to your owned music files, including FLAC and MP3, completely offline. Enjoy features like CarPlay and Siri integration, smart collections, and a powerful equalizer. A one-time purchase unlocks advanced editing and customization options.

Highlights
  • Offline playback
  • CarPlay and Siri integration
  • Graphic equalizer
  • Smart collections and playlists
  • Tag and artwork editing
  • Wi-Fi library sync
Features
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Play the music you own, including FLAC, MP3, and ALAC, completely offline and with no subscription. Browsing and playback are free. A one-time purchase unlocks the equalizer, tag and artwork editing, folder and track browsers, interface customization, and advanced tag features. Enjoy your collection without distractions: • CarPlay: browse your albums, collections, and favorites on your car's display. • Siri: ask to play an album, artist, song, or collection from your library, or resume your music. • Clean, modern interface designed entirely around listening. • Album-first browsing that encourages deeper, long-form listening. • Discover, an album-by-album feed for finding what to play next. • Works offline with your local library, no internet required. • Fast, always-available search across your entire collection. Powerful tools for serious library listeners: • Smart collections that fill themselves from your rules, plus traditional playlists. • Favorites keeps albums in your current rotation within easy reach. • Graphic equalizer that is powerful and easy to use, with ReplayGain support. • Synced lyrics from LRC files, or downloaded once and saved next to your music. • Sleep timer. • Play through AirPlay speakers. • Edit tags across multiple file formats. • Add or replace cover art. • Scrobble what you play to Last.fm. • Use Play Random Album to rediscover hidden gems. • Sync your library over Wi-Fi from a MiniMoon sync server, with transfers that resume if interrupted. Format support: • MP3, M4A (AAC and ALAC), FLAC, OPUS, WAV, and AIFF. • Surround playback for 5.1 and 7.1 files, or mixed down cleanly to stereo. • Imports M3U playlists.

About

Dissonant.

Discover music beyond algorithmic playlists. This service sends curated, secondhand albums to your door based on your unique taste. Engage with music as a human, not a statistic, and join a community of album lovers.

Highlights
  • Personalized album curation
  • Physical album delivery
  • Secondhand album sourcing
  • Community for music lovers
  • Human-curated recommendations
Features
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Music discovery through physical media. Sick of algorithm playlists? When was the last time you sat down and truly engaged with a great album? Tell us about your taste. We want to get to know you as a human, not as a statistic in an algorithm. Our music-loving curators will pick out an album they think you'll love and ship it right to your door. All albums are secondhand and are constantly being scavenged from all around the United States. We hope you'll join the world's cheapest album club/community! -Dissonant

Screenshots

MiniMoon4 screens
Dissonant.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dissonant. at none against MiniMoon's 2. Dissonant. also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. MiniMoon sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Dissonant. asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dissonant. holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 99 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of MiniMoon's written reviews are positive against 94% of Dissonant.'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MiniMoon ships an update fortnightly, Dissonant. every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MiniMoon versus Dissonant.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMiniMoonDissonant.
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (49 ratings)4.9 (99 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews94.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4999 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB120 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMiles EganHunter White

Customer experience

MiniMoon

All ratings49 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral6.1%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.3%
Negative7.9%

Dissonant.

All ratings99 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.8%
Negative2.8%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MiniMoon

One-time2
  • Tip Jar$4.99
  • Full Version Unlock$9.99
None

Dissonant.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MiniMoon free?
MiniMoon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dissonant. free?
Dissonant. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MiniMoon or Dissonant.?
Dissonant. is rated higher. MiniMoon averages 4.6 out of 5 from 49 ratings, while Dissonant. averages 4.9 from 99 ratings.
Do MiniMoon or Dissonant. have ads?
Neither MiniMoon nor Dissonant. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MiniMoon or Dissonant.?
MiniMoon ships an update fortnightly, and Dissonant. every 3 weeks. Most recently, MiniMoon was updated on November 4, 2026 and Dissonant. on November 4, 2026.

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