MiniMoon vs Dissonant.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Offline playback
- CarPlay and Siri integration
- Graphic equalizer
- Smart collections and playlists
- Tag and artwork editing
- Wi-Fi library sync
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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.
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.
- Personalized album curation
- Physical album delivery
- Secondhand album sourcing
- Community for music lovers
- Human-curated recommendations
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. MiniMoon sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Dissonant. asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
MiniMoon ships an update fortnightly, Dissonant. every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.
| Parameter | MiniMoon | Dissonant. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (49 ratings) | 4.9 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews | 94.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Miles Egan | Hunter White |
Customer experience
MiniMoon
Dissonant.
In-app purchases
MiniMoon
- Tip Jar$4.99
- Full Version Unlock$9.99
Dissonant.
No in-app purchases









