Comparison

Solos vs DigginCrate

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

Head to head
About

Solos

Experience your Apple Music library through classic retro cassette player and Walkman interfaces. This app aims to transport you back to a nostalgic era of music listening.

Highlights
  • Retro cassette player interfaces
  • Walkman-inspired designs
  • Apple Music integration
  • Nostalgic music playback
  • Golden era sound experience
Features
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Use classic retro cassette player and Walkman interfaces to play your Apple Music, taking you back to nostalgic times and reliving the golden age of music.

About

DigginCrate

Save music recommendations from any source directly into a digital crate. Organize, rate, and listen to your discoveries across various music services. Built with privacy in mind, it keeps your data on your device without requiring an account or analytics.

Highlights
  • Save music links from any app
  • Automatic music identification
  • Organize by listened, favorites, archive
  • Rate and add notes to finds
  • Create and export ranked music lists
  • Privacy-focused, no account needed
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Every good recommendation dies the same way: buried in a chat, a story, a screenshot you never opened again. DigginCrate is the crate you drop them into. HOW IT WORKS 1. Share a link — from Instagram, a message, Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, anywhere — to DigginCrate. It lands in your inbox, no questions asked. 2. Dig it up. The app reads the link, suggests what the record probably is, and you confirm the match from the Apple Music catalogue. Nothing is filed behind your back. 3. Play it in your service of choice, and mark it listened. YOUR CRATE • Home shows your latest find, what you added recently, and how much you actually listened to this week. • "Drop the needle" picks something unheard when you can't decide. • The Shelf holds everything: search it, filter by listened, favorites or archive, sort by date, artist or rating. • Rate finds out of five, mark favorites, write a note, and tag them however you like. • Archive what you're done with. Delete it for good when you mean it. LISTS WORTH KEEPING • Rank your best of the year — albums and songs, separately, one list per year. • Build your own ranked lists for anything: a genre, a mood, a friend's taste. • Export a list as an image and share it. BUILT TO BE PRIVATE • No account. No sign-up. No analytics or advertising trackers. • Your finds, notes, ratings and lists stay on your device. • Identification runs on your iPhone, using Apple's on-device intelligence. GOOD TO KNOW Searching the real Apple Music catalogue needs an Apple Music account and takes one tap to connect in Settings. DigginCrate never plays music itself — it hands you off to Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music or Tidal, whichever you set as your default. The app interface is available in English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

Screenshots

Solos4 screens
DigginCrate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: DigginCrate at free against Solos's free with in-app purchases. Solos's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. Solos sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and DigginCrate 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Solos against 5.0 for DigginCrate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Solos has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Solos versus DigginCrate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSolosDigginCrate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoegi Co., Ltd.Sergi Serrano Fargas

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Solos

One-time2
  • Turntable$2.99
  • CD Player$2.99
1 purchases

DigginCrate

One-time1
  • Diggin'Crate Unlimited$9.99

Questions

Is Solos free?
Solos is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DigginCrate free?
DigginCrate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Solos or DigginCrate?
DigginCrate is rated higher. Solos averages 4.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while DigginCrate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Solos or DigginCrate have ads?
Neither Solos nor DigginCrate shows ads.

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