Hitstalt vs Guess The Year
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hitstalt
Enhance your music party experience with this app that integrates with Apple Music. Scan cards to automatically play music and arrange them on a timeline. It's the perfect companion for the Hitster card game.
- Seamless Apple Music integration
- Optional bingo timer
- Report non-working cards
- Supports multiple Hitster editions
- Automatic music playback
- Timeline arrangement
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Discover a new way to experience your Hitster card game! With this app, you can turn every meeting into a rousing music party - perfectly coordinated with Apple Music. Key features: - Seamless integration with Apple Music - Optional bingo timer for Hitster Bingo editions - Report non-working cards Many supported Hitster editions, more will be added gradually. Here's how it works: 1. start a game 2. scan a Hitster card 3. the music starts automatically via Apple Music 4. arrange the card in front of you on your timeline Important note: - Original Hitster card game required - Apple Music subscription required Let the music play and become the ultimate Hitster with the best alternative for Apple Music users!
Guess The Year
Test your knowledge of history, music, and movies by placing events, songs, or films in chronological order. Challenge friends online or play solo with various themes and game modes. Features include daily challenges, offline play, and a unique music blind listening mode.
- Chronological ordering gameplay
- Multiple themes (music, movies, history)
- Online and local multiplayer
- Daily challenges
- Offline mode
- Music blind listening mode
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Was it before or after? Lots of themes to play : music, movies, inventions, historical facts and much more in the right order – and challenge your friends online or around a table! An equivalent of Timeline and Hitster ×1000. Perfect for general knowledge lovers and fans of quizzes, history and music. A fun, fast and clever game, perfect for evenings, travels or breaks between two shows. Test your memory, logic and sense of history with varied themes and thousands of cards to rank. Exclusive Music Mode: listen to blind clips and place them in the right chronological order! Inspired by the spirit of Hitster, but in a 100% digital version always in your pocket. Perfect to challenge your friends on your favorite hits, from timeless classics to recent tracks. How to play? 1. Choose a theme: movies, music, TV series, celebrities, fun facts, inventions, sports… 2. Place the cards in the right order: from oldest to newest, smallest to biggest, slowest to fastest… 3. Make the right choices to score the most points. 4. Play solo, duo or in teams. 5. Climb online rankings and become the master of order! Key features: • New daily challenges to complete • Many themes available, updated regularly • Unique mode: blind listening and Hitster-style ranking • Special themes: Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings to rebuild saga timelines • Multiple game modes: 2-minute chrono, daily challenge, 20-point score, or team play (first to 10) • Unlock historical figures and discover their fun facts • Offline mode: play anywhere, without connection • Online leaderboards: face your friends or the whole world A game for all ages and all moments. Junban is the ideal party game, but also a great solo quiz. Whether you’re a fan of movies, series, music or historical anecdotes, you’ll find a theme you’ll love to order. Examples of cards: • “Thunderstruck” was released before or after “Billie Jean”? • Did Avatar come out before or after Inception? • Did Harry get his wand before or after meeting Hedwig? • Did the Samsung Galaxy appear before the iPhone? • Was the red card introduced before or after the first World Cup? • Is a lizard faster than a baseball thrown at full speed? Try Junban now and test your general knowledge! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Guess The Year at Free against Hitstalt's $1.99. Guess The Year also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.7) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Hitstalt's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#42 vs unranked). On ratings volume, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Guess The Year is free to download; Hitstalt costs $1.99 up front. Hitstalt sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Guess The Year sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Guess The Year holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 98% of Hitstalt's written reviews are positive against 89% of Guess The Year's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hitstalt ships an update every 2 months, Guess The Year every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hitstalt | Guess The Year |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 97.7% of reviews — better | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #42 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Wandscheer | Bertrand VIRICEL |
Customer experience
Hitstalt
Guess The Year
Bugs and requests
Hitstalt
Reported bugs
2 issues- QR codes not always readable
- Some songs not found on Apple Music
Requested features
6 requests- Include Hitster Battle of the Generations
- Add Canada Rock and Canada Bingo
- Add Canada Summer Party
- Option for 30-second turns
- Allow custom cards and playlists
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- Add songs directly to Apple Music library
Guess The Year
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hitstalt
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$3.99
- Large Tip$7.99
Guess The Year
- VIP Subscription – Weekly$1.997 Days
- Premium – Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium – Yearly$14.991 Year
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- VIP Subscription – Yearly$24.991 Year
- No ads$2.99
- Premium$6.99
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