Comparison

Mixly vs SongCatcher

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

Head to head
About

Mixly

Describe your mood or activity, and this app instantly generates a personalized playlist from Apple Music. Refine your selections with follow-up prompts, save your favorite mixes, and discover new tracks effortlessly.

Highlights
  • AI-powered playlist creation
  • Playlist refinement with prompts
  • Save and organize favorite mixes
  • Direct playback via Apple Music
  • Discover new tracks
Features
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Mixly: Every mood has a playlist Describe how you're feeling, what you're doing, or what you want to hear and Mixly builds a playlist from Apple Music in seconds. No scrolling through endless catalogs or algorithm guessing what you want. Just describe the vibe and get a playlist that fits. Create mixes for anything: a late-night drive, a workout, a dinner party, or just a mood you can't quite name. Refine your mix until it's exactly right, save your favorites, and come back to them whenever you need. What you can do with Mixly: - Describe the moment and get a curated playlist instantly - Refine your mix with follow-up prompts until it's perfect - Save and organize your favorite mixes - Play everything directly through Apple Music - Discover tracks you'd never find on your own Mixly requires an active Apple Music subscription.

About

SongCatcher

Identify songs playing around you with a single tap. This app continuously listens to capture multiple tracks in a session, noting the location and time of each discovery. Access lyrics, translations, and jump directly to Apple Music to play the full song.

Highlights
  • Instant song recognition
  • Continuous song catching
  • Location and time tagging
  • Lyrics with translations
  • Open in Apple Music
Features
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SongCatcher — catch the songs playing around you. Hear a song you love in a café, a class, or a friend's kitchen? Tap once and SongCatcher tells you what it is. It keeps listening, so it catches every song in a session — not just the first. • Instant recognition — ShazamKit first, with a second engine as backup, so more songs get caught. • Catch a whole night — leave it running and it builds a timeline of the evening, song after song. • Keep it together — file a session as one event: a concert, the gym, a night out, dinner at home. Share it as a page anyone can open. • Lyrics, with translations — read along, with an English translation for songs in other languages. • The story in the song — keep a song and it adds what it means and who made it. • Where you heard it — turn on location and every catch remembers the place. • Open in Apple Music — jump straight to any catch to hear it in full. No account. No sign-up. Open it and start catching. Your history stays on your device, and SongCatcher only listens when you tell it to.

Screenshots

Mixly3 screens
SongCatcher4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SongCatcher at every 5 days against Mixly's every 2 months. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mixly against 5.0 for SongCatcher. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mixly ships an update every 2 months, SongCatcher every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Mixly versus SongCatcher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMixlySongCatcher
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKyle EdgetteGuy Merin

In-app purchases

None

Mixly

No in-app purchases

None

SongCatcher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mixly free?
Mixly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SongCatcher free?
SongCatcher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mixly or SongCatcher?
Mixly and SongCatcher are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Mixly or SongCatcher have ads?
Neither Mixly nor SongCatcher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mixly or SongCatcher?
Mixly ships an update every 2 months, and SongCatcher every 5 days. Most recently, Mixly was updated on October 19, 2026 and SongCatcher on October 24, 2026.

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