Mixly vs SongCatcher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI-powered playlist creation
- Playlist refinement with prompts
- Save and organize favorite mixes
- Direct playback via Apple Music
- Discover new tracks
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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.
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.
- Instant song recognition
- Continuous song catching
- Location and time tagging
- Lyrics with translations
- Open in Apple Music
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Mixly | SongCatcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Edgette | Guy Merin |
In-app purchases
Mixly
No in-app purchases
SongCatcher
No in-app purchases









