Comparison

RunningBeat vs Cassetto

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

Head to head
About

RunningBeat

Features
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• Play the music at any BPM you want while working out • Add music to playlist and analyze the BPM • Manually find the BPM by tapping on the beat

About

Cassetto

Discover new music through social sharing rather than algorithms. Users share songs with personal context, allowing others to discover, react, and pass them on. Build a profile that reflects your evolving taste and connect with others through shared musical experiences.

Highlights
  • Share songs with personal comments
  • Explore a public Discover feed
  • Follow friends and their music taste
  • Like and react to shared songs
  • Play music through your streaming service
  • Build a personal music taste profile
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Most music discovery today feels passive. You open a streaming app, something is already waiting for you, and within a few minutes you’re hearing music that technically fits your taste but doesn’t really move it anywhere. The system is efficient, but it tends to keep you circling the same sounds instead of actually finding something new. Cassetto is built on a different assumption: that people are better at discovering music than algorithms. Every song on Cassetto is there because someone chose to share it. Not because it was predicted to perform well, not because it matches a pattern, but because it meant something to them. That decision becomes the starting point for how music moves through the app. When you post a song, you can attach your own context—whether that’s a quick thought, a memory, or just a reason you think it’s worth hearing. From there, other people can listen, react, and engage with it. Over time, you start to see which songs land, which ones travel, and how your taste connects with others. Discovery is shaped by how you move through the app. The Discover feed opens up a broader view of what people are sharing publicly, while Friends and Following pages let you stay closer to the people you actually trust to put you onto something good. Instead of being pushed toward content, you decide where to look and whose taste you want to spend time with. Listening stays connected to the platforms you already use. Songs are shared through direct links and can be played through your streaming service, so you’re not switching environments just to explore something new. As you listen, you can like and react to posts, adding a layer of interaction that reflects how music is actually exchanged between people. Your profile becomes a record of your taste over time. Every song you post is saved, making it easy to look back at what you’ve shared and how your music has evolved. Nothing disappears into a feed or gets lost after a moment—it stays tied to you. Available now: - Post songs using direct links, with optional comments - Explore the Discover feed - Follow friends and browse Friends and Following pages - Like and react to songs - Play songs through your streaming service in the background - Build your profile and keep track of what you’ve shared Coming soon: - Groups (public and private spaces for sharing within communities) - Mixtapes (save songs into collections and export them to your streaming service) - Influence tracking (see how people engage with what you share, and how your music moves across the network) Cassetto is designed around a simple loop: someone shares a song, someone else discovers it, saves it, and passes it on. Over time, that loop starts to build something you can actually see—how music spreads, where it resonates, and who’s shaping what gets heard. It doesn’t try to replace the way you listen to music. It changes how you find it.

Screenshots

RunningBeat3 screens
Cassetto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Cassetto at every 9 days against RunningBeat's every 3 months. Cassetto also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RunningBeat ships an update every 3 months, Cassetto every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
RunningBeat versus Cassetto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRunningBeatCassetto
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—19 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB52 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperDaebyeog NohRyan Hendrickson

In-app purchases

None

RunningBeat

No in-app purchases

None

Cassetto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RunningBeat free?
RunningBeat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cassetto free?
Cassetto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RunningBeat or Cassetto have ads?
Neither RunningBeat nor Cassetto shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RunningBeat or Cassetto?
RunningBeat ships an update every 3 months, and Cassetto every 9 days. Most recently, RunningBeat was updated on October 5, 2026 and Cassetto on October 3, 2026.

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