UpNext vs Notes.fm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UpNext
This app connects independent music artists and industry professionals. Discover collaborators, share your work, and promote your music through playlist placements and social ad campaigns. Grow your network and advance your music career.
- Network with artists and professionals
- Discover collaborators via video
- Run playlist placement campaigns
- Launch social ad campaigns
- Build a curated feed
- Get feedback on music
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UpNext – The Independent Artist Network UpNext is the network for independent music artists and industry professionals to connect, collaborate, and build real momentum together. Built for the new generation of artists, producers and industry pros, UpNext helps you discover people in your lane, form genuine creative relationships, and unlock new opportunities. Whether you're looking to collaborate, get feedback, grow your network, or professionally promote your music, UpNext brings everything into one platform. Key Features: Network Follow artists, share posts, and build a curated feed around your sound and style. Studio Take collaboration further with group rooms to create tracks together. Marketing Get submitted to independent curators to professionally promote your music and reach new listeners. Built for Independent Artists From emerging creators to fast-growing artists, UpNext is designed to help you build real connections, grow consistently, and move your career forward on your terms. Ready to be UpNext? Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Notes.fm
This app helps musicians track and collect all their music royalties in one place. It identifies missing registrations and unclaimed money across over 50 platforms, simplifying royalty collection for artists, songwriters, and managers.
- Collect all royalties in one place
- Identify missing registrations and unclaimed shares
- Estimate unclaimed royalties
- Verify songwriter, performer, and producer credits
- Track catalog health across 50+ platforms
- Share credit and registration data
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NOTES Notes is the easiest way to release your music and collect all of your royalties in one place. Every musician deserves all of their royalties. But royalty registrations are fragmented and manual, and a song that isn't registered everywhere it earns leaves money unclaimed. Notes releases your music, reviews your catalog for issues, and makes sure you get paid. Notes does not take a percentage of your royalties. RELEASE YOUR MUSIC - Distribute your songs to 30+ platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Tidal, and Deezer - Register your songs with The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) as you release them - Attach credits and International Standard Recording Codes (ISRCs) to every release REVIEW YOUR CATALOG AND FIND MISSING MONEY - Import your existing catalog by artist, playlist, release, or song - Review your catalog for issues, including missing registrations, unclaimed shares, and unmatched recordings, across The MLC, Performing Rights Organizations (PROs), and SoundExchange - See clear, data-backed estimates of unclaimed royalties, built on real stream counts and current mechanical rates - Verify songwriter, performer, and producer credits, and look up the identifiers behind your songs — ISRCs, International Standard Musical Work Codes (ISWCs), and Interested Party Information (IPI) numbers FIX ISSUES AND CLAIM YOUR ROYALTIES - Notes Publishing fixes publishing issues and collects missing money by registering your songs at The MLC - Download your royalty review, or share it with your existing publishing administrator CONTRACTS AND PAYOUTS - Create and send contracts that set each collaborator's share of a song's recording and songwriting royalties - Collaborators approve or decline their share right in the app, and approved contracts pay everyone automatically - Track your total earnings over time, from one week to all time WHO IT'S FOR - Musicians releasing music and tracking their own royalties - Songwriters verifying registrations across PROs and The MLC - Managers reviewing catalog health for the musicians they administer - Labels and publishers monitoring registrations and contracts BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD Notes keeps you connected to your catalog wherever you are. Add the Catalog Review widget to your Home Screen, pull to refresh, pick up where you left off with a persistent session, and share anything straight from the app. If you lose connectivity, Notes lets you know and reloads automatically when you're back online. Start with a free account at notes.fm. MUSICIAN SUBSCRIPTION Upgrade to Musician in the app for your earnings on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and Control Center, plus notifications when royalties arrive, a statement is ready, or a payment reaches you. Musician is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly to your Apple Account, and renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://notes.fm/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://notes.fm/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Notes.fm at 5.0 against UpNext's 3.9. Notes.fm also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). UpNext's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. UpNext sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per month and Notes.fm sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Notes.fm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UpNext has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of UpNext's written reviews are positive against 100% of Notes.fm's.
UpNext ships an update every 3 weeks, Notes.fm weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UpNext | Notes.fm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PSounds Limited | Notes Frequencies, Inc. |
Customer experience
UpNext
Notes.fm
In-app purchases
UpNext
- UpNext Manager Monthly$29.991 Month
Notes.fm
- Musician$4.991 Month
- Musician (Yearly)$49.991 Year








