Retune App vs PxlRadio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Retune App
Discover trending music based on your location and see what others are listening to nearby. Connect your Spotify account to map your listening habits and explore popular songs in different areas. Share your music discoveries with friends and see their listening activity.
- Location-based music tracking
- Spotify integration
- Friend connections
- Music map of your city
- Personal listening history by location
- Explore trending music nearby
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Retune is a location-based music tracking app that turns your city into a music map. Connect to Spotify, add friends, and explore what people are listening to nearby! See where you listen to music the most and which songs you play at each location.
PxlRadio
Experience music listening as it used to be with this retro radio player. Browse live internet radio streams by genre or mood, and customize its appearance with unlockable skins. No accounts or subscriptions are required to start listening.
- Retro radio interface
- Live internet radio streams
- Browse by genre and mood
- Customizable skins
- No account or subscription needed
- Ad-free listening
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listening to music use to be simple? just pick a station and vibe? PxlRadio is that. a retro radio player that looks like the device you wish you still had. scroll through stations with the wheel, tap a genre, and you're in. 80s. 90s. lofi. chill. jazz. hip hop. zen, meditate, relax, pick your mood, customized it with carefully crafted skins. each station is a live internet radio stream, real djs, real playlists, no algorithm deciding what you should hear. just music. We made 8 retro device skins covered in pixel stickers. 2 are free, 6 you can unlock. swap them whenever you want. your radio, your style. no login. no account. no spotify. no apple music subscription needed. you open it, you listen. that's it. built by pxlminds. radio stations powered by radio-browser.info, an open-source community directory.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Retune App at none against PxlRadio's 6. Retune App also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1). PxlRadio's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. PxlRadio sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Retune App asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Retune App against 5.0 for PxlRadio. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Retune App has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Retune App | PxlRadio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Cruz | Diellor Hoxhaj |
In-app purchases
Retune App
No in-app purchases
PxlRadio
- Retro Skin Pack 1$2.99
- Retro Skin Pack 4$2.99
- Retro Skin Pack 7$2.99
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- Retro Skin Pack 6$2.99
- Retro Skin Pack 5$2.99
- Retro Skin Pack 8$2.99
