Comparison

Setlists! vs Crate Music Library

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

Head to head
About

Setlists!

Relive your live music experiences with this concert companion. Browse attended shows, explore venue histories, and discover artist performances. Track your concert memories and view detailed setlists from past events.

Highlights
  • Track concert memories
  • Browse attended shows
  • Discover venue histories
  • Explore artist performances
  • View detailed setlists
  • Concert attendance statistics
Features
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Track your concert memories with this concert-going companion app. Browse your attended shows, discover venue histories, and explore artist performances all in one place. * View detailed setlists from your attended concerts * Explore venue histories and see all shows performed there * Browse artist profiles with comprehensive tour histories * Clean, modern interface designed for iOS * Quick access to your recent shows and favorite venues * View statistics about your concert attendance Perfect for music lovers and concert-goers who want to relive their live music experiences and discover new shows at their favorite venues.

About

Crate Music Library

This app transforms your existing music library into an interactive experience. Discover new music based on your tastes, revisit albums with precise playback, and explore the stories behind your favorite songs. It offers personalized playlists and detailed artist and album information.

Highlights
  • Resume playback exactly where you left off
  • AI-powered playlist generation from your library
  • New release recommendations based on your taste
  • Detailed song and album information (liner notes, facts)
  • Explore music by artist origin or year
  • Customizable app appearance
Features
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Your music is personal. Your app should be too. Crate turns your Apple Music library into a room full of records: every album you were partway through, waiting at the second you stopped; a box of new releases every Friday; the story behind each song as it plays; mixtapes that keep themselves up to date; and a Clerk who makes playlists from songs you already own. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF, TO THE SECOND Stop a record halfway through "Deacon Blues" and Crate keeps your place: the song and the second, for each of your last five albums and playlists. Switch to something else, come back days later, and it carries on from exactly there, on your iPhone, your iPad, in CarPlay and from your Apple Watch. SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR Ask the Clerk for "sunday morning soul from the 70s", "songs with trains in the title" or "Leonard Cohen songs sung by anybody but Leonard Cohen". It picks only from your library, shows how it read your words, and tells you plainly when it can't do something rather than guessing. A BOX OF NEW RECORDS EVERY FRIDAY The week's new releases that connect to records you already own: their label, a musician or producer on them, an artist they sound like, the town they come from. Each one says why it's in the box. Hear thirty seconds of every track, then sort the delivery: Add to Library, Later, or Not for Me. THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG Pop-Up Facts appear over Now Playing every half minute: how the song was written, who played on it, what happened in the studio. Each says where it came from. Liner notes show who produced every record and who played on it; tap any name to see everything else of yours they worked on, and read what the critics said. MUSICAL ROAD TRIPS Travel through your own records: one song from every year, from one genre to another, from one album to another, or town to town on a map by where your artists come from, with a postcard from every stop. MIXTAPES AND PLAYLISTS Smart playlists built from rules, like "added this year" or "from the 90s and not played lately", beside playlists you make by hand. Crate can copy any of them into the Music app and keeps that copy current, so it plays in the car and on every device. EVERY DAY, SOMETHING NEW FROM YOUR SHELVES An album of the day with the reason it came up, crates of a dozen records joined by a reason you can see, and records picked for the hour you're in. WANDER AND THE BACK ROOM Flip from one artist to the next and see where it takes you. The Back Room holds what the critics are reviewing, new records from artists you collect, and the records your library is missing. EVERY PLAY, YEAR BY YEAR Stats on your eras, the hours you listen, every album you played through, and your year in records. Made for iPhone Duo: open it for a sidebar beside your shelf, or half-fold it to put a record on one page and its liner notes on the other. Dress it in one of seven looks, from a sunlit record room to a late-night jazz club. Works on iPhone, iPad and CarPlay, with home screen widgets and an Apple Watch remote. Private by design: Crate reads your library on your device and there is no Crate server, so nothing comes to us. Your own library works without a subscription; playing records you don't own needs Apple Music. Website: cratemusicapp.com Discord: discord.gg/QUtsNJUvNV Support: support@cratemusicapp.com

Screenshots

Setlists!4 screens
Crate Music Library4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Setlists! at Free against Crate Music Library's $6.99. Setlists! also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Crate Music Library's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 days). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Setlists! is free to download; Crate Music Library costs $6.99 up front. 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 Setlists! against 5.0 for Crate Music Library. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Setlists! ships an update every 2 days, Crate Music Library daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Setlists! versus Crate Music Library: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSetlists!Crate Music Library
PriceFree — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB64 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAvery JonesEric Linder

Customer experience

Setlists!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Crate Music Library

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Setlists!

No in-app purchases

None

Crate Music Library

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Setlists! free?
Setlists! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crate Music Library free?
Crate Music Library costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Setlists! or Crate Music Library?
Setlists! and Crate Music Library are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Setlists! or Crate Music Library have ads?
Neither Setlists! nor Crate Music Library shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Setlists! or Crate Music Library?
Setlists! ships an update every 2 days, and Crate Music Library daily. Most recently, Setlists! was updated on October 30, 2026 and Crate Music Library on November 8, 2026.

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