MusicSearch vs Liner Notez
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MusicSearch
Access a vast music database to find information about artists and songs. Cache data for offline use, filter content, and contribute to the database. Customize the app's appearance and track your listening history.
- Search MusicBrainz database
- Offline-first data caching
- Instant content filtering
- View visit history
- Save to collections
- Contribute to MusicBrainz
- Customizable appearance
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Features: - Search MusicBrainz's massive database for any information related to your favorite artist or song - Offline-first; all data is cached on device after loading each page/tab - Almost every tab allows you to filter its content instantaneously - Aliases will be used when filtering to help find things in other languages - See every page you've visited in the history screen, and quickly get back to them - Save anything to a collection - Login using your MusicBrainz account to add to your existing collections - Scrobbling to ListenBrainz? Enter your username to explore your listens - Customize the app's appearance with: Light/Dark theme, Material theme based on your wallpaper, or pick a custom color - Is an artist's discography incomplete? Aliases missing? Other data missing? Contribute it to MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org See all features here: https://lydavid.github.io/MusicSearch/docs/all_features.html This is a music database/discovery app, not a music player. There are external links to various streaming platforms which will open the album/song in their app if it's installed. The source code for this project can be found at: https://github.com/lydavid/MusicSearch
Liner Notez
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Liner Notez helps you explore albums the way liner notes used to: credits, musicians, producers, release editions, tracklists, and source links. Search by artist, browse album releases, open an album, and dig into documented public music data from sources such as MusicBrainz, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. Save albums to My Library, write your own album notes, and search saved albums, artists, and notes on your device. Liner Notez does not stream, play, download, sell, or redistribute music. With Liner Notez you can: • Browse album releases by artist • Narrow searches by album title and release type • View release dates, editions, labels, formats, and source links • Open tracklists and inspect documented song-level credits • Review songwriting, performer, instrument, production, and technical credits • Save albums to My Library • Write and edit your own album notes • Search your saved albums, artists, and notes on your device • Search for albums with documented producer credits Liner Notez is for album information, music-credit research, and personal album notes. It does not play, stream, download, sell, or provide music audio. Public music data can be incomplete, inconsistent, or vary by release edition. Liner Notez shows documented source data and does not invent missing credits.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MusicSearch at every 3 days against Liner Notez's every 4 months. Liner Notez's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.4). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MusicSearch ships an update every 3 days, Liner Notez every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MusicSearch | Liner Notez |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Ly | Edward Tremblay |
In-app purchases
MusicSearch
No in-app purchases
Liner Notez
No in-app purchases









