Comparison

Music Trackr vs Playlist Forge

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

Head to head
About

Music Trackr

Analyze your personal music listening habits with detailed statistics on top songs, artists, and albums. Discover your true music taste and share your favorite tracks visually. Your data remains private and is processed locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Top songs, artists, and albums analysis
  • Playback duration and skip history tracking
  • Detailed drill-down stats for music library
  • Shareable music taste cards
  • Local data processing and privacy
  • Offline access to listening history
Features
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Do you ever wonder which artists you've listened to most this year? Which album you've had on repeat for months? Music Trackr gives you a beautiful, honest look at your real listening history — powered entirely by your own music library. Discover your true music taste. Music Trackr reads your play counts, skip history, and playback duration straight from your iPhone's music library. No guessing. No algorithms. Just your actual listening data, presented clearly. What you'll see: • Your top songs, sorted by how many times you've actually played them • Your most-listened artists and albums at a glance • Your most-played playlists and genres • Total time you've spent listening to music • Full drill-down into any song, album, artist, playlist, or genre for deeper stats Share your taste. Found a surprising #1 artist? Share your top songs or top albums as a beautiful card — perfect for social media or just showing off to friends. Built for music lovers. Whether you have 100 songs or 100,000, Music Trackr handles it all. Your library data is loaded quickly and cached locally so it's always ready. Pull to refresh any time to sync the latest play counts. Completely private. Music Trackr never uploads your listening data anywhere. Everything stays on your device. No account required. No sign-in. Your music history is yours alone.

About

Playlist Forge

Effortlessly create personalized music playlists based on artists, genres, or release years. Discover and share playlists with a community, collaborate on shared lists, and participate in music challenges. Requires an Apple Music subscription.

Highlights
  • Auto-generate playlists from artists
  • Discover and follow curators
  • Collaborative community playlists
  • Song voting for community playlists
  • Themed music challenges
  • Boost playlists for visibility
Features
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Playlist Forge is where you build playlists on Apple Music and share them with a community that actually listens. Pick any artist and Playlist Forge builds a playlist around them — just their songs, or a mix that trees out through similar artists. Lean toward the hits or dig for deep cuts, set the length and a release-year range, preview every track, then save it straight to your Apple Music library. BUILD Start from any artist. Choose "just this artist" or "artist + similar," pick Hits or Deep cuts, set the length and years, preview the songs, and save to your library in a tap. DISCOVER Browse playlists made by real people, add any of them to your library instantly, and follow the curators whose taste you trust. Likes, adds, and comments help the good stuff rise, and you can search across every playlist and person. MAKE IT TOGETHER Start a community playlist and let others add songs. Turn on song voting so the crowd thumbs each track up or down for fit. CHALLENGES Host your own themed challenge or enter someone else's, then let the community vote for a winner. Several can run at once, so there's always something to jump into. BOOST Give a playlist you're proud of a spotlight — pin it to the top of Discover for a day so everyone finds it. STAY IN THE LOOP Get notified when someone follows you, when your playlist hits a milestone, or when a new challenge drops. Playlist Forge is your library, your taste, together with everyone else's. Requires an Apple Music subscription to build and save playlists. Sign in with Apple to post, comment, follow, and vote. Boost and Host a Challenge are optional one-time in-app purchases. Your data is yours — delete your account and everything in it any time from your profile. Questions? 14nicholas.martin@gmail.com

Screenshots

Music Trackr3 screens
Playlist Forge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Playlist Forge at none against Music Trackr's shown. Music Trackr's advantage is iOS requirement (18.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Music Trackr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Playlist Forge sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Music Trackr against 5.0 for Playlist Forge. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Music Trackr versus Playlist Forge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic TrackrPlaylist Forge
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB2 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNathan HerskovitzNICHOLAS JOHN MARTIN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Music Trackr

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
2 purchases

Playlist Forge

One-time2
  • Boost Playlist$1.99
  • Host a Challenge$4.99

Questions

Is Music Trackr free?
Music Trackr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Playlist Forge free?
Playlist Forge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Music Trackr or Playlist Forge?
Music Trackr and Playlist Forge are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Music Trackr or Playlist Forge have ads?
Music Trackr shows ads; Playlist Forge does not.

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