Comparison

Genius Plus vs Stochastic Music Tyrant

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

Head to head
About

Genius Plus

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Genius Plus brings smart music discovery to your local library. It analyzes tempo (BPM), key & chroma, spectral centroid, and energy to create a compact feature vector for each track. Using a high‑performance approximate nearest neighbor index (HNSW), it finds sonically similar songs and builds seamless playlists and radio stations; on your device, privately. Tune the β€œfeel” of your playlists in Settings. Emphasize chroma/key, tempo, or energy; enable dimensionality reduction (PCA) and optional quantization to reduce storage. Batch‑process your library, browse song details, and start a radio stream from any seed track.

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Stochastic Music Tyrant

Features
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Your library has outgrown your listening. Hundreds of songs you added once and never heard again sit buried while the same forty play on repeat. Stochastic Music Tyrant is a true shuffle for the library you already own. Every song plays exactly once before any song repeats, so the ones you forgot resurface instead of the same rotation. A running counter proves it, and your place holds across sessions. THE ENGINE A full Fisher-Yates shuffle with real randomness. Every subject performs once per reign, spread evenly across your whole Apple Music library. No weighting by play counts, skips, or moods. You get what you get. THE GALLOWS Hold to banish a song you are done with. It leaves the shuffle for good, takes a dislike in Apple Music, and lands on The Block, a real playlist where the condemned wait. The sentence stands across reigns until you show mercy. A PARDON Tap the heart to spare a song you love: loved in Apple Music and gathered into The Pardoned. THE REGISTER The Block never forgets. Every row stands under AWAITING THE AXE, STRUCK FROM THE LIBRARY, or SPARED, each with its date. Strike a song by hand in Apple Music and the court notices on its own. THE WARRANT No app on iPhone may delete a song from your library. So the court issues warrants. SEND THE WARRANT posts every standing sentence, and The Headsman, a free companion for your Mac, serves it in one sitting. The deletions are real and sync everywhere. The sentence travels with you. The axe waits at home. NUMBERED REIGNS One full pass through your library is a reign. When every song has played, it ends with ceremony and the next begins with a fresh shuffle. The Dossier keeps your record: days in power, songs pardoned, songs banished, and how ruthless your rule has run. PROCLAIM Turn any reign or the whole Block into a decree card made to share. Real names stay sealed unless you choose to confess them. ONE COURT, TWO THRONES The court travels. The same reign holds session on your iPhone and in your desktop browser, and one seat opens both. Buy once. No subscription to the Tyrant. Requires an Apple Music subscription. Bring order to the library you already own. Starve your algorithm.

Screenshots

Genius Plus4 screens
Stochastic Music Tyrant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Stochastic Music Tyrant at every 2 days against Genius Plus's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Genius Plus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and Stochastic Music Tyrant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Genius Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, Stochastic Music Tyrant every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Genius Plus versus Stochastic Music Tyrant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGenius PlusStochastic Music Tyrant
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDarryl ReedHangar Labs, LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Genius Plus

Subscriptions1
  • Genius Plus Annual$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Purchase$4.99
1 purchases

Stochastic Music Tyrant

One-time1
  • The Court Β· Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is Genius Plus free?
Genius Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stochastic Music Tyrant free?
Stochastic Music Tyrant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Genius Plus or Stochastic Music Tyrant have ads?
Neither Genius Plus nor Stochastic Music Tyrant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Genius Plus or Stochastic Music Tyrant?
Genius Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, and Stochastic Music Tyrant every 2 days. Most recently, Genius Plus was updated on November 8, 2026 and Stochastic Music Tyrant on November 5, 2026.

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