Instafest vs Listend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instafest
Visualize your Spotify listening habits by transforming your music taste into custom festival lineups, posters, and widgets. Discover your top songs, albums, and artists, and share your unique music journey with others.
- Custom festival lineups from listening history
- Track top songs, albums, and artists
- Shareable album reviews
- Home Screen widgets
- Multiple visual styles and layouts
- Instant sharing of designs
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See your music in a whole new way. Instafest transforms your Spotify listening into beautifully designed visuals you can explore, customize, and share. Discover the songs, albums, and artists that define your taste, then turn your listening history into personalized festival lineups, posters, widgets, and more. Features • Create custom festival-style lineups from your listening history • Track your top songs, albums, and artists over time • Create shareable reviews of your favorite albums • Showcase your taste with Home Screen widgets • Choose from multiple visual styles and layouts • Share your favorite designs instantly Instafest turns your favorite music into beautiful artwork for you to experience and share! Terms of Use: https://instafest.app/terms-of-use.html
Listend
Log, rate, and review every album you listen to. Build a personal music library, see friends' listening habits, and discover new records. Perfect for casual listeners and audiophiles alike.
- Log and track albums
- Rate and review albums
- Follow friends' activity
- Discover new albums
- Build personal music library
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Listend is the home for album lovers. Log every album you listen to and build your personal music library. Rate and review albums, see what your friends are listening to, and discover your next favourite record. Whether you're a casual listener or a dedicated audiophile, Listend gives the album the attention it deserves — one listen at a time. Features: • Log and track every album you listen to • Rate and review albums • Follow friends and see their listening activity • Discover new albums through the discover page • Build your personal music library over time Terms of Use: https://houman1717.github.io/listend-policys/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Instafest at 89% against Listend's 50%. Instafest also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and ratings volume (57 vs 2). Listend's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Instafest sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Listend sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Listend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Instafest has 57 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Instafest's written reviews are positive against 50% of Listend's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Instafest | Listend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (57 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Anshay Saboo | houman khalaj amir hosseini |
Customer experience
Instafest
Listend
In-app purchases
Instafest
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
Listend
- Listend Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Listend pro yearly$19.991 Year
