Comparison

Discrobble vs Scrobbles

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

Head to head
About

Discrobble

Effortlessly log your physical music listening to Last.fm. Connect your Discogs and Last.fm accounts to automatically scrobble vinyl, CDs, and more. View album details, track sales, and edit your collection notes.

Highlights
  • Scrobble vinyl, CDs, and cassettes
  • Syncs with Discogs and Last.fm
  • Automatic metadata from Discogs
  • View album details and marketplace info
  • Edit collection notes and ratings
  • Native iPad support
Features
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The fastest way to scrobble your Discogs collection to Last.fm. Discrobble is a single-purpose app for collectors who want their physical-music listening to count. Vinyl, CDs, cassettes, box sets: anything in your Discogs collection. Tap a button and the album you just played lands in your Last.fm history with the right artist, album, and tracklist, pulled straight from Discogs so the metadata is right. — HOW IT WORKS — 1. Connect your Last.fm and Discogs accounts. 2. Discrobble syncs your Discogs collection: your records, dates added, formats, cover art. 3. Find the album you're playing. Tap Scrobble. 4. The album's tracks are submitted to Last.fm with realistic timestamps, the way streaming services do. That's the whole loop. There are no friend feeds, no discovery algorithm, and no notifications. — THE ALBUM PAGE — Each album in your collection gets a page with the cover, the tracklist, a short introduction from Wikipedia when one exists, how many copies are for sale on Discogs right now with the lowest price, and when you last scrobbled it. Two more sections are there if you want them, switched on in Settings: • Your Discogs rating, editable with a tap. • Your Discogs collection notes, editable in the app. The marketplace section can be switched off in the same place. — BUILT FOR REAL COLLECTIONS — Multi-disc sets can be scrobbled one disc or one side at a time instead of the whole album. When Discogs is missing track durations, Discrobble fills them in from Last.fm so the timestamps line up. Collections with well over a thousand items sync fine: every Discogs request comes from your own device, so you're never sharing a rate limit with other people's apps, and the app slows itself down before Discogs has to tell it to. Pull to refresh picks up new additions, catches anything you've removed, and always tells you what it found. — IPHONE AND IPAD — Discrobble runs natively on iPad. The collection grid shows more albums per row, and the album page puts the cover and tracklist side by side. Your recent scrobbles sync through your account, so what you played on one device shows up on the other. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — Your Discogs OAuth tokens never leave your device. Your collection is cached locally. There are no analytics SDKs, no advertising, no third-party trackers, and no crash reporting service in the app. The Discrobble server stores your encrypted Last.fm session key (used to submit scrobbles), your two usernames, your recent scrobbles so they can sync between your devices, and a count of your scrobbles for the free trial. Full details at elezea.com/privacy. — WHAT'S INCLUDED — • Searchable, sortable collection view with high-resolution cover art. • Scrobble a side, a disc, or the whole album. • Album pages with Wikipedia introductions and marketplace listings, plus optional ratings and notes. • Pull-to-refresh sync that adds, removes, and reports. • Recent scrobbles, synced across your devices. • Native iPhone and iPad layouts. • One-time purchase. No subscription, no ads. — PRICING — Discrobble is free to try: your first 20 scrobbles are on the house. After that, a one-time purchase of $4.99 unlocks unlimited scrobbling for life. — REQUIREMENTS — A Last.fm account (free at last.fm) and a Discogs account with a populated collection (free at discogs.com). — FROM A REAL COLLECTOR — Built by someone who owns the records. If something's off, write to me at elezea.com/contact and I'll fix it.

About

Scrobbles

Visualize your complete listening history from Last.fm with clear, fast insights. Explore your top artists, albums, and tracks across various time ranges, and discover detailed information about your favorite music.

Highlights
  • Complete scrobble history visualization
  • Top artists, albums, and tracks by time range
  • Detailed artist and track information
  • Friend profile and stats viewing
  • Now playing bar with automatic refresh
  • Mark tracks as loved
Features
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Last.fm Copilot shows you what you actually listen to. It pulls your complete scrobble history from your existing Last.fm account and presents it the way you always wanted to see it: clear, fast and fully with Liquid Glass design. OVERVIEW Everything at a glance: total scrobbles, the last seven days, your artist count and the daily average. Plus a weekly chart, your recent tracks and the top artists, albums and tracks of the week. HISTORY Your entire listening history, grouped by day and labelled "Today" and "Yesterday". Pages load as you scroll — even with tens of thousands of scrobbles. CHARTS Top artists, albums and tracks across all six Last.fm time ranges: seven days, one, three, six and twelve months, and all time. SEARCH AND CATALOGUE Search artists, albums and tracks, with the global charts as a starting point. Detail pages with biographies, track lists including run times, tags, similar artists and wiki texts. Mark tracks as loved. PROFILES AND FRIENDS Your own profile with stats and top lists — and your friends' profiles, including their loved tracks and friend lists. NOW PLAYING BAR When something is playing, the track stays above the tab bar and refreshes itself automatically.

Screenshots

Discrobble4 screens
Scrobbles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scrobbles at none against Discrobble's 1. Discrobble's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Discrobble sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scrobbles asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Discrobble against 5.0 for Scrobbles. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Discrobble versus Scrobbles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiscrobbleScrobbles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRian van der MerwePatrick Bender

Customer experience

Discrobble

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Scrobbles

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Discrobble

One-time1
  • Lifetime Unlock$4.99
None

Scrobbles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Discrobble free?
Discrobble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scrobbles free?
Scrobbles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Discrobble or Scrobbles?
Discrobble and Scrobbles are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Discrobble or Scrobbles have ads?
Neither Discrobble nor Scrobbles shows ads.

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