Comparison

MusicTimeMachine. vs Toneflow

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

Head to head
About

MusicTimeMachine.

Discover music history by generating playlists from any year. Integrates with popular streaming services and offers "On This Day" facts. Premium features include scheduled refreshes and multi-genre mixing.

Highlights
  • Generate playlists from any year
  • Apple Music and Spotify integration
  • On This Day music facts
  • Scheduled playlist refreshes (Premium)
  • Multi-genre mixing (Premium)
Features
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Features: • Create playlists from a specific date, a full year, or a surprise era • Listen with Apple Music or Spotify • Discover memorable music moments with On This Day • Automatically refresh playlists daily, weekly, or monthly (Premium) • Mix multiple genres in one playlist (Premium) Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Toneflow

Create immersive soundscapes for focus, work, or meditation. Explore nature, music, and ambient sounds, manage focus timers, and import your own audio. Personalize your auditory space for enhanced productivity and relaxation.

Highlights
  • Immersive soundscene creation
  • Nature, music, and ambient sound categories
  • Synchronized focus timer
  • Focus session logging
  • Import local audio files
  • Built-in high-fidelity recording
  • Personalized auditory space
Features
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Toneflow creates an immersive, focused soundscene experience, with the first page displaying six major soundscene categories vertically, covering rich audio resources such as nature, music, animals, environment, instrumentals, electronics, and more. Click to access the detailed list, quickly preview audio without skipping, see the duration of focus, and operate efficiently and conveniently. The playback page synchronizes the music cover with the focus timer, triggers the timer countdown with a click, synchronizes the playback process with the timer process, and seamlessly integrates sound field and time management to help you focus efficiently. All completed focus recordings remain as bar logs on the home page, visually displaying the length of focus and time nodes, and fully duplicating each time spent. Sound sources support free expansion, allowing you to import both local audio files, or with built-in high-fidelity recording features, live record ambient sound effects, ASMR material, and ambient background noise, and archive to personal playlists with a click. Don‘t restrict yourself to built-in audio sources, creating your own personalized auditory space suitable for multiple focus scenarios such as learning, work, meditation, and more.

Screenshots

MusicTimeMachine.4 screens
Toneflow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toneflow at none against MusicTimeMachine.'s 2. Toneflow also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). MusicTimeMachine.'s advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MusicTimeMachine. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Toneflow 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 MusicTimeMachine. against 5.0 for Toneflow. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MusicTimeMachine. has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MusicTimeMachine. ships an update fortnightly, Toneflow every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MusicTimeMachine. versus Toneflow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusicTimeMachine.Toneflow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander RyaboyVILA GRAD DOO

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MusicTimeMachine.

Subscriptions2
  • Music Time Machine Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Music Time Machine Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
None

Toneflow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MusicTimeMachine. free?
MusicTimeMachine. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Toneflow free?
Toneflow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MusicTimeMachine. or Toneflow?
MusicTimeMachine. and Toneflow are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do MusicTimeMachine. or Toneflow have ads?
Neither MusicTimeMachine. nor Toneflow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MusicTimeMachine. or Toneflow?
MusicTimeMachine. ships an update fortnightly, and Toneflow every 3 days. Most recently, MusicTimeMachine. was updated on October 31, 2026 and Toneflow on October 31, 2026.

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