MusicTimeMachine. vs Toneflow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Generate playlists from any year
- Apple Music and Spotify integration
- On This Day music facts
- Scheduled playlist refreshes (Premium)
- Multi-genre mixing (Premium)
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. MusicTimeMachine. sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Toneflow asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
MusicTimeMachine. ships an update fortnightly, Toneflow every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | MusicTimeMachine. | Toneflow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Ryaboy | VILA GRAD DOO |
In-app purchases
MusicTimeMachine.
- Music Time Machine Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Music Time Machine Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
Toneflow
No in-app purchases







