The Beat Drop App vs Hiddn app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Beat Drop App
Discover local live music events happening near you with a map-based interface. See who's playing, where, and when, and connect with other attendees through live chat rooms. Artists and promoters can easily post their own events to reach local fans.
- Live music map discovery
- Event details (who, where, when)
- Save and share events
- Live chat rooms for events
- Artist and promoter event posting
- Personalized event recommendations
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The Beat Drop is the easiest way to find local live music in your city. Open the map. Every dot is a show happening near you. Tap one to see who is playing, where, when, and who else is going. Save it, share it, or buy a ticket if the venue has one. For fans See every live show in your area on the map. Get a daily story rail picked for your taste. Save events to your profile and share them with friends. Connect Spotify to pin your favorite tracks to your profile. Join The Pit, a live chat for everyone in the room with you during the show. For artists and promoters Post your own event in under a minute with a poster, location, and link. Reach people who actually live nearby and like your sound. See who is going before doors open. Get a profile that lives on the map so fans can find you between shows. The Pit Every event has its own live chat room. Open it before the show to find friends, during the show to share what you are seeing, and after to keep the night going. The room closes a few hours after the venue closes so the moment stays the moment. Two cities at launch The Beat Drop is live in Atlanta and Denver. More cities are coming. If you are outside our cities, you can still post events and we will route them to whoever is closest. Built for the underground We started this app because the best shows in a city are almost never the ones at the top of search results. The Beat Drop puts small rooms, house shows, late sets, and the artists you have not heard yet at the same level as the big venues. Your taste, your city, in real time. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Your data is yours.
Hiddn app
Log, rate, and review albums to build a personal music history. See what trusted friends are listening to without algorithmic interference. Discover new releases and engage in real conversations about music.
- Log and rate any album
- Track relistens and listening history
- Optional reminders to log played albums
- Browse reviewed albums as a vinyl vault
- Follow friends for a curated feed
- Comment and reply to reviews
- Discover new and popular releases
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Hiddn: Your Music Taste, On Display Find the music hiding in plain sight. Hiddn is where you log, rate, and review the albums you love, and see what the people you actually trust are listening to. No streaming numbers. No algorithm deciding what you hear. Just honest reviews from real people who care about music as much as you do. LOG & REVIEW EVERY ALBUM Rate any album out of 5 stars and write your honest take. Track your relistens, revisit old favorites, and build a real history of your listening life. REMINDERS FOR WHAT YOU JUST PLAYED Connect Apple Music and Hiddn will gently remind you to log the albums you've just finished. Tap the reminder and you land right on the album, ready to rate it while it's fresh. It's optional, you control it in Settings, and Hiddn only sees which albums you recently played, never your library or playlists. VINYL VAULT Your reviewed albums become a browsable crate of records. Flip through your collection the way it deserves to be seen, not buried in a boring list. FOLLOW THE PEOPLE YOU TRUST Your Community Feed shows reviews from the people you follow as they post them. No algorithm, no noise. REAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT REAL ALBUMS Comment on reviews, reply to someone's take, and like the comments that hit hardest. PIN YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITES Four pinned album slots on every profile. The records that define your taste, right at the top for anyone who visits. DISCOVER WHAT'S ACTUALLY NEW Latest Drops surfaces genuinely new releases by genre, powered by Apple Music. Popular Releases shows what the Hiddn community is rating highly right now. STAY IN THE LOOP Get notified when someone follows you, likes your review, comments, or replies to your comment, right on your lock screen. Download Hiddn and unlock a collection worth showing off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hiddn app at daily against The Beat Drop App's fortnightly. Hiddn app also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). The Beat Drop App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Beat Drop App against 5.0 for Hiddn app. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
The Beat Drop App ships an update fortnightly, Hiddn app daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Beat Drop App | Hiddn app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Ashten Barber | Charles Johnson |
Customer experience
The Beat Drop App
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In-app purchases
The Beat Drop App
No in-app purchases
Hiddn app
No in-app purchases









