AlgoRythm for Apple Music vs Setto Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlgoRythm for Apple Music
Take control of your music listening habits with this advanced toolkit for Apple Music users. Precisely teach the algorithm your preferences, shield your taste from unwanted influences, and visualize your listening history. Discover music that truly resonates with your unique style.
- Precision rating to teach algorithm
- Shield listening taste from external influences
- Track rotation weight and skip velocity
- Curated music discovery based on habits
- Visualize listening history with album grids
- Integrate Last.fm scrobble history
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AlgoRythm is a high-precision dashboard for Apple Music listeners who want to understand and shape their own taste. It turns your play counts, ratings, and listening history into clear music stats, shareable album grids, and personalized Liner Notes. No passive feed. Just your data, explained. NEW RELEASES FROM YOUR ARTISTS Never miss a drop again. AlgoRythm watches your library for new albums and singles: your most-played artists are checked daily, and a weekly sweep covers the rest. Announced titles appear under Coming soon, up to a year ahead, with a link to Apple Music to pre-add them. Split into Albums and Singles, sortable by Rotation Weight, with Love and Suggest Less ratings and swipe-to-hide built in. A coverage indicator shows exactly how much of your library has been scanned. SHUFFLE ON YOUR TERMS Meet Smart Shuffle: queues built from your actual listening history. Pick a recipe like Rotation, weighted by your Rotation Weight, Rediscovery for tracks you have not played in weeks, or Deep Cuts for the ones you barely touched. Album Shuffle rebuilds the ritual of playing records front to back, in disc order. Set a window, choose a duration from 30 minutes to 8 hours, and optionally blend in your Last.fm scrobbles. Play instantly or save as an Apple Music playlist; a saved queue restores instantly when you come back, and generation shows you which stage it is in. Pro members can filter by genre. PLAY WITHOUT LEAVING Hit Play on any album or artist page, tap a tracklist row to start there, or shuffle an artist's top songs. A Now Playing bar docks above your tabs while music plays, and opens a full-screen player with seekable progress, transport controls, and quick Love or Suggest Less tuning for the song, album, and artist currently on. TUNE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS Rate tracks, albums, and artists with Love or Suggest Less to send stronger signals to Apple Music. Surface the gems, skip the filler, and make your personalized mixes feel more like you. PROTECT YOUR TASTE Mark artists or albums as disliked to keep them out of your grids and personal reports. Long-press any shuffle row for Never Suggest Again and block songs, albums, or artists from your queues without touching your Apple Music ratings. Great for keeping one-off listening, like children's music, from shaping your overall picture. THE LINER NOTES Dive into your listening stats. Track Rotation Weight, Skip Velocity, and deep-dive artist and album insights to see who dominates your airtime. Generate beautiful, shareable Liner Notes and high-fidelity album grids from your history, now with an optional concrete date range. CURATE YOUR DISCOVERY Go Crate Digging or look Behind the Counter for daily music recommendations pulled from your deepest listening habits. Choose how often they appear: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or a single growing Master playlist. SYNC YOUR HISTORY Connect your Apple Music library, and optionally link your Last.fm scrobble history to restore years of taste the native app has forgotten. COUNTING TOWARD DECEMBER In the background, AlgoRythm now measures your real per-period play counts for In Rotation, a year-end recap landing in a future update. Everything stays on your device, so when the recap arrives it is built on what you actually played. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your Apple Music data is processed on your device. No ads, no analytics, no required account. One single purchase unlocks AlgoRythm Pro for life.
Setto Studio
This app enhances your music listening experience by creating dynamic, evolving "Sets" from your existing library. It intelligently curates personalized music collections based on your listening habits and preferences, offering a unique way to rediscover your favorite tunes.
- Build Sets from artists, genres, or playlists
- Auto-curated personalized music Sets
- Time-traveling Set creation
- Supports Lossless, Hi-Res Lossless, Dolby Atmos
- Full song playback, no previews
- Export Sets as Apple Music playlists
- iCloud sync across devices
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Want some great music? Setto is a very, very smart Apple Music player that builds Sets. A cooler and more epic version of a playlist that evolves and reacts as you listen. AN APPLE MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION IS REQUIRED. START WITH TASTE Build Sets from the music you already love. Artists, genres, playlists, or your entire Apple Music library. AUTO SETS Let Setto build Sets you didn't know you needed. Auto Sets are personalized Sets curated from your existing Apple Music habits, or new patterns from how you use Setto Studio. YOUR PERSONAL TIME MACHINE Auto Sets can also travel back in time and curate Sets from a long long time ago. BUILT FOR APPLE MUSIC • Quality Audio: Lossless, Hi-Res Lossless, Dolby Atmos, and Spatial Audio • Full songs: No 30 second previews • Export: Sets become real Apple Music playlists • Import: Your playlists become Sets • Library: Save songs directly to your library or a preexisting playlist • iCloud sync: Your Sets on Mac, iPad, and iPhone ON YOUR DEVICE All learning happens locally, meaning your music taste is yours and yours alone. Cross device sync is powered by YOUR iCloud account. CRAFTED BY DJ NAFÉ Setto is made by one music nerd who's an occasional Disc Jockey. Not a team. Not a startup. Just someone who wanted a better way to find music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Setto Studio at every 3 days against AlgoRythm for Apple Music's every 2 weeks. Setto Studio also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). AlgoRythm for Apple Music's advantage is ratings volume (4 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. AlgoRythm for Apple Music sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Setto Studio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AlgoRythm for Apple Music against 5.0 for Setto Studio. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
AlgoRythm for Apple Music ships an update every 2 weeks, Setto Studio every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlgoRythm for Apple Music | Setto Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alexander van Rie | Carlos Mbendera |
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In-app purchases
AlgoRythm for Apple Music
- AlgoRythm Pro$4.99
Setto Studio
- Super Setto - Lifetime Upgrade$24.99
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