Comparison

Stochastic Music Tyrant vs Sortwave

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

Head to head
About

Stochastic Music Tyrant

Features
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Your library has outgrown your listening. Hundreds of songs you added once and never heard again sit buried while the same forty play on repeat. Stochastic Music Tyrant is a true shuffle for the library you already own. Every song plays exactly once before any song repeats, so the ones you forgot resurface instead of the same rotation. A running counter proves it, and your place holds across sessions. THE ENGINE A full Fisher-Yates shuffle with real randomness. Every subject performs once per reign, spread evenly across your whole Apple Music library. No weighting by play counts, skips, or moods. You get what you get. THE GALLOWS Hold to banish a song you are done with. It leaves the shuffle for good, takes a dislike in Apple Music, and lands on The Block, a real playlist where the condemned wait. The sentence stands across reigns until you show mercy. A PARDON Tap the heart to spare a song you love: loved in Apple Music and gathered into The Pardoned. THE REGISTER The Block never forgets. Every row stands under AWAITING THE AXE, STRUCK FROM THE LIBRARY, or SPARED, each with its date. Strike a song by hand in Apple Music and the court notices on its own. THE WARRANT No app on iPhone may delete a song from your library. So the court issues warrants. SEND THE WARRANT posts every standing sentence, and The Headsman, a free companion for your Mac, serves it in one sitting. The deletions are real and sync everywhere. The sentence travels with you. The axe waits at home. NUMBERED REIGNS One full pass through your library is a reign. When every song has played, it ends with ceremony and the next begins with a fresh shuffle. The Dossier keeps your record: days in power, songs pardoned, songs banished, and how ruthless your rule has run. PROCLAIM Turn any reign or the whole Block into a decree card made to share. Real names stay sealed unless you choose to confess them. ONE COURT, TWO THRONES The court travels. The same reign holds session on your iPhone and in your desktop browser, and one seat opens both. Buy once. No subscription to the Tyrant. Requires an Apple Music subscription. Bring order to the library you already own. Starve your algorithm.

About

Sortwave

Features
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Swipe music into place. Sortwave is a focused playlist-curation companion for Apple Music. Choose a playlist, listen to each full song, and decide what belongs without breaking your flow. Swipe right to keep a song. Route it up or down into playlists you already use. Mark favorites, shuffle your session, scrub through playback, undo a decision, or stop whenever you want. Sortwave queues your choices locally and applies them together when you choose Finish & Sync. Apple Music doesn’t allow third-party apps to directly delete arbitrary library songs. When you mark songs for removal, Sortwave places them in a clearly labeled Deleted Songs playlist and shows a short guide for completing deletion safely in Apple Music. Your original library stays under your control. Features: β€’ Full-song Apple Music playback β€’ Fast, gesture-first playlist decisions β€’ Two configurable quick-route playlists β€’ Favorite and unfavorite controls β€’ Interactive playback scrubber β€’ Shuffle, previous, next and undo controls β€’ Batched sync with a clear summary β€’ Session history and resilient local queueing β€’ Secure connection restoration β€’ No advertising or tracking An active Apple Music subscription may be required for full-song playback and library access. Sortwave is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple.

Screenshots

Stochastic Music Tyrant4 screens
Sortwave3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sortwave at none against Stochastic Music Tyrant's 1. Stochastic Music Tyrant's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Stochastic Music Tyrant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sortwave asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stochastic Music Tyrant ships an update every 2 days, Sortwave every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Stochastic Music Tyrant versus Sortwave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStochastic Music TyrantSortwave
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days β€” betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size2 MB3 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHangar Labs, LLCSooraj Sambasivam

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stochastic Music Tyrant

One-time1
  • The Court Β· Lifetime$7.99
None

Sortwave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stochastic Music Tyrant free?
Stochastic Music Tyrant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sortwave free?
Sortwave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stochastic Music Tyrant or Sortwave have ads?
Neither Stochastic Music Tyrant nor Sortwave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stochastic Music Tyrant or Sortwave?
Stochastic Music Tyrant ships an update every 2 days, and Sortwave every 5 days. Most recently, Stochastic Music Tyrant was updated on November 5, 2026 and Sortwave on October 31, 2026.

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