Comparison

Vinyl Monkey vs Soup Audio

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

Head to head
About

Vinyl Monkey

Catalog and value your vinyl collection with smart tools. Identify records by scanning covers or barcodes, track ownership, and get real-time market values. Organize with custom tags and share your collection.

Highlights
  • Scan album covers and barcodes
  • Track ownership and purchase price
  • Get current market values
  • Organize with smart collections and tags
  • Export collection to PDF
  • Cloud sync across devices
Features
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Vinyl Monkey turns your record collection into a properly catalogued, properly valued archive. Scan, organise, value, and rediscover your vinyl with smart tools, market data, and a clean interface. WHAT IT DOES • Scan album covers and barcodes for instant record identification • Track ownership, purchase price, sleeve condition, and listening history • Get current market values powered by live marketplace data • Organise with smart collections, playlists, and custom tags • Get artist insights, rarity scores, lyrics, and gig dates (Premium) • Export your collection or share beautiful PDF cards • Sync across devices with secure cloud backup DESIGNED FOR REAL COLLECTORS Whether you're cataloguing 20 records or 2,000, Vinyl Monkey treats your collection as the personal archive it deserves to be — fast to add, beautiful to browse, easy to share. — Multi-currency normalisation: market prices show in your chosen currency — Smart collections: filter by genre, era, label, or any field that matters to you — Cloud sync: pick up where you left off across iPhone and iPad — Privacy-first: your data is yours, exported anytime in CSV or JSON PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Vinyl Monkey Premium unlocks the full experience: • Unlimited records (free tier is capped at 10) • Cloud sync across all your devices • Automatic backup of every record • AI insights: rarity scores, artist deep-dives, market trend analysis • Lyric search, gig discovery for artists you collect • Priority access to new features PLANS - Vinyl Monkey Premium Monthly — billed monthly - Vinyl Monkey Premium Annual — billed annually (save vs monthly) 7-day free trial on either plan. PRIVACY & TERMS - Privacy Policy: https://pblabsltd.com/vinylmonkey/privacy/ - Terms of Use: https://pblabsltd.com/vinylmonkey/terms/ Got feedback? We listen — support@pblabsltd.com

About

Soup Audio

Features
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Soup is a music-sharing community for unreleased tracks, demos, works in progress and finished music, shared one track at a time by the people making it. Listen without an account. Discover independent and underground artists in a chronological feed, switch to Random, or search for artists and tracks. Open artist notes, follow playback through Soup's close-moving waveform, and join public conversations. There are no public likes, popularity charts or recommendation algorithms deciding what you should hear. Create one Soup account to follow artists, keep private Saves, comment and upload your own music. Uploading is open to every verified account. Keep up to two tracks you own live at once, invite collaborators, add detailed music credits and choose whether comments or downloads are available. Collaborations owned by someone else do not use your track slots. Share any track directly with anyone on the web, or listen in the Soup iPhone app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vinyl Monkey4 screens
Soup Audio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Vinyl Monkey at 3 against Soup Audio's 1. Vinyl Monkey also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Vinyl Monkey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Soup Audio sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vinyl Monkey ships an update every 9 days, Soup Audio weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Vinyl Monkey versus Soup Audio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVinyl MonkeySoup Audio
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size46 MB5 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperPB Labs LtdMiles Mitchell

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Vinyl Monkey

Subscriptions2
  • Vinyl Monkey Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Vinyl Monkey Annual$29.991 Year
4 purchases

Soup Audio

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly support$2.991 Month
One-time3
  • Small support$1.99
  • Medium support$4.99
  • Large support$9.99

Questions

Is Vinyl Monkey free?
Vinyl Monkey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Soup Audio free?
Soup Audio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vinyl Monkey or Soup Audio have ads?
Neither Vinyl Monkey nor Soup Audio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vinyl Monkey or Soup Audio?
Vinyl Monkey ships an update every 9 days, and Soup Audio weekly. Most recently, Vinyl Monkey was updated on October 12, 2026 and Soup Audio on September 25, 2026.

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