Comparison

SparkTune vs Music Diary

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

Head to head
About

SparkTune

Features
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SparkTune is a private music player for your own audio files. Import songs and folders, organize your library, and listen without a streaming subscription. Your music stays yours, with playback controls built for everyday listening. Features: Import MP3s and other supported audio files Add songs from Files, iCloud Drive, external drives, or shared attachments Browse by songs, albums, artists, and playlists View lyrics when available Use favorites, play history, recently added, and most played collections Control playback speed, sleep timer, equalizer, and volume normalization Use CarPlay for safer listening in the car Sync your library across iPhone and iPad with SparkTune Pro SparkTune Pro unlocks unlimited imports, iCloud library sync, folder imports, backup/export tools, and advanced audio controls. SparkTune does not include a music subscription or streaming catalog. It is built for music files you own and choose to import.

About

Music Diary

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Every song you love deserves more than a heart button. PlaylistNote is a music diary where you write your listening life down by hand — the playlists you dream up, the track a friend played you in the car, the album that carried you through March — and keep it forever, in your own words. Streaming apps track what you played. PlaylistNote keeps what it meant. There is no login, no linked account, no internet connection at all — just a beautiful notebook built for music, in four tabs: your library, your listen-later queue, your journal, and your stats. WHAT YOU GET • Playlists built by hand — name one "Rainy Sunday cooking", give it a vibe and a cover, and fill it song by song • Every song carries your words: artist, album, genre, a 1–5 star rating, an energy level, and the note only you understand • A Listen Later queue that remembers where each tip came from — friend rec, radio, a live show, a viral clip — so "what was that song?" never happens again • A listening journal with moods and star ratings: open it in a year and reread exactly how that track felt the first time • Stats that map your taste: top genres, most-added artists, playlists by vibe, and how generous your ratings really are • One-tap export of any playlist, your whole library, or your journal as clean text or CSV — your data walks out with you anytime PERFECT FOR • Concert-goers who want tonight's setlist and the feeling of the encore written down before it fades • Vinyl and CD listeners logging real listening sessions, not streaming plays • Anyone whose notes app is a graveyard of half-remembered song titles • Music lovers who journal — and want their diary to have a tracklist WHY NOT JUST A STREAMING APP OR A NOTES APP? A year-end stats reel tells you a number. A notes app loses songs in the scroll. PlaylistNote is built for the shape of music memory: songs belong to playlists, moods attach to dates, sources attach to discoveries — and it all adds up to charts of who you are as a listener. No streaming account required, ever. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything you write stays on your iPhone. No account, no cloud, no tracking, no network access of any kind. Your music diary is yours alone — and the export button proves it. FULL ACCESS PlaylistNote Pro unlocks the whole studio: unlimited playlists, an unlimited Listen Later queue, an unlimited listening journal, every stats chart, and text + CSV export. Choose the weekly plan, the yearly plan, or pay once with lifetime — subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Start tonight: log the last song that gave you chills. Terms of Use: https://leanstudio.asia/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://leanstudio.asia/privacy-policy Support: support@leanstudio.asia

Screenshots

SparkTune4 screens
Music Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Music Diary at none against SparkTune's 1. Music Diary also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.4). SparkTune's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SparkTune ships an update every 3 days, Music Diary every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
SparkTune versus Music Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSparkTuneMusic Diary
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.417.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSilestis LabsLEAN ASIA CO., LTD

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SparkTune

One-time1
  • SparkTune Pro$7.99
None

Music Diary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SparkTune free?
SparkTune is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Music Diary free?
Music Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SparkTune or Music Diary have ads?
Neither SparkTune nor Music Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SparkTune or Music Diary?
SparkTune ships an update every 3 days, and Music Diary every 4 months. Most recently, SparkTune was updated on October 25, 2026 and Music Diary on October 25, 2026.

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