Comparison

Liner Notez vs SoundChex

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

Head to head
About

Liner Notez

Features
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Liner Notez helps you explore albums the way liner notes used to: credits, musicians, producers, release editions, tracklists, and source links. Search by artist, browse album releases, open an album, and dig into documented public music data from sources such as MusicBrainz, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. Save albums to My Library, write your own album notes, and search saved albums, artists, and notes on your device. Liner Notez does not stream, play, download, sell, or redistribute music. With Liner Notez you can: • Browse album releases by artist • Narrow searches by album title and release type • View release dates, editions, labels, formats, and source links • Open tracklists and inspect documented song-level credits • Review songwriting, performer, instrument, production, and technical credits • Save albums to My Library • Write and edit your own album notes • Search your saved albums, artists, and notes on your device • Search for albums with documented producer credits Liner Notez is for album information, music-credit research, and personal album notes. It does not play, stream, download, sell, or provide music audio. Public music data can be incomplete, inconsistent, or vary by release edition. Liner Notez shows documented source data and does not invent missing credits.

About

SoundChex

Features
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Know your rights before you sign. SoundCheX is a music-rights intelligence platform for music and content creators. It combines curated music-industry knowledge, structured rights data, live source research, and artificial intelligence to help you understand contracts, credits, royalties, ownership, and revenue opportunities in plain language. SoundCheX is designed around the real terms, documentation, power dynamics, and rights questions that shape creative work. Ask what happened, upload or describe the language you are reviewing, and receive practical educational guidance matched to your role and situation. WHAT CAN SOUNDCHEX DO? CREDIT CHEX™ Investigate artist, producer, songwriter, and recording credits using available information from sources such as Discogs, MusicBrainz, Genius, Spotify, Last.fm, and Wikipedia. SoundCheX separates source-backed findings from information that still needs independent confirmation. REVENUE RECLAIM™ Explore royalty and ownership situations, review potential revenue pathways, and use available public Spotify stream counts to build informed estimates. Results are educational estimates, not royalty statements or guarantees of payment. DOC BUILDER™ Create structured drafts for split sheets, letters of direction, work-for-hire agreements, session releases, and other music-industry documents. Generated documents should be reviewed and customized before use, especially when rights, money, or legal obligations are involved. SITUATION SCAN™ A quick start to jump right in for time-sensitive or unexpected situations. Just describe what happened in your own words. SoundCheX helps identify the underlying music-business issue, explains why it matters, and suggests practical next steps without requiring industry jargon. ROLE-MATCHED GUIDANCE Choose the role that fits your work, including recording artist, producer or beatmaker, songwriter or publishing rights holder, session musician or background singer, engineer, independent streaming artist, podcast producer, church choir or community performer, author or audiobook rights holder, and content creator. If you are unsure where you fit, SoundCheX can help clarify your role. Guidance adjusts to the perspective you select. GUIDED DEMO Explore scripted examples before subscribing and see how SoundCheX approaches creator, credit, revenue, and document questions. BUILT FOR CREATIVE WORK • Understand unfamiliar contract language • Investigate credits and catalog information • Learn how royalties and ownership structures work • Spot questions worth raising before you agree • Organize information for conversations with your team or professional adviser • Create practical document drafts and checklists SUBSCRIPTION Personalized SoundCheX tools require an active subscription. Subscription options and current pricing are shown before purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled through your App Store account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. IMPORTANT SoundCheX provides educational information and does not provide legal, financial, accounting, or tax advice. Results may be incomplete or outdated. Always verify important information with legal and/or tax professionals. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Liner Notez4 screens
SoundChex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Liner Notez at none against SoundChex's 2. Liner Notez also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. SoundChex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Liner Notez asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 3 level
Liner Notez versus SoundChex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiner NotezSoundChex
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB66 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEdward TremblayBM3LiT Creative Concepts LLC

In-app purchases

None

Liner Notez

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SoundChex

Subscriptions2
  • SoundChex Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • SoundChex Pro Annual$109.991 Year

Questions

Is Liner Notez free?
Liner Notez is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SoundChex free?
SoundChex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Liner Notez or SoundChex have ads?
Neither Liner Notez nor SoundChex shows ads.

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