Comparison

mu vs Spindle

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

Head to head
About

mu

Share music with friends and family directly from your device using Bluetooth. Create personalized music lists and send songs easily, even without a wireless network. Enjoy your favorite tunes together.

Highlights
  • Share music via Bluetooth
  • Create original music lists
  • Send music to other devices
  • Works without a wireless network
  • User-friendly operation
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mu mu is a shared application to share music with friends and family via Bluetooth from your device. Even without a wireless environment between, I can use. Please enjoy by creating original music list of your own! Method of operation I tap the Connect button. Select the music you want to send. This alone, it will be received to the device of the other party. * You can not get the sound sources that are protected by DRM.

About

Spindle

This app helps you journal your vinyl listening experience by tracking spin times, sides played, and your listening habits. It allows importing your collection, noting thoughts during playback, and participating in community challenges. It also integrates with Last.fm for automatic scrobbling.

Highlights
  • Log every spin from Lock Screen
  • Import collection from Discogs
  • Track multiple turntables
  • Real-time listening statistics
  • Private listening journal
  • Community listening challenges
  • Last.fm scrobbling integration
Features
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The vinyl listening journal. You drop the needle. Spindle does the rest — counting hours, tracking sides, remembering what you played, and quietly building a picture of your year in records. It's built around the act of spinning a record. Not around cataloging what you own. — Log every spin — Tap once when the needle drops. Spindle keeps tracking from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island so you can flip the record without unlocking your phone. — Bring your collection — Import from Discogs in seconds, or add records by hand. Track multiple turntables, each with its own cartridge wear and needle hours. — Real stats — Hours spun. Top artists, labels, decades. Listening streaks. Records you've quietly forgotten you owned. No formulas. No spreadsheets. — A private journal — Write down what came up while the record played — thoughts, moods, memories. Stays private unless you choose to share. — Challenges — Short series of daily prompts hosted by other record heads. Each day, pick one record from your collection that answers the prompt. See what everyone else picked. React. The good ones make you walk to a record you haven't played in years. — Last.fm scrobble — Every spin scrobbles automatically. Spindle complements Last.fm — it doesn't try to replace it. Questions: support@joinspindle.com Community: joinspindle.com

Screenshots

mu4 screens
Spindle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: mu at none against Spindle's 3. mu also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.0). Spindle's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1). On price, rating, 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. Spindle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. mu asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for mu against 5.0 for Spindle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spindle has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
mu versus Spindle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermuSpindle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings124 — better
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLast,Inc.Michael Warner

Customer experience

mu

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spindle

All ratings24 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

mu

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Spindle

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is mu free?
mu is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spindle free?
Spindle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mu or Spindle?
mu and Spindle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 24 ratings respectively.
Do mu or Spindle have ads?
Neither mu nor Spindle shows ads.

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