Tune Librarian vs Helium Streamer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tune Librarian
Organize and manage your purchased music from various Transported Productions apps. Create medleys of your favorite tunes. Instructions and support are available online.
- Collect purchased tunes
- Support for ECDTunes, A Little Couple Dance Musik, CDSS Gems
- Medley creation
- Instructions available online
- Screen capture restriction
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Use this app to collect the tunes you purchased in ECDTunes, A Little Couple Dance Musik, CDSS Gems, and other Transported Productions apps. Medley creation is also featured in this app. You can find instructions for this app at http://www.TransportedProductions.com/iDeas As with other tune apps from Transported Productions, taking screen captures of protected content is not allowed.
Helium Streamer
Stream your personal music library from your PC to your iOS device. Access playlists, search your collection, and view track details, all through a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Enjoy your music anywhere, away from your computer.
- Stream music from PC
- Multi-user support
- Play/Pause and track selection
- Set rating and favorite status
- Album artwork and details
- Search music library
- Scrobble to Last.fm
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Helium Streamer enables you to playback your personal music collection on your iOS device. It streams music from Helium Streamer on your PC. This application is ideal if you want to listen to your Helium music collection away from your PC. It uses the Wi-Fi connection to receive streamed music from Helium from anywhere in and around your home and 3G/4G if you are out and about. Helium Streamer enables the playback of Playlists, Searches and User Favourites. Details of the currently playing track are shown; as is information about the playing track's artist. Helium Streamer interacts with Helium Streamer's in-built Web Service to stream and download music to the device. Features +Easily stream music from Helium Streamer on your PC +Full support for Helium's multi-user capability +Play or Pause your music +Select Next or Previous track +Set rating and favourite status for the playing track +Album artwork and details shown for the playing track +Built in play queue handling +Search Heliums library for albums, artists, titles, genre, recording years, release years and publishers +Browse Playlists / Smart Playlists +Browse Playlist / Smart Playlist contents +Browse Favourite Album, Artist and Tracks and play them +Scrobble played music to Last.fm Requirements +This App requires Helium Streamer 5. +Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection to the PC running Helium Streamer 5.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Helium Streamer at Free against Tune Librarian's $4.99. Helium Streamer also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months). Tune Librarian's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On 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
Helium Streamer is free to download; Tune Librarian costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Helium Streamer holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tune Librarian has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Tune Librarian's written reviews are positive against 0% of Helium Streamer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tune Librarian ships an update every 7 months, Helium Streamer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tune Librarian | Helium Streamer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.9 (13 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Transported Productions | Imploded Software AB |
Customer experience
Tune Librarian
Helium Streamer
In-app purchases
Tune Librarian
No in-app purchases
Helium Streamer
No in-app purchases
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