ShortListMusic vs ListPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShortListMusic
Create and share "Best of" album lists from your favorite music releases. Save lists from previous years and publish them via email or social media. Utilizes the iTunes Search API for album information.
- Create "Best of" album lists
- Save lists from previous years
- Publish lists via email
- Share lists on social media
- Utilizes iTunes Search API
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ShortList Music is a music application for creating "Best of" Album Lists. Like many music websites and blogs, at the end of each year, I compile a list of my favorite albums of the year and share them with my friends. Before I created this app, I had to use a text editor to keep track of my yearly lists. Now, ShortListMusic allows the user to compile their favorite albums of the past year and allows the list to be published or shared through email and social media. The app will also keep track and save "Best of" lists from previous years. The app is currently using the iTunes Search API to retrieve album releases. Thanks and enjoy.
ListPlayer
Enhance your music listening experience with a powerful tool designed to manage and play songs from your existing playlists. This app offers a faster and simpler way to organize your music compared to the default player.
- Playlist sorting
- Fast playback
- Easy interface
- Music management
- Internal player alternative
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ListPlayer plays the playlists in your library — the way you built them. NEW TRACKS ON TOP That is why this app exists. In the Music app, newly added tracks end up at the very bottom, and you scroll past half the list every time. In ListPlayer the newest comes first. If you want the original order back, it is one tap away. SLEEP TIMER After this track, or after 15, 30, 45, 60, 90 minutes. And then the difference that matters: the music does not cut out mid-chorus, it ends when the current track ends. The timer tells you up front when that will be and which track it will be. It keeps working long after you have closed the app. A FAREWELL WORTH SEEING Once the music has faded out, your album cover dissolves into its own colours and becomes a night sky. Every album makes its own constellation. You see it the next time you wake up and open the app. THE PLAYER The interface takes its colours from the album cover, so every track brings its own mood. Plus shuffle, repeat, a queue, AirPlay and a mini player that follows you everywhere. SORT IT YOUR WAY Newest first, A–Z, Z–A, most played, reversed, or the original order. Free. No account, no ads, no server — ListPlayer collects nothing about you, because there is nowhere for it to go. Requires access to your music library and an iPhone library with your own playlists.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ListPlayer at 5.0 against ShortListMusic's 4.2. ListPlayer also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). ShortListMusic's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ListPlayer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively.
ShortListMusic ships an update every 4 months, ListPlayer every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShortListMusic | ListPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dustin Bergman | Amelus UG |
Customer experience
ShortListMusic
ListPlayer
In-app purchases
ShortListMusic
No in-app purchases
ListPlayer
No in-app purchases









