ShortListMusic vs AskAGuru
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.
AskAGuru
Create and discover curated lists of music, books, movies, and TV shows. Engage with a community to enhance content and climb global rankings. Get rewarded for your contributions and become a top guru.
- Create curated music, book, movie, and TV show lists
- Discover content across all genres
- Contribute recommendations to existing lists
- Track progress via global rankings
- Get rewarded for successful content contributions
- Manage user recommendations
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AskAGuru is the ultimate app for sharing the art you love with the world and discovering more! Join an exclusive community where you can craft or participate in epic playlists, booklists, movie lists, and tv watch lists for your enjoyment and the worlds' delight! Simply create a new playlist by selecting songs from Apple Music or Spotify's extensive catalogs; curate a booklist from Google Books' vast collection; or collaborate on a truly binge worthy movie or tv watch lists that cinema lovers will scream 'bravo!' for! Watch your lists evolve with suggestions from other users, and make your own recommendations to existing content. The more you engage with the platform's community, the better the curated content becomes and the higher you will climb in the rankings! Track your progress via the global rankings. The more your lists gain attention and the more you contribute to others' lists, the higher your rank will be. Can you climb to the top and become one of the top-3 gurus? FEATURES: * Enjoy human-curated music playlists, booklists, movielists, and tvshowlists. * Discover music, books, movies, and tv spanning every genre. * Choose from a wide selection of songs, books, movies, and tv to add to your lists. * Create new content lists based on your favorite songs, books, movies and tvshows. * Contribute song, book, movie and tvshow recommendations to existing lists, and see your contributions recognized in the global ranking. * Manage recommendations from other gurus for your lists; you're in control. * Get rewarded for successful content lists. Make it to the hall of fame of the community. Privacy Policy: https://askaguru.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://askaguru.com/terms-and-conditions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AskAGuru at 5.0 against ShortListMusic's 4.2. AskAGuru also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 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.
AskAGuru holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of ShortListMusic's written reviews are positive against 100% of AskAGuru's.
ShortListMusic ships an update every 4 months, AskAGuru fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShortListMusic | AskAGuru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dustin Bergman | ASKAGURU CORP |
Customer experience
ShortListMusic
AskAGuru
In-app purchases
ShortListMusic
No in-app purchases
AskAGuru
No in-app purchases
