Comparison

Cs Music Pro vs Longplay

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

Head to head
About

Cs Music Pro

This app offers a remastered classic music listening experience with enhanced features and seamless Apple Music integration. It provides intuitive organization, advanced customization, and a beautifully designed, ad-free interface to help you rediscover and enjoy your music library.

Highlights
  • Classic tabbed interface
  • Apple Music integration
  • Advanced library organization
  • Metadata and lyrics display
  • Classic star ratings
  • Dynamic player with album art colors
  • Ad-free listening
Features
Currently charting
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Cs Music Pro reimagines the classic iOS Music app—updated, enhanced and ad-free. Experience the familiar tabbed interface you loved, enhanced with powerful features and seamless Apple Music integration. Effortless control: • Intuitive organization: Browse by artists, albums, playlists and more. • Advanced customization: Powerful sort and grouping options make managing large libraries easy. • Quick filters: View new additions, recent plays, or favorited songs with just a tap. • Pin your favorites: Convenient access to the artists and albums in heavy rotation. Rediscover your music: • Dive deeper with metadata and lyrics: Explore your library in more detail. • Classic star ratings: rank and order your tracks the old-school way. Beautifully designed interface: • Dynamic player: Immerse yourself with album artwork-based colors. • iOS-native: Feels right at home alongside your stock apps, and respects accessibility settings. Cs Music Pro is perfect for those who: • Love their music collection: You've ripped your CDs, downloaded your favorites, and curated your library over the years. Cs Music Pro gives you the power to organize and enjoy it your way. • Value control and a curated library: You want more than just a basic music player. You want fine-grained control over how your music is organized, presented, and enjoyed. • Want a pure, ad-free listening experience: No interruptions, no distractions. Just you and your music. • Use the Music.app library: You use the built-in Music app to manage your music, whether you subscribe to Apple Music or not. Cs Music Pro enhances that experience with a classic interface and powerful features. (Note: Cs Music Pro requires the use of your existing Music.app library. It is not a standalone music player.) Download Cs Music Pro today and rediscover the joy of your music.

About

Longplay

Rediscover your music library with this app that beautifully displays your album artwork. Explore forgotten favorites and play music with smart sorting options like addiction, brightness, and recency. Organize albums into collections and enjoy infinite shuffle.

Highlights
  • Album artwork display
  • Smart sorting options
  • Album collections
  • Infinite album shuffle
  • Home screen widget
  • CarPlay and Siri support
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
Currently charting
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Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you. Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favorites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options: - Orderliness: by artist, then by album - Addiction: by amount of time spent listening - Brightness: by the primary color of the album artwork - Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating - Recency: by date added - Memory: by last played - Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song - Random: a new order, every time you tap it You can organize your albums into collections, which sync across your devices. Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order. It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them. It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.t supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts. It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually. --- Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focusing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs. --- Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection. It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists. Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.

Screenshots

Cs Music Pro4 screens
Longplay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Longplay at 4.6 against Cs Music Pro's 4.3. Longplay also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 65%). Cs Music Pro's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $7.49) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 170). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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

Cs Music Pro costs $3.99 and Longplay $7.49 up front. Cs Music Pro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Longplay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cs Music Pro has 1.8K ratings behind it against 170, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Cs Music Pro's written reviews are positive against 77% of Longplay's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cs Music Pro ships an update every 11 days, Longplay every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Cs Music Pro versus Longplay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCs Music ProLongplay
Price$3.99 — better$7.49
Rating4.3 (1.8K ratings)4.6 (170 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.6% of reviews77.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.8K — better170
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#68 — better#195
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB40 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMike ClayAdrian Schoenig

Customer experience

Cs Music Pro

All ratings1,823 ratings
Positive81.9%
Neutral6.5%
Negative11.6%
Written reviews675 reviews
Positive64.6%
Neutral12.0%
Negative23.4%

Longplay

All ratings170 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral9.9%
Negative12.9%

User reviews

Cs Music Pro

From 1.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Straightforward and efficient interface
  • 👍 Customizable appearance and settings
  • 🚀 Faster and more responsive than Apple Music
  • 👍 Preserves local music library functionality
  • 🚀 Intuitive navigation and organization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional freezing, crashing, and lag issues
  • 🐛 Inconsistent behavior with music playback controls
  • 🐛 Syncing issues with iTunes/iCloud library
  • 🐛 Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
  • 🐛 Removal of useful features like queue management

Longplay

From 170 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎵 Excellent album-focused listening experience
  • 👍 Intuitive and minimalist user interface
  • 🎨 Beautiful visual presentation of album artwork
  • 🔍 Unique sorting options (Addiction, Negligence, Brightness)
  • 🚗 CarPlay support for album browsing

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes with large music libraries
  • ❄️ UI freezing and performance issues
  • 🔥 Device overheating during operation
  • ⏱️ Slow album loading and updating process
  • 🚫 Doesn't display all albums in library

Bugs and requests

Cs Music Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Search functionality is slow or unresponsive
  • Inability to delete songs from the queue
  • Playback issues when switching between apps
  • Inconsistent behavior when locking the screen

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add crossfade and parametric EQ functionality
  • Implement a 'Recently Added' or 'Activity' tab
  • Allow sorting albums by artist within genres
  • Provide an option to disable the album art collage view
  • Add a 'Shuffle All' button for genres and playlists

Longplay

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes on startup with large libraries
  • UI constantly freezes during album loading
  • Device becomes very hot during operation
  • Doesn't load entire music library
  • Gapless playback creates overlapping songs
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  • Purity option for gapless play doesn't work
  • Scrobbling incomplete (only first few tracks)
  • CarPlay support broken after updates
  • Vision Pro immersive view crashes
  • Settings window cannot be minimized
  • Allow selection toggle loses memory
  • Widget doesn't show album artwork
  • Sort by feature missing since iOS 26
  • Album library not syncing with Apple Music
  • Crashes when immersive view selected
  • Player window too large in panorama mode

Requested features

20 requests
  • Search functionality for albums and artists
  • Track listing display during playback
  • Skip/back track controls
  • Volume control in app
  • Sort by release year
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  • Sort by genre/categories
  • Show album information and metadata
  • Play Next/Play Later queue management
  • Open album in Apple Music link
  • Delete albums from library option
  • View only complete albums toggle
  • Exclude specific albums (e.g., Christmas albums)
  • macOS version of the app
  • tvOS app version
  • Higher resolution album artwork
  • Album cover size randomization in grid
  • Immersive listening room environments
  • Album liner notes viewing
  • Widget improvements for album display
  • Autocorrect toggle for search

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Cs Music Pro

One-time4
  • Upgrade Tip$0.99
  • Tip 1$1.99
  • Tip 2$2.99
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  • Tip 3$4.99
3 purchases

Longplay

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • Medium Tip$5.00
  • Large Tip$10.00

Questions

Is Cs Music Pro free?
Cs Music Pro costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cs Music Pro or Longplay?
Longplay is rated higher. Cs Music Pro averages 4.3 out of 5 from 1.8K ratings, while Longplay averages 4.6 from 170 ratings.
Do Cs Music Pro or Longplay have ads?
Neither Cs Music Pro nor Longplay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cs Music Pro or Longplay?
Cs Music Pro ships an update every 11 days, and Longplay every 3 weeks. Most recently, Cs Music Pro was updated on October 29, 2026 and Longplay on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, Cs Music Pro or Longplay?
Cs Music Pro currently peaks at #68 in the App Store charts, and Longplay at #195. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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