British Invasion vs Longplay
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
British Invasion
Test your music knowledge with this trivia game. Guess the artist and album for popular songs. In-app purchases are available to remove advertisements.
- Music trivia gameplay
- Guess the artist
- Guess the album
- iTunes integration
- Ad removal in-app purchase
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Have some fun with this simple music trivia game. Guess who sang the song then what album it was from. You can purchase items from iTunes also. The in-app purchase is to remove the advertising.
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.
- Album artwork display
- Smart sorting options
- Album collections
- Infinite album shuffle
- Home screen widget
- CarPlay and Siri support
- Shortcuts integration
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Longplay at 77% against British Invasion's 0%. Longplay also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (170 vs 2). British Invasion's advantage is price (Free vs $7.49) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 17.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
British Invasion is free to download; Longplay costs $7.49 up front. British Invasion sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Longplay holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Longplay has 170 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of British Invasion's written reviews are positive against 77% of Longplay's.
British Invasion ships an update every 4 weeks, Longplay every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | British Invasion | Longplay |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.49 |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (170 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 77.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 170 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Kellock | Adrian Schoenig |
Customer experience
British Invasion
Longplay
Bugs and requests
British Invasion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
British Invasion
- Full Version$0.99
Longplay
- Small Tip$2.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
- Large Tip$10.00
Questions
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