LibraryThing vs Wild Symphony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LibraryThing
Catalog your personal book, DVD, and CD collections. Easily add items by searching or scanning barcodes. Enhance your catalog with high-resolution cover photos and browse your collection visually.
- Catalog books, DVDs, and CDs
- Search for media items
- Scan ISBN barcodes
- Add high-resolution cover photos
- Browse collection by cover type
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The LibraryThing app allows LibraryThing members to catalog and browse their collections. LibraryThing is focused on books, but you can add most media, including books, DVDs and CDs. LibraryThing relies on data from Amazon, and over 65 million library records. Add books by searching for them or scanning their ISBN barcode with the camera. Add high-resolution cover photos of your books with the cover editor and browse your books by cover type to find copies that need better covers.
Wild Symphony
This augmented reality app transforms a picture book into a musical adventure. Point your device at illustrations to hear corresponding orchestral music, bringing stories to life with a unique soundtrack.
- Augmented reality musical experience
- Plays music from picture book illustrations
- Orchestral music inspired by nature
- Enhances story time
- Features original compositions
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Wild Symphony is an augmented reality experience that takes you on an exciting musical adventure with Maestro Mouse and his symphonic friends! Just download the app and point it at any illustration in the picture book, and you’ll hear the corresponding song. Travel through the trees and across the seas as you listen to orchestral music inspired by big blue whales and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Transform your reading and story time with this AR-based musical accompaniment. A unique picture book experience like none you've ever heard! Wild Symphony is designed for imaginative children of all ages. The app: • Allows readers to listen to the picture book’s musical accompaniment. • Plays audio recordings of orchestral music composed by author Dan Brown • Features beautiful illustrations from artist Susan Batori Bring a fun new dynamic to the picture book with this intuitive AR app that adds an exciting soundtrack and encourages newfound love and appreciation of music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LibraryThing at every 4 weeks against Wild Symphony's every 2 months. LibraryThing also leads on review sentiment (48% vs 38%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
Wild Symphony holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 278 and 115 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of LibraryThing's written reviews are positive against 38% of Wild Symphony's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
LibraryThing ships an update every 4 weeks, Wild Symphony every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LibraryThing | Wild Symphony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (278 ratings) | 3.7 (115 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.2% of reviews — better | 37.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 278 — better | 115 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LibraryThing.com | Stellata, LLC |
Customer experience
LibraryThing
Wild Symphony
User reviews
LibraryThing
From 278 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Quick barcode scanning
- 👍 Useful for cataloging library
- 🚀 Fast book addition
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and crashes
- 🔍 Limited search and editing capabilities
- 🤖 Outdated and dated UI
Wild Symphony
From 115 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎶 Beautiful music
- 📚 Great book
- 💡 Creative idea
- 👨👩👧👦 Kids love it
- ✨ Magical experience
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 📸 Camera not working
- 🔋 High battery drain
- 📱 Phone gets hot
- 🔄 Songs skipping randomly
Bugs and requests
LibraryThing
Reported bugs
3 issues- Barcode scanner not working
- Books disappearing from catalog
- Editing and saving issues
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to create custom collections
- Offline access to library
- Integration with other book apps
- Lending/loan tracking feature
Wild Symphony
Reported bugs
66 issues- App crashes on opening
- Camera function not working
- Songs skip to random tracks
- App gets stuck on specific animal (cheetah)
- App doesn't recognize pages
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- App drains battery excessively
- App makes phone very hot
- App closes immediately upon opening
- No interactive elements
- App doesn't work with iOS 14
- Cannot close app easily
- No way to go back to main menu once music starts
- Secret video plays instead of app features
- Camera feature not working on multiple devices
- Augmented reality not working as promised
- App doesn't work at all
- Music plays but no clues show up
- App doesn't work with iOS 14.2
- App doesn't work with iOS 14.0
- App crashes every time trying to open
- App crashes on iOS14
- Camera feature did not work
- App won't even open, keeps crashing
- Not working with iOS14
- App doesn't work currently
- Augmented Reality isn't working
- Camera does not work
- App is not using my camera
- Not workingT.T
- Lieder springen
- Glitches galore
- Приложение глючит
- The app doesn’t work as advertised
- I want to love the app
- Not work with camera
- Doesn’t work at all
- I don’t think the camera function is working
- Camera does not work
- Musiktierfan
- Augmented reality fehlt
- Немного глючит
- Just needs some fixing
- Doesn’t work on iOS 14.2
- Great music but makes my phone hot
- It doesn’t work. What a shame.
- Didn’t take the time to release a working app
- Die Kamerafunktion fehlt, App stürzt oft ab
- App crashes constantly
- Love the book not the app
- Crazy energy Drain/Runs Hot
- The music is great, book is amazing
- Decepcionante
- App doesn’t work
- Shuts down as soon as it opens
- 2mins on this app, and I regret downloading
- This update helped. Still a little glitchy but better
- Book is great but app Augmented Reality isn’t working
- Not working on iOS 14.0
- Crashes
- Crashes on iOS14
- NEEDS TO BE FIXED. DOES NOT EVEN OPEN.
- Not working with iOS14
- No symphony
- No magic happens
- A disappointment
- Doesn’t work
Requested features
5 requests- Add individual instrument sounds
- More books and interfaces like this
- Fix camera recognition issues
- Add poem for the dragon
- Improve interactivity
In-app purchases
LibraryThing
No in-app purchases
Wild Symphony
No in-app purchases
Questions
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