Comparison

Paperless Music vs Braided Playlist

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

Head to head
About

Paperless Music

Digitize your entire music library, including sheet music, tabs, and scores. Organize, annotate, and perform your music seamlessly with powerful tools. Practice and tune your instrument with built-in features, and even use a second screen for a larger view.

Highlights
  • Import sheet music, tabs, and scores
  • Scan documents with camera
  • Organize music with detailed metadata
  • Create custom collections and setlists
  • Add and sync audio tracks
  • Built-in instrument tuner and metronome
  • Annotate and edit music with drawing tools
Features
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Free 90-day trial! Add your sheet music, guitar tabs, fake books, and scores, and leave your paper behind. Organize, annotate, practice, and perform with the most powerful yet easy-to-use music viewer and manager. Whether you’re a student or teacher, whether you play in a band, sing in a choir, or gig on the weekends, and no matter what your style of music is, you can count on the app’s reliability for live performances and go paperless with confidence. Build Your Library • Import PDF files from the Files app, a web browser, or from many other apps and sources. • Scan your music with the camera-based document scanner. • Import images from the Photos app. Organize Your Music • Describe and classify your music in great detail with information like title, composer, artist, genres, tags, instruments, key, duration, time signature, rating, difficulty, tempo, web link, and notes. • Add scores with multiple movements or books with multiple songs, then organize them into sections. • Create collections to make groups of music, such as setlists, virtual binders, or books. • Easily find the music and collections you’re looking for with filters. With a few taps, for example, you can see all music that’s in a major key with a 4/4 or 6/8 time signature, having a tempo between 120 - 135 beats per minute. • Create smart folders to automatically keep your music and collections organized. Add Audio Tracks • Add tracks from the Music app. • Record your own audio. • Import audio files. • Adjust pitch and playback speed. • Turn pages automatically while audio plays. Stay In Tune • Tune your instrument using the device microphone. • Generate a tone using a variety of instruments and sounds. • Adjust the A4 frequency. • Select from 10 temperaments to customize the tuning. Practice and Perform • View music in portrait or landscape mode. • Scroll music horizontally or vertically. • Turn pages by swiping, moving the slider, using a Bluetooth page turner, tapping the edge of the screen, following a link, making a facial gesture, or playing audio that has automatic page turning enabled. (Facial gestures require a device with a TrueDepth camera.) • Create links to jump or scroll to another page. Links are great for music with repeats or codas. They also allow music to be automatically scrolled with precise timing. • Use the pencil and highlighter tools to write on music with your finger or with the Apple Pencil. All Apple Pencil settings are supported. • Add text with options for size, rotation, color, font, and justification. • Choose from a wide selection of symbols and shapes to add fingerings, dynamics, accidentals, and more. • Use the low-latency metronome with options for sound, visuals, accent, and count off. See More with Second Screen • Connect two devices and see more of your music. • When viewing music on the main device, it will extend onto the other device’s screen. Share and Back Up • Share your music and collections with other Paperless Music users, with or without your annotations or audio tracks. • Share music in native format to preserve all information, or share in PDF format for general sharing and printing. • Create a backup of your library to keep your data extra safe and to easily transfer everything to other devices. And Much More • Set the page color of your music. • Undo changes made to any page while the viewer is open. • Choose from six library view modes for music and three modes for collections. • Batch edit genres, tags, and instruments. • Adjust the text size in the Settings app to boost or shrink the size of text throughout Paperless Music. • Search using Spotlight. Find and launch right into your music even when the app isn’t running. Learn more by reading the integrated, searchable user guide, accessible from the app’s home screen and from the website. Paperless Music has no ads and no subscriptions. There is no sign-in and there are no accounts. www.paperlessmusic.com

About

Braided Playlist

This app seamlessly merges individual music playlists into a single shared queue, ensuring fair rotation of songs from each contributor. It facilitates shared listening experiences for families and friends, reducing decision-making time and fostering connection through music.

Highlights
  • Fair turn-taking for songs
  • Apple Music integration
  • Clean lyrics enforcement
  • Smart shuffle rotation
  • Flexible group management
  • Siri and shortcut support
Features
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The music's on, everyone's happy, and nobody spent five minutes arguing about what to listen to. Braided Playlist takes the playlists everyone has already put together and weaves them into one shared queue. Each person's songs rotating in turn, automatically and fairly. When you're ready to go, you're a tap or voice command away from music everyone actually wants to hear. The road trip is just a road trip. Dinner is just dinner. No one's lobbying for their playlist, nobody feels ignored, and you're not the DJ. It's also quietly something more. When you and your kid each have songs in the queue, music becomes something you share rather than negotiate. You hear what they're into. They hear what shaped you. A song comes on and there's a story behind it or a question. Those small moments have a way of adding up. Key Features: * Fair turn-taking: Every playlist gets equal time, automatically. * Apple Music Integration: Works with playlists you already have and you can send braids to the Apple Music player Queue. * Enforce Clean lyrics: Settings enable automatic replacement of explicit songs with clean versions or omitting them completely.† * Smart shuffle: Rotation order is preserved. Favours less recently played and newer tracks. * Flexible groups: Add or remove playlists mid-session without losing the flow * Siri and shortcut support: Play favourite playlist combinations, add / remove playlists, shuffle, or skip hands-free. Try "Braid [Favourite name]", "Add [playlist name] to braid", "Shuffle braid", or "Next song in braid" Download Braided Playlist. Spend less time deciding what to listen to and more time actually together. †Requires tracks to be labelled explicit in Apple Music; clean substitutions require an Apple Music subscription

Screenshots

Paperless Music4 screens
Braided Playlist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Paperless Music at 4.8 against Braided Playlist's 3.5. Paperless Music also leads on ratings volume (797 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.5). Braided Playlist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Paperless Music sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Braided Playlist asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Paperless Music holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paperless Music has 797 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paperless Music ships an update every 2 months, Braided Playlist every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Paperless Music versus Braided Playlist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaperless MusicBraided Playlist
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (797 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews79.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings797 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAgilstreamShawn Caza

Customer experience

Paperless Music

All ratings797 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive79.1%
Neutral13.2%
Negative7.8%

Braided Playlist

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Paperless Music

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Stopped working with Bluetooth pedal during performance
  • Unable to import PDFs on certain iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Shuffle option for collections
  • Export set lists or playlists
  • Ability to straighten scanned music sheets
  • Integrate audio playback of associated tracks
  • Add more music notation tools (arrows, brackets, chords)

Braided Playlist

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Paperless Music

One-time1
  • Full Access$9.99
None

Braided Playlist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paperless Music free?
Paperless Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Braided Playlist free?
Braided Playlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Paperless Music or Braided Playlist?
Paperless Music is rated higher. Paperless Music averages 4.8 out of 5 from 797 ratings, while Braided Playlist averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Paperless Music or Braided Playlist have ads?
Neither Paperless Music nor Braided Playlist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paperless Music or Braided Playlist?
Paperless Music ships an update every 2 months, and Braided Playlist every 3 weeks. Most recently, Paperless Music was updated on September 26, 2026 and Braided Playlist on August 21, 2026.

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