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Head-to-head

Apple Music vs Audiomack

Apple Music 4.9★ · Free to download 80
Winner Apple Music
Audiomack 4.8★ · Free + IAP 60

Apple Music offers a more polished, ad-free experience with a vast library, while Audiomack provides a free option with offline listening, but is plagued by intrusive ads.

Full reviews: Apple Music · Audiomack

Apple Music provides a premium, ad-free streaming experience with high-quality audio and a comprehensive library, though some users find its shuffle and recommendation algorithms lacking. Audiomack offers a free tier with offline downloads, but recent reviews highlight a significant increase in disruptive ads, even when offline.

Head to head

Features & Content Library edge: Apple MusicR8R24R26R29
Apple Music Apple Music users appreciate the extensive music library, noting it has 'every song you could ever want' and 'all my favorite songs' R29R26. It's praised for offering 'top hits of the year, making your own playlist, mixing songs' and music videos R8R24. However, some users desire features like sorting by 'most played' or a search engine within an artist's page .
Audiomack Audiomack is lauded for its 'great variety' and 'wide selection, most artists' . Users can find 'almost anything + even some uncommon remixes' and upload their own music . It also offers features like slowing or speeding up songs .
Ease of Use & User Experience edge: Apple MusicR1R5R7R9
Apple Music Apple Music generally offers a 'smooth' user experience R33. However, users frequently complain about the shuffle feature playing the 'same songs from the same albums' or being 'predictable' R1. There are also issues with auto-play forcing random songs when connecting devices R9 and poor recommendations R5R7.
Audiomack Some Audiomack users initially find the app 'quite confusing' R52. Others describe it as 'REALLY hard to work with' and 'very VERY messy' when trying to find original versions of songs . However, many find it 'very easy to use' .
Reliability & Performance tieR15R17R65R73
Apple Music Apple Music users report issues like all downloads being 'wiped' after a glitch, requiring a phone restart and re-downloading '100+ gigs of data' R17. Some also mention forced upgrades leading to music being 'locked' if not paying R15.
Audiomack Audiomack users praise its offline functionality, stating it 'works perfectly offline' and is 'great for downloading' R73. However, some report that downloaded music disappears when switching devices R65.
Price & Value edge: Apple MusicR21R23R46R51
Apple Music Apple Music is a paid-only service, with users calling it 'overpriced' and lamenting that you 'can’t even listen to music without paying' R21. However, many paying users find it 'pretty worth it' for the ad-free experience R46R23.
Audiomack Audiomack is offered as a free app with in-app purchases, and many users appreciate that it's 'free' and 'no cost' R52. However, this free model comes with a significant downside: an 'enormous amount of adds' that are 'crippling' and appear 'every 5 seconds' R51. These ads even play when listening to downloaded music offline R72.
Pick Apple Music if

you prioritize an ad-free, premium streaming experience with a vast library and generally smooth user interface, and are willing to pay a monthly subscription R23R29.

Pick Audiomack if

you are looking for a completely free music app that allows offline downloads and access to a wide variety of music, including remixes and independent artists, and are willing to tolerate frequent and intrusive ads R52R73.

Evidence note: Recent reviews for Audiomack heavily skew negative due to an increase in ads, even offline, which contrasts with its higher lifetime rating. Apple Music reviews are more mixed, with some strong positive feedback on content and quality, but consistent complaints about specific features like shuffle and recommendations.

Frequently asked

Can I listen to music offline with these apps?
Yes, both Apple Music and Audiomack allow users to download music for offline listening R33R52R73. However, Audiomack users report experiencing ads even when listening to downloaded music offline R72.
Which app has better music recommendations?
Apple Music's recommendation algorithm is criticized by users as 'terrible' and 'not even close' to competitors, even after requesting certain songs and artists not to be played R5R7. Audiomack's recommendation quality is not explicitly detailed in the provided reviews.
Are there ads on these music apps?
Apple Music is generally praised for being ad-free as a paid service R23R46. Audiomack, however, is heavily criticized for an 'enormous amount of adds' that are 'crippling' and appear frequently, even during offline listening R51R57.

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 110 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

  1. [R8] Apple Music 5/5 · US Love it so much: This app is amazing for the music of all sorts. Top hits of the year, making your own playlist, mixing songs into other songs at the end and beginning and so much more.
  2. [R24] Apple Music 5/5 · US So great: This app is so great it lets me listen to all sorts of music and music videos!
  3. [R26] Apple Music 5/5 · US Has all my favorite songs: I think you should download it
  4. [R29] Apple Music 5/5 · US Love: They have every song you could ever want. Feminine and masculine
  5. [R1] Apple Music 1/5 · US Horrible shuffle: Whenever I select shuffle on the albums in my queue the same songs from the same albums are being played. It makes the idea of being random quite predictable. The code needs to be fixed especially since the price went up monthly.
  6. [R5] Apple Music 1/5 · US What are the engineers at Apple Music doing?: Update: it’s still terrible worse somehow I’m not one to write a review however after recently switching from their verrrry popular competitor, I knew my music taste would be not complete however I am shocked how terrible the suggestions and even recommendations are when searching EVEN AFTER REQUESTING CERTAIN SONGS AND ARTIST TO NOT BE PLAYED. It se
  7. [R7] Apple Music 1/5 · US aLGoRiThM: Because it’s a streaming service - nary a difference between them all but for one. Weekly recommends on ApPLe is like not even close as compared to Spotify which actually does give a bounty. So, bye-bye, I will gladly pay the extra $2 for something which gives quality versus bargain bin finds.
  8. [R9] Apple Music 1/5 · US Stop auto play: It's a fine app, but whenever i turn on my car or power on my headphones apple music decides to play a random song. Not what I was last listening to in the app. And not even the audio app i was last using. Apple music is forcing itself into my ears and there's no way to stop auto play other than deleting the app.
  9. [R15] Apple Music 1/5 · US Why do you take my music: You force upgrades and now all my music is locked because I don’t pay you for the privilege to listen to music I own,.
  10. [R17] Apple Music 2/5 · US All downloads wiped: Opened app today looked at one song whole app went black had to restart phone to even get it to work it had logged out completely wiped all music downloads off the phone had to use 100+ gigs of data and support only response was glitch glitch sorry deal with it more or less so warning that this can happen and
  11. [R65] Audiomack 3/5 · GB Device switch: This app is usually my go-to, I use it to upload music and in turn listen to music. Recently I’ve broken my Samsung phone and switched to an iPhone just to test it out. Im still not used to it as I hate change so I have no idea why I did this. But today when I went to audiomack to listen to some music I found out all my downloads have disappeared and they’re in a new folder called
  12. [R73] Audiomack 5/5 · US The app: Its great personally used it works perfectly offline no need to install other apps and pay for it this app is perfect
  13. [R21] Apple Music 1/5 · US Overpriced: This app is too overpriced, wasting this much money sucks per month. And not only that but you can’t even listen to music without paying at least just make it so we can listen to music without paying a couple ads without having to pay so much money
  14. [R23] Apple Music 5/5 · US Good app no ads: Personally better than Spotify
  15. [R46] Apple Music 5/5 · US 🎶Actually very good🎶: Many people just decide that Spotify or Amazon Music is better because it’s free, but honestly paying for Apple Music is pretty worth it. I highly recommend getting this app. One downside is uploading songs to Apple Music is a bit tricky. Peace ☺️🫶
  16. [R51] Audiomack 1/5 · US Killed by Ads: Use to be great, now barely functional crippling ads
  17. [R33] Apple Music 4/5 · US Thoughts on Apple Music and finding the platform you want to use for music and or media: It is ok I use YouTube mostly for music but I used this traveling and it was nice being able to download stuff easily and fast when you are budgeting data. it’s pretty good and is more smooth of a UX then some other platforms I have used but I think you need to use it for awhile to know if you like it. it is e
  18. [R52] Audiomack 5/5 · US Amazing! (every detail : ): So first when you go to the app it looks quite confusing. 😧 But little do u know it’s amazing! 🥳 1. You just need an apple account or your device account or an google account! Which is great! ( or a Facebook account!)😍😇. 2. And yes it dose work without Wi-Fi which I personally love! ( when you download songs!) ☺️😗 3. It’s just like Spotify but free!.🥹👌 4. I am a
  19. [R72] Audiomack 2/5 · GB disgusting: how are you going to put offline adverts on offline music fix your app why am I having so many pop up adds and 2+ 30 second adds just to download one song and it isn’t even working sort it out and the people who advertise their song offline don’t even sound good which makes me want to throw my phone sort it out
  20. [R57] Audiomack 1/5 · US Ads annoying: Very annoying with the ads. I’ll have to watch every ads before downloading anything

Synthesized from 110 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store