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App Imp

Music streaming apps.

Installs
12570.5M

Across 10 of 17 apps we could match.

YouTube Music has 63% of them.

  • 17 apps
  • 7,425 reviews held
  • 3,236 negative
  • Median $4.9915 of 16 charge. 1 more has no price data.

3 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 3,236 negative reviews.

Adselevated

17.1% vs 10.2% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 554
  • Audiomack - Play Music Offline2star· Sep 16, 2026

    Horrible Commercial — Plays a ad after each song… Really think about deleting this app

  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts1star· Sep 15, 2026

    Cant even listen to music — Theres an ad after every single song, theres no point in even listening to music on here if i cant even focus, horrible money hungry app

  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts1star· Sep 15, 2026

    Unless you have premium this is the worst music streaming platform ever — I would have put zero stars if I was able to. I’m so sick and tired of this app, genuinely I’m going to switch to Apple if this keeps going. There are ads everywhere, you open the app and you get an ad for premium that says it’s free but in reality when you go to get it it charges you a dollar and some change. Even when you

Limits & capselevated

2.9% vs 1.8% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 95
  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts1star· Sep 15, 2026

    Unless you have premium this is the worst music streaming platform ever — I would have put zero stars if I was able to. I’m so sick and tired of this app, genuinely I’m going to switch to Apple if this keeps going. There are ads everywhere, you open the app and you get an ad for premium that says it’s free but in reality when you go to get it it charges you a dollar and some change. Even when you

  • Music X - Music Streaming Pro1star· Sep 14, 2026

    Terrible — I spent $10 on “lifetime unlimited ads” just for them to update the app days later and revoke use of keys so I cannot access any mainstream/copyright music.

  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts1star· Sep 14, 2026

    No more choosing individual songs — Why did they add a limit to the amount of times I can select a song??? I stop using Spotify for like a week and then they add this?? There’s literally no point and it makes me want to just listen to music on YouTube.

Named problems · 1
  • Core feature locked behind the paywall4 of 95

Performanceelevated

23.8% vs 16.2% typical store-wide.

Reviews · 3 of 770
  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts2star· Sep 15, 2026

    The Lag Has Been AWFUL — I don’t know what the issue has been but Spotify has be LAGGING like crazy for the better part of the last year. It’s been not saving playlists I’ve downloaded, taken over a minute to load a song (when connected to WiFi), force quit either during time were the lab is extensive or just randomly in the middle of listening to songs. It’s been single-handedly one of the most a

  • YouTube Music1star· Sep 14, 2026

    App is Trash — App is terrible for a music app .. way too many bugs unfix , app crashes so much.

  • Spotify: Music and Podcasts2star· Sep 14, 2026

    Love Spotify but… — Loading times loading app can be very slow and frustrating, songs cutting out , and shuffle still mid

Also counted

ThemeOf 3,236 negatives
  • Billing885 · 27.3% · 13 apps
  • UX131 · 4.0% · 11 apps
  • Login & auth126 · 3.9% · 11 apps
  • Support115 · 3.6% · 10 apps
  • Sync & data16 · 0.5% · 9 apps
  • Accuracy6 · 0.2% · 4 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

What Apple surfaces for “music streaming”

41 storefronts · 11 recurring suggestions

Position in Apple’s suggestions
1510
demus
music
musi simple
panasonic
gstones
j music
loopd live
mubert
mozika
music player
music x
010203041

Countries

Measured 19 September 2026.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after music streaming apps, in their order.

Who they're for
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Google
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App Store
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Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “music streaming apps for”, with the query stripped.

Potential customers

People the apps here do not serve, and what they asked for.

  • Wants lesstoo many features 1822
  • Shut out by device or contextiPad 316
  • Wants it to plug inSpotify 3 · CarPlay 212
  • Outgrown itbulk delete 5 · bulk entry 29

Counted in 1 to 4 star reviews. The small numbers are how many reviews named each thing. What they wrote is in the free trial.

Who’s in it

All 17 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-14.

Apps count as part of a market for 90 days after they last appear in it. Installs are Google Play's own count, last captured 2026-09-14. 10 of 17 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Qobuz: Music & Editorial$5.99–$25.99 · 8 tiers3.6% of 194
YouTube Music$15.99–$34.99 · 5 tiers3.5% of 626
SoundCloud: The Music You Love$5.99–$129 · 5 tiers3.4% of 206
LiveOne Music$3.99–$39.99 · 5 tiers2.6% of 226
Amazon Music: Songs & Podcasts$13.99–$24.99 · 2 tiers2.4% of 465
Deezer: Music Player, Podcast$5.49–$22.99 · 7 tiers1.7% of 178
Spotify: Music and Podcastsfree1.2% of 424
Pandora: Music & Podcasts$3.99–$12.99 · 3 tiers1.2% of 243
Audiomack - Play Music Offline$0.99–$24.99 · 7 tiers0% of 151
TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound$15.49–$26.99 · 2 tiers0% of 311
Music : Cloud Music Streaming$4.99–$19.99 · 3 tiers0% of 43
MusiTube: Your Music Streaming$4.99–$59.99 · 4 tiers0% of 15
Music player — music streaming$0.99–$7.99 · 2 tiers0% of 0
MusiPlus: Easy Music Streaming$4.99–$59.99 · 4 tiers0% of 9

Browse the apps behind these counts

Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

Open the app library

Is there a market for a new music streaming app?

17 apps compete on this shelf, holding 7,425 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, ads, runs in 14 of 17 of them at 17.1% of negative reviews against 10.2% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in music streaming apps?

1. Ads: in 14 of 17 apps, 17.1% of negative reviews; 2. Limits & caps: in 10 of 17 apps, 2.9% of negative reviews; 3. Performance: in 14 of 17 apps, 23.8% of negative reviews.

How many music streaming app reviews did App Imp count?

7,425 US App Store reviews across 17 apps, 3,236 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-14 snapshot, never estimated.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 13,217 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.