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Music streaming apps

  1. Market

    Installs
    12691.0M

    Across 10 of 16 apps we could match.

    • YouTube Music: 8,050,290,798 installs
    • Spotify: 3,147,864,849 installs
    • SoundCloud: 462,916,690 installs
    • Deezer: 377,353,753 installs
    • Pandora: 311,778,646 installs
    • Audiomack: 192,653,763 installs
    • LiveOne Music: 108,203,908 installs
    • TIDAL Music: 37,463,803 installs
    • Qobuz: 2,460,571 installs
    • MusiTube: 224 installs
    • 63% leader share. YouTube Music, by Google Play installs, across the 10 of 16 apps we could match
    • #1 Music rank. YouTube Music, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $5.24 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 14 apps that list one. 14 of 15 charge.
    • 12 of 16 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Spotify1 Oct42.4M ratings
    2. Pandora24 Sep11.3M ratings$5.49 to $14.99
    3. Amazon Music3 Oct3.4M ratings$13.99 to $24.99
    4. SoundCloud5 Oct2.0M ratings$129.00 a year
    5. Audiomack23 Sep2.0M ratings$0.99 to $24.99
    6. YouTube Music4 Oct1.5M ratings$15.99 to $34.99
    7. TIDAL Music1 Oct248k ratings$15.49 to $26.99
    8. Deezer22 Sep37k ratings$5.49 to $22.99
    9. LiveOne Music14 Sep29k ratings$3.99 to $39.99
    10. Qobuz16 Sep19k ratings$5.99 to $25.99
    11. MusicDec 202515k ratings$19.99 a year
    12. Music player30 Jul1k ratings$7.99 a year
    13. MusiTube3 Jun984 ratings$29.99 a year
    14. MusiPlus16 Jun192 ratings$29.99 a year
    15. Musivo30 Sep6 ratings
    16. Demus4 Oct0 ratings$9.99 to $19.99 a year

  3. Reviews

    What 9,524 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Ads+6.4%15 of 16 apps
    2. Performance+2.8%14 of 16 apps
    3. Limits & caps+0.3%13 of 16 apps
    4. Content0.0%12 of 16 apps
    5. UX−0.3%13 of 16 apps
    6. Sync & data−0.3%10 of 16 apps
    7. Login & auth−0.7%12 of 16 apps
    8. Wishlist−1.0%15 of 16 apps
    9. Support−1.4%11 of 16 apps
    10. Billing−5.5%15 of 16 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
    With
    Without

  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

  6. Your test

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Is there a market for a new music streaming app?

16 apps compete here. They hold 12,690,987,005 installs on Google Play, counted across the 10 we could match. We hold 9,524 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do music streaming apps charge?

14 of the 15 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $5.24 or less. 1 more app has no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a music streaming app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing Music streaming apps completes to “gstones - free music streaming” in 40 of them. Then “loopd live - music streaming” in 40, “j music - new music streaming” in 39. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in music streaming apps?

1. Ads: in 15 of 16 apps, 16.1% of reviews (9.7% in Music apps); 2. Performance: in 14 of 16 apps, 15.2% of reviews (12.4% in Music apps). Counted from 9,524 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures across subscription apps

Their report has no category matching Music streaming apps apps, so only all-category figures are shown. A near-match would be a guess.

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 355 Music apps, the group most of these apps are in. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated.