Marvis Pro 12+

Best App I’ve Purchased

My love for music (particularly heavy metal) is to the point of obsession. I’m always listening to music, building up my own collection with classics and new releases, or keeping my finger on the pulse of what my friends and the larger music community are listening to. Marvis Pro gives me all of the resources I could imagine to streamline these processes. With a little fidgeting, I was able to create a “radio station” that constantly pulls 25% from my personal library, and 75% from other playlists, such as Apple’s “Breaking Metal,” which is a good way to find new music. That’s just scratching the tip of the iceberg. I can’t wait to jump back in and figure out similar tricks for other circumstances. For example, I’m already planning on making similar stations that mix my tastes with those of friends and family, which may make long car rides a little easier!
On top of that, as someone who spends a lot of time in music streaming apps, the amount of customization options are fantastic. Being able to move every section around, enlarge, shrink, or collapse various images, and even customize the background itself with a load of options was a ton of fun and looks great! Further, having everything I could want (all playlists, albums, artists, songs, custom stations, etc) on one screen is something I can’t imagine ever going back from.
I just love this app. Well worth the price. Best app on the store, in my opinion.

My new favorite

I've been using another music app for years, and to be honest, it's been great, and I have been (and am) very happy with it, and with its developer. And yet, I have to be honest, Marvis has completely blown me away by being all that and more. It is very nearly everything I've ever wanted, or even imagined wanting. With apologies to my other music app, Marvis has stolen my heart away.

Marvis's developer has been outstandingly responsive, working with me to help me understand all of its nuances and taking time to understand how I use it, and what I'm looking for in a music app. I didn't really "get" all that Marvis is capable of at first, and his attention to my concerns really made a world of difference in helping me get the most out of it and understand what it is capable of. I'm very grateful for that.

The one thing that stopped me, especially at first, from making a wholesale switch to Marvis was the lack of support for iPad. In my view, that's really a must-have. There is a beta that does support iPad, and that's what I've been using. Once that's generally available, honestly, this will be the new standard-bearer, as far as I'm concerned.

Better music player than default, resets custom settings all the time.

The title says it all. In my opinion there are a number of ways Marvis is better than the stock music app, aside from apple-enforced limitations. One of my favorite features of the app is Live Activities for the next song that will play. I also love love love the amount of customization you can do in the app.

So why two stars? My settings fully reset themselves on a regular basis. This means on a regular basis, I have to import my settings that I had already saved, then go to each and every subscreen on the app to correct my grids and sorting and etc. Plus, the act of sorting and choosing your grid only applies once to the same section. This means on your home page, you can have it show your albums, and from there you could set your grid to sort by date and have a 5-wide grid. But, in the sidebar’s albums panel, your custom settings are not applied. Meaning for each section on your home page, you have to set it up twice.

There’s a lot to like here, but having to go so in-depth fixing every setting all the time is absolutely ridiculous. I get that there are system limitations on certain aspects of the music playing experience, but I have never used an app aside from Adobe that routinely just throws your settings in the trash. I don’t know what has to be done to fix it, but it makes using Marvis a real pain.

Developer Response ,

Glad to know you’ve been enjoying Marvis, sad to hear you were facing issues related to settings getting reset to default. The latest update aimed to fix that particular issue so it shouldn’t probably happen from now on.

About the settings import, once you make the necessary changes, you should re-export the settings so you don’t have to make the changes again, as you may be using an older settings backup. To export settings go to Marvis Settings → Advanced → Export Settings.

Thanks for reviewing.