Marvis Pro 12+

Worth the effort to customise

I agree with a previous reviewer; the app can seem a bit overwhelming when you first use it, and some of the out-of-the-box UI may not seem to match the way you use the music app, but when you find out what's available, and importantly how to hide the stuff you don't want and how to customise the stuff you want to see, it's amazingly powerful and beautiful as well. Brilliant customer service, too. You need to understand that the app works through the native Music app and has to adapt to the Apple APIs so there are sometimes limits to what it can do (and if it's open you can't close the native Music app without stopping Marvis from playing your music). All that said, f you want to navigate through your music easily, see your library exactly as you choose to see it and play music via the cloud as well as locally this is the music player to use without a doubt.

Great app!

This app is a very aesthetically pleasing app and is customisable for your needs/likes. This has a much richer and premium design than the basic stock Music app design and lets you customise your background, theme style (light or dark mode) and many more! It helps you find your music easier by letting you sort your music by date added, year, last played, etc. You can also track your play count which is very interesting to watch how your music taste evolves. Overall, this app is great and gives you many more advantages over the everyday Apple Music user and is definitely worth the money!

One thing i suggest is a new section to “Home” which includes your favourite albums for easy access to the music you like.

Developer Response ,

So happy to see you’re having a good time using Marvis and enjoying the features and customisations.

Such a nice and informative review. Thank you!!!

About your suggestion:
From the Home Feed, add a new section called Loved > Albums to see your favourited/loved albums. Currently Loving Albums inside of Marvis is not supported will be added in an update. But for now you can love the Albums via Stock Music app and they would show up on Home‘s loved section. Hope that helps. You can even choose to see Loved Songs/Playlists on Home Feed.

Unfortunately unresponsive

Edit:

Thank you to the developer for a quick and really helpful response to my initial review.

As you mentioned, after going back into the proper music app first and then into Marvis afterwards, it seems to be working fine. I didn’t know that it was dependant on the music app running in the background. It’s a shame this is the case but, now I know what’s up, it’s not the worst workaround and the app is lovely to use.

I never completely quit apps unless they’re misbehaving but I’ll definitely bear this in mind for the future and open the music app from time to time.

The customisation is really great in this app and helps bring forward a lot of varied music to listen to, be it things in my library or new music I haven’t heard before.

Thanks again for the heads up.

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Original:

I’ve had the app a while now after being convinced by the positive reviews but all I’ve had are problems.

Primarily the app doesn’t respond. It takes ages to open and then it’s completely unresponsive. I try quitting the app completely and reopening it but nothing changes.

I revert back to the in-house music app more often than not. I’m sorry to have spent my money on this one now. Hopefully it behaves a little better in the future after some updates.

Developer Response ,

UPDATE

Appreciate your understanding, while it’s not always required for Music.app to be running in the background, it sometimes just disconnects from the iOS provided APIs when it dies, it very well happens sometimes when it dies naturally as well. It wouldn’t happen as much if Music.app is visited from time to time.

It make us glad to know that you enjoy using Marvis.

ORIGINAL

We’re sorry to see you experience lags with Marvis, usually it’s when Music.app isn’t behaving correctly and not letting 3rd party apps connect to it using iOS provided APIs. However, opening Music.app first then launching Marvis should fix the unresponsiveness. Also, if you happen to have a habit of force quitting apps including Music.app, there’s a possibility that you experience this more often as this happens when Music.app has died in the background, not always but in most cases.

I hope you understand that this isn’t in our control, sadly iOS has these bugs and Apple would need to fix them for other apps that rely on Music.app to perform correctly.

Thank you for reviewing.