Playlisty for Apple Music 4+

Better then SongShift!!

I tried Songshift, based on reviews and recommendations from other sites and wasted $6.99. It missed about 10-20% of my playlist songs… that Apple Music actually had! (even after showing me a match).
Then I tried Playlisty and it caught and matched every song that Apple Music had… at less than half the price! Never missed a single one.
I love the match list that you can edit and fix before final export. That saved me lot's of time and gave me peace of mind. Thanks Playlisty!

Exhibts dark patterns - AVOID

I was expecting a simple utility to import playlists, but what I got was subtle psychological manipulation. This is what happens: You download the app and get it to import a playlist. It chugs along meaningully, even suspiciously slow (hard work matching songs!) and then, SUCCESS! you can see the results of ihe import.

Here i the first dark pattern. After the success, you are asked to rate the app. (no thanks, not now) the reason this appears at this point is because you haven't actually done anything useful, like import the data to Apple Music. When you do so, you're confronted with the limitation, 20 song max. Now, I could do 20 songs by hand, the point of an app like this is to import a mass of songs.

Only at this point are you informed that this is a paid app. Why not just say this at the beginning? Well, it wants to put you through the work, go through the entire process of importing and THEN tell you it is a paid app. This is exploting the sunk cost fallacy.

Because of this dishonesty, I feel manipulated and I will not be purchasing this app and I am writing this review to let the developer know that manipulating uses should never be rewrded. .

Developer Response ,

We were saddened to read your review and I think you are projecting marketing capabilities (and cynicism) on us which are light-years beyond the reality.

For starters, we clearly state the 20 track playlist limit in our App Store description. 

Secondly, we want people to purchase Playlisty based on knowledge not hope, so Playlisty’s workflow is designed to actively dissuade people from purchasing “Pro” before they are certain the app meets their requirements - nothing more. This means fewer refunds and more happy users. It never occurred to us that anyone would see the (10-20 second?) matching process as a “sunk cost”; most think “wow that’s so much faster than that other app I tried!”.

We’d love to get your input on how to avoid this impression without compromising our primary goal of user satisfaction.

Regarding our rating prompt, it’s not even driven by the screen you are on and most users won’t see it on their first day of using Playlisty. If you saw it when you say you saw it then there was something else going on. Again we’d be very grateful if you could engage with us directly so that we can figure this out.

Just What I Needed!

I have been trying to find some solid music to add to my library and this app has really done a great job at helping me put together new music that I love! I love the feature that not only checks Spotify/YouTube for music you like but it also pulls up other playlists of a lot of other sources for you to checkout as well which really takes a lot of the work out of me scraping the online world to find new stuff out there. I highly reccomend to anyone that enjoys music 100%