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Music
Every App Comrade review tagged Music, across every platform.
Real Piano is a free keyboard that does the one thing it advertises.
A no-frills 88-key on-screen piano for Fire tablets, miscategorised under Health & Fitness, with no in-app purchases and no ambitions beyond letting you tap out a tune.
MAY 11, 2026
My Singing Monsters is the 14-year-old breeder game TikTok turned into a hit twice.
Big Blue Bubble's music-creature collector launched in 2012, settled into a long mid-table life, then got pulled back into the cultural conversation by Wubbox memes and a steady stream of new monsters. The thing still sounds great.
MAY 11, 2026
Smule turned karaoke into a social network — for better and for worse.
The original sing-with-strangers app is still the genre leader, but the paywall has hardened and the catalogue is gated behind a VIP subscription that costs more than Spotify.
MAY 11, 2026
The JOY FM+ brings a Florida Christian radio station to the LG living room.
Radio Training Network's contemporary-Christian broadcast network arrives on webOS as a straightforward streaming tile — no frills, no friction, just the same on-air feed playing through the TV.
MAY 11, 2026
Catra's 80s Revolution is a one-decade radio station hiding on Roku.
A free, ad-free private channel that plays nothing but 80s music, hosted by a DJ who actually wants to be there. The asking price is your patience for a single-purpose app.
MAY 11, 2026
WHO?MAG Multimedia is a niche indie-music channel that asks for nothing in return.
A small multimedia outlet pushing independent music and video to a Roku tile. Free, ad-free, no account — and that scope is the entire pitch.
MAY 11, 2026
Country Music on Roku is a generic-named channel that asks you to trust it sight unseen.
A free music_and_podcasts channel from ByteWiseApps LLC with no description, no developer site to cross-check, and in-app purchases behind a name so common it could be anything. The install bar is low; the trust bar is not.
MAY 11, 2026
German Radio Music & News is a tidy preset list dressed up as an app.
An Andromo-templated bundle of German FM and web streams that does one job — load a station and play it — without much else around the edges.
MAY 11, 2026
New Age Music Radio is a sleep-music tile that forgot to add a sleep timer.
Another single-stream Andromo wrapper from the Werner Reischel radio catalogue. The genre is tailor-made for bedtime and meditation; the app ships without any of the controls that would help.
MAY 11, 2026
Perfect Pitch Player turns the Samsung TV into an ear-training rig.
A single-purpose music utility that drills pitch recognition through your living-room speakers — useful for the right learner, awkward for everyone else.
MAY 11, 2026
Fender Play arrives on Samsung TVs with the lessons sized for a living room.
Fender's subscription guitar school lands on Tizen as a dedicated big-screen client — same structured curriculum, finally framed for the couch and a real instrument in your lap.
MAY 11, 2026
iHeartRadio is still the best free way to hear local FM on a Fire tablet.
The 2024 redesign added live-radio lyrics, 15 custom presets, and a tighter discovery feed. The free tier remains generous; the All Access upsell remains awkward.
MAY 10, 2026
YouTube Music is the only streamer that understands music videos are part of music.
Eleven years in, Google's streamer still can't out-recommend Spotify — but the bottomless catalogue of live cuts, covers, and official videos remains unmatched.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora still bets the house on the Music Genome Project.
Two decades in and a SiriusXM subsidiary, Pandora keeps leaning on hand-tagged recommendations and personalised radio rather than the on-demand grid Spotify and Apple Music made the default.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeartRadio is still the easiest way to put a real radio station in your pocket.
Free live broadcast streams, a vast podcast library, and a custom-station builder that has aged better than the rest of the iHeart product family.
MAY 10, 2026
Spotify finally shipped lossless, and the rest of the app caught up too.
The 2025 lossless rollout and the 2026 tablet redesign close two of the longest-standing gaps in the iPhone's most-installed music app — even as the third US price hike in four years tests how much goodwill that buys.
MAY 10, 2026
SoundCloud still owns the underground, and still trips over its own feet.
Version 8.56 keeps the deepest crate of indie and unreleased music on any streaming app. It also keeps the long unskippable ads, the missing follower lists, and a year of AI-policy whiplash.
MAY 10, 2026
Amazon Music keeps showing up wherever you already are.
Three tiers, two of them bundled with something else, and an app that still feels like an Echo accessory more than a destination.
MAY 10, 2026
Amazon Music's Android app is three apps stapled together — and it shows.
The Free, Prime, and Unlimited tiers each get a different version of the same client. The Prime bundle is still the best value in streaming. The interface trying to sell you up to Unlimited is the price of admission.
MAY 10, 2026
iHeart still owns terrestrial radio on Android, ads and all.
The free tier is the deepest live-radio bench any streaming app offers, and Talk Back keeps the call-in alive. The trade is an ad load that would embarrass a 1990s FM drive shift.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora still wins the lean-back listen, even as the app fights itself.
The Music Genome Project remains the most accurate hands-off recommendation engine in streaming. The Android client has not aged with the same grace.
MAY 10, 2026
SoundCloud on Android is still where the next rapper lives before the algorithm finds him.
Sixteen years after the orange waveform shipped, SoundCloud is half major-label streamer, half open-uploads farm. The Android app is where the two halves rub against each other hardest.
MAY 10, 2026
Solid Rock Radio does one job, plays one signal, and gets out of the way.
A single-stream Christian rock channel built by Invubu, the studio behind a long shelf of Roku radio apps. No menus, no playlists, no fuss — just the station, on the TV, when you want it on.
MAY 10, 2026
New Muse TV is a small music-video channel still finding its programming.
An independent Roku channel from Market Research Design LLC pitches itself as a 24/7 music-video and original-show network for emerging artists. The promise is bigger than what's currently on screen.
MAY 10, 2026
IMUTV is a small free music-video channel still finding its shape.
Independent Music Universe's Roku channel arrived in late 2025 with a music-and-TV remit and not much else to go on. It's free, ad-supported, and very much a first draft.
MAY 10, 2026
98.3 BPME brings a community radio dial to the living-room TV.
A small R&B, hip-hop, gospel, and talk station gets its own Roku channel. The format is honest about what it is — a radio stream pinned to a still frame — and that honesty is most of why it works.
MAY 10, 2026
Music from the 412 turns Pittsburgh's scene into a Roku channel.
An on-demand companion to the 24/7 video stream, built around interviews, sets, and shows from a single American city.
MAY 10, 2026
Techno Music Radio is a single-stream Andromo wrapper that does exactly one thing.
A template-built radio app from the Andromo factory that pipes a single techno stream to your Galaxy device. It works, it's free, and it's interchangeable with a hundred siblings on the same shelf.
MAY 10, 2026
App Radio PRO is a quiet utility for the TV nobody listens through.
A no-frills internet radio aggregator on Samsung's Tizen store, aimed at the small audience that uses a 65-inch panel as a kitchen speaker.
MAY 10, 2026
WHFF Bluegrass Classics turns a Samsung TV into a steady-state bluegrass station.
A single-stream Tizen radio app from a small Pennsylvania broadcaster. One genre, one button, no algorithm — and that is the entire pitch.
MAY 10, 2026
Classic Soul on WHFF Radio is the rare single-genre Tizen app whose genre actually wants a TV.
WHFF Broadcast's Motown-and-vintage-soul channel ships as a free standalone Tizen app — and unlike its sibling apps, the format fits a living-room speaker setup the algorithm can't quite match.
MAY 10, 2026
Afrobeats Energy turns a Samsung TV into a genre radio station.
WHFF's Afrobeats stream is one of the cleaner single-genre radio apps on Tizen — a useful way to leave a global pop sound running on the big speakers while the room does something else.
MAY 10, 2026
Classical Masterpieces on Tizen is a one-channel concert hall for the living room.
WHFF Broadcast's Tizen app pipes a single curated classical stream to a Samsung TV — symphonies, concertos, opera and chamber repertoire, with no menu to navigate and no algorithm to fight.
MAY 10, 2026
Country Roads on Tizen is a country-radio station with a TV remote bolted to the front.
WHFF Broadcast's country-format channel ships as its own Samsung TV app — a launch-and-leave background stream for households that already know they want country playing and don't want to think about it again.
MAY 10, 2026
WHFF Easy Listening is the soft-instrumental wallpaper a Samsung TV was waiting for.
A free Tizen radio app dedicated to lounge, light orchestral, and soft-instrumental programming — built for the role TV speakers actually play in most living rooms: ambient music nobody has to think about.
MAY 10, 2026
Electronic Beats turns a Samsung TV into a single-genre radio tile.
WHFF Broadcast's free Tizen channel streams one thing — electronic music, all the time — and that single-genre commitment is both its premise and its ceiling.
MAY 10, 2026
Folk Tunes on Tizen is a one-channel WHFF stream with a TV remote in front of it.
WHFF Broadcast and Media's Samsung TV folk channel is a free, single-stream internet radio app — useful as background, hard to recommend over a phone or browser tab pointed at the same feed.
MAY 10, 2026
Hip-Hop Vibes is a single-channel radio app for users who want one stream and nothing else.
WHFF Broadcast wraps the hip-hop channel of its multi-genre internet radio service in a standalone Tizen app — useful if you want hands-off background music, hard to recommend over TuneIn or Spotify if you want anything more.
MAY 10, 2026
Pandora on Fire TV is the radio-mode app that still makes sense.
SiriusXM-owned Pandora's Fire TV channel is a station-driven music experience. Same Music Genome curation, same trade-offs, same audience that's been listening for fifteen years.
MAY 9, 2026
My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire is the prequel that grows on you slowly.
Big Blue Bubble's prequel to the main My Singing Monsters offers younger Continent monsters, a different breeding economy, and the same musical hook — at a slower pace than the original.
MAY 9, 2026
Spotify on Fire TV is the same Spotify, just on a bigger screen.
The Fire TV build of Spotify works fine — Connect handoff, full catalogue, voice via Alexa. None of the LG-OLED-tier visual upgrade, but none of the friction either.
MAY 9, 2026
Amazon Music on LG webOS is the same Prime-bundled install as the Roku version.
Amazon's webOS client is a short variant of our Roku Amazon Music review — the bundled-with-Prime argument is identical, the LG-specific notes are minor.
MAY 9, 2026
The CCE Network is the long tail of Roku in one channel.
A small, undocumented music-and-podcasts channel built on TvStartup's white-label stack. Worth a look as a window into how indie Roku gets made — less so as a destination.
MAY 9, 2026
My Singing Monsters is the children's music game that grew up better than expected.
Big Blue Bubble's monster-breeding-and-singing simulator is twelve years old, beloved by tweens, and has more original music than most film studios produce. The F2P model is generous; the long-game commitment is real.
MAY 8, 2026
iHeart on LG webOS is the same iHeart, on a different remote.
Local AM/FM streams, podcast catalogue, ad-supported tier — all the same as on Roku, with LG's Magic Remote handling navigation slightly more elegantly.
MAY 8, 2026
Spotify on LG webOS is the music-on-a-TV experience LG OLED owners deserve.
Same Spotify, deeper integration with LG's display features, and the rare TV-streaming-music app where the platform-specific touches actually improve the experience.
MAY 8, 2026
Pandora on LG webOS is Pandora on a TV, slightly nicer.
Same Music Genome Project, same SiriusXM-owned product, same station-radio-on-TV use case. The webOS version benefits from LG's display and remote in small ways.
MAY 8, 2026
Amazon Music on Roku is the streaming service that came with Prime.
200 million tracks, included with Prime membership at the basic tier, and the streaming-music app most US households have access to whether they realize it or not. The Roku version is competent at the limited TV-music use case.
MAY 8, 2026
iHeart on Roku is the AM/FM radio that survived the internet.
Live local radio from 850+ US stations, plus podcasts, plus on-demand music — all wrapped in iHeartMedia's terrestrial-radio empire. Free, ad-heavy, surprisingly useful.
MAY 8, 2026
Pandora on Roku is the radio app for people who don't know they want a radio app.
SiriusXM-owned Pandora's TV channel is a calm, station-driven music experience that's quietly more useful than its three-streams-bigger competitors.
MAY 8, 2026
Spotify on Samsung TV is the music app most Samsung owners will use whether they want to or not.
Same Spotify catalogue, Samsung-specific Bixby integration, and the standard couch-mode music experience — slightly less polished than the LG webOS version, slightly better than the Roku one.
MAY 8, 2026
Amazon Music on Samsung TV is the streaming bundle Prime members already have.
Same Amazon Music as on Roku, with Bixby instead of Roku's voice service. The Prime-tier bundle math is the entire reason most Samsung TV owners install it.
MAY 8, 2026
Pandora on Samsung TV is the same Music Genome on Bixby.
Same Pandora as on Roku and LG, with Samsung's Bixby voice search and QLED panel rendering. Niche use case, competent execution.
MAY 8, 2026
Spotify is no longer trying to be a music app.
The 2025 redesign reorganised the home screen around video, podcasts, and audiobooks. Music was the third tab. Spotify is following its own audience, not its name.
MAY 7, 2026