2.5 Stars – Marvis Pro Review

The developer did a great job developing this app, is very responsive, clearly puts a lot of effort in. The app is refreshing in how much you can customize it. I also am glad to have last.fm scrobbling now. However, after using it a couple weeks, I prefer the default Music app. I just think the UI of the default app makes more sense and allows you to get more out of Apple Music functionality. You can’t have the ‘For You’ page as the default on Marvis, can’t make it an item on the navbar. There is no “Browse” section. When you go to genres in Apple Music, it can be a very long list playlists in an order that isn’t helpful/relevant to you. Yes, you can change the sort order, but I don’t know how to get relevant playlists just to appear orderly like they do in the default Music app. The customization makes you miss out on the curation of the default app, which makes things work less well for me. When you search in Marvis, it pretty much deactivates the ‘swipe to activate navbar’ functionality which is super frustrating because the search bar is all the way at the top and I have to clear my search at the top (ruins one-handed ergonomics) before I can do anything else in the app. When you search for a song in Apple Music in Marvis (not your searching your own library) and finish listening to it, instead of Autoplay functionality playing a song that is similar in genre/type to the song you just listened to, it just plays the next song listed in the search view that has a similar title. I’m rooting for the developer because of how much effort and care he has put into the app, and I suspect a lot of these issues are from Apple’s APIs being limiting. But if I could go back in time, I don’t think I’d spend the $10-12 for this app (with the in-app last.fm purchase).
Review by xray98 on Marvis Pro.