marvis Pro
Get more control of your music
$3.99 From Aditya Rajveer, appaddy.wixsite.com/marvis made for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch needs iOS 11.0 or later
Marvis promises to make you fall in love with your music library all over again. It’s a replacement for Apple’s own Music app that works with iTunes, iCloud Music Library and Apple Music, and which exports listening data to Last.fm.
Marvis revolves around the Home page, which you can customize with up to 30 sections: charts, playlists, today’s recommendations, personalized mixes, and so on. You can also change how sections work by specifying the sort order and direction, whether to display metadata, whether to display them in list or grid format, and even whether to curve the corners of the artwork. If you choose the grid option, you can specify how many columns to display and what style of grid to use. This customization means you may never need to leave
the Home page ever again, because everything you need is right there where you want it. There’s also a Dark Mode in anticipation of iOS
13. At the time of writing
Dark Mode is an in-app purchase but it’ll be free.
Playback is simple, and it’s easy to drag and drop tracks to play them, add them to the beginning or end of your play queue, or use them as the beginning of a shuffle play.
The app supports AirPlay 2 and it can also display lyrics via the Musixmatch app; if you don’t have it you can call up the App Store from within the app and get it from there.
There are some things that Marvis can’t do. It can’t delete items from your library, and you can’t remove items from playlists. That’s not the developer’s fault; it’s a restriction Apple puts on third–party music apps. There’s no iPad version, it doesn’t do 3D Touch, the default color scheme (which you can change, although it isn’t obvious) is dull, and the interface doesn’t feel logical. For example, the Settings link is in tiny text at the lower–right of the navigation screen. That means at first it’s a little frustrating to use.
Marvis is the kind of app that rewards fiddling: it’s not immediately obvious what you can do, but it can do a lot. If you get irritated by Apple Music’s layout, the extensive customization options will make you quickly fall in love with it. It’s just a shame that API restrictions limit what it can do with playlists.
the bottom line. Marvis is a fun Music app replacement with some limitations.