Setlist Carrot is a music utility for iOS that allows users to search historical concert setlists and generate corresponding Apple Music playlists.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Music
Sentiment
3.9
15 reviews
Nemesis
JBL Portable
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to archive and recreate specific live music experiences, solving the friction of manual playlist assembly after a concert.
For Concert attendees and music fans who want to archive or recreate the specific track lists from live performances.
What does it look like?
Key features
Search for artist gigs by location and year to retrieve specific song and cover performance data.
Generates Apple Music playlists directly from setlist data to mirror the artist's intended track order.
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility with no visible subscription or IAP gates in the current metadata.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceShow more...
The app has released only one update in the last 80 days, resulting in a cadence of approximately 0.09 releases per week. This velocity falls into the maintenance tier, as the latest release consists solely of generic bug fixes. There is no evidence of new feature development or live operations. The development trend is stable at a low-frequency maintenance level.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads mixed. Users appreciate the app provides a convenient way for frequent concert goers to recreate live music experiences and swiftui implementation allows for a quick and responsive user interface experience during concert discovery.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The app provides a convenient way for frequent concert goers to recreate live music experiences
- SwiftUI implementation allows for a quick and responsive user interface experience during concert discovery
- Playlist creation functionality for Apple Music fails to trigger or execute as expected for users
5 of 5 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Setlist Carrot - Setlist.fm
How's the Music market?
Setlist Carrot occupies a niche utility space within the Music category, holding a 3.93-star rating across 15 total ratings. The lack of recent feature updates relative to metadata-focused rivals signals a maintenance-mode posture that limits competitive growth.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Harman International Industries
JBL Portable competes for the same music-centric user base by controlling the hardware-software ecosystem, effectively owning the playback experience that Setlist Carrot aims to curate.
- Hardware-integrated ecosystem provides deep control over speaker settings and party modes unavailable to software-only apps
- Massive user base and brand recognition create a significant barrier to entry for independent music utilities
- Frequent firmware updates ensure long-term hardware relevance, keeping users locked into the proprietary JBL software environment
04 Limited Sazabys 公式アプリContender
Music Info — Song MetadataContender
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LiveTrackz - Live Music LoopsContenderUnlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Setlist Carrot - Setlist.fm
Where is it heading?
The music utility market is consolidating around tools that offer deep system integration and automated metadata discovery. Setlist Carrot's reliance on manual search and unstable sync leaves it exposed to rivals that offer a more automated experience, so the PM must shift from maintenance to core-stability investment to prevent further churn.
- Recurring playlist-sync failures in the latest version erode user trust, which compounds the churn pressure from incomplete setlist data.
- The 164-day update gap suggests the app is in maintenance mode, leaving it vulnerable to rivals with faster feature-deployment cycles.
The SWOT
- SwiftUI implementation enables a responsive interface for rapid concert discovery
- Automated tour-tracking notifications could convert occasional users into daily-active fans
Next best moves
Audit Apple Music API integration because playlist sync failure is the top-reported complaint → reduce churn
The counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of monetization is its biggest risk: without a revenue stream…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
System-wide share sheet integration (available in Music Info but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined due to a lack of feature updates and persistent technical issues with its core playlist sync functionality.
Bottom line
Setlist Carrot provides a unique utility for live music fans, but the recurring playlist-sync failure and lack of feature updates threaten long-term retention, so the PM should prioritize stabilizing the Apple Music integration.
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