Mp3tag alternatives for Mac

We make TuneRight, so take our pick with that in mind. Every price and feature below comes from each app's own website or store listing, checked on October 7, 2026.

The short list

TuneRight

Best for: untagged or mislabeled songs, fixed with a review of every change.

TuneRight listens to each song, finds the release it belongs to, and proposes the title, artist, album, genre and cover in a review list grouped by album. Nothing is written until you apply a change, and an applied change can be undone, even after a restart. Covers come from fanart.tv first, with Cover Art Archive filling gaps. It reads MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV and AIFF, needs macOS 14 or later, and costs $9.99 once for up to three Macs, with a 14-day refund. It does not rename files or read other formats, so it does not replace every editing tool Mp3tag has.

Meta

Best for: hand editing on the Mac, also available on Setapp.

Meta is a Mac tag editor for batch editing, pattern-based file renaming and find and replace with regular expressions. Its Tag Finder fills tags and covers from Discogs, and Cover Finder fetches covers at the size you choose. It is $22.99 with a free 3-day trial, sold direct, on the Mac App Store and on Setapp. See TuneRight vs Meta.

Yate

Best for: power users who want automation.

Yate works with AcoustID, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Beatport, last.fm, Apple's Music app and more, and its actions add many other integrations. It is $20 with a 14-day trial, sold direct, and runs on macOS 10.13 or later.

MusicBrainz Picard

Best for: free, open-source tagging with deep control.

Picard identifies files by their sound with AcoustID fingerprints and shows original and new tags side by side before you save. Scripts shape tags and file names. Version 3.0 came out on October 4, 2026, for macOS 13 and later, and it is free. See TuneRight vs Picard.

SongKong

Best for: very large libraries, duplicates and home servers.

SongKong identifies music with MusicBrainz, Discogs, AcoustID and Bandcamp, previews changes before making them, and lists Persistent Undo, Delete Duplicates and file renaming among its tools. It runs on macOS and Windows, and through a browser on Linux, NAS and Docker. Standard is $44, Premium $65 and Pro $120, with $15 a year for updates after the first year. See TuneRight vs SongKong.

Waketag and Evertag

Best for: tagging on iPhone and iPad as well as the Mac, if a subscription suits you.

Both are free downloads on the App Store that sell subscriptions or a lifetime unlock. Waketag uses audio fingerprint matching and costs $5.99 a week, $19.99 a year or a lifetime price from $24.99. One Waketag reviewer wrote, “You basically can't do anything without a subscription.” Evertag says it can “automatically detect and fill in missing metadata,” costs $1.99 a month, $12.99 a year or $24.99 lifetime, and needs a Mac with Apple silicon. One Evertag reviewer reported that the app “overwrote the entire metadata of one song with another song's data.”

Which should you pick?

• Pick TuneRight if your songs are untagged or mislabeled and you want to review each fix before it is written.
• Pick Meta if you edit by hand, or want a tag editor through Setapp.
• Pick Yate if you want deep automation with actions.
• Pick Picard if you want a free, open-source tagger.
• Pick SongKong if you have a very large library or a home server.

More comparisons: TuneRight vs Meta, TuneRight vs Mp3tag, TuneRight vs Picard and TuneRight vs SongKong.