TuneRight vs Meta
Meta is a polished Mac tag editor for people who edit by hand. TuneRight listens to your songs and proposes fixes for you to review. An honest comparison, updated October 2026.
We make TuneRight, so we will say plainly where Meta is the better pick.
At a glance
| TuneRight | Meta | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 once | $22.99 |
| Try before you buy | 14-day refund | Free 3-day trial |
| Where to buy | tuneright.app | Direct, Mac App Store, Setapp |
| Identifies songs by their sound | Yes | Not mentioned on its site |
| Online lookups | Song names from MusicBrainz, genres from Apple's music store | Tags and covers from Discogs |
| Album covers | fanart.tv, then Cover Art Archive, or your own picture | Cover Finder, at the size you choose |
| Rename files from tags | No | Yes, with patterns |
| Runs on | macOS 14 and later | macOS 11.5 and later |
What Meta is best at
Best for: careful hand editing of songs you already know.Meta edits many files at once, renames files from their tags with patterns, finds and replaces with regular expressions, and handles ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis, INFO and APE tags. Its Tag Finder fills missing tags and covers from Discogs, and Cover Finder fetches a cover in one click at the size you choose. It costs $22.99 with a free 3-day trial, and it is sold direct, on the Mac App Store and on Setapp. If you know what each song is and want exact control over every field and file name, Meta is a strong choice.
What TuneRight does differently
Best for: songs with wrong names or no tags at all.Meta's site describes finding tags on Discogs. It does not mention identifying a song by its sound, which matters when a file has no title or the wrong one. TuneRight listens to each song, finds the release it belongs to, and proposes the title, artist, album, genre and cover. Songs are grouped by album, nothing is written until you apply a change, and an applied change can be undone, even after a restart. You can still type any tag yourself in Edit Tags or choose your own cover.
Price
TuneRight is $9.99 once for up to three Macs, with a 14-day refund and no subscription. Meta is $22.99. TuneRight has no trial, while Meta offers three days.
Which should you pick?
- Pick Meta if you know your songs and want exact control over every tag and file name.
- Pick Meta if you want files renamed from their tags. TuneRight does not rename or move files.
- Pick TuneRight if your songs are untagged or mislabeled and you want them identified by their sound.
- Pick TuneRight if you want to see every change before it is written, and undo it later.
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Fix the songs your library lost track of
TuneRight is $9.99 once for up to three Macs, with a 14-day refund. There is no subscription and no trial.
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