Marvis Pro

Glad you like Marvis. There’s a gesture to invoke search and navigate sidebar. Please refer to Settings > Gestures > Sidebar Flow. New Releases and Coming Soon are fetched from RSS feeds and not Apple Music APIs, after another user requested genre filter we searched about it and found it only supports Country and Heavy Metal Genre and that too only for New Released & Hot Tracks and only for limited countries. No filters for Coming Soon. Top Charts however are fetched using Apple Music APIs and do support genre filters and we have planned to support it soon. Unfortunately, top charts are all Apple Music APIs provides in their charts API and nothing else, for the rest we’re left on our own to implement using alternate ways. Progress bar catching up: currently progress bar uses a smooth animation to transition, when app goes into background it doesn’t receive any progress updates only after returning back. After reading your review, in v3.1.1 we’ve improved this but there sometime does remains a split second lag to update UI, will try and improve further in future. Thanks. Volume bar: We had tried to make it longer, but the thing is it kept looking like the home indicator that’s available on new iPhones. Marvis does increase the size of the bar while changing the volume, which should help when adjusting. Also, in case you’re not aware the area for touching the volume bar is quite bigger than the visible area. Thank you for the feedback. We’re constantly trying to improve and have many more features planned for future updates.

First of all, thank you for reviewing and giving us an opportunity to assist you. I feel sad to see your experience using Marvis wasn’t as we hope for. I’d love to mention some points, I hope will be helpful. Thanks. Freezes: Even though we have not received any such reports from any other users, I could surely believe that you might have such an issue, but iOS is designed so that Marvis or any app in that regard doesn’t have any authority or ability to lock the whole device even if it wanted to. Apps are sandboxed, that is, they run separately from other iOS components and even if Apps fail to perform correctly, they can never ever lock up the whole iPhone. Also, when normally restarting, playback queue is remembered by Stock Music app, so this is again a different case. Until I have more details related to this issue, this very well seems like an iOS bug that maybe specific to you. We have seen some other such exclusive iOS bugs that happen to only a few people, and this sounds like it. Sometimes we can address it in our code, sometimes not. But we can surely try to talk to you and troubleshoot. But from what I can tell until then, the freezing of App and iOS is probably caused by a faulty/corrupted link between iOS APIs for Music Playback and library access. Again, like I said very rare to see this happen, you’re first one to report. I couldn’t ask you to restore your device, but I could suggest if you are up for it. A device restore could certainly help. Or if you’re on an older version of iOS, even updating to latest could help. Maybe before restoring reinstalling of Music.app might be helpful as well, but do note, depending on what kind of library you have, you might need to re-sync your music if you delete Music.app, I just wanted to point that out so you’re prepared. I would also like to respond about the navigation thing that you mentioned. If you take a dive into Marvis Settings > Gestures > Sidebar Flow, you’ll be able to learn a gesture to switch between sidebar tabs, it can be done using vertical swipe up/down, there’s no need to tap. And of course there’s an alternative way to view playlists/albums etc. as well, adding a Library (Albums/Playlists etc.) section to ‘Home’. Lastly, I can totally understand that your situation would make it harder to discover the app more, so it seems like dark mode is our main feature. But I can surely assure you and you might even see this reported by others as well, that Marvis packs a lot of advanced features and also allows you to customise everything to your heart’s content. I hope we can explore the technical problem and you can explore all the app has to offer beyond the dark mode. Please feel free to contact me through the app’s support link, on Twitter or our Reddit group, I would really hope to see you satisfied one day. We have a lot of plans for the future and even if something you were expecting from Marvis is not planned currently, we can totally add it for you if we could, considering it’s feasible to. I would love to know your suggestions/feedback. Thanks again for reviewing. I truly care for all the users and really wish to serve the best I could. I would hope to turn your disappointment into satisfaction one day. Until then, I just hope you could let us know more about your expectations and let us help you with the technical issue. Thank you!