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AdenvsDroploud
Marketing & fans · Checked
Droploud is where DJs download underground tracks for free: artists pick the SoundCloud steps a gate asks for, and tracks climb a chart per genre with every gate cleared.
Pick Droploud if
- You already work in Droploud and it covers what you need.
Pick Aden if
- You want team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, and 8 more from the table, which Droploud doesn't list.
- You need more than Droploud lists for streaming analytics.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Aden | Droploud |
|---|---|---|
| Team & roster management | Included | Not included |
| Song & file storage | Included | Not included |
| Demo review & feedback | Included | Not included |
| Release planning | Included | Not included |
| Tours & events | Included | Not included |
| Fan & contact CRM | Included | Not included |
| Streaming analytics | Included | Basic |
| Artist website & smart links | Included | Not included |
| Free download gates | Included | Included |
| Free download charts | Included | Included |
| Email campaigns | Included | Not included |
| Music distribution | Coming soon | Not included |
| Mastering | Coming soon | Not included |
| Production tools | Included | Not included |
| Web, desktop & mobile | Included | Not included |
| Real-time collaboration | Included | Not included |
| Pricing model | Free plan + paid tiers | Free to join |
From each tool's public pages. Work at Droploud, or see something out of date? Suggest a correction.
Use Droploud with Aden
Open Droploud inside Aden
Pin Droploud as a tab in the Aden desktop app. It keeps its sign-in and opens beside your Aden workspace, up to five side by side.
Get the desktop appWork across both with AI
Connect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP. Your assistant reads and updates Aden next to the other apps it is connected to.
Connect the Aden MCP
Move from Droploud to Aden
- 1
People
Teams, members, and the business that holds them
- 2
Catalogue
Tracks, versions, albums, playlists
- 3
Contacts and deals
Contacts and opportunities
- People
- Name, Email, Role mapped to Aden permissions
- Catalogue
- Title, ISRC and UPC, Release date, Version tree
- Contacts and deals
- Company, Role, Stage, Value, Owner
Frequently asked questions
Both have free download gates, as well as free download charts. Aden also has team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, a fan and contact CRM, an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, production tools, desktop and mobile apps, and real-time collaboration, which Droploud doesn't list. In a more limited form, Droploud covers streaming analytics.
Compared with Droploud, Aden fits if you need team and roster management, song and file storage, demo review and feedback, release planning, tours and events, a fan and contact CRM, an artist website and smart links, email campaigns, production tools, desktop and mobile apps, and real-time collaboration next to free download gates, as well as free download charts: it has all of these in one workspace.
Yes. Pin Droploud as a tab in the Aden desktop app: it keeps its sign-in and opens next to your Aden workspace. Connect Aden to Claude or ChatGPT with the Aden MCP, and your assistant works across Aden and the other apps it is connected to.
Bring people, catalogue, and contacts and deals over from Droploud, in that order. The guide is at aden.space/migrate, and an AI agent can run the move from the brief at aden.space/migrate.md.
Aden has a free plan, and paid plans from €5 a month. Droploud's pricing, as listed in this comparison: Free to join.
Besides Aden, this comparison covers Cobrand and Hypeddit as alternatives to Droploud for marketing and fans.
Other marketing & fans tools
Aden vs Cobrand · Music marketing, analytics and fan campaigns.
Aden vs Hypeddit · Download gates, smart links and music ads.
