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Labelmate, the Tone alternative
Your royalty statements with nothing to copy: Labelmate finds your reports, contracts and invoices in your mailbox, its AI reads your contracts and quotes the passage, a tested engine does the maths to the cent, and your data stays encrypted on your computers.
Compared with Tone point by point, from its own pages and the sources listed below, read on 22 September 2026. Tone is an online platform for royalty accounting, payouts and payee portals, for labels, publishers and distributors. Launched in 2023 by the Stem team, it has been independent since 2025, with Concord among its investors.
Why choose Labelmate over Tone
Your data stays with you
Tone keeps the label's data on Amazon Web Services, may process it in the United States and lists OpenAI among its subprocessors. Labelmate keeps it encrypted on the label's computers, and masks IBANs and sensitive numbers before the AI reads a document.
No logins to hand over
At Tone, you upload your sales files, or give it your logins to your distributors' portals. Labelmate spots your reports, contracts and invoices in your mailbox, with no distributor password to hand over.
A price you can see
Tone publishes no prices: its terms tie them to the number of contracts, payees, sales sources, users and transactions. Labelmate shows its own, by the number of artists you pay, from $35 a month (€29).
In English and French
Everything we found from Tone is in English. Labelmate's app and support are in English and French.
Point by point
With LabelmateYour data stays on your computers
With ToneNoIn the cloud, on Amazon Web Services, possibly processed in the United States. OpenAI is among its subprocessors.
With LabelmateYesOn the label's computers, encrypted. Our servers only carry sealed copies we cannot read.
Reports spotted in your mailbox
With ToneNoUploaded by the label, or collected by Tone with your logins to the distributors' portals. Column mappings are kept from one file to the next.
With LabelmateYesSpotted for you in your mailbox, or dropped in (CSV, Excel, ZIP). Your distributor's format is set up with you.
Contracts filled in for you
With ToneYesEntered in the tool, helped by an analyzer that reads the PDF and links each term to its clause: you pick the fields to fill.
With LabelmateYesThe AI reads the contract and quotes the passage: the artist, the rate, the advance, the signing date. All you do is approve.
AI that reads your documents
With ToneYesA contract analyzer, a check of what was typed, and an assistant, Toni, whose suggested edits a person approves.
With LabelmateYesReads contracts and invoices and quotes the exact passage. The maths never goes through the AI.
Every figure tied to its report row
With ToneNot statedPublished per period, emailed, and shown in the payee portal.
With LabelmateYesOne PDF per artist, archived as PDF/A, every figure tied to the report row it came from. Once issued, they never change.
A public price that doesn't follow your sales
With ToneNoOn quote. Its terms tie it to contracts, payees, sales sources, users and transactions.
With LabelmateYesBy the number of artists you pay, from $35 a month (€29). Free for the first 10 labels during early access.
App in English and French
With ToneNot statedEverything we found is in English.
With LabelmateYesApp and support in English and French.
No price per user
With ToneNoTeam members added without limit, with permissions per person. The price depends on the number of users, among other things.
With LabelmateYesSeveral people, each on their own computer, synced and encrypted. No price per user.
An online space for your artists
With ToneYesYes: dashboards, and bank and tax details entered by the payees.
With LabelmateComingComing. Meanwhile, each artist receives a PDF with every line in detail.
Artists paid from the tool
With ToneYesYes: through a Tone Wallet (Airwallex) the label funds, to the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Economic Area.
With LabelmateNot statedLabelmate works out what is owed, to the cent. You pay from your bank, as you do today.
Sources
Everything this page says about the other software comes from the pages below, read on 22 September 2026. A price or a plan may have changed since: their site is the reference. Spotted a mistake? Write to us and we will fix it.
Getting started with Labelmate
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Apply for access
Tell us about your label: how many artists you pay, which distributor you use, where your reports arrive.
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Your format, set up with you
We teach Labelmate your distributor's report format, from your own files.
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Your next statements, together
We prepare your next statements with you and check every figure by hand.
Free for the first 10 labels, during early access.
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