# Doppi: a local music player — user reviews > 391 indexed App Store user reviews of Doppi by Radu Dutzan, rated 4.10/5 from 85 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/doppi-a-local-music-player/id1002899671/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/doppi-a-local-music-player/id1002899671.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 55 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Doppi? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Beautifully designed - 👍 Great UI and functionality - 🚀 Smooth and responsive - 👍 Excellent alternative to stock music app - 👍 Easy to use and organize music - 👍 Customizable **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🐛 Compatibility problems with large music libraries - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🐛 Bugs with album artwork and metadata - 🐛 Playback issues like skipping or freezing **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashes when opening the app - Playback stops randomly - Album artwork not displaying properly - Incorrect track numbering - Syncing and library management issues **Most requested features** - Add EQ and audio controls - Implement playlist creation and management - Support for cloud/streaming music services - Add a widget and Apple Watch app - Improve sorting and browsing options ## Newest reviews (16 of 391) ### 4/5 — Really good Music App *2026-07-12* A beautiful player and great praise to the developer for the UI design, which makes it stand out from a lot of music players! I only need two things to make it my perfect music player. Unfortunately, there is no list view under albums and it would be nice if there was an alternative Now Play view, where the cover and the controls are slightly smaller and less "in your face". A more classic now play view. Then I would be wishlessly happy! ### 3/5 — Transfer music *2026-06-08, version 6.1* Does not transfer but looks nice ### 2/5 — Good app but super buggy *2026-05-13, version 6.0.5* I’ve been using Doppi now for around 2/3 months and I like it overall but it really does have some frustrating bugs. Super slow to open, crashes randomly and it opens occasionally on car play. I like the functionality but but the stability is a major problem. ### 4/5 — Pour le prix, on peut vraiment pas en demander beaucoup plus. *2026-05-03* J'aimerais que toutes les applis gratuites soient aussi bien développées et plaisantes à l'œil! Ça fonctionne, ça fait ce qu'on lui demande, pas grand chose à redire. Quelques petits ajustements purement graphiques sur l'UI pourraient être faits comme la pochette d'album actuellement décentrée verticalement dans le lecteur plein écran mais honnêtement, je chipote. Développeur, ajoute le support du streaming des musiques via iCloud et ma vie est tienne! ### 2/5 — Great player, very buggy though *2026-04-28* Great and simple music player for your iOS device. Much better than the default iOS music app and worth every penny if a stable release comes out. There are lots of pesky bugs though. The updating logo is right over the play/pause icon making it tricky to pause music when the library is updating which seems like it’s constantly updating. The app crashes a lot - not exaggerating this. Each crash resets your play count and any playlist you create. CarPlay causes the player to crash about every 10 seconds, not a big deal but is annoying. Overall a great music player for your personal music library but the constant and consistent bugs make it difficult for daily use. I may give it another change whenever a major update comes out. ### 4/5 — Fantastic! Really hope it keeps being updated *2026-03-26* After a long and arduous search, finally! A good offline music player for iOS! Very worth the price. I hope it keeps being updated, there are some issues with audio skipping while listening to OPUS codec files, but otherwise, it looks great, runs great, and makes things feel personal for a local music library without a dumb subscription or strings attached. Please keep updating this! Very worthwhile! ### 3/5 — CarPlay needs to be fixed *2026-03-22, version 6.0.3* App is great. But CarPlay supports leaves a lot to be desired. The player doesn’t stay on the screen on my dash. So I have to reopen the app several times, which is very unsafe. ### 4/5 — Please fix the EQ and give more presets *2026-03-14, version 6.0.2* EQ weird. Otherwise, best UI I’ve seen in a music player app. It’s difficult to leave this app. So good that i paid for it. Lyrics display nicely when timed lyrics are available. Animations are smooth. Lots of thoughtfully considered UI elements. ### 4/5 — Lag & Crashing problem *2026-02-28, version 6.0.1* I honestly love this app and it’s UI but thr thing is it’s lag and crash alot, especially when you are editing something in the get info ### 5/5 — Look no further *2026-02-10, version 6.0.1* Holy, this is a beautifully designed app. Great job dev, I can tell you put so much love into this app! This is exactly what I was looking for 🙏 ### 5/5 — This is it. *2026-02-08* I have been forever angry at the fact that the stock music app got ruined by Apple Music, at least for those of us who still sync our music. Slowly over the years Apple Music has crept in even though we have shut it off. Well, here’s the better solution rather than tolerating the ads. Doppi brings back that feel of the Music app before it got loaded down with subscription cruft. It works just as well with my library as the stock app and even lets you add to your library without a computer. It’s a beautiful app. Well worth the price. Thank you for saving my sanity. ### 5/5 — Sleek design Apple-like Player *2026-01-18* Just got this app yesterday and found something greater than my last music player. (Including lyrics & album cover editing and etc) I’m just waiting for a pitch and speed update. Hopefully soon. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I’m looking for *2026-01-17, version 5.4.3* This app doesn’t have every feature in existence. But the features it does have it manages to pull off very well. The UI is very good and integrates so well it feels like an Apple built app rather than a solo developer project. Highly recommended it. ### 5/5 — Great UI. Needs one improvement. *2026-01-09* At the time of writing this review, the EQ distorts audio in an unpleasant way. Other than that no problems. One of the best UIs I’ve seen in a music player app. It’s difficult to leave this app. So good that i paid for it. Lyrics display nicely when timed lyrics are available. Animations are smooth. Lots of thoughtfully considered UI elements. ### 5/5 — Beautifully designed *2026-01-08* I love this app. It’s not perfect and has some bugs but it’s worth it because of how it meets all my needs for a local music player. 1. Easy to upload music. It’s so simple and easy, no hassle like other apps where I have to link an account or go through hoops to get my music on the player. I can select a folder straight from my iCloud Drive and it’s added. 2. Design: It’s beautiful. Big album covers, fluid movement between menu options and plenty of customization. All I like to see is personally are artists and albums tab and the customization lets you do just that! 3. Lyrics: Absolutely amazing that it can most of the time get the lyrics you want, and they are even timed! But if it can’t, I use Lyricsfy to get timed lyrics and simply copy and paste into the app. EASY. 4. Favorites I like the ability to favorite songs on albums so having that icon is perfect. 5. Price You can do a monthly subscription or my favorite option is available too, to pay in full for a life time purchase. In a world of subscriptions, a full price life time option is so rare and that alone will make me always want to use this app. 6. Album covers I love how big the album covers are when playing a song, it using the screen to its full capacity and I appreciate that. FEEDBACK: 1. Album covers: Some times when playing music the album cover won’t show when phone is locked - it just shows a blank album cover. 2. Fonts: I like the big fonts but the names of artists gets cut off by the album title below or above it - making it difficult to read. A little more space between album titles and artist names would be appreciated. 3. Favorites: I do wish it had the ability to add a song to favorites from the lock screen but I don’t know if this is a native Apple Music exclusive feature. 4. Scrolling Delay The scrolling to find albums can be a bit sluggish 5. Album cover size I do wish there was an option to make the album covers even bigger when in your library and scrolling to find what you want to listen to. 6. Bugs General bugs like some times the app will just close on its own or stop playing music. Overall this app is fantastic and I appreciate the hard work that goes into it. I hope the developer/(s) continue to improve the app. Thank you for giving this app to the world - it’s greatly appreciated! ### 5/5 — , *2026-01-05* Best offline music player for IOS. thanks a lot ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — sad *2026-06-21* i paid for the full version and its not possible to restore that after re-downloading the app to fix a bug. very annoying ### 1/5 — Do Not Try *2026-06-04* I purchased the premium version of this app but as soon as I open the app it crashes on its own with 5 seconds every time. I cannot even use the app. Huge waste of money. ### 1/5 — Excellent UI, but too buggy *2026-06-02* I really want to love Doppi. The UI is second to none, thoughtfully laid out, and it’s actually so fun and a joy to use—when it works, that is. I have a larger library, about 70 gigs, and Doppi is basically unusable and crashes frequently if I’m doing something as simple as skipping a song or two or even just importing music. I’ll try it again someday after the kinks are worked out. ### 1/5 — Made with AI *2026-02-12, version 6.0.1* Never mind. Built with AI. Old review: I adore this app. There are a ton of ways to import and organize your music. I appreciate that it works perfectly with FLAC files. The overall design is very well-made. Lots of love was put into this project. It would be cool to have an option to center the music controls and import/export playlists. Update: WHOA and just like that there’s an update that centers the music controls! Thank you! ❤️ Update 2: And now there’s playlist importing and exporting! Genuinely the best music app on iOS. ### 1/5 — Free (Donate if you want) to Paid monthly service *2025-11-14* hate when ts happens **Developer response:** If you purchased the app before the business model change (Nov 2024), you have it for life. The app was never free (except for brief promotional periods), and now it’s priced more fairly in relation to the effort it takes to make. ### 1/5 — What happened to the cover of the record? Suddenly big and small *2025-10-23, version 5.2.3* No nO NO no ### 1/5 — Unstable, Crashy and Unreliable *2025-08-11* Constantly crashes and exhibits strange behavior while doing basic things, like playing audio, which is the only thing it should be able to do well. All the time and effort spent on fancy visuals and animations (that are also broken in places, like the initial invocation of search) and it can’t play back a playlist of 10 plain mp3 songs without hitches, dropouts or crashing. Every track begins with a hitch that repeats the first 10 or so seconds of it, and playback just stops randomly at different times. I have never been able to play a complete album of 10 or 12 regular mp3 files to play through without issues. Also forget about skipping back and forth between tracks, it just cannot handle that. Seems like a bad joke, a toy, rather than a serious reliable tool. Wish I could get my money back. ### 1/5 — Buggy - crashes 30s into songs *2025-04-19, version 5.1.15* Like the title says. It has one job. It can’t do it. Failure. Avoid this. ### 1/5 — Unstable, Crashy and Unreliable *2025-03-07* Constantly crashes and exhibits strange behavior while doing basic things, like playing audio, which is the only thing it should be able to do well. All the time and effort spent on fancy visuals and animations (that are also broken in places, like the initial invocation of search) and it can’t play back a playlist of 10 plain mp3 songs without hitches, dropouts or crashing. Every track begins with a hitch that repeats the first 10 or so seconds of it, and playback just stops randomly at different times. I have never been able to play a complete album of 10 or 12 regular mp3 files to play through without issues. Also forget about skipping back and forth between tracks, it just cannot handle that. Seems like a bad joke, a toy, rather than a serious reliable tool. ### 1/5 — Unstable, Crashy and Unreliable *2025-03-03* Constantly crashes and exhibits strange behavior while doing basic things, like playing audio, which is the only thing it should be able to do well. All the time and effort spent on fancy visuals and animations (that are also broken in places, like the initial invocation of search) and it can’t play back a playlist of 10 plain mp3 songs without hitches, dropouts or crashing. Every track begins with a hitch that repeated the first 10 or so seconds of it, and playback just stops randomly at different times. I have never been able to play a complete album or 10 or 12 regular mp3 files to play through without issues. Also forget about skipping back and forth between tracks, it just cannot handle that. Seems like a bad joke, a toy, rather than a serious reliable tool. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-08-08* Doppi is easily the most beautiful offline music player I have used. The interface is clutter-free. The artwork pops. Gestures make navigating my library a breeze. I love that it handles FLAC and WAV without issues. The equalizer and timed lyrics work perfectly. CarPlay support is a nice bonus too. Best of all it is now free for up to 80 songs. This is perfect for anyone who wants a clean no-nonsense home for their personal music files. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Excellent: just minor bugs *2026-07-15, version 6.1.3* It is a clean, easy to use music player. I love it. Just a couple of minor bugs I am sure the developer will fix them soon. ### 5/5 — 封面矩形bug *2026-07-08* 今天发现当音乐的封面图非1:1时，音乐最小化后封面图会凸出来一块，遮挡正常显示 ### 5/5 — Still the Best *2026-06-01, version 6.0.5* Been enjoying DOPPI for years. The extended features (like Get Lyrics) make this app exceptionally enjoyable. The only issue that needs attention is when in Artist mode the only songs that play are in the ones in an album; if songs are not in a displayed album, those songs will not play. The author of Doppi is very conscientious and continues to resolve issues and improve operations and capabilities. FIVE STARS ### 5/5 — Fenomenale *2026-05-18, version 6.0.5* Davvero bene fatta! Spero nella futura integrazione con iCloud per poter sincronizzare la musica! Davvero di altissima qualità ### 5/5 — Absolute perfection. *2026-05-05* Just wish there was a feature to set a custom picture for playlists. Makes them more recognizable in a glance instead of reading their names ### 5/5 — Music sounds New!!! *2026-04-03* Please if it possible to fix: when first song finish playing, gain level itself resets to 0 however the slider toggle stay on same position, you can hear that when next song starts to play, also in Apple Music to compare the sound stage feels a bit more spacious. Running on Mac OS it impossible to open Doppi music folder. Would be nice to add ability run music library from external folders. Overall great app that gives you alternative. Big thanks to developer for listening, feedback is important too. Enjoy!!! ### 5/5 — Top *2026-03-01* Moi qui veut me débarrasser des plateformes de streaming, cette app fait un meilleur taff qu’elles toutes réunies . Merci Radu ### 5/5 — Tried all local music players on App Store, this is the best *2026-02-25* I needed a decent local offline music player and this is the only one on the entire App Store that checked all my boxes. I genuinely tried like 30 before settling on this, it’s really good. I’ve never written an app review before if that says anything Features nobody else had in combination: Ability to add to liked songs Ability to bulk select songs to add to LIKED SONGS and playlists Ability to export playlist file for backup Customizable interface Offering a lifetime license that isn’t $70 Not collecting data Please consider adding these features: Ability to export “liked songs” just like you can with other playlists A select all button when selecting multiple tracks to add Possible bug I encountered: CarPlay, if I hit the heart button, then skip to the next song the next songs all show as hearted. To heart the next song, I have to hit the heart button twice (unheart and heart) no big deal Thanks dude I was seriously about to pay the $99 developer fee and make my own freaking app ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-02-11, version 6.0.1* It’s a solid app for me nice interface and controls 0 ads wow --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*