# SepiaPod - Retro Music Player — user reviews > 163 indexed App Store user reviews of SepiaPod by Kazuki Awasawa, rated 4.70/5 from 85 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sepiapod-retro-music-player/id6764757127/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sepiapod-retro-music-player/id6764757127.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 72 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## Newest reviews (18 of 163) ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-08-26, version 1.11.1* It's great ### 5/5 — エレガント *2026-08-26* とても使いやすくて、デザインもきれいなアプリです。機能もかなり充実しています。ただ、今のところ歌詞が表示されないようです。 あと、ロスレス再生に対応しているのかも気になります。Apple Musicではロスレスでダウンロードするように設定しているのですが、このアプリで再生した場合もそのままロスレスになるのかが分かりません。今は手元に有線イヤホンがないので確認できていません。 とにかく、こんな素敵なアプリを作ってくれた開発者さんに感謝です！ ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2026-08-25* What a great app, works wonderfully. Please consider making a a full iOS 6 style music player app for modern iOS next! It seems like you’ve done most of the work already. ### 5/5 — Огромное спасибо! *2026-08-25* Это наверное самое лучшее приложение за последнее время. Как же приятно снова прокрутить обложки альбомов ) Спасибо еще раз! ### 5/5 — Absolutely amazing!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ *2026-08-25, version 1.11.1* It is extremely rare for me to actually take the time to leave a review for an app on the App Store, but your app is just that amazing. Thank you so much for creating such a great retro music player! I just have one feature request, if it is possible to add: when choosing songs, could you make it possible to change how the list is showing? It would be awesome to add a horizontal scroll option for the songs list, exactly like what you are already doing with the albums. Keep up the great work! ### 5/5 — This app is PEAK 🥹🥹🥹 *2026-08-23, version 1.11.1* It's like listening to music without having a guy spitting on your ear talking about sum "wanna get rid of the adds" ### 4/5 — Authentic experience *2026-08-23, version 1.11.1* This app is great, really nailed the feel of the old iPods. One complaint is that the lyrics aren’t able to be displayed for music played from Apple Music. If this was addressed it would be a 5/5 for me. ### 5/5 — I love it! *2026-08-22* Honestly out of all the iPad apps I have to say this is my number one and I love listening to music in here and I love how I can change the color it would be even better if we could add stickers to it to customize it and customizing the bag would be so great to!! ### 5/5 — 👍 *2026-08-22* Обычно не пишу отзывы, но тут приятное исключение) Очень классное приложение, всё устраивает👍 Было бы классно добавить побольше цветов для плеера, а так 10/10 ### 5/5 — Brings me back *2026-08-22, version 1.11.1* Good mp3 player I love it brings me back to my days in high school and middle school I miss my iPod ### 4/5 — Only Apple Music download *2026-08-21* I loved the look of this app and I was rlly excited however when I downloaded the app I was disappointed too see that there was no other music apps that you could transfer from… I don’t pay for apps bc I feel like it’s useless and a waste of money and with Apple Music you have to pay for it, however most other music platforms let you have a choice. I feel like this app would be so much better if it had different platform options to download music from.. It’s Okie if u can’t but I will keep the app downloaded just in case you can do it.. also I’m sorry if that made no sense I tryed to explain it as best as I could. Thanks anyway 😁😁 ### 5/5 — Good, but *2026-08-21, version 1.11.1* Please add playlists for music from files ### 4/5 — Looks great! *2026-08-21, version 1.11.1* It’s a nice app, the UI looks good! Although unfortunately I don’t use Apple Music, so nothing shows in the app. If it’s possible, maybe make it so that other apps like Spotify’s data can be used in this app? ### 5/5 — True classic feel! *2026-08-21* Totally nailed the nostalgia here. I have a few classic iPods, but I needed Bluetooth support, so I’m using my old iPhone 11 Pro as my wireless media player and this app makes me not miss my classics so much. Thanks! Would love to see a volume limit as the iOS’s is garbage. Also, a couple generic music player app icons to choose from would be fantastic. ### 5/5 — the best iPod app *2026-08-21* This software is the best ipod app I have ever used. I hope this software will continue to be updated in the future. The following are my suggestions. I hope to add the function of adjusting the multiple and the function of searching songs. Thank you🙏 ### 5/5 — Спасибо за ностальгию! *2026-08-18* Отзывы практически не пишу, но тут автор 1000% заслужил. Все шикарно, только не хватает, лично для меня, возможности добавить рейтинг звездами и добавлять в избранное! iPhone мини будет практически как классик, теперь придется покупать новый телефон ))) P.S. Тут многие просят Яндекс музыку, проще НЕ делайте этого, пусть желающие слушать зацензуренные треки и пользуются приложением от Яндекса!!! Ваш посыл очень верный, только своя музыка на своем устройстве, это и была концепция iPod’ов!!! ### 5/5 — Incredible App!! *2026-08-18* Ive been wanting to get away from all this modern gate walled streaming nonsense and the ability to play my own downloaded songs in such a cool way makes very happy! It’s very satisfying to use, please never change the simplicity and free nature of this app i beg!! ### 5/5 — 还不错很简洁很纯粹的音乐AP *2026-08-18* 然后什么时候可以加个收藏功能吗，有时候随机音乐听到好听的收藏不了 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Player Stops *2026-07-27* The app itself is very nice the problem it has is anytime the music player refreshes it stops your playlist and you have to start it over again, if this could be addressed it would be flawless. ### 1/5 — Does not even start *2026-07-12* Cannot get past the loading screen. iPhone 17 pro max. **Developer response:** I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I'm aware of an issue where the app can take longer to launch when there are a large number of songs in the music library. It's something I'd like to improve in the future. ### 1/5 — good idea but need smth more *2026-06-07* plz add a Spotify support, not just apple music 🤗 **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback! I'm actually a Spotify user myself, so I'd love to support it too. 😄 It's been sitting on my TODO list for a while, but integrating Spotify takes a bit more work than it might seem. It's something I'd really like to explore in the future! ### 2/5 — Good app but needs improvement *2026-08-21* Apps pretty good has a good concept but the folder feature doesn’t work at all and lacks a playlist feature I wish there was a feature where in a playlist you can shuffle only songs in the playlist ### 3/5 — Super aber ohne Spotify *2026-08-26* Die App ist wirklich super aber ich benutze eigentlich nur Spotify, daher wäre es super, wenn man Musik nicht nur aus den Dateien und Apple Music exportieren kann, sondern auch von Spotify. Daher kann ich die App nicht wirklich nutzen. ### 3/5 — could be great! a bug i spotted, though... *2026-08-12, version 1.11.0* i'm on ipad. when i rotate it to landscape mode instead of portrait, the app moves fine... except for the screen on the mp3 player it's emulating. when i rotate my device landscape, the screen stays in portrait while the rest of the app goes into landscape mode, making it look sideways ### 3/5 — its okay *2026-08-10, version 1.11.0* Its okay and perfect for Apple music users but for ones that use spotify and Youtube music its not so good because you need yo have apple music and the pass which costs 19 dollars a month if there is a way to make this more accessible and affordable then i will redownload it ### 3/5 — nice looking app *2026-07-27, version 1.9.2* this seems like a nice app, but can you please add a tutorial button? ### 3/5 — Musiques *2026-07-12* Alors l’appli est geniale hein mais comment on fait pour mettre les musiques dessus ?? **Developer response:** Merci pour votre question ! SepiaPod lit directement les morceaux présents dans la bibliothèque musicale de votre iPhone. Vous pouvez ajouter des morceaux en les synchronisant depuis l'application Musique (ou iTunes) sur votre ordinateur, en achetant de la musique sur l'iTunes Store, ou en ajoutant des morceaux à votre bibliothèque via Apple Music. Une fois les morceaux ajoutés à votre bibliothèque, ils apparaîtront automatiquement dans SepiaPod. ### 3/5 — Stuck at launch. *2026-07-07, version 1.8.0* Very slow to launch ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Loved the App! *2026-09-02* Polished app; highly recommended for a nostalgic ride. ### 5/5 — Nostalgia!!! *2026-09-01* This app was recommended in a TikTok comment on a video for a similar app, and it is so much better. While the other app only allowed up to ten downloaded songs, this one’s syncs directly to Apple Music. The interface is incredibly seamless and clean. I’ve recommended this app to so many people, and they love it just as much as I do! My only minor complaint is that I noticed the lyric function doesn’t work. I’m unsure if it’s incompatible with Apple Music or just a user error on my part. Regardless, it is still such a cool app. I love how it mimics a real iPod classic, and being able to change the color is a fantastic touch. I also agree with other reviewers that it would be awesome to add wallpaper customization and stickers in a future update. Please never get rid of this; I’m never using the regular music app again! ### 5/5 — Nostalgie *2026-08-31* Absolut hammer diese app. Nostalgie pur! 😎 ### 5/5 — Merci *2026-08-31* L’appli est gratuite fluide, rien à redire! À part l’icône que j’apprécierais pouvoir modifier et la passer en « gris » Encore merci au créateur de l’app ### 5/5 — LOVE IT though I wish there was a another option *2026-08-30* Okay so I was kinda hoping to make it more like a iPod to add Rockbox themes to it like let the people pick a theme and download it and upload the file to the app and make it able to use m4b files ### 5/5 — BEST IPOD APP EVERR *2026-08-30* I was looking to get an iPod nano because I love collecting old technology. This is literally a way of practicing it!! One thing that would be really cool is if you could videos to it. Like; music videos, movies, etc. because I know a lot of people used to sync their movies to their iPods and I would love to do that. But it’s overall so cute and nostalgic. Thank you !!! ### 5/5 — I love it ♥️🎶 … but *2026-08-30* a lot of songs don’t have lyrics can you fix this please ? Is there a way to have access to the rest of Apple Music like radio or other stuff? In addition I have to say U have done such a great job 👏🏽 thank you for bringing us the retro feeling back 🥰 I was a huge fan of the iPod classic - BIG THANKS 🙏 ### 5/5 — LOVE IT though I wish there was a another option *2026-08-27* Okay so I was kinda hoping to make it more like a iPod to add Rockbox themes to it like let the people pick a theme and download it and upload the file to the app. ### 5/5 — Awesome!!! *2026-08-27* Just an incredible app!!! Really helps scratch the iPod itch without having to buy one. I just wish you could turn off the shiny effect that moves when you move the phone, which knocks it down a peg for me. But otherwise perfect! ### 5/5 — Amazing app! *2026-08-26* I really love SepiaPod, but I’ve encountered a bug with Local Folder playback. When a song ends, the app correctly switches to the next track, but it doesn’t start playing automatically. The queue itself works fine, and I can play/skip tracks manually. This happens both with albums and Shuffle Songs. Hope this can be fixed! --- *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 2026-09-05.*