# Vinyls - Record Player — user reviews > 104 indexed App Store user reviews of Vinyls by Pixelfolio Inc., rated 3.80/5 from 115 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinyls-record-player/id1556054655/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vinyls-record-player/id1556054655.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 62 · 4★ 14 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Vinyls? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful and visually stunning design - ✨ Impressive attention to detail in animations - 🎵 Great Apple Music integration - 😌 Nostalgic vinyl record experience - 🎧 Well-designed minimal aesthetic - 💫 Smooth fluid motion and animations - 🎯 Intuitive and simple to use **Cons** - 💰 Aggressive monetization with sudden paywall - 🔐 Subscription model for previously paid features - 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues - 🎵 Apple Music only - no Spotify support - 📱 Poor performance on iPad and Mac - 🔊 Music playback fails or stops mid-song - 📺 Apple TV version non-functional - ⚠️ No free trial before purchase - 🔄 Restore purchase feature broken - 🎚️ Missing basic features like volume control - 🔍 No search functionality - 📱 Landscape mode not supported - ⏸️ No continuous/shuffle play support **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes when switching songs - Music playback stops after first song - Turntable gets stuck or misaligned - Tone arm positioning issues - App fails to open or opens to black screen - Unresponsive interface on iPad - Crashes on shuffle feature - Apple Music connection fails - Crackle/pop audio only plays through device speaker, not AirPlay - Playback doesn't resume after switching apps - Crashes when viewing artists without albums - Wrong artwork displayed - Volume too low - Slow to load and reproduce music - App freezes on macOS - Crashes on landscape orientation - Purchase restoration not working - Identify Tune feature doesn't play found songs **Most requested features** - Spotify integration - YouTube Music support - SoundCloud compatibility - Amazon Music support - Google Drive file access - MP3 file import capability - YouTube playlist import - Last.fm scrobbling - Free trial period - Search functionality - Volume control for crackle/pop effects - Customizable vinyl appearance - Landscape mode support - Shuffle play functionality - Continuous playback - Lyrics display - Add to queue/up next feature - Full Mac support - Backwards compatibility for older iOS devices - External drive support for large libraries - Folder organization and management ## Newest reviews (14 of 104) ### 4/5 — Nice *2026-07-10* Good one issue. Need to make the sing start and end where it should be in the album. Other then that, really good. Also get rid of thesubscrption . ### 3/5 — Funktioniert gut, optische Defizite *2026-05-22* Gute App, macht auch Spaß. Optik ist nicht so gelungen. Der Tonarm sieht unrealistisch aus und ein Plattenspielergehäuse fehlt mir. Wenn dies nachgebessert wird, kaufe ich die Option „lebenslang“. ### 2/5 — 45€ lifetime.. for what? *2025-10-15* i like these types of apps a lot. kinda feels retro :) it has some nice details but has nothing special to even pay for. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words! - Shihab ### 4/5 — YouTube Music and Spotify pls!! *2025-05-19, version 2.3.2* Would be a 5/5 since the app is so cool and all but only Apple Music?? Please add compatibility to Spotify and/or other music platforms like YouTube Music or SoundCloud!! ### 2/5 — No landscape mode *2025-04-11, version 2.3.2* Fix it ### 2/5 — Bugs *2025-02-05* Il faut améliorer le fonctionnement de cette application qui a beaucoup de potentialité. Impossible de jouer les chansons à la chaîne, elle joue une chanson puis s’arrête. Ill a encore plusieurs petits bugs qui agacent… ### 3/5 — Nice looking - shame about Apple TV version *2024-06-28* Looks nice enough but I was hoping to use it on TV. It might be more honest to stop offering it if it’s never going to work. **Developer response:** Thanks for the feedback. The Apple TV app is more of a companion app at the moment, but I have plans to improve it in the future ### 2/5 — Didn’t work *2024-06-13* Although I liked the idea of the app - basically an animated skin for Apple Music, it didn’t work on my iPhone 14 Pro Max very well at all. If the first tune even played, subsequent ones wouldn’t, and the app was launching Apple Music in the background and neither were actually playing the song. The turntable would get stuck partially showing at the top of the screen and I couldn’t drag it back down, or it would scroll to the right, or the record wouldn’t spin or the player arm wouldn’t sit above the record. There were so many bugs, I gave up using the app after a handful of unsuccessful attempts. I wasn’t a fan of the fact that there wasn’t even a free trial period either - although it was free to download, you had to start a subscription or buy it outright for £29.99 straightaway to even try it out. There are a number of DJing apps that offer similar features but also allow you to load 2 turntables and mix between them. I realise this app isn’t trying to be like them, but it made me want to use them again. On a positive note, I loved the ‘Identify Tune’ feature, but the fact I couldn’t even play 2 songs in a row meant I gave up and got a refund. Sorry. ### 4/5 — Great but... *2024-06-11* This app is visually amazing and an incredible option for free but would be so much better with Spotify. Please add this Shibab! ### 4/5 — I loved this app *2024-05-05* I want to say I absolutely loved this app. Getting the nostalgia of using records for your Apple Music library was so fun. Loved using this on my iPad to have connected to my stereo to give a vibe for hanging out at the house. Now, fast forward to today when I come to learn that the features I was using I have to now pay for? Either annually or a lifetime for $50? I get being a business and more money means more development of more apps. Just feels like a lot to access and play music I already pay a service for. It be better just to charge for the download of the app. I can see paying $5 to unlock “pro features” if you already had the app downloaded and wanted more. This app went from fully functional to asking for money for features that were already being used so it just felt off. I just personally see the benefit of the money options you’re currently offering. I wish you al the best in this. I’ll miss this app. ### 2/5 — App not working after purchase *2024-02-22* Purchased this app on Mac with money few years ago and it used to do the job. Now it cannot function anymore because I need further purchase to access the function? So what’s the point of buying this app the first place? What a steal of money! Would request a refund or membership renewal because this is fraud and cannot be trusted. **Developer response:** Your frustration is completely valid — paying upfront for an app and later facing another paywall is a genuinely poor experience, and I'm sorry you've had to deal with that. I'm the new developer of the app and a future update is planned to restore full access for original purchasers, and in the meantime please reach out at support@pixelfolio.app so I can help you directly. ### 4/5 — Trial *2024-02-18* Superbe mais ça serait bien de pouvoir essayer avant de payer… et de pouvoir scrobbler sur last.fm. Bravo en tout cas ! ### 2/5 — I paid for this app and now you want me to pay again?? *2024-02-10* I paid for this app before it went free and now you are asking me to pay you once again? And this time 19 dollars for “lifetime” features that I already had the right to since the moment I purchased your app. What a money grab. **Developer response:** Your frustration makes complete sense — paying for an app and then being asked to pay again for the same features isn't right. I'm the new developer behind Vinyls, and restoring access for original purchasers is a priority: an upcoming version will unlock the app for everyone who paid upfront. Feel free to reach out at support@pixelfolio.app if you have questions in the meantime. ### 1/5 — J'avais payé *2024-01-19* J'avais payé. Mise a jour et je dois repayer pour une app qui est toujours aussi remplie de bugs ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Does NOT WORK *2026-08-06* I have to have APPLE MUSIC!?! NOBODY USES APPLE MUSIC.!! MAKE IT COMPATTABLE TO SPOTIFY!!! ### 1/5 — Never work on AppleTv *2026-06-07* Never got it to work from iPhone to the Apple TV app, every upgrade i thought this is the version that fixes the issue but no when they switch to a suscripción okay mueve this will fix it. No still can get it to work on Apple TV ### 1/5 — Was für eine sinnlose App *2026-05-30* Ich höre seit ewigen Zeiten Vinyl, sicher viel länger als die Macher dieser Apo. Keine Scheibe knistert und klingt so müllig wie in dieser App. Es gibt nur eine Möglichkeit: Vinyl auflegen, einschalten, Tonabnehmer auflegen. und nicht vergessen App schnell löschen. ### 1/5 — Still very buggy, needs much attention *2026-04-15* I appreciate the update to support Liquid Glass on iOS 26, but unfortunately the app is still VERY buggy and is in need of some serious attention. I paid for a month and have cancelled again, and probably won’t come back. ‘MD Vinyl’ is a much more polished app and visually superior, so it has now become my music visualiser of choice. This app could have been awesome but without proper focus by the developer, I’m afraid it will just be left to stagnate again. For me it’s unusable. **Developer response:** Hi - thanks for the feedback and giving Vinyls another go. Could you email support@pixelfolio.app with the bugs you have been experiencing? It will help me fix them. There are more updates to improve the stability coming soon ### 1/5 — Paid for it BUT now subscriptions and no warning! *2024-11-30* I understand that one-off payments for apps are really never a one-off and that to maintain etc there needs to be monetary value. I’ve no problem if the app is updated new features etc and importantly upfront and open about it. But another app that was a paid upfront and then decides it wants more money so therefore everything locked, that was previously open, until new subscription taken out. I decided to give this another go after reading that the developer is letting go of his apps and restarting on another venture, again. Seems to be a pattern here with this developer and his apps when they become less profitable. All upgrades stop, or minimal, then subscriptions get put in and all without letting people know. It’s a shame as I liked this app albeit I have not used in a while but still I didn’t expect to have to subscribe without warning to something I already paid for. Definitely would not trust this developer again. Shame. **Developer response:** Your experience here is genuinely frustrating, and the lack of warning makes it worse. To be clear: I'm the new developer who recently took over Vinyls, and restoring full access for people who paid upfront is something I'm committed to delivering in an upcoming update. If you'd like to talk directly in the meantime, I'm at support@pixelfolio.app. ### 1/5 — Was good before the paywall *2024-11-05* This app used to be a really good one and one that I used often it had very fun and customizable options like crackle and pop and cobwebs on albums that you haven’t listened to in a while. Those would be really good features and they were… before they were all locked behind a paywall. The lowest option is only 3.99 but still! If you had the app before and changed the settings before the paywall hit all of those setting are permanent until you bypass the paywall. And I don’t just mean a one time payment. It’s a subscription. With the lifetime (only one time payment option) it’s 40 dollars. And this would probably be fine, if it wasn’t for the 4.99 I already payed for the app. So overall good app with terrible execution. **Developer response:** The frustration here is completely valid — paying upfront for an app and later finding beloved features like crackle and cobwebs gated behind a subscription is a poor experience, and I hear that. A future update is planned to restore full access for customers who originally purchased Vinyls as a paid app. I'm the new developer and a future release will unlock the app for people who supported it from the start. ### 1/5 — They have turned into subscription or expensive lifetime fee *2024-07-15* New review so the dev response isn’t for this. But I’ve come to use the app that was previously about £5 to find that all functionality has been removed from me and it wants me to buy a subscription. The restore purchase button does nothing. Now it’s useless. **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words. It replicates a vinyl player, as stated in the App Store listing and description.  Edit: Apologies for not previously having artists available to search through. This is now possible in the latest version of the app. - Shihab ### 1/5 — Que gracioso *2024-02-09, version 2.3.2* Me hace gracia, sale el disco solo dando vueltas y el palo con la aguja a 2 metros del disco, me troncho, en vez de dejar probar durante al menos 1 dia para ver lo que se puede hacer lo que se consigue es que se borre al momento. ### 1/5 — Just a player *2024-02-03, version 2.3.2* It’s just a player with a vinyl in it. Doesn’t make your music sound like a vinyl. ### 1/5 — Cannot restore one-time purchase *2024-01-23, version 2.3.2* I Since the last week update it seems that my one-time purchase is gone, I can’t click on “restore purchase”. So sad, I liked the app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good app *2026-08-12* Nice little app ### 5/5 — Tremendous *2026-07-25* An awesome way to play your music, long time user here ### 5/5 — Looks amazing! *2026-07-12* Beautifully built, fairly priced and works well! Cheers ### 5/5 — Best set aside and enjoy music app *2026-06-26* Best set aside and enjoy music app **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words! I really appreciate it. ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2026-06-08* App works great! **Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words. I shall work on fixes for this very soon. - Shihab ### 5/5 — Nostalgia total *2026-06-08* Quem teve a oportunidade do contato com o vinil, ver um disco já é suficiente para sentir realizado. ### 5/5 — 6 dollars only?! *2023-12-19* This app is amazing and I’m no even glazing either it’s amazing how a near trillion dollar company can make a app worse than one guy I applaud you sir **Developer response:** Hi there, Thank you for the very kind and encouraging feedback! Thanks, Shihab ### 5/5 — tangeld *2023-11-18, version 2.2* yomade for tis ### 5/5 — einfach genial ! *2023-11-06* einfach & sehr sehr gut ! gerade für platten enthusiasten.muss echt sagen,das ihr das echt super hinbekommen habt.da war ein liebhaber aktiv.auf jeden fall sein geld wert ! ! ! sehr fein ausgedacht,einfach klasse 🤜🎵🤛👌 **Developer response:** Hi there, Thank you for the very kind and encouraging feedback! Thanks, Shihab ### 5/5 — Very fun app *2023-11-04* Very fun little gimmick app for vinylheads. Only thing I would‘ve liked is some volume control for the crackles (and maybe a way to customize the vinyl, could be fun). **Developer response:** Hi there, Thank you for the very kind and encouraging feedback! The vinyls can be customised via the settings section. Thanks, Shihab --- *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 2026-08-29.*