# Winamp — user reviews

> 109 indexed App Store user reviews of Winamp by Winamp SA, rated 3.10/5 from 91 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/winamp/id1664497725/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/winamp/id1664497725.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 38 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 33

## What do users think of Winamp?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎶 Great music player
- 🔊 Amazing sound quality
- 🕰️ Nostalgic Winamp experience
- 📚 Plays own media library

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔍 Unable to find/load local music
- 🔌 Doesn't work when device is locked
- 🤖 Lacks Winamp's classic features
- 🔍 Struggles with large music libraries

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes on startup
- Library sync/import issues
- Playback controls not working
- Bluetooth connectivity problems

**Most requested features**

- Add classic Winamp visualizer
- Support for external cloud storage
- Ability to create and manage playlists
- Customizable equalizer settings
- Seamless background playback

## Newest reviews (14 of 109)

### 4/5 — Childhood memories

*2026-06-26*

It has a lot of bugs, please fix the bugs on iPhone and iPad.

### 3/5 — Found the app quite reviving but deleted it again

*2026-03-07, version 1.6.1*

As a vivid winamp user back in the days I found it funny that someone actually reviwed it for IOS. What a great idear.
It also has the equalizer and the sound is great. It has a special look, and seems pretty customizable, also the Mix radio was a nice touch. It could use iCloud I think and Box account. But that is pretty much where the fun stops.
I had a severely hard time actually stopping the music again. There simply were no button at all to start or stop the music.. you have to play something new and be fast to stop it else the player keeps playing!  And the main issue would of course be getting music on your device, which was different on a pentium back in the days. In the end I think I rather have a copy of the old player like it originally was I think. At least I could stop the music. I also miss gdrive, dropbox accesss or direct sync, since there is no dvd drive on my iphone… 
But I like the app is light and has good quality.. I never did test m4b or other audiobook files than what was in my apple music library at the moment.

### 2/5 — Баги

*2026-01-13*

Основное, что должен делать плеер - играть музыку. Он не играет: включая альбом (локально загруженные файлы) проигрывается только один трек, при любых настройках (рандом, повторение треков) следующий трек в альбоме автоматом не запускается.
Радио вкладка пуста, никаких кнопок (раньше слушал там hbr1)

### 2/5 — Disappointed

*2025-09-13, version 1.6.1*

I expected something a kin to the PC version.. This app shouldn't exist 😬

### 3/5 — It’s great, but it needs better integration with iPhone

*2025-08-29*

It’s a good alternative for those who still enjoy playing music using local files, but the app doesn’t have a good integration with iPhone functionalities. It doesn’t work with AirPods commands, it doesn’t show what’s playing when the screen is locked, and it’s always crashing.

### 1/5 — Disappointing

*2025-07-30*

Winamp is the greatest digital audio player of all time, so why this app refuses to reflect that is honestly baffling. There needs to be a better way to bring the absolute unit that is Winamp to iOS, because this is just disappointing. I'm not mad, just please fix this so iPhone users can play their FLAC files without any bloat or stuttering, and has a solid digital equalizer. You know, like Winamp.

### 1/5 — Dose not kick the lamas A

*2025-07-09*

I’ve used Winamp almost as long as their has been a Winamp. Just found the iOS version. It doesn’t work. It opens but that’s it. All I wanted was for it to work as well as it did on XP. As in let me point it at file, see the files, play the files, and make a playlist. I guess that was too much to ask for.

### 3/5 — No car controls

*2025-05-20, version 1.6.1*

Unfortunately the app can’t be controlled through car play.

### 1/5 — Не играет

*2025-05-07*

Не проигрывает ни чего
Красивый но не практичный

### 4/5 — Добавьте, пожалуйста, русский язык

*2025-04-20*

Интуитивно понять, конечно, возможно, но было бы удобнее, коли б была еще и русская раскладка.

### 1/5 — Worthless software

*2025-03-07*

Can’t find any music on my phone that I copied. It only wants to access Apple Music.  As far as music players go I only installed it because I thought the UI would look like Winamp. It doesn’t. Uninstalling

### 2/5 — Offline mode issues

*2025-03-06*

This review is using only Offline mode Music media synced from iTunes. 

Long time first launch analyzing media data
Fails to show various or multiple artists
Fails to show any playlists 
Player window is too big for screen size
Winamp Player not recognized as playing on iOS
Some visible tabs not showing any data or some are shown even when turned off
Layout music shows nothing except recent
UI is difficult and confusing to use.

### 1/5 — Does not work

*2025-02-25*

This app doesn’t work. I have added tracks to my library and the app does not save the data. It will not play anything I upload either. Much work is needed. I will check in again when an update comes out. Really hoping this app will bring Winamp back to its former glory in the early 2000s.

### 1/5 — Was good now is unusable

*2025-02-11*

Now not working: Now all my imported files keep not being shown in the app I want to like this player but it’s way to slow and buggy to be useable

Og review when working: I love the feel of the interface and all the customization and it does the job playing mp3 files well. For some reason music played won’t show up on the now playing widget on ios 18 and the app is kinda slow sometimes with some crashes switching between sections (with only 78 songs) Overall I like this app (please add a widgets if possible that would be sweet)

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Stupid?

*2026-08-11*

When i try to add music in my phone winamp expecting to me select each mp3 1 by 1. Who is the person that put this stupid feature in this app? Why we cant select a folder?

### 1/5 — Everything but an mp3

*2026-04-01*

I can’t make this up the entire experience is great but you can’t play mp3. It does not even try to play them.

### 1/5 — Does not read files already on phone

*2026-02-08*

I absolutely love the Windows desktop version of Winamp. I was hoping for a similar experience on the phone. Files that I want to play are already on the phone, but this app will not access them.  Major bummer, but this means the app is useless to me in particular.

### 1/5 — No updates for 8 months.

*2026-01-31*

All they need to do is to include OpenSubsonic API support to their modern and classic player and they will have themselves a winner. This company is not even trying.

### 1/5 — Как добавить треки с телефона?

*2026-01-25*

How add tracks from phone?

### 1/5 — ???

*2026-01-19, version 1.6.1*

Did this app go belly up? Interface is decent but everything else is a ghost town.

### 1/5 — Horrendous

*2025-12-14, version 1.6.1*

This app sucks you know what.  Do humanity a favor and remove it from the App Store. Zero stars.

### 1/5 — Winamp in name only

*2025-10-23*

I don't see how the developer thought this was a good idea. It doesn't function as a music player at all, and it certainly doesn't even look like Winamp.   This seems poorly thought out and I'm sorry, it needs to go "back to the drawing board".

### 1/5 — Very nice UI, but the app fully just does not work.

*2025-10-21*

I've been looking for a good media player for a while, and this one looked really promising on the surface. It looked like everything I needed, except for one small, crucial detail. It doesn't work. It just...does not work.

The entire thing is a frontend with no actual function. When I add music into it via the icloud button in media management, it's always missing when I close and reopen the app. Before that though, if I try to play any of the tracks I had added, they just...don't! No sound, no sign that anything is happening. It's a music player without the player.

I can only assume this is an error, since I would really like to use it, but that's not really possible when it just cannot play the music I try to port into it.

### 1/5 — Autoplay doesn’t work

*2025-09-05*

As the title suggests auto play doesn’t work unless you have the app open, I also can’t figure out how to get the music to show up on a music player when my phone is locked, or even in my swipe down menu. I don’t know if Winamp even has this option. Overall it’s really not that useful of an app unless these things get updated. How am I supposed to listen to my music if I have to open my phone every three minutes just to play another song? If this issue gets fixed I’ll definitely come back and use this app

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Вполне юзабельно

*2026-08-03*

Приложение работает , треки подтянулись , есть эквалайзер, стильный дизайн , не знаю что у других не получилось…
Русского языка нет, хотелось был, чтоб добавили .

### 5/5 — Great for nostalgia

*2026-07-30*

The user experience of the app has really improved over time, I love that I can upload old music files from my childhood/younger years that I could never find on iTunes.

The personalization features are cool too if you like to customize the design.

### 5/5 — Perfect player. No ads !

*2026-05-30*

U can find free music in player and no any ads.

### 5/5 — Love it

*2026-04-02, version 1.6.1*

It’s nice to know Winamp still lives on after all these years back in 90’s when I had it installed on my PC, now in an app format - extensive choice of radio channels, unbeatable. Keep up the good work team 👍

### 5/5 — Please, fix it.

*2025-11-10, version 1.6.1*

Great! The best app for music. I love the simplicity and elegance combined with the great sound. But there is one problem. Tracks do not switch automatically when the device is locked. Please fix it.

### 5/5 — Si apre ma poi crasha

*2025-02-01*

Appena apro lapp mi si chiude subito crasha

### 5/5 — Cool

*2025-01-30*

Наконец нашел плеер который так долго искал!!! Играет собственную медиатеку. Есть аквалайзер (бесплатно в отличии от vox!). Ещё бы показывал качество воспроизводимого файла и интеграцию с Apple music цены бы не было!

### 5/5 — Poste de Radio

*2025-01-14, version 1.4*

Enfin mon application avec mes postes de radio disponible sur ios.

### 5/5 — Best ever music player

*2024-12-10, version 1.4*

Amazing, I’ve been waiting for years for it to come back I’ve been Winamp fans for years all had it on my computer it was always playing in the background soundtrack amazing sound quality amazing the looks and skin are as amazing as always it truly back the best thing is I can walk around listen to it all day long take it to work 
Truly God sent lol

### 5/5 — ottimo player

*2024-03-03*

Conosco Winamp dal 1999. Lo ho sempre usato per ascoltare la mia collezione di mp3. Non avevo mai trovato un player simile ora che è comparso su app store sono molto contento.
Benvenuto su osi!
Ringrazio a tutti per il loro lavoro svolto.

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