Doppi vs Tiny Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doppi
This app provides a beautiful and intuitive interface for playing your local music files, supporting various formats like MP3, FLAC, and WAV. It offers features such as an equalizer, timed lyrics, CarPlay support, and extensive customization options for a personalized listening experience.
- Plays local music files (MP3, FLAC, WAV)
- 8-band equalizer with presets
- Timed lyrics display (LRC support)
- CarPlay integration
- Customizable UI themes and colors
- Playlist creation and management
- Edit music file metadata
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A beautiful local music file player — MP3, FLAC, WAV, and more — with an equalizer, widgets, Timed Lyrics, CarPlay support & more. Designed for iPhone and iPad. Now free for up to 80 songs. A Lovely Home for Your Music Put your high-quality music file collection in one of the nicest UIs out there. See It Shine Clutter-free interface with big, beautiful artwork and clean typography. Glide Through It Navigate with silky-smooth gestures and handy shortcuts to find things fast. Queue It Up Easily queue up songs to play next and edit the upcoming list with Up Next. Search, Fast Pull down from anywhere in your library to invoke Search, and use the Return key to select the top result. Make Playlists Create playlists and add songs with multitouch drag-and-drop. Edit Metadata Change information like title, artist, album, lyrics, artwork and more on your music files. Now Playing Widget Large artwork and playback controls (while playing), available in 3 sizes. Equalizer Enjoy your way with an 8-band 6-preset (+ Custom) equalizer, available right on the player menu. Timed Lyrics Have a sing-along! LRC-formatted timed lyrics are shown synced to the music. Get Lyrics Doppi can (try to) automatically fetch lyrics for you! Just tap Get Lyrics. Make It Your Own Choose from 6 highlight colors, 4 light and dark themes, 32 icon variations with dark mode and tinting support, reorder your library tabs, and more. Hello Tab Your most loved, most played, and most recent albums and artists, all in one place. CarPlay Drive safely and enjoy your music from the intuitive Doppi interface for CarPlay. Scrobble to Last.fm Log into your Last.fm account from Settings to start sending your Doppi plays to the service. Continue With Album Ever shuffled your music, found a song you loved, and wished you could continue the album instead? Doppi can make it happen. Completely Readable With thick fonts, support for Dynamic Type, and high contrast themes, your eyes wonʼt get in the way of your ears. Ask Siri to DJ Your assistant can play songs, albums, artists, playlists, and genres from your library — just ask it to play in Doppi. Shortcuts As you play your music, those actions will be suggested to you by the system and appear on the Shortcuts app. Just Much Nicer Doppi has been carefully designed with clean typography, pleasing contrast, and elegant motion. Enjoy your music in a joyfully clean UI. Give your music the lovely home it deserves. ———— Important: Doppi does not include any music. It's designed to play your music files, that you transfer manually to your device. It does not support playing music from any streaming service, or music that is digitally protected. In-app purchases are governed by the Apple Standard Terms of Use, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tiny Player
Easily transfer music to your iPhone or iPad without using iTunes. This app offers a folder-based structure for organizing your music and provides a fast, simple playback experience.
- Load music without iTunes
- Folder-based music structure
- Fast and simple interface
- Drag & drop file uploads
- Browser-based file transfer
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Q: “How do I put music on my iPhone?” A: “Use Tiny Player.” Tiny Player is a music player for iPhone and iPad. • Load music without iTunes • Folder based structure • Fast and simple How do I put music on my iPhone? • Open Tiny Player and enable uploads • Open a browser on your computer and go to the URL that the app gives you • Drag & drop files onto the page • Enjoy your music!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Doppi at every 2 weeks against Tiny Player's every 2 months. Doppi also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 57%) and ratings volume (91 vs 16). Tiny Player's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Doppi sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.29 per month and Tiny Player sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tiny Player holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Doppi has 91 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Doppi's written reviews are positive against 57% of Tiny Player's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Doppi ships an update every 2 weeks, Tiny Player every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Doppi | Tiny Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (91 ratings) | 4.4 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better | 56.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radu Dutzan | Catnap Games |
Customer experience
Doppi
Tiny Player
Bugs and requests
Doppi
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when opening the app
- Playback stops randomly
- Album artwork not displaying properly
- Incorrect track numbering
- Syncing and library management issues
Requested features
5 requests- 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
Tiny Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Doppi
- Doppi Monthly14 Days trial$1.291 Month
- Doppi Yearly14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Nice Tip2 variants$1.99
- Great Tip$2.99
- Great Tip$3.99
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- Awesome Tip2 variants$5.99
- Doppi Lifetime (Upgrade)$9.99
- Doppi Lifetime$17.99
Tiny Player
- Small tip$0.99
- Medium tip$4.99
- Large tip$9.99








