Comparison

Flacbox vs Folder Looper

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flacbox

This app plays almost any audio file with lossless quality, offering advanced equalizer and bass boosting. Stream or download music from cloud services and NAS, manage your library with a built-in file manager, and customize playback with extensive options.

Highlights
  • Lossless audio playback
  • Cloud and NAS streaming
  • Built-in equalizer with presets
  • Advanced file manager
  • Customizable playlists
  • Offline playback
Features
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Flacbox is a Hi-Res music player for people who love great sound. Play almost any audio file on your iPhone or iPad in full lossless quality. Stream music from your NAS or cloud, and adjust the sound with a built-in equalizer. Save space on your device by moving your music to a NAS or cloud. Stream it back, or save songs for offline listening. Your music library updates by itself and sorts songs by album, artist, genre, and composer. Make playlists, change the song order, and manage your files with the built-in file manager. Find any song fast with smart search. The equalizer has genre presets, manual controls, and a tool to make the sound louder. You can save your own presets and share them. SUPPORTED AUDIO FORMATS - Lossless and Hi-Res: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, DSF (DSD), PCM. - Lossy: MP3, AAC, OGG, OPUS, AC3, WMA. - Containers: M4A, M4V, MP4, MKV, MOV, MPEG. - Tracker and MOD music: MOD, XM, IT, S3M. - And more. AUDIO EFFECTS - Shape your sound in real time with reverb, delay, echo, chorus, flanger, phaser, and auto-wah. - Add character with distortion, and control dynamics with a compressor. - Crossfeed makes headphone listening more natural and less tiring. DSP CHAIN - Build your own signal chain from professional filters and tools. - Filters: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch to shape or clean up the sound. - EQ: peaking, low-shelf, and high-shelf for precise tone control. - Level and drive: gain, soft-clip saturation, and a bit crusher for a lo-fi edge. - Creative processors: tremolo, delay, ring modulator, and stereo width. MUSIC VISUALIZER - Watch full-screen animated visuals that react live to your music. - Choose from a large library of presets, or let them cycle. CLOUD AND PRIVATE STORAGE - iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, MEGA, Yandex Disk, pCloud, HiDrive, OpenDrive, MediaFire, MyDrive, Put.io, InfiniCLOUD, WD MyCloud Home, Cloud Mail.ru, and Baidu Cloud. - Private cloud services like MEGA, Internxt, and Proton Drive are also supported. MEDIA SERVERS - Connect Plex, Subsonic, Navidrome, Jellyfin, and Emby to open your full music library. COMPUTER AND NAS CONNECTIONS - Connect with SMB, WebDAV, DLNA, FTP, SFTP, and NFS. - Connects directly to QNAP, WD My Cloud Home, Nextcloud, and Synology Drive. - Smart buffering helps music play without breaks on slow networks. - Add files from your computer with iTunes File Sharing or Wi-Fi transfer. OFFLINE LISTENING - Save songs, albums, or full artists to listen without internet. - Turn on the audio cache to save recent songs without doing it by hand. LYRICS AND COMMENTS - See timed lyrics and song notes inside each track. - Add the Lyrics widget to your Home Screen for quick access. AIRPLAY AND CHROMECAST - Send music to Apple TV, HomePod, smart speakers, and other devices with AirPlay, AirPlay 2, or Chromecast. APPLE CARPLAY - A simple CarPlay screen lets you choose music while you drive. WIDGETS - Home Screen widgets show your playback queue and let you start where you stopped. PLAYBACK CONTROLS - Adjust playback speed without changing the pitch. - Save and restore your play queue and last position. - Sleep timer and skip time controls. - Shuffle and repeat modes, including stop after the current track. - Plays in the background while you use other apps. FILE MANAGER AND LIBRARY - Sort your music by title, album, artist, album artist, genre, composer, rating, year, BPM, play count, bitrate, or length. - Edit song tags with the built-in ID3 editor. - Open files from external memory cards. - Save playlists in M3U, M3U8, and CUE formats. QUICK ACCESS - Find your music in Recently Played, Favorites, and Bookmarks. AUDIO QUALITY - Sample rates from 8 kHz to 384 kHz. - Audio output in default or mixed mode. - Support for 1 to 7 audio channels. Get Flacbox now and turn your iPhone into a real Hi-Res player. Privacy Policy: https://www.everappz.com/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://www.everappz.com/terms-and-conditions

About

Folder Looper

This audio player lets you play audio files directly from folders in your Files app. It offers continuous playback, shuffle mode, and background audio support, ideal for organized audio content like music collections or audiobooks.

Highlights
  • Play audio directly from Files app folders
  • Continuous playback of all files in a folder
  • Optional shuffle mode
  • Background audio support
  • Remembers selected folder
  • Simple playback controls
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Folder Looper is a focused audio player for people who keep their audio organized in folders. Choose a folder from the Files app and Folder Looper continuously plays the supported audio files inside, without requiring a music library, playlist setup, or account. It is built for musicians, worship teams, performers, teachers, language learners, audiobook listeners, and anyone who wants quick access to organized audio files in iCloud Drive or other Files locations. Version 2.0 adds a new Practice mode alongside the folder player. Move the current song into Practice, or choose a single audio file, then slow it down, speed it up, transpose it, repeat it, and view detected key and tempo details as a starting point for rehearsal. Folder Looper can also display embedded song artwork when available, show Now Playing information, support background playback, and let you browse or reshuffle the current play order at any time. Features: • Play audio files directly from folders in the Files app • Supports MP3, WAV, AAC, AIF, AIFF, CAF, and M4A formats • Continuous playback through all supported files in a folder • Optional shuffle mode • Browse the play order, jump to any song, and reshuffle anytime • Background audio and remote playback controls • Displays embedded song artwork when available • Shows current song, folder, playback time, song count, key, and tempo details • Remembers your selected folder between app launches • Smart filename sorting for numbered tracks • Works with iCloud Drive and other Files-accessible locations Practice Features: • Choose a single song for focused practice • Bring the current Player song into Practice • Detect key and tempo for supported audio files • Transpose from one key to another • Adjust playback speed from 50% to 150% • Repeat the practice song continuously • Reset detected values, key changes, and speed changes without removing the song Key and tempo detection are helpful estimates based on the audio signal. Results may vary depending on recording quality, arrangement, intros, outros, modulations, live recordings, and layered instruments. Folder Looper keeps the workflow simple: pick a folder, press play, or switch into Practice when it is time to work on one song more closely.

Screenshots

Flacbox4 screens
Folder Looper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Folder Looper at 100% against Flacbox's 60%. Folder Looper also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Flacbox's advantage is ratings volume (8.6K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Flacbox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Folder Looper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Folder Looper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flacbox has 8.6K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Flacbox's written reviews are positive against 100% of Folder Looper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flacbox ships an update every 3 weeks, Folder Looper monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Flacbox versus Folder Looper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlacboxFolder Looper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (8.6K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8.6K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size256 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperEVERAPPZ SLJoseph Ratterman

Customer experience

Flacbox

All ratings8,610 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral3.8%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews606 reviews
Positive59.9%
Neutral12.2%
Negative27.9%

Folder Looper

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Flacbox

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Songs disappearing from library
  • Bluetooth playback issues
  • Inability to delete songs from playlists
  • Inconsistent behavior with cloud storage integrations

Requested features

5 requests
  • Gapless playback
  • Lyrics support
  • Playlist management improvements
  • Siri/voice control integration
  • Crossfade between tracks

Folder Looper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Flacbox

Subscriptions2
  • Flacbox Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Flacbox Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Flacbox Premium Lifetime$69.99
None

Folder Looper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flacbox free?
Flacbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Folder Looper free?
Folder Looper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flacbox or Folder Looper?
Folder Looper is rated higher. Flacbox averages 4.6 out of 5 from 8.6K ratings, while Folder Looper averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Flacbox or Folder Looper have ads?
Flacbox shows ads; Folder Looper does not.
Which is updated more often, Flacbox or Folder Looper?
Flacbox ships an update every 3 weeks, and Folder Looper monthly. Most recently, Flacbox was updated on November 1, 2026 and Folder Looper on October 6, 2026.

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