PartyTu vs InBackground
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PartyTu
Enjoy music and videos anytime, anywhere with this user-friendly app. Discover curated content, share song snippets, and listen with friends in real-time. Features include cloud storage for playlists and a sleep timer.
- Curated hot videos
- Share custom song times
- Import YouTube playlists
- Powerful search
- Cloud playlist storage
- Party rooms for shared listening
- Sleep timer
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Easy to use music app, Top 20 app for music category for multiple years in Taiwan. Join us together in our highly praised app!! Listen anytime, anywhere Listen to music while playing games Or tune in while driving PartyTu gives you all the great music and videos * Highlights - Curated monthly and daily hot videos - Share custom start and end time of each song with the community - Import your favorite YouTube playlist and keep listening - Powerful search feature to find channels, playlists and videos - Colorful themes for you to match your day - Safely store your playlist in the cloud. Automatic restore after changing phone or reinstall. - Create a party room to share and listen together with your friends - Player timer to stop music automatically when you fell asleep More awesome hidden feature for you to discover.
InBackground
Play any video from any website in the background while using other apps. Create and manage playlists for easy access to your favorite content.
- Background video playback
- Works on any website
- Playlist creation and management
- App widget support
- Easy link copying
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InBackground is the first application of its kind in the AppStore. The application idea is pretty simple: how many times you wished you could play your favorite game while listening to your favorite music? The InBackground app will make your wish come true! The application works on any website playing any video. All that you should do is copying the link of the video and opening the application(or use the app widget); after the video loads, you can now easily navigate to any app and forget about the annoying-abrupt pause of the music video. The application also provides a simple, easy-to-use library section to create and manage different playlists for future use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PartyTu at 4.6 against InBackground's 3.8. PartyTu also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 55%). InBackground's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). 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. PartyTu sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and InBackground sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PartyTu holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PartyTu has 4K ratings behind it against 446, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of PartyTu's written reviews are positive against 55% of InBackground's.
PartyTu ships an update monthly, InBackground every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PartyTu | InBackground |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (4K ratings) — better | 3.8 (446 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 55.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 446 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TEC DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INC. | SALAH HIJAZI |
Customer experience
PartyTu
InBackground
User reviews
PartyTu
From 4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 👍 Best music
- 👍 I ❤️ Party tu
- 👍 Awesome response time
- 👍 Allows to listen on background
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not supporting VPN usage
- 🐛 Video play issues
- 🐛 Playlist issues
- 🐛 Ads not closable
- 🐛 Crashes and bugs
InBackground
From 446 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works as advertised
- 🚀 Useful for background playback
- 💡 Convenient app for listening to YouTube
- 👍 Simple and straightforward to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 💰 Expensive ad-free version
- 📢 Too many ads
- 🐛 Restore purchase feature not working
Bugs and requests
PartyTu
Reported bugs
6 issues- Videos not playing
- Playlists disappearing
- App crashing on launch
- Ads blocking app usage
- Playback issues
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- Syncing issues with YouTube playlists
Requested features
8 requests- Video quality settings
- Ability to change skip forward/back duration
- Comment and subscribe functionality
- Permanent dark mode
- Ability to loop entire playlist
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- Speed change functionality
- Unlimited playlists
- Channel navigation from videos
InBackground
Reported bugs
4 issues- Issues playing live videos
- Ads playing over actual content
- Unresponsive video controls
- Inconsistent app behavior
Requested features
4 requests- Add repeat/loop feature
- Improve playlist functionality
- Add video speed controls
- Enhance scrolling and navigation
In-app purchases
PartyTu
- Donate$0.99
- Skin-Blue$0.99
- Skin-Green$0.99
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- Skin-Little black cat$0.99
- DarkMode$0.99
- Skin-Shiba Park$0.99
- Blissful Spring Theme$0.99
- Skin-Orange$0.99
- Chill Summer Theme$0.99
- Donate$1.99
- AD Blocker (90)$2.99
- AD Blocker (180)$4.99
InBackground
- Remove Ads$9.99
