Sound Loop vs FiveLoop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sound Loop
Enjoy your favorite YouTube videos and music on repeat. This app allows you to create playlists and loop content, transforming your YouTube experience into a seamless music player. Discover endless entertainment with this intuitive tool.
- YouTube video playback
- Music app-like experience
- Looping functionality
- Playlist creation
- Endless playback
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If you want to playback your favorite videos/tunes on YouTube like a music app, this app can be a help for you! It is really simple to use - it supports "loop" and "playlists" features! You can enjoy YouTube endlessly!
FiveLoop
Enhance your music learning with a tool that allows you to slow down, loop, and repeat sections of online video tutorials. It also offers AI-powered audio analysis to split songs into stems, detect chords and BPM, and generate transcriptions.
- Loop any video section
- Adjust playback tempo
- Handsfree MIDI/Bluetooth control
- AI song stem separation
- Chord and BPM detection
- Note-for-note transcriptions
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Practice Music Smarter with FiveLoop Turn online music lessons and songs into focused practice sessions. Slow down difficult passages, repeat precise A B loops and control playback without taking your hands off your instrument. Learn from the platforms you already use FiveLoop works with most online video platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo, TrueFire and many more. Practice at your own pace • Set exact loop points and repeat any passage • Adjust playback speed in 5% steps • Play, pause, rewind and fast forward • Control playback hands free with MIDI or a compatible Bluetooth foot controller Discover FiveLoop Studio Import a song and use powerful AI audio analysis tools to understand and practice every detail. • Separate music into drums, bass, vocals and other instruments • Isolate or mute stems to focus on the part you want to learn • Detect chords, key and BPM automatically • Practice with a metronome matched to the song • View note transcriptions for bass, vocals and other stems Made for every musician FiveLoop helps beginners, advanced players, guitarists, bassists, drummers, singers, pianists, teachers and students learn more effectively from video and audio. Tested and recommended platforms • YouTube • TrueFire • learnpracticeplay.com • gitarrenlehreronline.de • fingerfux.de Is your favorite platform not supported? Contact us at mail@duechtel.com Terms: https://www.fiveloop.io/terms.html Privacy: https://www.fiveloop.io/pricacypolicy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FiveLoop at 84% against Sound Loop's 32%. FiveLoop also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.6) and ads (none vs shown). Sound Loop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). On price and device support 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. FiveLoop sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sound Loop asks for nothing beyond the download.
FiveLoop holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sound Loop has 341 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Sound Loop's written reviews are positive against 84% of FiveLoop's.
Sound Loop ships an update every 9 days, FiveLoop every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sound Loop | FiveLoop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (341 ratings) | 4.4 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.6% of reviews | 83.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 341 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 730 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Yusaku Hatakenaka | Stephan Duechtel |
Customer experience
Sound Loop
FiveLoop
Bugs and requests
Sound Loop
Reported bugs
4 issues- Playlist thumbnails out of order
- Randomly stops playing when app is closed
- Search function crashes the app
- Unable to search for new songs
Requested features
3 requests- Caching or offline listening option
- Ability to add all songs from one playlist to another
- Cloud/account sync for playlists
FiveLoop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sound Loop
No in-app purchases
FiveLoop
- Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$44.991 Year
- Fullversion$3.99
