MaximumMPD vs Stylophone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MaximumMPD
Control your Music Player Daemon (MPD) server remotely. Browse your music library by artist, album, or song, generate random playlists, and manage outputs. It also supports album art downloading and server discovery.
- Remote MPD server control
- Random playlist generation
- Artist, album, and song browser
- File browser
- Quick search functionality
- Output selection
- Album art downloading
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MaximumMPD is a MPD (Music Player Daemon) client providing remote control over all your MPD based songs Features: Random Playlist generation Multiple connections Server Discovery via Bonjour Artist, Album Song Browser File Browser Quickly search for artists, albums and songs Output Selection Quickly create and edit playlists AlbumArt downloading via MPD (if version >= 0.21), HTTP and UPnP Requirements : An MPD Server running in your home network. See http://www.musicpd.org/ for more details Various images provided by Icons8 https://icons8.com
Stylophone
This app serves as a modern, open-source remote control for a Music Player Daemon (MPD) server. It offers full playback control, playlist management, and library browsing, optimized for iPhone and iPad. It requires a separate MPD server to function.
- Full playback control
- Playlist management
- Library browsing
- Control Center integration
- Album art support
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A modern, open source Music Player Daemon (MPD) client optimized for iPhone and iPad. Buy once, get updates forever. “Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.” This application is meant to act as a remote for a MPD server and won't play any music on its own. Features: - Careful design that makes the most out of your screen real estate - Full playback control - Playlist management (Create, Add/Remove tracks, Delete) - Integration with Control Center - Local Playback of your MPD server's music stream if available - Browse library by albums, or directly by folders - All data is pulled from your MPD Server only - Support for both albumart and readpicture commands for maximum compatibility with your server's cover art library
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MaximumMPD at Free against Stylophone's $4.99. MaximumMPD also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). Stylophone's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On ads, in-app purchases 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
MaximumMPD is free to download; Stylophone costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stylophone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaximumMPD has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of MaximumMPD's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stylophone's.
MaximumMPD ships an update every 5 weeks, Stylophone every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MaximumMPD | Stylophone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Backhouse | Vincent Alves |
Customer experience
MaximumMPD
Stylophone
In-app purchases
MaximumMPD
No in-app purchases
Stylophone
No in-app purchases
