Comparison

yaMPC vs Stylophone

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

Head to head
About

yaMPC

Control your Music Player Daemon (MPD) remotely with this app. Easily manage your music library, control playback, and edit your queue. Unlock advanced browsing and search features with an in-app purchase.

Highlights
  • Multiple MPD server registration
  • Automatic MPD server detection
  • Queue management and editing
  • Playback controls (play, pause, skip, volume)
  • Album and song browsing
  • Advanced search and filtering
Features
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If you use Music Player Daemon (MPD), try FREE features of yaMPC now! Initial setup of yaMPC for your MPD is very easy. Go through the tutorial first - tap "App Support" on this page, then tap "Link to yaMPC Tutorial" FREE Features: - Able to register multiple MPD Servers and switch them to control. - Scan button auto-detects MPD 0.20 or later versions (need to enable Zeroconf), Volumio or MoOde - Easy Cover-Arts settings for MPD 0.21 or later versions, Volumio or MoOde. - Queue scene: lists songs in the Queue (or the Current Playlist), plays a song by tapping. Allows you to edit and clear queue. - Queue and Play scenes: You can play songs and pause, play next song, previous song, play randomly or repeatedly. Fast forward and rewind with buttons or slide bar. Controlling volume. - Albums scene: lists albums with cover-arts, album titles and album artists. Filter albums by album title and/or album artists. - Albums songs sub-scene: lists songs in the tapped album. Add a song to Queue and/or play the song. Features require In-App Purchase: - Browse scene: lists Genres, Artists, Composers, Playlist or Folder contents. Filter them by any text. You can display albums and songs by tapping an item in the list. - Search scene: You can search songs by title, artist or any tag. Play a song by tapping it.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Full playback control
  • Playlist management
  • Library browsing
  • Control Center integration
  • Album art support
Features
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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

Screenshots

yaMPC4 screens
Stylophone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stylophone at 100% against yaMPC's 33%. Stylophone also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). yaMPC's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 13 months). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

yaMPC is free to download; Stylophone costs $4.99 up front. yaMPC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stylophone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stylophone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of yaMPC's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stylophone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

yaMPC ships an update every 3 months, Stylophone every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
yaMPC versus Stylophone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteryaMPCStylophone
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating3.5 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYasuyuki SuzukiVincent Alves

Customer experience

yaMPC

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative50.0%

Stylophone

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

yaMPC

One-time1
  • yaMPC Full Function$2.99
None

Stylophone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is yaMPC free?
yaMPC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stylophone free?
Stylophone costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, yaMPC or Stylophone?
Stylophone is rated higher. yaMPC averages 3.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Stylophone averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do yaMPC or Stylophone have ads?
Neither yaMPC nor Stylophone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, yaMPC or Stylophone?
yaMPC ships an update every 3 months, and Stylophone every 13 months. Most recently, yaMPC was updated on November 2, 2026 and Stylophone on November 3, 2026.

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