yaMPC vs JellyBox Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
JellyBox Player
Access and play your local music library from Jellyfin, Emby, or Navidrome servers. Enjoy features like time-synced lyrics, offline playback, and remote control of your media.
- Browse local music library
- Remote device control
- Time-synced lyrics
- Full offline mode
- Downloads
- Apple CarPlay support
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JellyBox Player is a client application for Jellyfin, Emby or Navidrome servers. JellyBox allows you seamlessly play all your local music by simply connecting to your home server. This player can: * Browse and your local lib - artists, albums, songs, playlists * Continuity - remotely control your devices or move playback between them * Relay - connect remotely to your home server without use of VPN or tailscale tunnels * Home page widget * Show a time synced lyrics(when available) * Full offline mode, including a "plane" support * Downloads * Native Apple CarPlay app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: JellyBox Player at 4.7 against yaMPC's 3.5. JellyBox Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. yaMPC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. JellyBox Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
JellyBox Player holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of yaMPC's written reviews are positive against 44% of JellyBox Player's.
yaMPC ships an update every 3 months, JellyBox Player every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | yaMPC | JellyBox Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (4 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 43.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yasuyuki Suzuki | Oleksandr Synelnykov |
Customer experience
yaMPC
JellyBox Player
In-app purchases
yaMPC
- yaMPC Full Function$2.99
JellyBox Player
No in-app purchases









