Comparison

Longplay vs FloatingPlayer

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

Head to head
About

Longplay

Rediscover your music library with this app that beautifully displays your album artwork. Explore forgotten favorites and play music with smart sorting options like addiction, brightness, and recency. Organize albums into collections and enjoy infinite shuffle.

Highlights
  • Album artwork display
  • Smart sorting options
  • Album collections
  • Infinite album shuffle
  • Home screen widget
  • CarPlay and Siri support
  • Shortcuts integration
Features
Currently charting
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Do you have an album collection of dozens to thousands of albums? Does the next song of an album already start playing in your head when one finishes? Longplay is for you. Longplay presents a beautiful view of the album artworks of the (near) complete albums in your music collection. It let's you rediscover forgotten favorites or just play the music you love, and explore it with various smart sort options: - Orderliness: by artist, then by album - Addiction: by amount of time spent listening - Brightness: by the primary color of the album artwork - Negligence: by the time it’s been since you’ve last listened to the album, weighted by the rating - Recency: by date added - Memory: by last played - Stars: by the rating you’ve provided for each song - Random: a new order, every time you tap it You can organize your albums into collections, which sync across your devices. Infinite album shuffle let's you stay in the flow, with smart shuffle depending on your current collection or sort order. It comes with a home screen widget that displays the top albums by your nominated sort order. On the larger widget, tap an album to play it, on the smallest it doubles as a "Feeling lucky" button to start playback of one of them. It supports CarPlay, Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.t supports CarPlay, Siri, and Shortcuts. It works well with Apple Music, music purchased from iTunes or synced manually. --- Important: Longplay does not ship with any music included, it is instead a player for your music library - be it from Apple Music, iTunes or your synced music. It provides a filtered view of just the albums of which you have all or most of the songs, as well as your playlists; thus focusing on your album collection without any singles or albums where you only have very few songs. --- Tap an item to play (or pause). Long tap for additional options, such as adding to your album queue or to a collection. It works with libraries big and small, and besides regular albums it also handles compilation albums and playlists. Comes with Shortcuts actions to play a random top album by a defined sort order, or a random album, optionally filtered by artist or genre. All of that with Longplay's logic that makes sure that it's an album for which you have all or most songs. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Fully VoiceOver accessible.

About

FloatingPlayer

Control your music playback over any other application using a picture-in-picture overlay. Connects with Spotify and Apple Music for seamless control.

Highlights
  • Picture-in-picture playback controls
  • Spotify integration
  • Apple Music integration
  • Customizable player appearance
  • Always accessible overlay
Features
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FloatingPlayer is an always accessible music player which you can use on any app. FloatingPlayer creates a now playing view with playback controls that you can access through Picture in Picture. Open FloatingPlayer to connect to Spotify or Apple Music, change the player to your liking and press the start button. A floating player will be created which you can use anywhere to control your music. A Spotify account or access to your Music library is required to use FloatingPlayer and some features such as playback control may require Spotify Premium.

Screenshots

Longplay4 screens
FloatingPlayer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FloatingPlayer at none against Longplay's 3. FloatingPlayer also leads on price ($1.99 vs $7.49) and review sentiment (94% vs 77%). Longplay's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and chart position (#192 vs unranked). On rating, 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

Longplay costs $7.49 and FloatingPlayer $1.99 up front. Longplay sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. FloatingPlayer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Longplay against 4.6 for FloatingPlayer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Longplay has 170 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Longplay's written reviews are positive against 94% of FloatingPlayer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Longplay ships an update every 3 weeks, FloatingPlayer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Longplay versus FloatingPlayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLongplayFloatingPlayer
Price$7.49$1.99 — better
Rating4.6 (170 ratings)4.6 (28 ratings)
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews93.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings170 — better28
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#192 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAdrian SchoenigINNOVATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Customer experience

Longplay

All ratings170 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral3.5%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral9.9%
Negative12.9%

FloatingPlayer

All ratings28 ratings
Positive89.3%
Neutral3.6%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%

Bugs and requests

Longplay

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes on startup with large libraries
  • UI constantly freezes during album loading
  • Device becomes very hot during operation
  • Doesn't load entire music library
  • Gapless playback creates overlapping songs
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  • Purity option for gapless play doesn't work
  • Scrobbling incomplete (only first few tracks)
  • CarPlay support broken after updates
  • Vision Pro immersive view crashes
  • Settings window cannot be minimized
  • Allow selection toggle loses memory
  • Widget doesn't show album artwork
  • Sort by feature missing since iOS 26
  • Album library not syncing with Apple Music
  • Crashes when immersive view selected
  • Player window too large in panorama mode

Requested features

20 requests
  • Search functionality for albums and artists
  • Track listing display during playback
  • Skip/back track controls
  • Volume control in app
  • Sort by release year
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  • Sort by genre/categories
  • Show album information and metadata
  • Play Next/Play Later queue management
  • Open album in Apple Music link
  • Delete albums from library option
  • View only complete albums toggle
  • Exclude specific albums (e.g., Christmas albums)
  • macOS version of the app
  • tvOS app version
  • Higher resolution album artwork
  • Album cover size randomization in grid
  • Immersive listening room environments
  • Album liner notes viewing
  • Widget improvements for album display
  • Autocorrect toggle for search

FloatingPlayer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Longplay

One-time3
  • Small Tip$2.00
  • Medium Tip$5.00
  • Large Tip$10.00
None

FloatingPlayer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Longplay free?
Longplay costs $7.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is FloatingPlayer free?
FloatingPlayer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Longplay or FloatingPlayer?
Longplay and FloatingPlayer are both rated 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store, from 170 and 28 ratings respectively.
Do Longplay or FloatingPlayer have ads?
Neither Longplay nor FloatingPlayer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Longplay or FloatingPlayer?
Longplay ships an update every 3 weeks, and FloatingPlayer every 3 months. Most recently, Longplay was updated on October 22, 2026 and FloatingPlayer on October 8, 2026.

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