Longplay vs FloatingPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Album artwork display
- Smart sorting options
- Album collections
- Infinite album shuffle
- Home screen widget
- CarPlay and Siri support
- Shortcuts integration
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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.
FloatingPlayer
Control your music playback over any other application using a picture-in-picture overlay. Connects with Spotify and Apple Music for seamless control.
- Picture-in-picture playback controls
- Spotify integration
- Apple Music integration
- Customizable player appearance
- Always accessible overlay
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Longplay | FloatingPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.49 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (170 ratings) | 4.6 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.2% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 170 — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #192 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adrian Schoenig | INNOVATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
Customer experience
Longplay
FloatingPlayer
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
Longplay
- Small Tip$2.00
- Medium Tip$5.00
- Large Tip$10.00
FloatingPlayer
No in-app purchases








