Plexamp vs Amperfy Music
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plexamp
A dedicated music player for your Plex library, offering audiophile-grade playback features, stunning visuals, and personalized radio stations. Enjoy your music collection with advanced customization and offline listening options.
- Audiophile-grade playback (gapless, EQ, loudness leveling)
- Hypnotic visualizers and UltraBlur backgrounds
- Personalized radio stations and Mix Builder
- Offline listening for playlists and stations
- Powerful search and playback history
- Customizable themes and artist exploration
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** You'll need a Plex Media Server and a Plex account to use this app ** Plexamp is the answer to the question "what would happen if you gave a handful of Plex music and pixel nerds a few cocktails and free rein to create the app of their dreams?" Plexamp is a beautiful, dedicated Plex music player with tons of goodies for audiophile purists, music curators, and music fans of all ages looking for their next aural fix. SUPER AUDIO PLAYER Loudness leveling, true gapless playback, Sweet Fades™, soft transitions, a configurable preamp, a 7-band EQ, and more. Perfection for golden ears, buttery smooth touches for the rest of us. Custom pre-caching so your music keeps playing, because sometimes life brings you through tunnels. MUSIC TO YOUR EYES Experience your music collection like you’ve never seen it before, with our UltraBlur backgrounds, over a dozen hypnotic visualizers, and four visual themes to satisfy every taste. FIND YOUR FIX Radios built from your library and your cooler friends' collections. Travel through time, pick a style or mood, or listen album-by-album like the purist you are. Use the Mix Builder to explore and craft your perfect blend. Explore your personal charts and see what you were into last Fall or your top albums from the 60s. OFFLINE BLISS Grab a few hours of your favorite playlist or stations with just a few taps. Download a custom mix or artist radio for the plane. Simple but powerful offline support for when you’re in the woods or run out of cellular data. IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS Powerful search. Playback activity history. Swipe-up play queue peeking. Fun artist explorations. As many settings and tweaks as our resident UXpert let us add. ENTERPRISE CLASS CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT Just kidding. It's a music player. Follow us on Twitter @plexamp or Mastodon https://mstdn.social/@plexamp See the terms of service at https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/plex-terms-of-service/
Amperfy Music
This app serves as a modern client for interacting with your personal Ampache or Subsonic music servers. It allows you to stream music, podcasts, and radio, with the ability to download content for offline playback. Enjoy features like CarPlay integration, gapless playback, and Siri commands for a seamless listening experience.
- Offline playback
- CarPlay support
- Siri integration
- Gapless playback
- Podcast and Radio support
- Equalizer
- Sleep timer
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Amperfy allows you to play music or podcasts from an Ampache or Subsonic server. Experience a clean, simplistic and modern client for your music server interactions. Download the songs from your music server to play offline. Amperfy requires a private hosted Ampache or Subsonic server installation to function. Features: - Multi account - Offline mode - CarPlay - Gapless playback for appropriate media file formats - Music, Podcast and Radio support - Siri play media command, Siri Shortcuts and App Intents - Equalizer - Replay gain - Sleep timer - 5 star song rating - Favorite song - Sleep Timer - Scrobbling Amperfy is open source and licensed under GPLv3. It can be found at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy Please discuss this app and report all issues at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/issues
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Amperfy Music at none against Plexamp's 3. Amperfy Music also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 75%). Plexamp's advantage is ratings volume (10K vs 148) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Plexamp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Amperfy Music asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plexamp holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plexamp has 10K ratings behind it against 148, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Plexamp's written reviews are positive against 87% of Amperfy Music's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Plexamp ships an update every 2 weeks, Amperfy Music every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plexamp | Amperfy Music |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10K ratings) — better | 4.5 (148 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews | 87.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 148 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plex Inc. | Dirk Hildebrand |
Customer experience
Plexamp
Amperfy Music
User reviews
Plexamp
From 10K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Best player ever
- 👍 Gorgeous cover flow
- 👍 Flexible, fun, and friendly
- 👍 Beautiful app that functions well
- 👍 Exceptional user interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 List by folder is an insult
- 🐛 Offline music experience not great
- 🐛 Hopeless tagging
- 🐛 Can't download full playlists
- 🐛 Slow downloads
Amperfy Music
From 148 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and responsive
- 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
- 🔒 Reliable connection to Navidrome/Subsonic servers
- 💡 Excellent offline playback experience
- 🚀 Fast library sync
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔇 Lack of gapless playback
- 🔇 Missing song volume leveling
- 🔇 Incomplete CarPlay functionality
Bugs and requests
Plexamp
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inconsistent behavior when offline
- Search function broken
- Slow library loading
- Unreliable downloads
- Incompatibility with certain car systems
Requested features
6 requests- Repeat functionality
- Ability to edit metadata
- Better offline management and browsing
- Apple Watch app
- Airplay and casting support
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- Customizable home screen and layout
Amperfy Music
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unknown artist display for manually tagged FLAC files
- Player unable to open certain files
- Inconsistent album art display
- Scrubbing issues causing song skipping
Requested features
9 requests- Lyrics support
- Album shuffle mode
- Customizable cache location
- Airplay support on macOS
- Apple Watch app
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- Chromecast support
- Recently played songs/albums view
- Playlist folders and sorting
- Dark mode
In-app purchases
Plexamp
- Monthly Plex Pass$6.991 Month
- Yearly Plex Pass$69.991 Year
- Lifetime Plex Pass$979.00
Amperfy Music
No in-app purchases








