Plexamp vs Legacy Music Player
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/
Legacy Music Player
Organize and play your retro game music collection. This app automatically extracts metadata, indexes composers and games, and offers instant search. Enjoy high-fidelity playback of classic sound chip formats and discover new music through curated picks and a podcast.
- VGM, NSF, SPC, GBS, NSFE playback
- Automatic metadata extraction
- Composer and game indexing
- Instant library search
- Offline podcast listening
- High-fidelity sound chip emulation
- Export to MP3/WAV
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Legacy Music Player is the iOS home for retro game music (VGM). Build a personal library from your collection of VGM, NSF, SPC, GBS, NSFE, and dozens of other classic chiptune formats. Drag in files, zips or whole folders and Legacy Music Player handles the rest - automatic metadata extraction, composer and game indexing, and instant search across every track in your library. We keep the data updated so you get the most accurate game, composer and song information out there. Discover new music every week. The Discover tab surfaces fresh picks and ships with new episodes of the Legacy Music Hour podcast - a long-running show celebrating the music of classic gaming. Episodes can stream directly or auto-download into your library so you can listen offline. Turn on "Oshaberi Mode" to have the hosts of The Legacy Music Hour keep you company while you listen. Built as a modern solution to listening to VGM files. Legacy Music Player plays the original sound chip data at full fidelity - Game Boy, NES, Genesis, SNES, Neo Geo, PC Engine, arcade boards, and more. Loop tracks, browse by composer or system, and export your favorites to MP3 or WAV. Export WAV stems to make your own mixes. This syncs with the MacOS app as well, be sure to check that out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Legacy Music Player at none against Plexamp's 3. Legacy Music Player also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Plexamp's advantage is ratings volume (10K vs 15) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Legacy Music Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Legacy Music Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plexamp has 10K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Plexamp's written reviews are positive against 100% of Legacy Music Player's.
Plexamp ships an update every 2 weeks, Legacy Music Player every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plexamp | Legacy Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10K ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| 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 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plex Inc. | Gabriel Castro |
Customer experience
Plexamp
Legacy Music Player
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
Legacy Music Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Plexamp
- Monthly Plex Pass$6.991 Month
- Yearly Plex Pass$69.991 Year
- Lifetime Plex Pass$979.00
Legacy Music Player
No in-app purchases








