Comparison

Plexamp vs micVault

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

micVault

Manage your karaoke songbook, log your performances, and discover venues. Organize songs by genre and performance history, plan setlists, and track your singing stats. Find local karaoke nights and get reminders.

Highlights
  • Personalized song library organization
  • Performance logging and history
  • Setlist planning
  • Venue directory and map
  • Karaoke night reminders
  • Performance statistics
  • Offline functionality
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micVault is a karaoke songbook for people who take their nights out seriously. Keep track of every song you sing in one place, log the nights you sing them and stop scrolling the same three pages of the catalog looking for something you already know you're good at. YOUR LIBRARY Title, artist, genre and tags, sorted into the lists that actually matter: Priority, Current Rotation, Sung, Never Sung. Also retire songs you'd rather never sing again. LOG THE NIGHT Build a night, log what you sang and in what order, and keep the moment that made it worth remembering. Plan a setlist before you get there and tick songs off as you sing them. CAN'T DECIDE Try the randomizer to pick for you, from whichever list you choose. VENUES A shared, crowd-sourced directory of which bars run karaoke on which nights, with a map and a "karaoke tonight near me" view. Set your regular nights and they show up on your calendar, with a reminder on the day. STATS Most-sung, longest gaps, venues and how your rotation really breaks down. FREE, OR MICVAULT ANNUAL micVault is free for up to 50 songs, with night logging, the venue directory and the shared songbook. The optional micVault Annual subscription adds unlimited songs, spreadsheet and backup import, stats, moments, setlist planning and night reminders. micVault Annual is billed yearly to your Apple ID and renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current year. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple ID's subscription settings. YOUR DATA Import from a spreadsheet, export a full backup any time, and delete your account and everything in it from Settings. Export and delete are free on every plan. Works offline, so you can log a song in a basement bar with no signal and it syncs when you're back. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://micvault.kappsllc.com/privacy

Screenshots

Plexamp4 screens
micVault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: micVault at daily against Plexamp's every 2 weeks. micVault also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Plexamp's advantage is ratings volume (10K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Plexamp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and micVault sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

micVault 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 3, 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 micVault's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plexamp ships an update every 2 weeks, micVault daily. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Plexamp versus micVault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlexampmicVault
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPlex Inc.k-Apps Studio LLC

Customer experience

Plexamp

All ratings9,958 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews1,633 reviews
Positive75.3%
Neutral6.5%
Negative18.2%

micVault

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

micVault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Plexamp

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plex Pass$6.991 Month
  • Yearly Plex Pass$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plex Pass$979.00
1 purchases

micVault

Subscriptions1
  • micVault Annual$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Plexamp free?
Plexamp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is micVault free?
micVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Plexamp or micVault?
micVault is rated higher. Plexamp averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while micVault averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Plexamp or micVault have ads?
Neither Plexamp nor micVault shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plexamp or micVault?
Plexamp ships an update every 2 weeks, and micVault daily. Most recently, Plexamp was updated on November 7, 2026 and micVault on November 6, 2026.

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