Comparison

Music Box vs Bathysphere

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

Head to head
About

Music Box

Stream music and songs with a user-friendly interface. Enjoy features like rewind, forward, shuffle, and repeat. Easily manage playlists and discover new music through charts and lists.

Highlights
  • Free music streaming
  • User-friendly interface
  • Rewind, forward, shuffle, repeat
  • Playlist management
  • Music charts and lists
  • Import iTunes Music
Features
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It's finally here! The app you have been waiting for - Music Box! Featuring ALL functionality you could ever want from a music player app! ・Completely free of charge! ・Listen Whenever, wherever ・No Restrictions! ・Low data usage ・No Login or registration required ・Tons of charts and lists to find your music! Especially these features are recommended; ・Extremely easy to use With a carefully crafted interface, Music Box is one of the most easy to use music apps available. No more need for clotted menus and hard to use playlist-management! ・Rewind, Forward, and more With Music Box, it is easy to skip the intro of a song, or replay your favorite part again. Shuffle, Repeat, and other features are also available! ・Easy to manage playlists Add your favorite songs to playlists, and manage them without restrictions! Easily change the order of songs and playlists, and create new ones too! ・Lots of playlists and charts Lots of playlists and popular music charts are featured, to make it easier to find the awesome music in your library! ・Import iTunes Music Import your iTunes Music Library to have all your musical needs in one app!

About

Bathysphere

Features
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A living deep-sea aquarium for your Home Screen. Your widgets become brass portholes, and on the other side of the glass glowing creatures glide past in real, continuous motion. PORTHOLES THAT SHARE THE WATER Line up portholes in a Home Screen row, give them the same depth, and set each one's Position in Edit Widget. Now they look into the same water. A siphonophore that drifts out of one porthole turns up in the next, after slipping behind your app icons. ONE OCEAN FOR EVERYONE The sea is worked out from the current UTC time, so every Bathysphere on Earth shows the same creature at the same moment. No server is involved. Every iPhone does the same arithmetic and arrives at the same ocean. TAP THE GLASS Tap a porthole on your Home Screen and a flash fires. Whatever is passing is photographed into your field journal as a painted naturalist plate, with its name, its depth and a NEW badge the first time you catch it. You don't have to open the app. THE LEVIATHAN Once every UTC day, the Leviathan passes every porthole. The Almanac announces the time in advance. Be watching. 21 SPECIES IN THREE ZONES Twilight, 200 to 1,000 m: lanternfish, hatchetfish, firefly squid, giant siphonophore, glass squid and, rarely, a sperm whale. Midnight, 1,000 to 4,000 m: anglerfish, Atolla jellyfish, comb jelly, stoplight loosejaw dragonfish, vampire squid and the gulper eel. Abyss, 4,000 to 6,000 m: dumbo octopus, sea pig, tripod fish and snailfish. Four legends: fish that William Beebe reported from his Bathysphere dives off Bermuda in 1932 and 1934, and that no one has confirmed since. The five-lined constellationfish, the pallid sailfin, the untouchable bathysphere fish and the abyssal rainbow gar. One myth: the Leviathan. That one is ours. WIDGETS Porthole comes in three sizes: a small round porthole, a wide medium viewport, and the large captain's porthole, whose brass plaque counts down to the next sighting. On the Lock Screen, Sonar sweeps for creatures closing in on your portholes, Depth Log shows the next sighting with a live countdown, and a one-line inline widget tells you when the Leviathan is due. In Control Center, the Flash control photographs every porthole at once. IN THE APP Dive: a full-screen live porthole with a zone selector, a shutter and optional hydrophone ambience. Journal: your plates. Species you have not found yet wait as silhouettes. Each plate opens to facts and your own sighting log. Almanac: upcoming sightings, the Leviathan's transit and rare visitors. Tap Remind me for a local notification. Portholes: a setup guide for widget positions, plus a matching hull wallpaper you can save to Photos. Settings: Motion (Smooth, Calm, or Automatic, which switches to Calm in Low Power Mode) and optional location, so the Twilight zone follows your real sunlight. ACCESSIBILITY With Reduce Motion on, portholes hold a still scene. VoiceOver describes what is passing. The app supports Dynamic Type. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS Bathysphere is free, with no ads and no account to make. It works offline and sends nothing to us, so there is nothing to track and no data collected. Your journal lives on your iPhone. EXPEDITION, OPTIONAL Expedition is an optional membership. It opens the Hydrothermal Vents, a new zone of black smokers with its own creatures, and includes future zones and creatures as they arrive. The Twilight, Midnight and Abyss zones, their 21 creatures and every widget stay free. Choose a weekly or a yearly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the plan renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in Settings under your name, Subscriptions. Family Sharing is included. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bathysphere.netlify.app/privacy.html Requires iOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

Music Box3 screens
Bathysphere4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Music Box at none against Bathysphere's 2. Music Box also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Bathysphere's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Bathysphere sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Music Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Music Box versus Bathysphere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusic BoxBathysphere
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB46 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperYuma OkamuraNo Worries! Lifestyle, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Music Box

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Bathysphere

Subscriptions2
  • Expedition Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Expedition Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Music Box free?
Music Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bathysphere free?
Bathysphere is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Music Box or Bathysphere have ads?
Music Box shows ads; Bathysphere does not.

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