Fintunes vs Koel Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fintunes
Stream your music library from Jellyfin with a beautiful interface. Enjoy high-quality audio playback, search your entire collection, or play curated playlists. Offline playback is also available for downloaded tracks.
- Jellyfin media system integration
- High-quality audio streaming
- Search entire music library
- Playlist playback
- Offline music downloads
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Fintunes is a streaming audio player for the Jellyfin media system. It features a gorgeous interface that allows you to play your favourite music with ease. You can search your entire library for any track, or just take it easy with a playlist that you've created earlier in Jellyfin. All tracks are streamed directly at the highest quality from your Jellyfin library. Streaming not always an option? Any track in your Jellyfin library can be downloaded and played offline.
Koel Player
Stream your personal music library from your self-hosted Koel server. Enjoy features like queueing, playlist management, and lyrics. Cache songs for offline playback.
- Stream from Koel server
- Queue and play music
- Like/unlike songs
- Playlist manipulation
- View lyrics and media info
- Cache music for offline playback
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The official mobile player for Koel (https://koel.dev), the open-source self-hosted music streaming service. With Koel Player you can connect to and stream your music from your own Koel server. Koel Player supports most of the features found in the web-based version: - Queue and play music - Like/unlike songs - Manipulate playlists - View lyrics and media information In addition, Koel Player allows caching music for local playback. More features are planned.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fintunes at Free against Koel Player's $9.99. Fintunes also leads on ratings volume (30 vs 1) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). Koel Player's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.9). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Fintunes is free to download; Koel Player costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Koel Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fintunes has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Fintunes's written reviews are positive against 50% of Koel Player's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fintunes | Koel Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Falkland BV | An Phan |
Customer experience
Fintunes
Koel Player
In-app purchases
Fintunes
No in-app purchases
Koel Player
No in-app purchases
