Creative vs OpenRock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative
Enhance your product's audio performance and personalize sound settings. Manage audio configurations, change sound modes, and set up speakers. Some features may vary by product.
- Manage Super X-Fi setup
- Change sound modes
- Configure custom buttons
- Speaker setup and calibration
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Creative app provides you with various configuration options to enhance the performance of your product and personalize your audio settings. With Creative app, you can: - Manage your Super X-Fi setup - Change sound modes - Configure the custom buttons - Perform speaker setup and calibration Note: - Some features may not be available for all products. Please check your manual for details. - To enjoy the complete experience of Super X-Fi, please download the SXFI App.
OpenRock
Customize your earbuds with this app. Adjust sound settings, gestures, and power options. Keep your earbuds updated with the latest firmware.
- Equalizer settings
- Gesture customization
- Spatial sound control
- Sound balance adjustment
- Auto power off settings
- Voice prompt options
- Find my buds feature
- Firmware upgrades
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The OpenRock application is designed to elevate the operational experience of OpenRock earbuds. Through this application, you can personalize various functions of the earbuds, including the equalizer, gestures, spatial sound, sound balance, auto power off, voice prompts, find my buds, firmware upgrades, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: OpenRock at 3.0 against Creative's 2.2. OpenRock also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Creative's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OpenRock holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creative has 34 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Creative ships an update every 2 months, OpenRock every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative | OpenRock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (34 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Creative Labs Pte. Ltd. | YI Zhao (SHENZHEN) Co.,limited |
Customer experience
Creative
OpenRock
Bugs and requests
Creative
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Firmware upgrade failures
- Settings not saving properly
Requested features
3 requests- Support for more Creative devices
- Improved Mac/iOS compatibility
- Enhanced EQ and sound customization options
OpenRock
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Creative
No in-app purchases
OpenRock
No in-app purchases
