Amperfy Music vs JPLAY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amperfy Music
This app serves as a modern client for interacting with your personal Ampache or Subsonic music servers. It allows you to stream music, podcasts, and radio, with the ability to download content for offline playback. Enjoy features like CarPlay integration, gapless playback, and Siri commands for a seamless listening experience.
- Offline playback
- CarPlay support
- Siri integration
- Gapless playback
- Podcast and Radio support
- Equalizer
- Sleep timer
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Amperfy allows you to play music or podcasts from an Ampache or Subsonic server. Experience a clean, simplistic and modern client for your music server interactions. Download the songs from your music server to play offline. Amperfy requires a private hosted Ampache or Subsonic server installation to function. Features: - Multi account - Offline mode - CarPlay - Gapless playback for appropriate media file formats - Music, Podcast and Radio support - Siri play media command, Siri Shortcuts and App Intents - Equalizer - Replay gain - Sleep timer - 5 star song rating - Favorite song - Sleep Timer - Scrobbling Amperfy is open source and licensed under GPLv3. It can be found at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy Please discuss this app and report all issues at https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/issues
JPLAY
This app is a high-fidelity music player designed for audiophiles. It seamlessly integrates streaming services like Qobuz and Tidal with local music files, offering a unified interface for all your audio content. Experience superior sound quality and discover new music through its intuitive design and advanced features.
- Plays Qobuz, Tidal, and local music files
- Works with most streamers and network DACs
- HQPlayer Control API integration
- Dramatically better sound quality
- Radio feature for music discovery
- Extended playlist management
- Artist bios and album reviews
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JPLAY is an award winning music playback app for audiophiles. It works instantly with nearly every streamer or network DAC on the market. It combines Qobuz, Tidal and local content in a single interface allowing user to access each library separately. Main features: • Beautiful, clean and easy to use app allowing you to play music on nearly all streamers/network DACs - no core needed! (UPnP AV/DLNA) • Plays from Qobuz, Tidal and files on local libraries • HQPlayer Control API – Seamlessly integrate and remotely control HQPlayer directly from JPLAY • Dramatically better sound quality thanks to minimizing network traffic • Radio feature discovers new music for you • Single library, individual library and folder views • Extended playlists management • Advanced search, sort, focus • Artists bios, album reviews etc • Highlighted audiophile formats • My Activity, My history keep your playback stats • Native iOS controls from locked screen • Sharing your favorite music on social media • And much, much more! JPLAY requires an active subscription to access its content and features. Sign up for a JPLAY subscription in the app. New users can enjoy a 14-day free trial period that will be automatically converted into a yearly subscription. Subscription is automatically renewed and charged on a yearly basis. You can cancel it at any time up until the day before renewal and you can at any time turn off the auto renewal.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Amperfy Music at none against JPLAY's 3. Amperfy Music also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 59%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). JPLAY's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. JPLAY sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. Amperfy Music asks for nothing beyond the download.
Amperfy Music holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 135 and 52 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Amperfy Music's written reviews are positive against 59% of JPLAY's.
Amperfy Music ships an update every 3 months, JPLAY every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amperfy Music | JPLAY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (135 ratings) — better | 4.3 (52 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews — better | 58.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dirk Hildebrand | Marcin Ostapowicz |
Customer experience
Amperfy Music
JPLAY
User reviews
Amperfy Music
From 135 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and responsive
- 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
- 🔒 Reliable connection to Navidrome/Subsonic servers
- 💡 Excellent offline playback experience
- 🚀 Fast library sync
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔇 Lack of gapless playback
- 🔇 Missing song volume leveling
- 🔇 Incomplete CarPlay functionality
JPLAY
From 52 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎵 Superior sound quality compared to competitors
- 👍 Intuitive and clean user interface
- 🚀 Fast and responsive app performance
- 🔌 Seamless UPnP/DLNA integration
- 📱 Works without requiring a server
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive subscription pricing ($50/year, $199 lifetime)
- ❌ No monthly subscription option available
- 🐛 Frequent connectivity and playback issues
- 📱 iOS-only application
- 🔄 No cross-device synchronization
Bugs and requests
Amperfy Music
Reported bugs
4 issues- Unknown artist display for manually tagged FLAC files
- Player unable to open certain files
- Inconsistent album art display
- Scrubbing issues causing song skipping
Requested features
9 requests- Lyrics support
- Album shuffle mode
- Customizable cache location
- Airplay support on macOS
- Apple Watch app
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- Chromecast support
- Recently played songs/albums view
- Playlist folders and sorting
- Dark mode
JPLAY
Reported bugs
14 issues- Tracks fail to render or play from Tidal
- App crashes on startup with older iOS versions
- Playback stuttering and lag issues
- Renderer in transition errors
- Device discovery failures
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- Missing cover art for local files
- Playback gets stuck at end of songs
- Random track order despite settings
- Skips tracks mid-playback
- Connection drops with certain streamers
- Metadata not syncing properly
- Album art not loading from Synology/Plex servers
- Qobuz favorites import not working
- Tidal playlist suggestions missing
Requested features
16 requests- Monthly subscription option
- Cross-device synchronization for playlists and favorites
- EQ and tone adjustment controls
- DSD file playback support
- Multi-room audio capability
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- Apple Watch control support
- AirPlay support
- Android version
- Gapless playback improvement
- Family sharing support
- Apple Music integration
- Internet radio support
- Volume control in player screen
- Automatic iCloud backup between devices
- WebDAV support
- Better error messages for troubleshooting
In-app purchases
Amperfy Music
No in-app purchases
JPLAY
- JPLAY Premium14 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Lifetime$149.00
- JPLAY Lifetime$199.00








