Reflex Radio vs Braided Playlist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reflex Radio
Stream your favorite podcasts and discover the hottest new music with this radio app. Enjoy the same great content with a fresh, updated interface.
- Live radio streaming
- Podcast library
- New music discovery
- Fresh interface
- Favorite shows
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Welcome to the all new Reflex Radio App! Same great music and shows, Fresh new look! Home of your favorite podcasts as well as the hottest new music! Join The New Flex Reflex Radio!
Braided Playlist
This app seamlessly merges individual music playlists into a single shared queue, ensuring fair rotation of songs from each contributor. It facilitates shared listening experiences for families and friends, reducing decision-making time and fostering connection through music.
- Fair turn-taking for songs
- Apple Music integration
- Clean lyrics enforcement
- Smart shuffle rotation
- Flexible group management
- Siri and shortcut support
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The music's on, everyone's happy, and nobody spent five minutes arguing about what to listen to. Braided Playlist takes the playlists everyone has already put together and weaves them into one shared queue. Each person's songs rotating in turn, automatically and fairly. When you're ready to go, you're a tap or voice command away from music everyone actually wants to hear. The road trip is just a road trip. Dinner is just dinner. No one's lobbying for their playlist, nobody feels ignored, and you're not the DJ. It's also quietly something more. When you and your kid each have songs in the queue, music becomes something you share rather than negotiate. You hear what they're into. They hear what shaped you. A song comes on and there's a story behind it or a question. Those small moments have a way of adding up. Key Features: * Fair turn-taking: Every playlist gets equal time, automatically. * Apple Music Integration: Works with playlists you already have and you can send braids to the Apple Music player Queue. * Protect your Apple Music history: Setting to prevent music started by Braided Playlist from impacting your Replay, or recommendations.† * Enforce Clean lyrics: Settings enable automatic replacement of explicit songs with clean versions or omitting them completely.‡ * Smart shuffle: Rotation order is preserved. Favours less recently played and newer tracks. * Flexible groups: Add or remove playlists mid-session without losing the flow * Siri and shortcut support: Play favourite playlist combinations, add / remove playlists, shuffle, or skip hands-free. Try "Braid [Favourite name]", "Add [playlist name] to braid", "Shuffle braid", or "Next song in braid" Download Braided Playlist. Spend less time deciding what to listen to and more time actually together. †Requires iOS 26.4+ ‡Requires tracks to be labelled explicit in Apple Music; clean substitutions require an Apple Music subscription
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Reflex Radio at 5.0 against Braided Playlist's 3.5. Reflex Radio also leads on ratings volume (90 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.5). Braided Playlist's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Reflex Radio holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reflex Radio has 90 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Reflex Radio ships an update every 2 months, Braided Playlist every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reflex Radio | Braided Playlist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (90 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Davis | Shawn Caza |
Customer experience
Reflex Radio
Braided Playlist
In-app purchases
Reflex Radio
No in-app purchases
Braided Playlist
No in-app purchases
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