Bakstage vs Playfyn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bakstage
This app allows users to engage in live audio conversations and create podcasts, fostering community interaction. It connects fans, celebrities, and brands for discussions on diverse topics and facilitates event scheduling and promotion.
- Live audio conversations
- Podcast creation
- Community building
- Event scheduling
- Content discovery
- Social sharing
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Introducing Bakstage from the team that built FLYX. Bakstage is a space for people to interact with real people via live audio conversations and create amazing podcasts. Bakstage helps you build strong communities by bringing fans, celebrities, personalities, brands, influencers into one space. You can talk or join conversations about various topics like movies, shows, sports, tech, news, finance, social causes, politics, etc. Schedule your future live events. Invite co-hosts and guest speakers, create buzz and build your community by sharing links and get direct access to people interested in your content. You can serendipitously discover amazing people and amazing content on Bakstage, find interesting conversations to join or even start one to showcase your talent to the world. Invite your friends, follow a diverse group of people and start having interesting conversations. Live stream your thoughts, music, jokes, or other interesting ideas with thousands of listeners and grow your following. Share your live voice rooms on social media - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and more to invite your friends to join the conversation. In short, Bakstage is creator’s ultimate platform. Bakstage also has FLYX built into it, a fun streaming social network that helps you discover what to watch and where to watch movies and shows that you will absolutely love. With FLYX you can share your best movies and shows with your friends. Keep yourself updated with trending movies and shows across various platforms - Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, Hulu, iTunes, Hotstar, Apple TV+, HBO, Fandango, CBS, NBC, AltBalaji, Zee5, MX Player, Peacock and many more.
Playfyn
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Playfyn is a beautiful, fast client for your own Jellyfin media server — built for people who care how their library looks and plays. Point it at your server, sign in, and your movies and shows are ready on Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. PLAYBACK THAT RESPECTS YOUR FILES • Full-quality 4K HDR10 and Dolby Vision passthrough — your files play as they were mastered, not re-encoded • MKV and more play seamlessly; when a transcode is genuinely needed, Playfyn degrades gracefully and automatically • Surround audio (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus) with smart track selection that keeps quality high • Automatic intro and credits skipping (with the Intro Skipper plugin) • Continuous playback, resume anywhere, and an Up Next row that keeps your place across devices MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN • Apple TV: a fast, focus-driven interface designed for the big screen, with a Top Shelf and light/dark looks • iPhone and iPad: Picture in Picture, AirPlay, background audio with full lock-screen controls, and cellular data protection that caps streaming quality on the go • iPad multitasking: Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY • A rich home screen with a featured carousel, Up Next, favorites, and recently added • Powerful library browsing: filter by genre or resolution, sort your way, search everything • Playback stats HUD for the curious: live codec, bitrate, and resolution info PRIVATE BY DESIGN Playfyn talks only to your Jellyfin server. No accounts with us, no analytics, no tracking — the App Privacy label is "Data Not Collected," and we mean it. FREE TO TRY, ONE PURCHASE EVERYWHERE Try Playfyn free. Upgrading to Playfyn Pro unlocks unlimited playback with a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase — and universal purchase means one buy covers Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad. REQUIREMENTS Playfyn requires your own Jellyfin server (free, open-source software — jellyfin.org) on your home network or reachable remotely. Playfyn ships with no media content; you bring your own library. Playfyn is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Jellyfin project. PLAYFYN PRO — SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • Playfyn Pro Monthly — $4.99 per month, auto-renewing • Playfyn Pro Lifetime — $39.99, one-time purchase, does not renew Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings > your Apple Account > Subscriptions. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Terms of Use (EULA): https://playfyn.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://playfyn.app/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Playfyn at 5.0 against Bakstage's 4.3. Playfyn also leads on ads (none vs shown). Bakstage's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. Playfyn sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Bakstage asks for nothing beyond the download.
Playfyn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bakstage has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bakstage | Playfyn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flyx Entertainment Inc. | Playfyn Media LLC |
In-app purchases
Bakstage
No in-app purchases
Playfyn
- Playfyn Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
- Playfyn Pro - Lifetime$39.99









