Koel Player vs Stylophone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Stylophone
This app serves as a modern, open-source remote control for a Music Player Daemon (MPD) server. It offers full playback control, playlist management, and library browsing, optimized for iPhone and iPad. It requires a separate MPD server to function.
- Full playback control
- Playlist management
- Library browsing
- Control Center integration
- Album art support
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A modern, open source Music Player Daemon (MPD) client optimized for iPhone and iPad. Buy once, get updates forever. “Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.” This application is meant to act as a remote for a MPD server and won't play any music on its own. Features: - Careful design that makes the most out of your screen real estate - Full playback control - Playlist management (Create, Add/Remove tracks, Delete) - Integration with Control Center - Local Playback of your MPD server's music stream if available - Browse library by albums, or directly by folders - All data is pulled from your MPD Server only - Support for both albumart and readpicture commands for maximum compatibility with your server's cover art library
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Verdict
Koel Player and Stylophone both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Stylophone's written reviews are positive against 60% of Koel Player's. Stylophone also leads on price ($4.99 vs $9.99). Koel Player's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Koel Player costs $9.99 and Stylophone $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Koel Player against 5.0 for Stylophone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Koel Player's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stylophone's.
Koel Player ships an update every 2 months, Stylophone every 13 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Koel Player | Stylophone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $4.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | An Phan | Vincent Alves |
Customer experience
Koel Player
Stylophone
In-app purchases
Koel Player
No in-app purchases
Stylophone
No in-app purchases
