FloatingPlayer vs Wind Crusher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FloatingPlayer
Control your music playback over any other application using a picture-in-picture overlay. Connects with Spotify and Apple Music for seamless control.
- Picture-in-picture playback controls
- Spotify integration
- Apple Music integration
- Customizable player appearance
- Always accessible overlay
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FloatingPlayer is an always accessible music player which you can use on any app. FloatingPlayer creates a now playing view with playback controls that you can access through Picture in Picture. Open FloatingPlayer to connect to Spotify or Apple Music, change the player to your liking and press the start button. A floating player will be created which you can use anywhere to control your music. A Spotify account or access to your Music library is required to use FloatingPlayer and some features such as playback control may require Spotify Premium.
Wind Crusher
Transform clean audio into something more dynamic with this AUv3 effect. Add air, fizz, bite, and digital texture to vocals, pads, guitars, and snares. Explore subtle quantisation effects or push it for aggressive digital distortion.
- Adds air, fizz, and bite
- Digital texture and movement
- Adjustable Bit Depth
- Swoosh for movement
- Texture Tone control
- Air EQ for high frequencies
- Mix control for wet/dry blend
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Turn clean sounds into something more alive. Wind Crusher is an AUv3 effect for adding air, fizz, bite and digital movement to pads and fragile vocals in particular, but also electric guitars and snares can benefit. It starts where many bitcrushers stop. Instead of immediately destroying your sound with extreme lo-fi distortion, Wind Crusher lets you explore the subtle texture created by quantisation — adding digital residue while keeping the original character intact. Use the large AIR control to mix in and out the sound appropriately, then fine-tune the result with: • Bit Depth for controlling the digital resolution • Swoosh for adding movement and texture • Texture Tone for shaping the character • Air EQ for opening up the high frequencies • Mix for blending the effect with the original Use it subtly to add breath and presence. Push it harder for brittle edges, fizz, aggressive breakup and obvious digital destruction. Wind Crusher is designed to be quick to use, but deep enough to experiment with. A small set of presets helps you explore different characters without needing to understand every DSP parameter. Some of the effects in Wind Crusher rely on sounds within the 350-2000 Hz range and so you may get more audible results if your input sound contains frequencies in that range. Made for musicians, producers and sound designers who want to add a little extra to their clean sounds. Wind Crusher is built as an AUv3 Audio Unit for use with compatible music apps and hosts on Apple platforms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wind Crusher at 5.0 against FloatingPlayer's 4.6. Wind Crusher also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). FloatingPlayer's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On review sentiment, 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
FloatingPlayer costs $1.99 and Wind Crusher $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wind Crusher holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FloatingPlayer has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of FloatingPlayer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wind Crusher's.
FloatingPlayer ships an update every 3 months, Wind Crusher every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FloatingPlayer | Wind Crusher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | INNOVATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | ADBC INNOVATION PTY LTD |
Customer experience
FloatingPlayer
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In-app purchases
FloatingPlayer
No in-app purchases
Wind Crusher
No in-app purchases
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