Comparison

TapTunes vs Derecom Music Player

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TapTunes

Explore your music collection through interactive visual displays and gesture-based controls. Rediscover forgotten tracks and enjoy a more intimate connection with your audio library.

Highlights
  • Visual album browsing
  • Gesture playback controls
  • Home screen widget
  • Seamless audio switching
  • Personalized settings
Features
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With TapTunes, you will experience your music collection like never before. Touch, tap, drag, shake, swipe, pinch ‒ you've never been this close to your tunes! By presenting albums visually in a random order, TapTunes brings you much closer to your music than you'd ever get by scrolling through an alphabetical list of artist names. You'll soon find yourself rediscovering old favorites and listening to those forgotten gems lurking around the edges of your music library. After all, if a picture is worth a thousand words, why let words alone do all the talking for your music? Features * Five unique browse displays * Gesture playback controls * Home screen widget, app icon choices, light and dark themes, Shortcut support * Seamless switching between music, audiobooks, and podcasts * Highly personalized, with over 40 settings and counting * And more...

About

Derecom Music Player

Customize your music listening experience with vibrant themes that dynamically change based on album artwork. This app allows you to play your music library, manage your playback queue, and set reminders for library organization.

Highlights
  • Play music library albums and playlists
  • Manage playback queue (add, delete, reorder)
  • Set reminders for library organization
  • Dynamic color themes based on album art
  • Supports Apple Music playback
  • Native iPad support
Features
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Derecom is the brand new music player that finally brings some colors into your listening experience. With Derecom you can: - play all your albums, playlists, and favorite songs from your Music library - manage your up next Queue (e.g. add, delete, reorder, and search items in the queue) - set up Reminders to help you keep your Library in order - choose your favorite Theme, and watch the colors of the app reflect the beautiful artworks of your albums and collections! What else? - Derecom supports playback of Apple Music songs, albums, playlists, and radio stations! - Derecom now supports iPad natively (even split-screen and slide-over) This app is exactly for you if enjoy curating your own music library, but also like streaming new songs and discovering new artists. Feel free to reach out with new ideas that can make Derecom Music Player even better. Known app limitations:  - Apple Music support is limited to playback. You cannot add or delete tracks to your playlists or to your library. However, you can use the Reminders to stack these tasks up until you find the most convenient time to apply these modifications through iTunes or - in a lesser extent - through Music.app - Any reordering of songs in the playback queue is not immediately applied to the actual system queue, because of current iOS limitations (i.e. that's why most players similar to Derecom don't offer queue management features). Derecom will find the right opportunity to apply the new queue (e.g. at song changes), unless you just click the Apply button yourself.

Screenshots

TapTunes4 screens
Derecom Music Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Derecom Music Player at none against TapTunes's 1. Derecom Music Player also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 60%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

TapTunes costs $1.99 and Derecom Music Player $0.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Derecom Music Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, Derecom Music Player every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TapTunes versus Derecom Music Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapTunesDerecom Music Player
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.1 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid BlundellGiuseppe Samela

Customer experience

TapTunes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive52.2%
Neutral8.7%
Negative39.1%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.6%
Negative29.4%

Derecom Music Player

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TapTunes

One-time1
  • Stacked Mode$0.99
None

Derecom Music Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TapTunes free?
TapTunes costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Derecom Music Player free?
Derecom Music Player costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do TapTunes or Derecom Music Player have ads?
Neither TapTunes nor Derecom Music Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TapTunes or Derecom Music Player?
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, and Derecom Music Player every 3 months. Most recently, TapTunes was updated on July 21, 2026 and Derecom Music Player on September 25, 2026.

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