Comparison

TapTunes vs One Big 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

One Big Player

This app allows you to control your offline music library while driving or biking. It offers easy selection of artists, albums, and playlists, with a resume feature that picks up where you left off, including shuffle settings. It's designed for on-device music playback only.

Highlights
  • Offline music playback
  • Driving and biking control
  • Artist, Album, Playlist selection
  • Resume playback feature
  • Shuffle functionality
Features
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Control your music while driving or biking without your readers. Easily select Artists, Albums, and Playlists. You can figure out how to use it by playing with it for a minute or two. While not a CarPlay app, One Big Player is a good companion to CarPlay, keeping the tracks visible on your phone while the car's display shows a single song's details. A great feature is Resume. When you re-open the app it picks up where you left off when you press Resume. If you had pressed the Shuffle before you closed the app, when you press Resume it will present the Album or Playlist tracks, perform a shuffle, and start playing. One Big Player will only play offline (non-cloud based) music so be sure to download the songs you want and get them physically on your iPhone or iPad.

Screenshots

TapTunes4 screens
One Big Player1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: One Big Player at Free against TapTunes's $1.99. One Big Player also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). TapTunes's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 4). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

One Big Player is free to download; TapTunes costs $1.99 up front. TapTunes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. One Big Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

One Big Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TapTunes has 23 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, One Big Player every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TapTunes versus One Big Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapTunesOne Big Player
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (23 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid BlundellStewart French

Customer experience

TapTunes

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

One Big Player

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TapTunes

One-time1
  • Stacked Mode$0.99
None

One Big Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TapTunes free?
TapTunes costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is One Big Player free?
One Big Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TapTunes or One Big Player?
One Big Player is rated higher. TapTunes averages 3.1 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while One Big Player averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do TapTunes or One Big Player have ads?
Neither TapTunes nor One Big Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TapTunes or One Big Player?
TapTunes ships an update every 4 months, and One Big Player every 3 months. Most recently, TapTunes was updated on October 19, 2026 and One Big Player on October 13, 2026.

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