TapTunes vs One Big Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Visual album browsing
- Gesture playback controls
- Home screen widget
- Seamless audio switching
- Personalized settings
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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...
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.
- Offline music playback
- Driving and biking control
- Artist, Album, Playlist selection
- Resume playback feature
- Shuffle functionality
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | TapTunes | One Big Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.1 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Blundell | Stewart French |
Customer experience
TapTunes
One Big Player
In-app purchases
TapTunes
- Stacked Mode$0.99
One Big Player
No in-app purchases
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