Music Player vs Penta
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Music Player
Manage your music library with this fast and simple player. Enjoy playback controls, lyrics, cover art, and playlist management with a visually appealing interface.
- Tap to play/stop
- Rotation effect during playback
- Swipe for next/previous song
- View lyrics and cover art
- Playlist management
- Playback controls (volume, shuffle, repeat)
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A beautiful music player that manage your songs library in a simple and fast way. Features: - tap on the CD to play/stop the track; - beautiful rotation effect during playback; - swipe right/left to load the next/previous song; - look at the lyrics and cover; - left/right audio VU meters; - load your favorite playlist; - manage playback with volume, tracking, shuffle and repeat.
Penta
This app recreates the experience of a vintage five-disc CD changer on your Apple devices. It meticulously simulates the sounds and visual details of a classic hi-fi component, allowing you to browse your Apple Music library as if it were a physical CD collection.
- Five-disc carousel simulation
- Realistic sound effects
- Jewel-case browser
- Apple Music library integration
- Customizable display options
- iCloud sync for saved discs
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Penta turns your iPhone, iPad or iPhone Duo into a five-disc CD changer — the hi-fi component you grew up with, rebuilt for your Apple Music library. Open a jewel case, drop the disc into the carousel, and play. Every detail is here: the fluorescent display, the motorized carousel, the power-on self-test, a disc winding up to speed before it plays, and the clunk as it comes to a stop. ON IPHONE DUO The phone is the jewel case. Close it and you're holding the album; open it and the case opens with it. Open flat for the whole deck, or fold it like a laptop for your CD wallet above the tray. FEATURES • A real five-disc carousel — load, spin, and swap discs by hand • Real sounds, recorded from a five-disc changer: key clicks, the tray, the platter turning and a disc set down • A different deck each way up: the full carousel sideways, a CD wallet over the tray upright • Jewel-case browser — open the case and drag the disc out, or drop it straight into any of the five slots • Plays your Apple Music library in full, with real album art on every disc • Keys you can feel — on iPhone every key clicks under your thumb • Magazines — save a set of five discs and reload the whole cartridge later • Favorites, whole-library search, and Apple Music catalog search • A vacuum-fluorescent display with track, time, and format readouts • Any way up on iPad, and in resizable windows • Favorites and saved magazines sync across your devices via iCloud PENTA PRO A one-time unlock: Real CD Artwork (beta) shows the actual printed disc instead of the album cover, plus the full phosphor-colour set, the analog needle and VU meters, a gentle readable spin, the minimal readout, and unlimited saved magazines. The free deck plays your whole library with no limits. Albums you own play without a subscription. Streaming from the Apple Music catalog needs an Apple Music subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Penta at 100% against Music Player's 44%. Penta also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 1.0). Music Player's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On ratings volume, 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
Penta is free to download; Music Player costs $0.99 up front. Penta sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Music Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Penta holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Music Player's written reviews are positive against 100% of Penta's.
Music Player ships an update every 3 months, Penta weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Music Player | Penta |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giuseppe Cigala | John Seubert |
Customer experience
Music Player
Penta
In-app purchases
Music Player
No in-app purchases
Penta
- Penta Pro$2.99









