BandNavi vs Soye Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BandNavi
Discover new bands and music by exploring interconnected musician relationships. Trace networks of band members, features, and collaborations to uncover hidden gems in your music library. Access related music and videos directly from the app.
- Discover bands via musician relationships
- Trace member changes and collaborations
- Play music from your iPod library
- Navigate musician and band networks
- Search YouTube and iTunes for bands
- View band member source web pages
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BandNavi enables you to find new bands and music from relations between musicians. Member changes, featuring, collaborations, etc. are common in music bands. Moreover some musicians have relations with a lot of bands in the case that a support member gives a performance, a composer offers a music, or a guest musician appears at a live and so on. You can find new bands and music by iteratively tracing such relational networks with BandNavi. ■How to use■ ・Play a music stored in your iPod library from the "Library" tab. ・Then, the list of the musicians who participated in the band of the music is shown in the "Navigation" tab. ・In addition, when you tap a musician's name, the list of the bands in which the musician participated is shown. ・Musician > Band > Musician > Band ... You can trace the relations one after another. ・If you have the music of the listed band, Play Button(|>) will be shown on the side of the band name. You can play the music any second by tapping the button. ・When you get interested a band, you can search video clips of the band in YouTube or their music in iTunes Music Store by tapping the Option Button(>) shown on the side of the band name. ■About this application■ ・This application connects to the database server. It is NOT possible to use this application without the network environment. ・The band member information is collected from various web pages by using a web mining technology. Therefore, collected information sometimes includes mistakes. You can confirm which web pages gave the member names from the Option Button(>) shown on the side of the member name. ・When the server doesn't have member names, the member names from the MusicBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/) database will be shown. ・BandNavi has been developed as a part of a research. Please check the following web site for more fine information of the research. Music Information Technology Laboratory -http://gttm.jp/hamanaka/en/ ■Disclaimer■ ・Artist names in your iPhone will be sent to the server automatically (the sent data won't saved in the server). ・The band member names shown in this application are collected by the automatic collection technique from web pages, thus we do NOT ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information which shown in this application. ・The complaint of any damage that occurs by using BandNavi or using its information (buying music in iTunes Music Store, etc.) is not accepted.
Soye Player
A music player designed for simplicity, minimizing unnecessary buttons and functions. It's ideal for users who may accidentally tap incorrect areas. The app has been tested and modifications can be requested.
- Minimalist interface
- Reduced button complexity
- User-tested for accessibility
- Customizable versions available
- Focus on core playback
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This app is a skin for the Apple Music app, intended for handicapped people who cannot read well. The songs must be added to the Apple Music Library, and in the beginning you would want to include only one song per album, because tapping on the album cover is a way to play a song. In the settings there are three ways of distinguishing songs with the same album cover, though.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BandNavi at 3.0 against Soye Player's 1.0. BandNavi also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Soye Player's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 24 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BandNavi holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
BandNavi ships an update every 24 months, Soye Player every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 8, 2026.
| Parameter | BandNavi | Soye Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | newforestar co,.ltd | Roope Koski |
Customer experience
BandNavi
Soye Player
In-app purchases
BandNavi
No in-app purchases
Soye Player
No in-app purchases







