BandNavi vs ClassicalPlayer
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.
ClassicalPlayer
Organize and play your local music library by composer and piece. This app presents your music arranged by classical works, allowing you to select specific movements for playback. It offers alternative views by album, artist, songs, and playlists.
- Organize music by composer and piece
- Play movements in order
- View music by album, artist, songs, playlists
- Extracts piece and movement names from track names
- Works with device's music library
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Is music more to you than just "songz"? When picking something to listen to, are you as likely to think of a composer and piece as an album? Is "shuffle play" on a symphony more than a little silly? ClassicalPlayer may be for you! ClassicalPlayer works with your device's music library. By contrast, Apple Classical and Apple Music are streaming services. They stream music from Apple's servers to your device; ClassicalPlayer organizes the library on your device. ClassicalPlayer presents your iPhone's or iPad's music library to you arranged by composer and pieces. Choose, for instance "Beethoven," and from the list of pieces of his that you have, choose "Symphony no. 5", and see the 4 movements ready to play in order. Push the play button, and ClassicalPlayer plays the movements (in order) and then pauses. You can also view your music by album or artist, and as songs and playlists. How does ClassicalPlayer find pieces, e.g., symphonies, in an album? By comparing the names of successive tracks. This isn't foolproof, but it works surprisingly well. ClassicalPlayer extracts piece and movement names from track names and presents your music organized by pieces. More details: https://www.tyndalesoft.com/classicalplayer/index.html Privacy policy: https://www.tyndalesoft.com/classicalplayer/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BandNavi at Free against ClassicalPlayer's $0.99. BandNavi also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). ClassicalPlayer's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 9 months vs every 24 months). On ads, in-app purchases 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
BandNavi is free to download; ClassicalPlayer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ClassicalPlayer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
BandNavi ships an update every 24 months, ClassicalPlayer every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BandNavi | ClassicalPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #198 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | newforestar co,.ltd | Frederick Kuhl |
Customer experience
BandNavi
ClassicalPlayer
In-app purchases
BandNavi
No in-app purchases
ClassicalPlayer
No in-app purchases
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