Comparison

BandNavi vs Derecom Music Player

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Derecom Music Player

Customize your music listening experience with vibrant themes that dynamically change based on album artwork. This app allows you to play your music library, manage your playback queue, and set reminders for library organization.

Highlights
  • Play music library albums and playlists
  • Manage playback queue (add, delete, reorder)
  • Set reminders for library organization
  • Dynamic color themes based on album art
  • Supports Apple Music playback
  • Native iPad support
Features
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Derecom is the brand new music player that finally brings some colors into your listening experience. With Derecom you can: - play all your albums, playlists, and favorite songs from your Music library - manage your up next Queue (e.g. add, delete, reorder, and search items in the queue) - set up Reminders to help you keep your Library in order - choose your favorite Theme, and watch the colors of the app reflect the beautiful artworks of your albums and collections! What else? - Derecom supports playback of Apple Music songs, albums, playlists, and radio stations! - Derecom now supports iPad natively (even split-screen and slide-over) This app is exactly for you if enjoy curating your own music library, but also like streaming new songs and discovering new artists. Feel free to reach out with new ideas that can make Derecom Music Player even better. Known app limitations:  - Apple Music support is limited to playback. You cannot add or delete tracks to your playlists or to your library. However, you can use the Reminders to stack these tasks up until you find the most convenient time to apply these modifications through iTunes or - in a lesser extent - through Music.app - Any reordering of songs in the playback queue is not immediately applied to the actual system queue, because of current iOS limitations (i.e. that's why most players similar to Derecom don't offer queue management features). Derecom will find the right opportunity to apply the new queue (e.g. at song changes), unless you just click the Apply button yourself.

Screenshots

BandNavi4 screens
Derecom Music Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BandNavi at Free against Derecom Music Player's $0.99. BandNavi also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Derecom Music Player's advantage is update cadence (every 3 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

BandNavi is free to download; Derecom Music Player costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BandNavi ships an update every 24 months, Derecom Music Player every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BandNavi versus Derecom Music Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBandNaviDerecom Music Player
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—83.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 24 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developernewforestar co,.ltdGiuseppe Samela

Customer experience

BandNavi

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Derecom Music Player

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BandNavi

No in-app purchases

None

Derecom Music Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BandNavi free?
BandNavi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Derecom Music Player free?
Derecom Music Player costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do BandNavi or Derecom Music Player have ads?
Neither BandNavi nor Derecom Music Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BandNavi or Derecom Music Player?
BandNavi ships an update every 24 months, and Derecom Music Player every 3 months. Most recently, BandNavi was updated on October 29, 2026 and Derecom Music Player on October 29, 2026.

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