Golden Ear vs B3X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Golden Ear
This app is a high-quality audio player designed for audiophiles, supporting a wide range of lossless music formats. It offers advanced features like CUE file support, customizable playlists, and file management directly on your device.
- Supports FLAC, APE, WAV, WavPack, AIFF, ALAC
- CUE file support for track listing
- Album art display
- File management on device
- Multiple playback modes
- AirPlay support
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* All in one lossless music player: FLAC+APE+WAV+WavPack+AIFF+ALAC * Designed for audiophiles Golden Ear is a lossless music player. It supports all common lossless audio formats, including FLAC, APE, WAV, WavPack,AIFF, ALAC. It also recognizes accompanying CUE files, and lists individual tracks so you can pick up your favorite one very easily. You just need to make sure CUE file shares same file name with the music file. Similarly, to display the cover art, you just provide the image file with same name. Golden Ear recognizes embedded cover art and CUESHEET comment tag inside flac files. Music files can be grouped either by artists or by albums. You can also show all files in one single playlist, or only files in a chosen folder. Golden Ear provides a straight forward control interface. You can use three playback modes: 1) Continuing in order; 2) Shuffle; 3) Loop one track/song. Just put your collection onto your device via iTunes file sharing, then you can start listening to high quality audio everywhere you go. FEATURES - Support up to 24bit/96KHz lossless audio. - Support AirPlay. - Support "Open In..". - Support FTP file transfer. - CUE file supported. Same name as audio file. Recommended: UTF8 Encoding. - LRC file supported. Same name as audio file. Recommended: UTF8 Encoding. - ZIP/RAR import and decompress. - Create/Rename/Delete folders right on device - Move/Rename/Delete files right on device - Album cover art(*.jpg,*.png, …). Same name as audio file or use the form "Album Title.jpg". - Sleep timer. - Rich set of playlist themes NOTES - iPad/iPhone4/iPod Touch 4g or later. Earlier models may not be smooth in playing. - Please use high quality earphone
B3X
Access exclusive content and join a community focused on skill development. This app provides unique resources to help users improve their abilities across various products and services. It's free to install and offers a wealth of information.
- Exclusive content access
- Community engagement
- Skill enhancement resources
- Product and service information
- Free installation
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: B3X at Free against Golden Ear's $4.99. B3X also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 57%) and rating (5.0 vs 3.8). Golden Ear's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On 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
B3X is free to download; Golden Ear costs $4.99 up front. B3X sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Golden Ear asks for nothing beyond the download.
B3X holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Golden Ear has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Golden Ear's written reviews are positive against 100% of B3X's.
Golden Ear ships an update every 6 weeks, B3X every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Golden Ear | B3X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 潮激 李 | FOURSCORE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY |
Customer experience
Golden Ear
B3X
In-app purchases
Golden Ear
No in-app purchases
B3X
- $0.99$0.991 Month
- $9.99$9.991 Month
- $99.99$99.991 Month









