BurmesterMC vs Bel Canto Seek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BurmesterMC
Control your Burmester MusicCenter, Networkplayer, and AllInOne devices. Manage volume, playlists, ripping, and music browsing with extensive device feature support.
- Volume control
- Playlist management
- Rip process control
- Music content search
- Input selection
- Device feature support
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The BurmesterMC app allows you to control the Burmester 111, 151 MusicCenter, 150 Networkplayer and 161 AllInOne (Phase3). It supports almost all features of the MusicCenter, allowing you to: - control the volume - manage your playlists - control the rip process - search and browse the music content - running through the available inputs and many things more.
Bel Canto Seek
Control your music streaming to network components. Access high-resolution audio from Tidal and Qobuz, stream from USB drives, cloud storage, or internet radio. Manage multiple music libraries seamlessly.
- High-resolution audio streaming (up to 24/192)
- Tidal and Qobuz integration
- USB drive and cloud storage streaming
- DLNA server discovery
- Internet radio streaming (vTuner)
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The Bel Canto Seek app controls music streaming to Bel Canto Network components. Music file streaming up to 24/192 is supported and you can link to your Tidal account for MQA and full CD resolution and your Qobuz account for CD and High Res Streaming. The Seek app also controls the server function of Bel Canto Stream devices to stream music from an attached USB drive, your iOS device, Dropbox or OneDrive accounts. The Seek app will find any DLNA compatible servers on your network for full streaming control of multiple music libraries and includes vTuner worldwide internet radio streaming.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bel Canto Seek at 3.8 against BurmesterMC's 3.0. Bel Canto Seek also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Bel Canto Seek holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bel Canto Seek has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of BurmesterMC's written reviews are positive against 44% of Bel Canto Seek's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BurmesterMC ships an update every 4 months, Bel Canto Seek every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BurmesterMC | Bel Canto Seek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.8 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Burmester Audiosysteme GmbH | Bel Canto Design, Ltd. |
Customer experience
BurmesterMC
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In-app purchases
BurmesterMC
No in-app purchases
Bel Canto Seek
No in-app purchases
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