Stezza Music Player vs FloatingPlayer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stezza Music Player
This application offers a streamlined and visually appealing method for accessing and enjoying your existing music and video library. It provides essential playback features within an intuitive interface designed for ease of use.
- Adaptive album themes
- Custom color themes
- Video playback
- Accessibility support
- Simple interface
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Stezza is the music player where your record collection and Apple Music share the same stage. Equal billing, no second-class library tab. For years your library has been the also ran, buried behind algorithmic feeds and endless suggestions. Stezza puts it back front and centre, and puts Apple Music right beside it. Two tabs at the top. Same player. Same queue. Your records and your streaming, finally on level ground. Playback • Your music library and Apple Music in one player, and in one queue • Beautiful mesh backgrounds drawn from your album art • Floating glass mini player, reachable from every screen • Full screen player with big buttons Search • Unified search, scoped to your library or Apple Music • Songs, albums, artists and playlists are grouped into one result view • Recent searches remembered, because who remembers! Apple Music • Rich artist pages with Play, Shuffle, Station, top songs, full discography, related artists • Album detail with track list, Play, and Shuffle Design • If you got this far, just know its been painstakingly designed • Like every pixel • Full accessibility support Built by one developer who still listens front to back. Indie developed.
FloatingPlayer
Control your music playback over any other application using a picture-in-picture overlay. Connects with Spotify and Apple Music for seamless control.
- Picture-in-picture playback controls
- Spotify integration
- Apple Music integration
- Customizable player appearance
- Always accessible overlay
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FloatingPlayer is an always accessible music player which you can use on any app. FloatingPlayer creates a now playing view with playback controls that you can access through Picture in Picture. Open FloatingPlayer to connect to Spotify or Apple Music, change the player to your liking and press the start button. A floating player will be created which you can use anywhere to control your music. A Spotify account or access to your Music library is required to use FloatingPlayer and some features such as playback control may require Spotify Premium.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Stezza Music Player at Free against FloatingPlayer's $1.99. Stezza Music Player also leads on ratings volume (136 vs 27). FloatingPlayer's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (94% vs 74%). On update cadence, 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
Stezza Music Player is free to download; FloatingPlayer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FloatingPlayer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stezza Music Player has 136 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Stezza Music Player's written reviews are positive against 94% of FloatingPlayer's.
Stezza Music Player ships an update every 2 months, FloatingPlayer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stezza Music Player | FloatingPlayer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.9 (136 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.8% of reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 136 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foobar Creative | INNOVATIVE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
Customer experience
Stezza Music Player
FloatingPlayer
In-app purchases
Stezza Music Player
No in-app purchases
FloatingPlayer
No in-app purchases
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