Now Playing Plus vs FS Music Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Now Playing Plus
Enhance your Apple Watch face with convenient audio controls. This app adds corner and circular complications, allowing quick access to playback functions without navigating through menus.
- Corner complications
- Circular complications
- Audio controls
- Quick access
- Customizable watch face
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Now Playing Plus provides corner and circular complications for your Apple Watch face. This gives you easy access to audio controls, without needed to hunt around in the App List or Dock.
FS Music Player
This app allows users to play their owned music on Apple Watch, offering an alternative to streaming services. It supports background playback and Bluetooth audio, with parental controls for managing children's music choices. A PIN lock prevents accidental deletion of music.
- Offline music playback
- Family Setup watch compatibility
- Background audio
- Bluetooth audio support
- Parental music control
- PIN lock for music deletion
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Offline music player, compatible with Family Setup watches. Battle-tested hundreds of hours by my kids! They wanted a way to play their favorite songs they own on their Apple Watch, but the built-in music player only allows Apple Music streaming. This app can load music you own, initially downloaded via https and play through Bluetooth audio in the background. This also lets the parent more closely control the music that their child listens to. Also includes a PIN-lock feature to prevent children from accidentally deleting music from their watch.
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Now Playing Plus at Free against FS Music Player's $4.99. Now Playing Plus also leads on ratings volume (53 vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On rating, 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
Now Playing Plus is free to download; FS Music Player costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for Now Playing Plus against 3.7 for FS Music Player. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Now Playing Plus has 53 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Now Playing Plus's written reviews are positive against 75% of FS Music Player's.
Now Playing Plus ships an update every 9 months, FS Music Player every 11 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Now Playing Plus | FS Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.7 (53 ratings) — better | 3.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Iconfactory | Spaddlewit Inc. |
Customer experience
Now Playing Plus
FS Music Player
In-app purchases
Now Playing Plus
No in-app purchases
FS Music Player
No in-app purchases
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