Media Assistant vs Groovalizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Media Assistant
Manage your media files, play audio offline, and edit audio with various tools. This app also includes a web browser with a built-in player to enhance your listening experience.
- File and folder management
- Offline media playback
- Audio editing and tagging
- Web browser with audio player
- File transfer over WiFi
- Batch file renaming
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Media Assistant is a file manager, offline media player, audio converter, audio editor, audio tagger, media joiner, a web browser with a built-in audio player so that you can apply audio effects to enhance your listening experiences [FREE FEATURES] TRANSFER & MANAGE FILES & FOLDERS • Manage your files and create folders for all of your needs • Partly integrated Dropbox Drive, Onedrive Drive • Transfer files and folders between two iDevices OR between your iDevice and PC. Fast and easy transfers over WiFi • Import videos from Photos app • Batch rename files (prefix, suffix, leading zero, regex). Great for naming sample sets (Dance_Vol1_Cm_100bpm_SynthLeadMelody, EDM_Vol2_Kick_909, etc.) AUDIO & VIDEO & MIDI PLAYER • Listen to music offline • Batch Play: Long-press a folder to bring up the menu. • Fully functional MIDI file player with a built in GM Soundfont player, and ability to add custom Soundfonts • Gapless loop • Loop mode, one-shot mode, playlist loop mode, shuffle mode • Simple tap to play audio, video or MIDI file. Tap multiple files to queue them, then shuffle or reorder. • Supports AirPlay, Lock screen controls, PiP(Picture in Picture) • Apply audio effect to enhance listening experience (reverb, simple vocal removal ...) BROWSER • Auto detect streams audio from many websites • Build-in stream player allows you to apply audio effects and buffers streams for playback • Capture multiple streams at once in the buffer and then play back in any desired order • Download files from websites directly into File Manager • Block ads & tracking _/_/_/_/_/ Add-on features _/_/_/_/_/ AUDIO EDITOR BASIC IAP • Free to try - purchase to unlock export to file option. • Edit ID3 tags metadata such as Title, Artist, Album… • Edit markers, play from marker, split at marker • Displays the audio file in 3 modes: waveform, spectrogram, or both • Zoom-in at the audio sample level • Export entire file or export slices • Open multiple files at once • Support history, undo, redo • Spectral editing AUDIO EDITOR UTILITY IAP • Free to try some modules. Preview playback with changes to waveform. Requires purchase to allow saving changes. • Apply Fade,Gain,Normalize,Time stretch,Pitch shift,Reverb • Other audio editor utilities added in the future will be included with this lifetime purchase AUDIO EDITOR VOCAL REMOVAL IAP • Required iOS17 • Vocal Removal using AI • Remove/Isolate vocals AUDIO EDITOR DE-REVERB IAP • Required iOS17 • De-reverb using AI • Remove/Isolate reverb AUDIO TAGGER IAP • Free to try - All features work with a limited number of files. Requires purchase to drag/drop/export files and run as AUv3 module • Manage audio files with tags - e.g Hats, Kick, Percussion, etc • Edit meta-data in-place • Filter list by include/exclude, select multiple tags • Support auto tagging files • Support files in local AAHome, iCloud, AADropbox, AAOnedrive, Mac or Window directories • Built-in Audio player supports simple timestretching/pitch shifting/fade in,out/crop and export with edits (no extra IAP required) • Drag and drop files to other applications such as Logic and Koala, add multiple files to a queue and copy in a single action • Support copy to PasteBoard WEB BROWSER IAP • Free to try - Requires purchase to run as AUv3 module • Run as AUv3 plugin inside DAW host app such as AUM, Logic Pro, Cubasis • Auto detect audio stream from Web Audio API (onemotion chord player, websdr, samplette ...) READ ALOUD IAP • Requires purchase to run as AUv3 module. • Reads text content from web pages • Read aloud with hundreds of voices (including robot, bell, organ) then save to file for offline listening • Can adjust speed and pitch • Great for listening to free ebooks on the web or reading articles aloud AUDIO CONVERTER/JOINER IAP • Extract audio from video files to many different audio file formats • Supports common formats • Select bitrate, sample rate, stereo/mono, dithering • Concatenate multiple audio files or video files
Groovalizer
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Watch your music come alive. Groovalizer turns whatever you're listening to into living, beat-reactive visuals: music on a speaker, your own songs, a party, a band. LISTEN TO ANYTHING Tap Mic on and Groovalizer follows the music around you through the microphone, while your music app keeps playing on the same phone. Or play your own songs, straight from your files. 80+ VISUALS Swipe through beat-reactive visuals built on projectM, the open-source music visualizer engine, from calm to wild, including glowing live-flame mandalas. Browse by mood (Chill, Hype, Trippy, Cosmic, Geometric, Liquid), save favourites, and let Auto-cycle move through them for you. ENDLESS FRACTALS A slow journey through real fractals: hyperbolic tilings, sphere packings, spirals, Mandelbrot and more. Each one melts into the next and changes colour with the music. Paint them with the Webb telescope's Cosmic Cliffs, one of our pictures, or your own photo. ON YOUR TV Mirror your phone to your TV and turn on TV mode: the visual fills the big screen, with the controls out of the way. Made for parties. MAKE CLIPS Record a clip of any visual with your music and save it to Photos or share it anywhere. Vertical, square or wide. MAKE IT YOURS Tune speed and sensitivity, shift the colours, add trails, set a sleep timer. Everything runs on your phone: your music, photos and recordings are never uploaded. GROOVALIZER PRO Free: 14 visuals plus a free Pro visual every day, and 15-second 720p clips. Pro: every visual, your own photos in the fractals, colour and trails, longer clips in 1080p without the watermark, and TV mode without the Groovalizer mark. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, weekly or yearly (the yearly plan starts with a free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when the trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://groovalizer.space/mobile/terms Privacy Policy: https://groovalizer.space/mobile/privacy PHOTOSENSITIVITY WARNING Groovalizer shows moving, flashing and high-contrast visuals. If you or anyone watching has photosensitive epilepsy or is sensitive to flashing light, consult a doctor before use, and stop immediately if you feel unwell. You can slow the visuals down and reduce their intensity at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Groovalizer at daily against Media Assistant's every 8 days. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Media Assistant sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Groovalizer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Media Assistant ships an update every 8 days, Groovalizer daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Media Assistant | Groovalizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 190 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Duc Anh Nguyen | Max Kucera |
In-app purchases
Media Assistant
- Read Aloud & AUv3$1.99
- Audio Converter & Joiner$2.99
- Audio Editor Basic Features$3.99
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- Audio Editor Utilities$3.99
- Audio Editor De-Reverb$4.99
- Audio Editor Vocal Removal$5.99
- Audio Tagger & AUv3$9.99
- Browser AUv3 + IAA$12.99
Groovalizer
- Groovalizer Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Groovalizer Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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