Prelude vs Metasonic Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prelude
Discover new music and artists with personalized recommendations. Track your favorite songs, artists, and albums, and save them to curated playlists. Gain insights into your listening habits.
- Track favorite songs, artists, and albums
- Personalized music recommendations
- Save music to playlists
- Music insights and discovery
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Track your favorite songs, artists, and albums. Get recommendations based on your favorite songs and artists and save them to a playlist.
Metasonic Player
This audio player allows you to enjoy local music files and your Apple Music library. It displays comprehensive metadata for each track and offers robust queue management with precise playback controls. Supports a wide range of audio formats.
- Full metadata display
- Apple Music library integration
- Direct file opening
- Customizable queues
- Precise playback controls
- Supports FLAC, WAV, MP3, M4A, AAC, AIFF
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Metasonic Player is a focused audio player for local music files and your Apple Music library. See full metadata while you listen, including artist, album, composer, genre, year, track number, comments, file type, and more. Open audio directly from Files, or browse your Library by playlists, artists, albums, songs, genres, and composers. Build queues by selecting tracks in the order you want. Add tracks one by one, use Select All, shuffle the queue, and skip forward or back with precise playback controls. Supports most audio formats including FLAC, WAV, MP3, M4A, AAC, AIFF, and more. Free. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.
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Verdict
Prelude and Metasonic Player are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Prelude against 5.0 for Metasonic Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.
Prelude ships an update every 5 weeks, Metasonic Player every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Prelude | Metasonic Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charlotte Moche | Matthew Lennig |
Customer experience
Prelude
Metasonic Player
In-app purchases
Prelude
No in-app purchases
Metasonic Player
No in-app purchases
