Songbox Player vs Astiga
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Songbox Player
This app allows private streaming of music, playlists, images, and videos. It offers robust security features like password protection, expiry dates, and view limits for shared content. Ideal for professionals managing audio catalogs.
- Private music streaming
- Secure content sharing
- Password protection
- Downloadable content options
- Lyrics and track notes
- Expiry dates and view limits
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"Songbox Player" is the companion app for songbox.com. Use the app to listen to Songbox links that you've received or that you've created. Songbox is used by Multi-platinum producers, Grammy winning artists & songwriters, and businesses of all sizes. Songbox provides a premium listening experience for playlists, images and videos that you want to share privately and securely. Include lyrics, track notes, artwork. Make your tracks downloadable (or not) and protect them with passwords, expiry dates, view limits and even via PIN codes sent to a specific email address that you define. Songbox is the ultimate way that producers, engineers, songwriters, artists, publishers, labels and anyone who works with audio manages their catalogs.
Astiga
Stream your personal music library from cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Enjoy your music in its native format with support for common audio files. A subscription is required for the service, with a free trial available.
- Stream music from cloud storage
- Supports Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive
- Native format streaming
- Supports MP3, ALAC, M4A formats
- Web player included
- Seven-day free trial
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Stream your own music from cloud storage. Astiga is a music app and service that streams your music collection from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or any other cloud storage service. This app to connect to and play from Astiga is free. However, use of the Astiga service requires a subscription. When registering for Astiga you get a seven day free trial to test the service. The Astiga service also includes a Web player and much more. Astiga streams in native format and supports the default music formats playable on your phone, including MP3, ALAC, MP4 (M4A/M4B/M4P) and others. We're gradually introducing features... Coming soon: music library browsing, playlists, offline sync, and much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Songbox Player at 5.0 against Astiga's 2.0. Songbox Player also leads on monetization model (free vs subscription). Astiga's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Songbox Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Songbox Player ships an update every 6 weeks, Astiga every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Songbox Player | Astiga |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Songbox Technologies Ltd | elsten software limited |
Customer experience
Songbox Player
Astiga
In-app purchases
Songbox Player
No in-app purchases
Astiga
No in-app purchases
