Comparison

Offline Audio Player vs Spiral

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Offline Audio Player

Features
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Offline Player — Music & Video, No Internet Required Enjoy your music and videos anywhere, anytime with Offline Player. This fast, distraction-free media player plays songs and videos straight from your device's local storage — no streaming, no internet connection, no accounts. Perfect for commutes, gym sessions, flights, or quiet evenings at home. Supported File Formats Audio: MP3, WAV, MIDI, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, M4A Video: MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI, MKV Features - Offline Video Playback: Watch your local video library with full native controls, fullscreen, AirPlay, and Picture-in-Picture support. - 5-Band Equalizer: Fine-tune your sound with adjustable EQ bands and one-tap presets — Flat, Bass Boost, Treble Boost, and Vocal. - Sleep Timer: Fall asleep to your music with a timer that stops playback after a set duration or at the end of the current track. - Adjustable Playback Speed: Slow down or speed up playback from 0.5x to 2x. - Volume Boost: Add extra gain for quiet recordings. - Haptic Feedback: Subtle tactile feedback on transport controls. - Folder-Based Library: Point the app at any folder on your device and browse your music and videos by their existing folder structure — no forced re-organizing. - Dark Mode: A sleek, dark-themed interface built for low-light listening and viewing. - Simple, Distraction-Free UI: Browse your library and play your media without clutter or unnecessary permissions.

About

Spiral

This app organizes and plays your existing music library from cloud storage or local files. It offers various playback and library management features, allowing you to stream or download songs for offline listening. Customize your music experience with different layouts and tag editing.

Highlights
  • Connects to cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
  • Plays local device files
  • Organizes music into library views (songs, albums, artists)
  • Offline playback via downloads
  • Editable tags and artwork
  • Multiple playback layouts
  • Background playback and lock screen controls
Features
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Spiral Player plays the music you already own. Point it at a cloud drive, a WebDAV server or the files on this device, and it reads the tags and builds a library out of what it finds — songs, albums, artists, genres, folders. There is no catalogue to subscribe to and nothing to upload anywhere new. CONNECT YOUR STORAGE • Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and pCloud • Nextcloud, ownCloud and any WebDAV server • Files already on this iPhone or iPad • More than one account per service, so two Google Drives sit side by side Stream a song straight off the drive, or keep it on the device and play it with no signal at all. A LIBRARY, NOT A FILE LIST Songs, albums, artists, genres, folders and playlists, each with its own sort order and a list or grid view. Search by title, album, artist or genre. Favourites, Most Played and Last Played build themselves. Blacklist a song or a whole folder and it stops appearing; turn on Hide Duplicates and one copy shows. PLAYBACK • MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and AC3 • Background playback, lock screen and Control Centre, AirPlay • A Now Playing widget for the home screen • Repeat one, repeat all, shuffle, and a queue you can reorder • Embedded lyrics, or search the web for the rest • Sleep timer • Playback speed, remembered across restarts if you want it FIVE NOW PLAYING LAYOUTS Classic keeps the artwork above the controls with the queue along the bottom. Immersive runs the artwork full width over a card of controls. Circle spins the cover as a record inside a ring of visualizer. Card floats the cover over its own blurred backdrop. Full puts every action on screen in two rows under the transport. TAGS AND ARTWORK Edit title, artist, album, album artist, genre, year and track number, one song or a whole selection at once. The edits live in the app; the files on your drive are left exactly as they are. Replace album art with your own picture. DOWNLOADS Save a song, an album or a whole folder to the device. Downloaded Only mode hides everything still in the cloud, so the library on a plane is the library you can actually play. Cap the streaming cache at a size you choose, or clear it. BACKUP AND RESTORE Write playlists, favourites, blacklist, bookmarks, sort orders and artist info to one file, and restore it on another device or after a reinstall. SPIRAL PLAYER PRO The free app streams from every service above with one account each, and browses, searches, sorts, queues and plays the whole library. Pro is one purchase, not a subscription, and adds: no ads; saving songs, albums and folders offline; audio bookmarks; the tag editor; playback speed; custom playlist artwork; four more Now Playing layouts and the visualizer; and a second account on any service. It is held by your Apple Account and restored with one button on any device you sign into. Twenty-two languages. VoiceOver labels throughout, Dynamic Type, and a library a screen reader reads row by row.

Screenshots

Offline Audio Player4 screens
Spiral4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Offline Audio Player at none against Spiral's 1. Offline Audio Player also leads on ads (none vs shown). Spiral's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spiral sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Offline Audio Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Offline Audio Player ships an update every 14 months, Spiral every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Offline Audio Player versus Spiral: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffline Audio PlayerSpiral
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKalidass Periya MahalingamRehan Shaikh

In-app purchases

None

Offline Audio Player

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Spiral

One-time1
  • Spiral Player Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Offline Audio Player free?
Offline Audio Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spiral free?
Spiral is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Offline Audio Player or Spiral have ads?
Spiral shows ads; Offline Audio Player does not.
Which is updated more often, Offline Audio Player or Spiral?
Offline Audio Player ships an update every 14 months, and Spiral every 2 months. Most recently, Offline Audio Player was updated on October 27, 2026 and Spiral on October 22, 2026.

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