Spiral vs LoopPocket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
LoopPocket
Easily save and replay your favorite audio snippets from any source. Organize and instantly access the exact moments you love, offline and without interruptions. Create playlists and mark favorites for quick retrieval.
- Save and replay audio moments
- Offline playback
- Background listening
- Organize with playlists
- Mark favorites
- No ads or account required
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Keep the best moment. Play it on repeat. Saved hundreds of sounds on TikTok but can never find the one you want? Ever replay a three-minute song just to hear the fifteen seconds you actually love? LoopPocket turns that chaos into a library of your favorite moments. Open it, tap once, and your moment plays. No scrolling. No waiting. No endless song. IMPORT. SAVE. LISTEN. Add the sounds you never want to lose. Keep the part that truly matters. Find it instantly in your library. Play it on repeat, offline and in the background. Organize your sounds with playlists and favorites. FREE TO START Save up to 5 loops for free. Unlock unlimited loops with a monthly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. NO ADS. NO ACCOUNT. EVERYTHING STAYS LOCAL. Your sounds stay on your phone. No account to create. No cloud to manage. No ads interrupting your listening. Never lose a sound you love again. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LoopPocket at 5.0 against Spiral's 4.0. LoopPocket also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Spiral sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LoopPocket sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LoopPocket holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Spiral ships an update every 2 months, LoopPocket every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spiral | LoopPocket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rehan Shaikh | Kevin Borges Da SIlva |
Customer experience
Spiral
LoopPocket
In-app purchases
Spiral
- Spiral Player Pro$7.99
LoopPocket
- Unlimited Monthly$2.991 Month
- Early Member Lifetime$12.99









