RecordScratch vs Vinyl Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RecordScratch
Discover new music, share your opinions, and connect with other listeners. Rate albums and songs, follow friends, and explore trending music. It's a social hub for music lovers to share their tastes and find new favorites.
- Rate and review albums and songs
- Search for music and users
- Social feed with reviews
- Follow other users
- Set top albums, songs, and artists
- Daily highlighted album
- View trending albums
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RecordScratch is the ultimate music-rating and social hub. Find new music, rate your recent listens, and connect with fellow music enthusiasts. Our app includes the following features with more to come: - Rate and review your favourite (or least favourite) albums and songs - Search for albums, artists, songs, and other users - Social features such as a feed of reviews, following, commenting and more - Set your top 6 albums, songs, and artists - Highlighted album each day to expand your music taste - View the top-rated and trending albums We are a small, passionate team that thrives on your feedback and input. Please email us at support@recordscratch.app or join our discord here: https://discord.gg/X3X9qrHMUJ
Vinyl Player
This app transforms your digital music library into a tactile vinyl experience. It visualizes albums as unique records in customizable rooms, allowing you to curate and display your collection.
- Album visualization as unique vinyl records
- Customizable listening rooms
- Interactive record display and collection management
- Dynamic Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
- Apple Watch app with complication
- iCloud sync across devices
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treaming gave us every song at once. Vinyl Player is for the ones you'd actually put on. Play an album in Apple Music and it becomes a record: pressed in the album's own colours, cut so no two are alike, turning on a platter in a room made for your music. Hang the ones that matter on your wall. Take one down. Put it on. LISTENING, ON PURPOSE A hundred million songs is a library. The ones you keep coming back to are a collection. Vinyl Player doesn't replace Apple Music; it sits on top of it. Your subscription, your library, your queue. It just changes how it feels to press play. A ROOM MADE FOR YOUR MUSIC Plaster, walnut, velvet, a midnight room with smoke hanging in the light, or a night sky. Lamp moods from candlelight to neon, or let the record light the room in its own colour. Lighting that breathes with the tempo of the song. A tonearm that sweeps inward as the side plays, and a needle drop you can feel. The interface settles the longer a record plays, so the music is what's left. YOUR RECORDS, ON THE WALL Swipe up from the deck and the room opens onto your collection: sleeves on wooden ledges, sorted onto shelves you name. Tap a cover and the sleeve rises, the record slides out, and the tracklist scrolls up behind it. Play a side, or a song, or spin the record in your hand just to look at it. EVERY ALBUM GETS ITS OWN PRESSING Each album is pressed once, just for you. If a pressing doesn't feel right, re-press it until it does. Keep coming back to a record and it may come back to you a little changed. EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN The record on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it plays. The same pressing spinning on your Apple Watch, with the crown to skip and a complication to show what's on. Your wall, shelves and pressings follow you to the Mac through iCloud. Vinyl Player needs an Apple Music subscription. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Vinyl Player at none against RecordScratch's shown. Vinyl Player also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). RecordScratch's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | RecordScratch | Vinyl Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RecordScratch | Heart & Hustle |
Customer experience
RecordScratch
Vinyl Player
In-app purchases
RecordScratch
No in-app purchases
Vinyl Player
No in-app purchases









