Metasonic Player vs REWIND Cassette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
REWIND Cassette
Experience your music library with the nostalgic feel of a cassette tape. This app offers realistic tape deck simulations, including VU meters and classic machine recreations, along with tools to enhance your audio and create custom mixtapes. Enjoy background playback and lock-screen controls without ads or data collection.
- Realistic tape deck playback
- Four classic cassette machine emulations
- Full tape tone studio with EQ and saturation
- Create custom mixtapes
- Background and lock-screen playback
- No ads or data collection
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REWIND is a retro cassette player that puts the streaming era back into the warmth of a tape deck. - Tape deck playback: skeuomorphic transport, VU meters, and deck textures for your own music library. - Four classic machines: pixel-faithful recreations of a 3-head studio deck, a dot-matrix-meter deck, a SUPER BASS portable, and a pocket auto-reverse player. - Sound studio: EQ and a full tape tone chain — warmth, hiss, wow & flutter, saturation. - Mixtapes: arrange your songs onto Side A and Side B of a C-90, complete with a mood curve and J-card. - Background and lock-screen playback with full Now Playing integration. Your music never leaves your phone. No account, no ads, no data collection. REWIND Pro (one-time purchase) unlocks all 4 decks, the sound studio, all transport FX, and unlimited mixtapes. The pocket deck and playback of your own files are free forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Metasonic Player at 5.0 against REWIND Cassette's 1.0. Metasonic Player also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. REWIND Cassette sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Metasonic Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Metasonic Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Metasonic Player | REWIND Cassette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Lennig | maoyuan wen |
In-app purchases
Metasonic Player
No in-app purchases
REWIND Cassette
- REWIND Pro Lifetime$9.99
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