Comparison

528 Player Plus vs aud

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

Head to head
About

528 Player Plus

This app retunes your entire music library to the 528 Hz Solfeggio frequency in real-time. Experience your favorite songs with a new sense of harmony and restoration without altering original files. A free trial is available before a one-time purchase unlocks unlimited listening.

Highlights
  • Real-time 528 Hz retuning
  • Supports entire music library
  • Distraction-free interface
  • One-time purchase unlock
  • Free trial for 20 songs
Features
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What if your favorite music could sound and feel different — not by changing what you hear, but by shifting the frequency beneath it? 528 Player Plus retunes any song from your library to 528 Hz — the Solfeggio frequency associated with harmony, restoration, and the natural resonance of living systems — in real time, as it plays. No exports. No waiting. No audio files to manage. Just press play. HOW IT WORKS Most modern music is mastered at 440 Hz, the global standard tuning. 528 Player Plus shifts the playback frequency of your existing music library to 528 Hz on the fly — so every song you already love plays at this resonant frequency without altering your original files. WHAT YOU GET Real-time 528 Hz retuning of your full music library Clean, distraction-free player interface No subscriptions — pay once, own it forever Try free: retune up to 20 songs before unlocking $19.99 one-time unlock — no recurring charges, ever Works with your existing owned music files WHO IT'S FOR → Sound healers and frequency practitioners → Meditators and breathwork enthusiasts → Anyone curious about Solfeggio frequencies → Musicians exploring alternate tuning systems → People who want their music to feel different — not just sound different WHY 528 Hz? 528 Hz sits within the ancient Solfeggio scale — a set of tones used in sacred music across cultures for centuries. Modern researchers and sound practitioners have associated this frequency with feelings of clarity, calm, and coherence. Whether you approach it scientifically or intuitively, the experience speaks for itself. Try it with music you already know by heart. You may be surprised. FREE TO TRY. YOURS TO KEEP. Retune your first 20 songs completely free. When you're ready, a single $19.99 purchase unlocks unlimited listening — forever. No subscription. No renewal. No fine print.

About

aud

This app combines your local music files with your Apple Music library into a single, beautifully organized interface. It offers advanced playback features and multiple ways to import your music without merging your collections.

Highlights
  • Combines local and Apple Music libraries
  • Organized by artwork, artist, album, song, playlist, genre
  • Multiple import options: Files, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, folder watch
  • Supports FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, WAV, and more
  • Advanced Pro features: native resolution, gapless playback, EQ
  • Cross-platform: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay
  • Offline playback
Features
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Your music. On your devices. Beautifully. aud-io is a local-first music player for the music you actually own, with the option of adding your Apple Music library alongside it. Two libraries, one beautiful app, never merged and never overwritten. EVERYONE ELSE MAKES YOU CHOOSE Local players cannot touch Apple Music. Apple Music players cannot touch your files. aud-io does both, and keeps a hard line between them, so your collection stays exactly as you built it. MEET THE SHELF Cover Flow, rebuilt. Scroll through your own artwork, from your own files, and tap to play. Browse by artist, album, song, playlist or genre when you know what you want, and use The Shelf when you do not. BRING YOUR LIBRARY IN, YOUR WAY Import from Files, share or AirDrop from anywhere, watch a folder, open a ZIP, or send your library straight from your Mac over local Wi-Fi. Peer to peer, device to device, no cloud in between. aud-io reads your existing metadata and artwork. FLAC, ALAC, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and CAF. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY The free player handles your whole library, in every format, at up to 256 kbps. Pro removes the ceiling: every file at its native resolution, bit-perfect to your DAC, with automatic source rate matching, true gapless, crossfade, a 10-band EQ and EBU R128 loudness normalisation. EVERYWHERE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN iPhone and iPad, with a native Mac app available separately. Apple Watch as a remote. CarPlay for your library and playlists on the road. AirPlay to your speakers. Home screen widgets for Now Playing, Recently Added and The Shelf. Use aud-io on iPhone as a remote for the Mac from anywhere in the house. BRING IN A WHOLE COLLECTION Import CDs. Connect a NAS. Point aud-io at the library you already have, wherever it lives, without running server software. DISCOVER MORE IN THE MUSIC YOU ALREADY HAVE Find deep cuts. Surface recently added music. Group by genre. Build mixes from the files on your device, generated on your device. OPTIONAL, AND ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Add your own Google Gemini key and aud-io can curate mixes, suggest radio-style listening and enrich music details. The key lives in your device Keychain. Your audio is never uploaded. Without a key, it is simply off. Apple Music, if you connect it, uses your own subscription through Apple's system permission. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The free player is a capable local music player. One Pro purchase unlocks advanced listening. There is no recurring fee, and there never will be. Pro on iPhone and iPad is a separate purchase from Pro on Mac. Works fully offline. No aud-io server. No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Made in Sydney by DIGITAL x DESIGN, for people who still care about their music library.

Screenshots

528 Player Plus4 screens
aud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: aud at 100% against 528 Player Plus's 0%. aud also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). 528 Player Plus's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 528 Player Plus sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and aud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

aud holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of 528 Player Plus's written reviews are positive against 100% of aud's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

528 Player Plus ships an update every 2 months, aud weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
528 Player Plus versus aud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter528 Player Plusaud
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB129 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSYQEL INCSanjiv Sathiah

Customer experience

528 Player Plus

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

aud

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

528 Player Plus

One-time10
  • Unlimited 528 Hz retuning forever.$19.99
  • Frequency - 285 Hz$19.99
  • Frequency - 432 Hz$19.99
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  • Frequency - 396 Hz$19.99
  • Frequency - 741 Hz$19.99
  • Frequency - 174 Hz$19.99
  • Frequency - 417 Hz$19.99
  • Frequency - 639 Hz$19.99
  • Solfeggio Core Bundle$59.99
  • All Frequencies$99.99
1 purchases

aud

One-time1
  • aud-io Pro$14.99

Questions

Is 528 Player Plus free?
528 Player Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is aud free?
aud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, 528 Player Plus or aud?
aud is rated higher. 528 Player Plus averages 1.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while aud averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do 528 Player Plus or aud have ads?
Neither 528 Player Plus nor aud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 528 Player Plus or aud?
528 Player Plus ships an update every 2 months, and aud weekly. Most recently, 528 Player Plus was updated on October 30, 2026 and aud on October 31, 2026.

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