Groupies vs Sleeve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Groupies
Rediscover your music library with a visually stunning interface. This app brings back the classic Cover Flow experience, allowing you to browse album art like flipping through vinyl records. Enjoy an immersive, minimalist playback that adapts to your artwork.
- Classic Cover Flow interface
- Dynamic background colors
- Seamless Apple Music integration
- Immersive playback experience
- Minimalist design
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Groupies - Awaken Your Collection, Cover Flow Reborn Music is more than just auditory vibrations; it is a visual memory. Groupies is dedicated to everyone who takes music seriously. We aren’t satisfied with the cold, impersonal lists of modern streaming. We want to bring back the Golden Age of "flipping through records." Here, your Apple Music library is reimagined in the most elegant, classic way possible. 【Core Features】 • A Modern Rebirth of Classic Cover Flow The beloved Cover Flow interaction returns, but this time, it’s even more beautiful. We have restored the classic "Landscape Cover Flow" view. Swipe your finger and watch album covers glide silky smooth like water, while background colors adapt dynamically to the artwork. Every swipe is a review of your musical taste; every tap feels like pulling a beloved vinyl record off the shelf. • Seamless Apple Music Integration No tedious migration required. Groupies connects directly to your Apple Music library. All the treasured albums you’ve collected in AM will automatically sync to Groupies. We don't produce the music; we simply build a more beautiful gallery for it, allowing your dusty collections to see the light of day once again. • Immersive Playback Experience Reject complex distractions and return to the essence of listening. With a minimalist interface and immersive backgrounds that adapt to your album art, Groupies is the quietest, most private record player on your phone—whether you are on your daily commute or enjoying a late night alone. 【Contact & Feedback】 In this fast-paced era, thank you for being willing to slow down and listen to a whole album. If you have suggestions or encounter any bugs, please feel free to contact me: • Email: 1728014299@qq.com • 小红书(RedBook): 绿洲顾子
Sleeve
This app offers a minimalist approach to music listening, focusing on playing entire albums from your library. It presents your album art as a full-screen wall, allowing you to tap and play albums from start to finish. Features include a distraction-free interface, album flow for browsing, and availability on multiple Apple devices.
- Full-screen album cover wall
- Play entire albums start to finish
- Album Flow for cover browsing
- Calm, minimal interface
- Available on Mac, Apple TV, Watch, iPhone, iPad, iPod
- One-time unlock for Album Flow
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Sleeve is a quiet way to listen to whole albums. Open it and you see one thing: a slow, full-screen wall of your album covers. Tap any cover and the whole album plays, from the first track. No playlists, no shuffle, no endless feeds — just albums. • A living wall of your own album covers • Tap a cover to play a full album, start to finish • The playing album gently lifts off the wall • Rotate to landscape for Album Flow — glide through your library one cover at a time • On iPad and Apple TV too • Calm, minimal, distraction-free Album Flow is a one-time unlock. No subscription for the app, ever. A music subscription is required to play your library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Groupies at free against Sleeve's free with in-app purchases. Groupies also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Sleeve's advantage is review sentiment (89% vs 73%) and device support (6 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Groupies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sleeve sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Groupies holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Groupies's written reviews are positive against 89% of Sleeve's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Groupies | Sleeve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.8 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 航 涂 | 伟 曹 |
Customer experience
Groupies
Sleeve
In-app purchases
Groupies
- Groupies终身会员$1.99
Sleeve
- Unlock Sleeve Pro$7.99








