Comparison

Radius Music vs Embeat

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

Head to head
About

Radius Music

Features
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Find out what the people around you are listening to in realtime, and share your own favorite music for everyone to hear. Broadcast your music if you’d like, or listen offline if you prefer to.

About

Embeat

Features
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Embeat is the native music player for your Emby or Jellyfin server. Enjoy your library just the way you organized it: artists, albums, tracks, genres and playlists, with cover art and metadata. • Gapless, lossless playback for FLAC and ALAC. • CarPlay. Browse and play your library from the car screen: recent, new, favorites and playlists, with cover art, the queue, and shuffle and repeat. Plus a tab with your downloads, which plays even when the server is out of reach. • Radio mode. When the queue runs out, Embeat keeps going on its own with music that fits what you were listening to. • Sleep timer. Tell it to stop in 15, 20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes and fall asleep to it: the countdown stays on screen. • Embeat Connect streams music to DLNA/UPnP devices on your local network, Sonos speakers included — gapless there too. • Download tracks, albums and playlists to listen offline, on your phone and in the car. • Choose a quality cap for mobile data and keep the original on Wi-Fi — gapless either way. • Multiple Emby and Jellyfin servers, with quick switching between them. • Global search, favorites that update themselves when you star something elsewhere, an editable queue, background playback and lock screen controls. • Ask Siri to play your music on Embeat. Sonos only accepts audio up to 48 kHz. If your library is hi-res, Embeat adapts it on the way there, keeping it lossless. Embeat connects directly to your server. It collects no data and shows no ads. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Emby, Jellyfin or Sonos. Embeat Annual — auto-renewable subscription. Length: 1 year. Price: €9.99 / year, with a 1-month free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account upon confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price and for the same duration unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. If you buy the subscription during a free trial, any unused portion of the trial is forfeited. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.embeat.media/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.embeat.media/privacy

Screenshots

Radius Music4 screens
Embeat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Radius Music at none against Embeat's 1. Radius Music also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.4). Embeat's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Embeat sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $8.99 per year. Radius Music asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Radius Music ships an update fortnightly, Embeat every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Radius Music versus Embeat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadius MusicEmbeat
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRadius Music App LLCJoan Pallas Ribes

In-app purchases

None

Radius Music

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Embeat

Subscriptions1
  • Embeat anual1 Month trial$8.991 Year

Questions

Is Radius Music free?
Radius Music is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Embeat free?
Embeat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Radius Music or Embeat have ads?
Neither Radius Music nor Embeat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Radius Music or Embeat?
Radius Music ships an update fortnightly, and Embeat every 3 days. Most recently, Radius Music was updated on October 25, 2026 and Embeat on October 25, 2026.

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