Comparison

Retro CD Player vs Futureown

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

Head to head
About

Retro CD Player

Features
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Beatsy turns your Apple Music into a CD player you can hold. Pick an album from a shelf of jewel cases, watch the disc fly into the tray, close the lid and press play. A SHELF OF DISCS • Your Apple Music albums, stacked as real jewel cases • Scroll through the stack and the room takes on the color of each cover • Search your library or the whole Apple Music catalog for albums and playlists • Filter the shelf by title or artist, sort it A–Z, or pull a random album A REAL MACHINE • The case opens, the disc lands on the spindle and the lid clicks shut • Dot-matrix display with track number and time • Physical keys for previous, play, stop, next and eject • Drag the spinning disc to scrub through a song, turn the knob for volume • Mechanical sounds and haptics, on or off MAKE IT YOURS • Four machine finishes: Porcelain, Aluminum, Sage and Sakura • Printed discs with the album art, or silver data-side discs • Light and dark mode, with a backdrop that follows the cover • The controls fade away while a disc plays, leaving just the machine • Turn your device sideways and the machine fills the screen LISTEN YOUR WAY • Track list, repeat and shuffle • AirPlay to speakers and headphones • Sleep timer: 15 minutes to 1.5 hours, or the end of the disc • Add albums from the catalog to your library in one tap • With repeat off, the next album on the shelf plays on, like a disc changer Beatsy plays music through Apple Music. Playing catalog albums needs an Apple Music subscription. Your listening stays on this device; there is no account to create. BEATSY PRO Beatsy is free to download and play, and pause, skip and changing discs stay free. Without Pro, a short Pro introduction appears over the player after about 10 seconds of each disc and again after every third finished track; the music keeps playing and the introduction can be closed after a few seconds. One lifetime purchase unlocks all machine finishes, silver discs, the track list, the sleep timer and landscape mode, and the introduction no longer appears. No recurring subscription or free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation; restore with the same Apple Account. Apple Music catalog playback requires a separate Apple Music subscription. Beatsy is not affiliated with Apple. Apple Music is a trademark of Apple Inc. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Futureown

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Your files. Your device. A music player for the files you bring yourself. No sign-up, no subscription, no ads – and no connection to the outside. This app makes no network connections at all. In airplane mode it behaves exactly the same. ADDING MUSIC Under "Songs", tap the plus button at the top right and pick your files – from iCloud Drive, from this iPhone or from connected storage. Or share an audio file straight here from another app: the Files app, AirDrop from a Mac, an email. A bar above the list shows how far the import has got. If a song is already there, the app says so and does not add it twice. ORGANISE AND FIND • Playlists with their own artwork and their own sort order • Favourites with one tap on the heart • Search across songs, albums, artists and playlists at once • Ten sort orders, from "Recently Added" to "Most Played" • Select several songs by dragging across the circles • Trash: deleted items stay for 30 days and can be restored SOUND • Six-band equalizer, your own settings can be saved • Volume levelling to the broadcast standard ITU-R BS.1770, so it does not jump between tracks • Skip silence at the start and end • Smooth crossfade into the next track, lead time freely adjustable • Shift the pitch in semitones and cents – without changing the tempo • Tempo from 50 to 200% – without changing the pitch ARTWORK Artwork comes from the file itself, if there is any embedded. Otherwise you set one by hand and decide while cropping which part of it to use. YOUR DEVICE, YOUR DATA There is no server for this app to talk to. Nothing is transmitted, nothing collected, nothing analysed. Your library lives on your iPhone alone. ALSO Lock screen and Control Centre, headphone buttons and Bluetooth remotes, background playback, light and dark mode, VoiceOver, German and English. A sample song is included so there is something to listen to right away.

Screenshots

Retro CD Player4 screens
Futureown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Futureown at none against Retro CD Player's 1. Retro CD Player's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Retro CD Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Futureown asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Retro CD Player versus Futureown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRetro CD PlayerFutureown
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer茵 吕Kerem Oezbayram

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Retro CD Player

One-time1
  • Beatsy Pro Lifetime$8.99
None

Futureown

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Retro CD Player free?
Retro CD Player is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Futureown free?
Futureown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Retro CD Player or Futureown have ads?
Neither Retro CD Player nor Futureown shows ads.

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