Discrete vs Nautune
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Discrete
A sleek and lightweight music player designed for Jellyfin servers. Enjoy your music library directly from your server with features like offline playback, playlist management, and CarPlay support. Optimized for minimal resource usage and a smooth user experience.
- Jellyfin server integration
- Offline playback and downloads
- CarPlay support
- Playlist creation and management
- Transcoding options
- Background playback
- Sleep timer
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Discrete — lightweight, yet powerful and sleek music player for Jellyfin server. Use any Jellyfin instance you want to listen to your music directly from your server. Minimal RAM and storage usage, fast and smooth UI built with great attention to details, proper layouts for all your devices. Built with love for music, tech and UX. - astonishing, fully fledged support for CarPlay - downloads and transparent offline mode - works even in background - fast an reliable on unstable networks - original files or transcoded - displays progress on lock screen - playlists: - create, rename and delete playlists - add, remove and reorder items - transcoding options - off (stream original files) - auto - customized (fine tune yourself) - [paid, with lifetime available] multiple accounts - add as many accounts / servers as you want - build your playback queue with tracks from any account / server - seamless work throughout whole app - home page with discovery sections - glorious pages for your playlists, albums and artists - search in single view for any type of items - built-in sleep timer - lyrics Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Nautune
A music player that integrates with Jellyfin servers, offering a visually appealing deep-sea theme and smooth audio playback. Enjoy your entire music library with a native experience.
- Jellyfin integration
- Deep-sea themed UI
- Smooth native audio playback
- Cross-device support
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Jellyfin music player. Nautune is built with Flutter and delivers a beautiful deep-sea themed experience with smooth native audio playback and seamless Jellyfin integration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nautune at none against Discrete's 3. Nautune also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Discrete's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 3). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Discrete sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Nautune asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Discrete against 4.7 for Nautune. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Discrete has 39 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Discrete's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nautune's.
Discrete ships an update every 2 weeks, Nautune every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Discrete | Nautune |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (39 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Aleksandr Orlov | Benjamin Noirjean |
Customer experience
Discrete
Nautune
In-app purchases
Discrete
- Discrete Pro [Monthly]$0.991 Month
- Discrete Pro [Yearly]$9.991 Year
- Discrete Pro [Lifetime]$19.99
Nautune
No in-app purchases
