Discrete vs Nautiline
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 is a carefully crafted native music player for your Jellyfin library, made for iPhone and iPad. Enjoy a clean interface, thoughtful controls and layouts that feel at home on your device. Stability and performance are central to the design, with cached library views, progressive loading and background downloads to support everyday listening. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Thoughtfully adapted library navigation and a dedicated player make the most of iPhone Duo. Enjoy artwork, playback controls and your queue or lyrics together on its expanded screen, with layouts that respond as you rotate or fold the device. YOUR LIBRARY, CLOSE AT HAND - Browse albums, artists, playlists and All Tracks, with artwork and useful music details. - Find songs, albums, artists and playlists in one search. - Rediscover your collection through Home suggestions, new releases and recently added music. - Keep favorites close and revisit your listening history. LISTEN YOUR WAY - Play a song next, add it to the queue, or drag upcoming tracks into the order you want. - Save your queue and playback position between app launches. - Shuffle, repeat, set a sleep timer, or start a Jellyfin Instant Mix from a song, album or playlist. - Follow synced lyrics and tap a timed line to jump to that part of the song, when lyrics are available on your server. - View audio format, bit depth and sample rate while listening. TAKE YOUR MUSIC WITH YOU - Download tracks, albums and playlists for offline listening. - Browse and search downloaded music without a connection. - Let audio downloads continue in the background and follow their progress in a Live Activity. - Stream original files or use automatic or custom Jellyfin transcoding, with separate preferences for cellular, Wi-Fi and downloads. MADE FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND CARPLAY - Enjoy player layouts for portrait and landscape, with support for iPad multitasking. - Swipe between tracks in the mini player, listen in the background, and use Lock Screen controls or AirPlay. - Browse your library, play downloaded music and manage Up Next in CarPlay. MAKE THE COLLECTION YOURS Create and rename playlists, add or remove songs, and reorder them with a drag. Playlist changes and favorites are saved to your Jellyfin server. FREE TO ENJOY. PRO TO SUPPORT. The core listening experience is free, including playback, downloads, playlists, lyrics and CarPlay. Optional Discrete Pro supports continued development and adds multiple accounts, alternate app icons and accent colors. Pro is available through monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscriptions, or a lifetime purchase. You can manage or cancel subscriptions in your App Store account settings. Requires access to a Jellyfin server with a music library. Format support and transcoding depend on your device and server. Privacy Policy: https://discrete.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Nautiline
Stream your music library from an OpenSubsonic server with a modern, intuitive interface. Enjoy features like offline downloads, gapless playback, synced lyrics, and seamless integration with your iOS device.
- Offline caching and downloading
- Gapless playback
- Synced lyrics
- CarPlay and Siri integration
- Sleep timer
- ReplayGain support
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Nautiline is a modern OpenSubsonic client with a beautiful interface and solid media handling, so you can focus on your music. Listening & Playback: • Cache & Download Files ‣ Songs are automatically cached as you listen with no extra data used ‣ Manually download files for offline listening ‣ Automatically save your whole library • Gapless Playback • Seeking in Transcoded Files ‣ Save bandwidth without sacrificing the listening experience • Internet Radio • Offline Browsing & Searching • Synced Lyrics ‣ Direct from your server • ReplayGain ‣ Automatically apply the right track/album gain • Sleep Timer Remote Access: • Set Custom Headers • Multiple URLs for home and away access iOS Integration: • CarPlay • Siri • Music Haptics
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Verdict
Discrete and Nautiline are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 and Nautiline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Discrete against 4.7 for Nautiline. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 51 and 84 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Discrete's written reviews are positive against 88% of Nautiline's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Discrete | Nautiline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (51 ratings) — better | 4.7 (84 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 88.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 51 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aleksandr Orlov | Gledtone |
Customer experience
Discrete
Nautiline
In-app purchases
Discrete
- Discrete Pro [Monthly]$0.991 Month
- Discrete Pro [Yearly]$9.991 Year
- Discrete Pro [Lifetime]$19.99
Nautiline
- Nautiline$10.00









