JukeBox One vs Jukebox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JukeBox One
This app allows friends to share music from their Apple Music playlists in a group setting. Create virtual rooms, take turns hosting songs, and enjoy synchronized playback for a shared listening experience. Various game modes add a fun, competitive element to music discovery.
- Create music rooms with friends
- Rotating Song Host system
- Synchronized playback option
- Voting and trivia game modes
- Apple Music playlist integration
- Friend and favorite management
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JukeBox One brings people together through music. Create a room, invite your friends, and let everyone take a turn sharing songs from their designated Apple Music playlist. Each member takes a turn as Song Host—the person whose song is selected to play. Share your favorites, discover something unexpected, and make listening a group experience. CHOOSE HOW YOU PLAY • Normal: Take turns sharing songs through a rotating Song Host. • Voting: Vote for the next Song Host based on each member’s upcoming song. • Trivia: Answer questions to compete for the next Song Host spot. • Mini Games: Play games to determine who shares the next song. LISTEN TOGETHER Enable optional Synchronized Playback when creating any room type to play songs together across participating devices. Guests can choose whether their device participates from the first song and adjust their choice for upcoming songs. For synchronized listening, use your device’s built-in speakers, keep JukeBox One open, and maintain a reliable internet connection. Bluetooth, AirPlay, and wired audio connections may affect synchronization. Prefer one device playing the music? Leave Synchronized Playback off to listen through the Room Host’s device. BRING YOUR PEOPLE Add friends and favorites, find them easily among room members, and choose whether friends or favorites can join your room automatically. Room Hosts can approve join requests and manage membership. PICK YOUR PLAYLIST Designate an Apple Music playlist containing 3–50 supported songs. JukeBox One uses each member’s playlist to keep the music moving as the Song Host changes. Local-only or unsupported tracks are filtered out. GET STARTED Sign in and connect Apple Music. Choose an eligible playlist. Create or join a room. Share the music and enjoy everyone’s turn. JukeBox One is free to download and use. An active Apple Music subscription and internet connection are required. Available on iPhone and iPad.
Jukebox
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Jukebox plays the music you own — from your iPhone, iCloud Drive, or your own WebDAV, NAS or Jellyfin server. No subscription, no account, no ads. • Your files: MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and more • Your own server: WebDAV, Nextcloud, a NAS or Jellyfin • Karaoke: removes the vocals from your own songs, right on your device • Synced lyrics from your own .lrc files or the song's tags • Gapless playback, 5-band EQ, speed control and a live spectrum • CarPlay, Apple Watch, Siri, widgets and AirPlay • iPhone, iPad and Mac • No data collected YOUR LIBRARY • Add a folder from the Files app — On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, an external drive or an SMB share — or connect your own WebDAV or Jellyfin server, and Jukebox builds a fast index of your artists, albums and songs • Browse by genre, artist, album or song, or by folder; search finds all of them as you type • Cover art from the file, a cover.jpg in the album folder, or (optionally) looked up online • Download songs from your server to play offline • Playlists, synced between your devices with iCloud KARAOKE • Tap Karaoke under the song title, or add songs to the Karaoke playlist. Jukebox separates the vocals on your device in a minute or two per song — nothing is uploaded • Sing on a full-screen karaoke screen with the current line large and lyrics that follow the music • Switch the singer on and off without a gap, or blend them back in with Guide vocals • Nudge the lyrics timing, send it to the TV with AirPlay, or hide everything but the lyrics THE PLAYER • Gapless playback, so live albums and DJ mixes play straight through • A mixer with volume, a 5-band EQ with presets and speed from 0.5× to 3× • A large cover in portrait, a retro desktop-player view in landscape, and a real-time spectrum • Shuffle everything, one artist or one album; repeat; sleep timer; Up Next • Lock Screen, Control Center and Dynamic Island controls, and a Now Playing widget EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN • CarPlay: your playlists, artists and albums on the car's screen • Apple Watch: see what's playing, control it, and play music synced to the watch • Siri and Shortcuts: "Play Deep Purple on Jukebox" • In English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese PRIVACY Jukebox collects no data about you: no account, no analytics. It only talks to your own server and, if you allow it, looks up missing album art. Free for 1 hour of playback a day. One in-app purchase unlocks unlimited playback forever — no subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JukeBox One at none against Jukebox's 2. Jukebox's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Jukebox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. JukeBox One asks for nothing beyond the download.
JukeBox One ships an update weekly, Jukebox every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JukeBox One | Jukebox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JukeBox Song Sync LLC | Anton Popov |
In-app purchases
JukeBox One
No in-app purchases
Jukebox
- Support the developer$0.99
- Unlimited Playback$2.99









