Coax vs BingeBrowse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coax
Experience your Plex media library like a traditional cable TV experience. This app automatically generates channels from your existing content, allowing you to randomly discover movies and shows without the pressure of choosing.
- On-device Plex library channel surfing
- Zero-setup integration
- Automatic channel guide generation
- Customizable channel categories (genre, decade, actor, etc.)
- Create channels from Plex Collections
- Unify TV and movie libraries
- Adjustable number of channels
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Demolish the tyranny of too much choice, say "NO" to BigAlgo, and just Relax with Coax. Within seconds, you'll be flipping through a schedule made entirely of your own home media server content. Jump right in with the on-screen cable guide and watch whatever's on, just like the old days. You can't pause, you can't skip forward, you can't rewind - all you can do is change the channel. Experience the joy of randomly happening upon a great scene in a movie you forgot you had, or a TV show marathon for an old favorite. Coax requires no setup at all - it uses the metadata your media library already has. If you want, you can create your own custom Lineups, with all sorts of simple yet powerful scheduling rules - create a Saturday Morning Cartoons Lineup for your inner (or actual) child, or a Late Night Thrillers Lineup for date night. Important: This app requires a Plex account and access to a Plex Media Server (or Jellyfin, or Emby). Coax does not provide or distribute any media; it only connects to content you already own. How to configure your Lineups: • Coax scans your home media libraries and generates a channel guide based on your content’s metadata. • Select which channel categories you want: Genre, Decade, Recent Additions, Actor, Studio, Director, and Collections. • Create 100% custom channels using Collections. • Unify your libraries to mix TV and movie channels. • Adjust the number of channels you want to generate. • Customize the time between your programs with Gap Content - play Trailers, or content from another Library if you want! Coax is your personal “cable box” for your own content — no extra accounts, no third-party streaming, just your Plex library organized in a fun, nostalgic way. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
BingeBrowse
Experience a nostalgic 3D video store to discover movies and shows across your streaming services. Browse aisles, pick up cases for synopses and trailers, and seamlessly transition to your chosen platform. Features include regional content, search, saved lists, and a family-friendly filter.
- Walkable 3D video store experience
- Regional streaming service integration
- Search, saved lists, and sharing
- Family View content filter
- Personal media library connection
- Customizable visual themes
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BingeBrowse turns choosing a film into a trip to a video store. Select your streaming services, enter an immersive 3D shop and browse shelves stocked with films and TV shows available in your region. Move between the aisles, pick up a case, read its synopsis and age guide, watch a trailer, then continue to the relevant streaming service. Features: - A walkable, nostalgic video-store experience - Regional shelves built from your selected services - Search, saved lists and sharing - Family View for a broadly family-suitable selection - Optional connections to supported personal media libraries - Multiple visual themes and shelf layouts Streaming availability changes by service and country. A separate subscription may be required. Family View is an on-device browsing filter, not a parental control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Coax at 77% against BingeBrowse's 0%. Coax also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (42 vs 8). BingeBrowse's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Coax sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and BingeBrowse sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BingeBrowse holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coax has 42 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Coax's written reviews are positive against 0% of BingeBrowse's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Coax ships an update weekly, BingeBrowse every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coax | BingeBrowse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (42 ratings) | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Out to Lunch Productions, LLC | Oliver Evans |
Customer experience
Coax
BingeBrowse
In-app purchases
Coax
- Monthly - 1st Week Free7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Annual - 1st Week Free7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$74.99
BingeBrowse
- Large Store$4.99
- 500 Gems$4.99
- Gems for your look$5.99
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- Gems for your look$6.99
- Gems for your look$7.99
- XL Store$8.99
- 1,000 Gems$8.99
- Gems for your look$10.99
- Gems for your look$12.99
- XXL Store$13.99
- Gems for your look$13.99
- Mega Store$17.49
- 2,000 Gems$17.49
- Everything Pack$29.99









