Comparison

Braided Playlist vs Aux Control

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

Head to head
About

Braided Playlist

This app seamlessly merges individual music playlists into a single shared queue, ensuring fair rotation of songs from each contributor. It facilitates shared listening experiences for families and friends, reducing decision-making time and fostering connection through music.

Highlights
  • Fair turn-taking for songs
  • Apple Music integration
  • Clean lyrics enforcement
  • Smart shuffle rotation
  • Flexible group management
  • Siri and shortcut support
Features
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The music's on, everyone's happy, and nobody spent five minutes arguing about what to listen to. Braided Playlist takes the playlists everyone has already put together and weaves them into one shared queue. Each person's songs rotating in turn, automatically and fairly. When you're ready to go, you're a tap or voice command away from music everyone actually wants to hear. The road trip is just a road trip. Dinner is just dinner. No one's lobbying for their playlist, nobody feels ignored, and you're not the DJ. It's also quietly something more. When you and your kid each have songs in the queue, music becomes something you share rather than negotiate. You hear what they're into. They hear what shaped you. A song comes on and there's a story behind it or a question. Those small moments have a way of adding up. Key Features: * Fair turn-taking: Every playlist gets equal time, automatically. * Apple Music Integration: Works with playlists you already have and you can send braids to the Apple Music player Queue. * Protect your Apple Music history: Setting to prevent music started by Braided Playlist from impacting your Replay, or recommendations.† * Enforce Clean lyrics: Settings enable automatic replacement of explicit songs with clean versions or omitting them completely.‡ * Smart shuffle: Rotation order is preserved. Favours less recently played and newer tracks. * Flexible groups: Add or remove playlists mid-session without losing the flow * Siri and shortcut support: Play favourite playlist combinations, add / remove playlists, shuffle, or skip hands-free. Try "Braid [Favourite name]", "Add [playlist name] to braid", "Shuffle braid", or "Next song in braid" Download Braided Playlist. Spend less time deciding what to listen to and more time actually together. †Requires iOS 26.4+ ‡Requires tracks to be labelled explicit in Apple Music; clean substitutions require an Apple Music subscription

About

Aux Control

This app allows hosts to create a music voting system for parties and events, connecting to a music streaming service. Guests can join via a web browser to vote on songs, with the host managing playback and the queue. Sessions are temporary and designed for social gatherings.

Highlights
  • Create music voting rooms
  • Guest song voting
  • Host playback control
  • Temporary event sessions
  • QR code and room code entry
  • Guest list management
Features
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Aux Control is a party music jukebox for bars, cafes, and events. The host runs the iOS app on their iPhone, which connects to Apple Music and starts a room. Guests join by scanning a QR code or entering a room code at auxcontrol.live in any browser — no app download required. Guests set a screen name and vote on which song plays next. The host controls playback and manages the guest list. BUILT FOR REAL PARTIES • Works best with 5+ people — house parties, bars, weddings, DJs fielding requests, all of it • Sessions self-destruct after 24 hours — zero cleanup • Skip is host-first, always — you're never at the mercy of the crowd • Kick a guest, yeet a queued track, or seed the first song yourself before votes even start • Turn voting off for a simple first-come, first-served queue — great for smaller crews who'd rather skip the ballot PARTY PASS Free sessions cap at 8 people. Party Pass is an auto-renewing annual subscription that bumps the cap to 150 guests — built for the bigger stuff: weddings, blowouts, hosts running it all year. Renews automatically each year unless you cancel at least 24 hours before renewal; manage or cancel anytime in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Aux Control is built by Loophole, LLC - Garfield Heights, Ohio Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://auxcontrol.live/privacy.html

Screenshots

Braided Playlist4 screens
Aux Control4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Aux Control at 5.0 against Braided Playlist's 3.5. Aux Control also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 weeks) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Braided Playlist's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Aux Control sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Braided Playlist asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aux Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Braided Playlist ships an update every 4 weeks, Aux Control every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Braided Playlist versus Aux Control: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBraided PlaylistAux Control
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB1 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperShawn CazaLoophole, LLC

Customer experience

Braided Playlist

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Aux Control

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Braided Playlist

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Aux Control

Subscriptions1
  • Party Pass$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Party Pass$2.99

Questions

Is Braided Playlist free?
Braided Playlist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aux Control free?
Aux Control is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Braided Playlist or Aux Control?
Aux Control is rated higher. Braided Playlist averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Aux Control averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Braided Playlist or Aux Control have ads?
Neither Braided Playlist nor Aux Control shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Braided Playlist or Aux Control?
Braided Playlist ships an update every 4 weeks, and Aux Control every 5 days. Most recently, Braided Playlist was updated on October 21, 2026 and Aux Control on October 25, 2026.

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