Comparison

COMP Music vs RetroAMP

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

Head to head
About

COMP Music

Document your unique listening journey and share your music taste. React to songs, write blurbs, tag moods, bookmark moments, and score albums to build a personal music profile. Connect with streaming services to enhance your experience.

Highlights
  • Document listening journey
  • Share music taste
  • React to songs
  • Write music blurbs
  • Tag sounds and moods
  • Bookmark song moments
  • Score albums
Features
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Welcome to COMP Music - your personal music journal! The Creative Office of Music Progression, or COMP, was founded in 2020 to build platforms and services that help people connect and earn more from their music passion. COMP Music is your personal music journal. A place for anyone to document their unique listening journey and share their music taste with the world. Five ways to COMPose - React · Quick impressions as you listen - Blurb · Short-form music writing, share your music memories - Tag · Label the sounds, moods, and elements that move you - Stamp · Bookmark a moment in a song you'll never forget - Score · Rate an album and see your unique connection score Your musical identity, built over time COMP is a journal, not a feed. Everything you COMPose lives in your taste profile; a growing record of your taste, your history, and the music that shaped you. No algorithm decides what matters. You do. Connect your Apple Music for the full COMP experience: Player Access, Real Time COMPosing, Stamp Playback. Alternative streaming services (Spotify, Soundcloud, TIDAL, Youtube, etc.) can use search to COMP their music. Free tier Browse, search, and explore. Ad-supported. Paid tier Unlock stamps, blurb photos, track your full listening history, build your Rotation tab (sync your playlists, see your COMP data), and COMPoserBot, a customizable bot trained on your actual listening to help you discover, reflect, and COMP more of your favorites. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

RetroAMP

Features
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RetroAMP is a cloud music player inspired by the golden age of desktop media players — reimagined for iPhone. Sign in and instantly access your personal music library stored in the cloud. No syncing cables, no storage limits on your device. Just your music, streamed anywhere. FEATURES • Cloud Library — Browse your songs, albums, and playlists streamed from your personal cloud storage • Internet Radio — 30+ curated stations from SomaFM, covering chillout, electronic, indie, jazz, ambient, and more • 10-Band Equalizer — Fine-tune your sound with presets like Pop, Rock, Jazz, Classical, or create your own • Reverb Engine — Add depth with Hall, Plate, Room, Cathedral, and other reverb presets • Real-Time Visualizations — Spectrum analyzer, circular spectrum, VU meters, and particle effects that react to your music • 7 Themes — Linen, Sterling, Mixtape, Boombox, Audiophile, Midnight Neon, and Retro Amber. Each transforms the entire interface • Now Playing Queue — Manage your queue, shuffle, repeat, and see what's coming next • Gapless-quality streaming with seek support and range requests BUILT FOR MUSIC LOVERS RetroAMP brings back the experience of customizable music players — the themes, the visualizations, the EQ sliders — in a modern, cloud-first package. No ads. No algorithmic recommendations. Just your music and a beautiful player. Requires a RetroAMP account. Create one for free in the app.

Screenshots

COMP Music4 screens
RetroAMP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RetroAMP at none against COMP Music's 10. RetroAMP also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. COMP Music sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. RetroAMP asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
COMP Music versus RetroAMP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCOMP MusicRetroAMP
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB18 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTrey JenningsRishabh TANDON

In-app purchases

10 purchases

COMP Music

Subscriptions3
  • Explorer Pass$8.991 Month
  • Fan Pass Yearly$49.991 Year
  • Explorer Pass Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time7
  • 25 COMP Cash$2.99
  • 50 COMP Cash$7.99
  • 100 COMP Cash$14.99
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  • 250 COMP Cash$39.99
  • 500 COMP Cash$69.99
  • 1000 COMP Cash$149.99
  • 2500 COMP Cash$374.99
None

RetroAMP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is COMP Music free?
COMP Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RetroAMP free?
RetroAMP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do COMP Music or RetroAMP have ads?
COMP Music shows ads; RetroAMP does not.

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