Comparison

CloudSpinner vs Sonarch

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

Head to head
About

CloudSpinner

Features
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CloudSpinner: Spin your records and videos from your personal cloud This app requires you using a third party cloud service as your file storage. It currently supports Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive. By popular demand, other services can be considered implemented at a later point. CloudSpinner lets you browse, play, and manage your backed-up music, recordings, demos, and videos using cloud services you may already subscribe to. Connect to Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive and browse your existing folder structure directly, treating your cloud storage as a personal media library. The app supports lossless playback when available, stable streaming with low CPU and power usage, and playlist creation across one or multiple cloud services. Tracks and playlists can be downloaded for offline playback and managed locally on your device. CloudSpinner includes a practice mode with adjustable playback speed without changing pitch, useful for rehearsing, learning parts, or working with recordings and demos. Built-in search makes it easy to locate tracks, folders, or albums across connected libraries. A sleep timer can be used for those who fall asleep to sounds playing. Cover art can be auto-scanned and cached locally, or manually selected from public databases. You may also access Discogs and MusicBrainz databases to view track information. Playback continues in the background with lock screen controls. The app supports Apple CarPlay for in-car use. Network usage can be adjusted, allowing you to control Wi-Fi and cellular data behavior when streaming or downloading content. CloudSpinner supports both light and dark mode and follows system appearance settings. CloudSpinner is designed for reliable playback and focused listening, without ads, social features, analytics, or automated content modification. Your rhythm, no algorithms. Auto-renewable subscription: CloudSpinner Premium โ€“ Annual Subscription (1 year / 12 months) Price: $7.99/year (price may vary by region) Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.lurenstudio.no/apps/cloudspinner/privacy/

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Sonarch

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Sonarch plays the music you already own. Point it at folders on your Mac, a drive on your network, or a cloud account, and it builds one library out of all of them. Nothing is streamed from us, nothing is counted, and nothing about what you play leaves your device unless you ask it to. MIXES, ENDLESS AND YOUR OWN Your Mac or iPhone listens to 30 seconds of every track and works out what sounds alike, with no service involved. Play a ready mix named after its artists, or start one from any track, and it goes on for as long as you listen. Drift wanders as near or as far as you like, or winds down to your calmest music; Similar holds one mood. When an album ends, Autoplay carries on with music like it. A sound map lays out your artists by how they sound; start a mix from any of them. Narrow a mix to the artists or genres you choose, save it, and come back where you left off. With Sync, what one device analyzes, the others use too. ONE TRACK, HOWEVER MANY COPIES A track you have as FLAC and again as MP3, sitting in two different places, is one row in your library โ€” with every format and every place it lives behind it. EVERY FORMAT, GAPLESS BETWEEN THEM FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC and Ogg Vorbis, with ReplayGain so a library built from many sources plays at one loudness. An album ripped as one file with a CUE sheet shows up as its own tracks. The output can follow each track's sample rate, and crossfade and silence trimming are there when you want them. SOUND THAT FITS YOUR HEADPHONES Import the AutoEQ profile for your headphones and everything you play is corrected, with its own profile for each output. Hi-fi style bass and treble controls are kept per output too, and a peak limiter lets both play louder without clipping. BROWSE VIEWS THAT FOLLOW THEIR RULES Any view can be restricted to the locations you choose, and a browse view takes rules as well, composed in its own filter engine. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF A browse, a playlist, every album and every saved mix each keep their own place, and quitting loses none of them. Bookmarks save any moment inside a track, to come back to later. WHAT YOU PLAYED, AND WHEN History keeps every play with the time it happened, counts a track that came around twice, and remembers the view each one was played from โ€” so it can be played again, or opened where it came from. Search all of it by track, album or artist. Bring in your Last.fm history, and Stats reaches back to years before Sonarch. FOLDERS, NETWORK SHARES AND CLOUDS Bandcamp, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, S3 buckets, a WebDAV share or a Subsonic server, connected straight from your device with your own credentials. Your files never pass through our servers. Take what you want offline for the train. ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Sign in, and your likes, play history, tag corrections and playlists follow you between your devices. Pause on one and carry on from the same second on another. TAGS THAT STAY FIXED Correct a tag once and it survives every rescan โ€” written into the file where that is possible, kept by the library where it is not. ON THE MAC Send audio to another output with a keystroke, mid-track, without a trip into Settings. Schedule a start time and decide what happens when it ends. Drag in a ZIP from Bandcamp and it joins the library, with the shop's own tags stripped on the way past. ON IPHONE CarPlay, the Lock Screen and Control Center, through the system player. Control the Mac from your phone over the local network. ALSO An editable playing queue. Lyrics from your tags or from LRCLIB. Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Stop after this track, album or artist, or pause after a set time. Genre categories worked out from your tags. Playlists, statistics, and sharing tracks as files. NO TELEMETRY, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier and no third-party SDK of any kind. An account is optional โ€” the player works perfectly without one.

Screenshots

CloudSpinner4 screens
Sonarch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sonarch at none against CloudSpinner's 1. Sonarch also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). CloudSpinner's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. CloudSpinner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per year. Sonarch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CloudSpinner ships an update every 6 weeks, Sonarch every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
CloudSpinner versus Sonarch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudSpinnerSonarch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size34 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHans Martin AustestadAliaksandr Siamionau

In-app purchases

1 purchases

CloudSpinner

Subscriptions1
  • CloudSpinner Annual1 Month trial$7.991 Year
None

Sonarch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CloudSpinner free?
CloudSpinner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sonarch free?
Sonarch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CloudSpinner or Sonarch have ads?
Neither CloudSpinner nor Sonarch shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CloudSpinner or Sonarch?
CloudSpinner ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sonarch every 3 days. Most recently, CloudSpinner was updated on November 9, 2026 and Sonarch on November 10, 2026.

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