Comparison

Write.X vs Akane Music

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

Head to head
About

Write.X

Organize and play your music demos with a dedicated library. Build custom playlists, manage tracks, and enjoy offline listening with a persistent mini-player. Features a clean studio interface for focused music management.

Highlights
  • Import demos from Files
  • Organized library
  • Build custom playlists
  • Persistent mini-player
  • Offline listening
  • Add cover art and credits
  • Dark studio interface
Features
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Your next song starts with an idea. Keep it in WriteX. WriteX brings your audio demos, song versions and creative notes into one focused workspace for iPhone and iPad. An active subscription is required to access the app's features. CAPTURE YOUR IDEAS Record a new take or import audio from Files. Add titles, artwork and composer credits to keep your library organized. KEEP EVERY VERSION TOGETHER Group related demos under the same song. Name each version and keep its own lyrics and arrangement notes, from the first voice-and-guitar sketch to a new arrangement. BUILD YOUR OWN LISTENING FLOW Create playlists for projects and sessions. Use the mini player, playback queue and shuffle to keep your ideas moving. Download iCloud audio for offline listening. FIND THE TAKE YOU NEED Search your library by title, composer, song or version name. Search understands accents and words in any order. FOLLOW YOUR LISTENING Explore your listening history and insights in a dark interface designed for focus. Subscription required. Privacy Policy: https://termify.io/privacy-policy/axAErD2sbn Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Akane Music

This app plays your existing music library, organizing it with covers and tags. Enjoy offline playback with features like synced lyrics, an equalizer, and a sleep timer. An optional premium version unlocks additional functionalities.

Highlights
  • Plays owned MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, OGG, Opus
  • Organizes music by tags, covers, and lyrics
  • Offline playback
  • Synced lyrics and playback speed control
  • Equalizer and sleep timer
  • Optional CarPlay and widgets with Akane+
Features
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Finally, an MP3 player that feels good. Akane plays the music you already own: songs you bought, ripped from your CDs or kept over the years. Put your files in and they show up with their covers, tags and lyrics, in a player that looks and feels like the big streaming apps. There are no ads in any version, and you never create an account. Everything plays offline. ADD YOUR MUSIC Drop files in the Akane folder of the Files app, pick a folder you already have, drag songs from a computer with Finder, or send them with AirDrop. Akane reads the tags and sorts everything on its own. THE FORMATS YOU OWN MP3, AAC, M4A, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, OGG and Opus. Lossless files play as they are. Covers and lyrics inside your files are read right away, and M3U playlists come in too. A HOME PAGE BUILT FROM YOUR LISTENING Your playlists, what you play most and what you just added. It all comes from your own listening, worked out on your phone. LYRICS YOU CAN SING ALONG TO Sing along with lyrics that follow the song (synced lyrics with Akane+). You can also paste lyrics into any song in a few taps. MADE FOR LISTENING Equalizer with presets, sleep timer, playback speed, and a player you will enjoy looking at. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Akane collects nothing. Your playlists, favourites and play counts stay on your phone, and you can back them up to a file whenever you want. SUPPORT THE ARTISTS Buying an album on Bandcamp, from the artist's site or at a show still pays the people who made it. Akane gives that music a proper place to play. AKANE+ Akane is free and stays complete. Akane+ adds CarPlay, synced lyrics that follow the song, widgets, a visualizer, your full Recap to share, listening memories on Home, smart playlists, batch tag editing and cleanup, crossfade and even volume, and custom app icons. Pay once and keep it forever, or pay by the year. If you stop, you go back to the free version and keep all your music. No ads. In any version. Ever. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cucureuil-studio.github.io/akane/privacy.html

Screenshots

Write.X4 screens
Akane Music4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Akane Music at freemium against Write.X's subscription. Write.X's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Write.X sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Akane Music sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Write.X ships an update fortnightly, Akane Music weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Write.X versus Akane Music: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWrite.XAkane Music
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB48 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperLuiz Felipe Napoli FerrariJEAN-BAPTISTE LEROUX

Customer experience

Write.X

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Akane Music

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Write.X

Subscriptions2
  • WriteX Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • WriteX Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Akane Music

Subscriptions1
  • Akane+ yearly$11.991 Year
One-time1
  • Akane+ lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is Write.X free?
Write.X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Akane Music free?
Akane Music is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Write.X or Akane Music have ads?
Neither Write.X nor Akane Music shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Write.X or Akane Music?
Write.X ships an update fortnightly, and Akane Music weekly. Most recently, Write.X was updated on November 9, 2026 and Akane Music on November 10, 2026.

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