Write.X vs Akane Music
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Import demos from Files
- Organized library
- Build custom playlists
- Persistent mini-player
- Offline listening
- Add cover art and credits
- Dark studio interface
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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/
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.
- 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+
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
Write.X ships an update fortnightly, Akane Music weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Write.X | Akane Music |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Luiz Felipe Napoli Ferrari | JEAN-BAPTISTE LEROUX |
Customer experience
Write.X
Akane Music
In-app purchases
Write.X
- WriteX Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- WriteX Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
Akane Music
- Akane+ yearly$11.991 Year
- Akane+ lifetime$24.99









