Comparison

Voidcast vs Spindle

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

Head to head
About

Voidcast

Features
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Voidcast is a dark ambient radio app broadcasting from the void. Five curated channels stream vaporwave, witch house, dark ambient, and lo-fi music—accompanied by mesmerizing VHS-style visuals. ▸ FIVE THEMED CHANNELS PLAZA FM (89.2 MHz) Vaporwave classics. Neon-lit malls and forgotten futures. LIMINAL (104.3 MHz) Ethereal dreams. Empty hallways and spaces between. LURK (3.33 MHz) Dark ambient. Surveillance footage and creeping dread. CLOUD 9 FM (99.9 MHz) Cloud rap & sad trap. Melancholic nights and purple skies. HEX (66.6 MHz) Witch house. Occult frequencies and digital rituals. ▸ FEATURES - Continuous background playback - VHS noise overlays and analog aesthetics - Multiple visual themes per channel - Play history tracking - Lock screen & Dynamic Island controls - AirPlay support ▸ PREMIUM Unlock unlimited listening, all tracks, and every visual theme with a single subscription. Perfect for studying, working, sleeping, or simply drifting into the static. Broadcast from nowhere. Received everywhere. Terms of Use: https://voidcast.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://voidcast.app/privacy

About

Spindle

Rediscover your owned music with a dedicated player that prioritizes your curation and control. Enjoy a tactile jog wheel interface, support for all lossless formats, and seamless integration with your existing library. No algorithms, no accounts, just your music, your way.

Highlights
  • Tactile jog wheel for navigation
  • Support for all lossless audio formats
  • No algorithmic feed or account required
  • Import music via Wi-Fi, AirDrop, or Files
  • Gapless playback and AirPlay 2 support
  • Customizable themes
Features
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The dedicated music player you miss, rebuilt for iPhone — and it plays your own server. For those with a spot of nostalgia for click wheels and MiniDiscs: those little machines played the music you owned, in the order you chose. No feed. No account. No algorithm deciding what came next. Spindle brings that back. Your whole server, in your pocket. Run Navidrome, or any Subsonic-compatible server? Point Spindle at it and your entire collection is there — thousands of albums, browsable and playable, without filling up your phone. A library far bigger than your storage, on a device that fits in a pocket. It stays your server. There is no Spindle account and no cloud of ours in the middle: your phone talks to your machine, and nobody else is involved. If you don't run a server, none of this appears — Spindle is a local player first, and stays one. Take it offline. Download any album to keep it on the phone. Offline Mode then shows only music that plays with no connection at all — on a plane, on the subway, off-grid — and quietly collapses duplicates when you own a copy of something you also stream. A player you hold. A real jog wheel: drag to scroll, flick to coast, spin to scrub. Hold a scrub and it accelerates, the way a proper transport does. Eyes-up and thumb-driven. Not another screen of flat buttons. Your collection, one turn away. Albums, artists, songs, genres, and folders: on a shelf you can spin through. Loved and most-played stay close to hand. You bring the curation. The music you own, in the order you meant it. Spindle just plays it back. And it plays it properly. FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and MP3, played through Spindle's own engine at the file's native sample rate. Gapless playback for albums that were meant to run together. A 10-band EQ if you want to shape it. CarPlay, AirPlay, and Last.fm scrobbling if you use it. Free for 7 days, then buy it once. The whole app for a week, nothing withheld. After that it's a one-time purchase — not a subscription. No account. No subscription to us. No feed. Your library, your order.

Screenshots

Voidcast3 screens
Spindle4 screens

Verdict

The call

Voidcast and Spindle are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Voidcast sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Spindle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voidcast ships an update every 3 weeks, Spindle fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Voidcast versus Spindle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoidcastSpindle
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKosei SakaguchiRaindog LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Voidcast

Subscriptions1
  • Voidcast Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Voidcast Premium Lifetime$24.99
1 purchases

Spindle

One-time1
  • Unlock Spindle$6.99

Questions

Is Voidcast free?
Voidcast is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spindle free?
Spindle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Voidcast or Spindle have ads?
Neither Voidcast nor Spindle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Voidcast or Spindle?
Voidcast ships an update every 3 weeks, and Spindle fortnightly. Most recently, Voidcast was updated on October 8, 2026 and Spindle on October 4, 2026.

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