Comparison

Musiking vs 1

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

Head to head
About

Musiking

A modern music player offering full control over your personal library. Enjoy a beautiful interface with features like dominant color theming, lyrics display, and a customizable equalizer. Play your music your way with intuitive browsing and queue management.

Highlights
  • Browse by albums, playlists, and songs
  • Full-screen now playing with color tinting
  • Lyrics view, shuffle, and repeat
  • Queue management
  • Built-in equalizer with presets
  • Responsive layout for phone and tablet
Features
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MusikingPro is a powerful, beautiful music player for your personal library. Built by NatCoding for listeners who want full control and a modern experience. Play your way • Browse by albums, playlists, and all songs from your library. • Favorites and quick access to the tracks you love. • Queue management: swipe to move songs up or down, or remove them from the list. Now playing, reimagined • Full-screen now playing with a glass-effect overlay for a clean, modern look. • Dominant color from each track’s artwork tints the screen and controls so every song feels distinct. • Lyrics view, shuffle, and repeat (one song or whole playlist). • LiquidBottom mini player stays at the bottom so you can control playback from anywhere in the app. Sound your way • Built-in equalizer with presets to match your style. • Responsive layout that adapts to phone and tablet. Whether you listen from your device storage or your music library, MusikingPro puts your collection front and center with a polished, intuitive interface. No subscriptions—just your music, your way. By NatCoding.

About

1

This private music player offers bit-exact playback of high-resolution audio files from various sources, including network servers and cloud storage. It features detailed audio analysis, synced lyrics, and seamless integration with voice assistants and CarPlay.

Highlights
  • Bit-exact PCM and DSD playback
  • Multiple audio source options
  • Signal Path and spectrum analyzer
  • Synced lyrics display
  • Voice control and CarPlay integration
  • Offline playback support
Features
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1-bit is a private, bit-exact music player for iPhone and iPad. Play your own files from a UPnP/DLNA media server, an SMB share, your own 1-bit-bridge server, a folder on your device, or 1-bit Cloud, a private library we host for you. No analytics, no ads, and no account unless you choose the cloud. SOURCES • UPnP/DLNA media servers on your Wi-Fi: NAS, MiniDLNA, Plex, a Chord 2Go. Found automatically, streamed bit-exact, DSD included. • SMB shares on your home network. • 1-bit-bridge, a free, open-source (MIT) server you run on Mac, Linux, Pi or Windows. Pinned HTTPS, tap-to-pair by Bonjour or QR. • 1-bit Cloud: the same bridge, run by us. Sign in with Apple and upload from any computer. 20 GB free. Strictly private, downloadable bit-exact, deletable in one step. • An MPD player's own library, such as a Volumio box's (experimental). • Any folder on your device or an external drive, picked in Files, nothing copied. Download for offline play. • No server yet? Add the read-only demo library in one tap. AUDIO • Bit-exact PCM (FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC, MP3, M4A) up to the limits of your DAC. • Bit-exact DSD over DoP for DSF and DSDIFF, up to DSD256, with a USB DAC that reports DoP lock (Chord, iFi, Topping, Mytek and others). • DSD on any output: AirPods, AirPlay, CarPlay and the speaker get it converted to PCM, labeled as such; a wired DAC gets the untouched path. • SACD .iso rips open into per-track rows; DST-compressed DSDIFF decodes as it plays. • Gapless when adjacent tracks match. Per-DAC tuning, anti-click rate switching and thermal-aware buffering keep DSD256 smooth. • Spatial audio (beta) with head tracking on supported AirPods, PCM only. LYRICS • Synced lyrics, line by line, from tags, a sidecar, your bridge, or an online source you switch on. SEE WHAT YOU HEAR • Signal Path shows what actually reached your DAC, with an optional live spectrum and true-peak analyzer. • Whole-track analysis answers "is this really hi-res?"; a bridge adds dynamic range, key, tempo and a FLAC checksum that flags an altered file. • Profile my DAC: guided measurements you can send in to get your DAC supported. VOICE, SIRI & CARPLAY • "Hey Siri, play [album, artist, playlist, or genre] on 1-bit". Shortcuts and Spotlight too. • CarPlay: your library A to Z, with Favorites, Downloads, voice search and Shuffle. DSD plays converted to PCM. HOME MIXES (WITH A BRIDGE) • Your bridge builds mixes from your listening, such as Heavy Rotation and Daily Mix, cached overnight for offline play. OUTPUT • Play through a USB DAC, AirPods, AirPlay 2 or the speaker. • Cast to DLNA, OpenHome and MPD players on your network, or to your bridge's own player and the DAC on its computer. LIBRARY • Fast enough for 50,000+ tracks across every source; the first scan carries on overnight while charging. • Browse by artist, album, composer, genre, folder, playlist or a flat Tracks list, with an "Appears On" section. Search everything, filter by source, heart tracks and albums. PLAYER • A new Now Playing on iPhone: a Card over a soft blur or immersive Full Screen, with a waveform scrubber and the actions you choose. A floating player on iPad. • Resume where you left off. Home Screen widget and quick actions, Lock Screen and Control Center transport, sleep timer, optional crossfeed. BRIDGE EXTRAS • Playlists and favorites in step across your devices through a shared bridge; import .m3u/.m3u8 files from it, or export a playlist as M3U8. • Upscaling and DSD-to-PCM renditions made on your own hardware, the original always one tap away. • Atlas notes and better cover art; backup of playlists, favorites and playback history to your own bridge. All off by default on a bridge you run. PRIVACY • No analytics, no tracking, no ads. Optional lookups are off by default; passwords and tokens live in the iOS Keychain. The only server of ours that holds anything is 1-bit Cloud, and only if you create a library. Requires iOS 26.1 or later.

Screenshots

Musiking4 screens
14 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: 1 at 4.3 against Musiking's 3.0. 1 also leads on ratings volume (7 vs 2). Musiking's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

1 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Musiking ships an update every 9 days, 1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Musiking versus 1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMusiking1
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.3 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLYSIAS NathanArsenie Coseac

Customer experience

Musiking

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

1

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Musiking

No in-app purchases

None

1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Musiking free?
Musiking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 1 free?
1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Musiking or 1?
1 is rated higher. Musiking averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while 1 averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Musiking or 1 have ads?
Neither Musiking nor 1 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Musiking or 1?
Musiking ships an update every 9 days, and 1 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Musiking was updated on October 31, 2026 and 1 on November 5, 2026.

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