Comparison

Vinyl Player vs Record Picker

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

Head to head
About

Vinyl Player

This app transforms your digital music library into a tactile vinyl experience. It visualizes albums as unique records in customizable rooms, allowing you to curate and display your collection.

Highlights
  • Album visualization as unique vinyl records
  • Customizable listening rooms
  • Interactive record display and collection management
  • Dynamic Lock Screen and Dynamic Island integration
  • Apple Watch app with complication
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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treaming gave us every song at once. Vinyl Player is for the ones you'd actually put on. Play an album in Apple Music and it becomes a record: pressed in the album's own colours, cut so no two are alike, turning on a platter in a room made for your music. Hang the ones that matter on your wall. Take one down. Put it on. LISTENING, ON PURPOSE A hundred million songs is a library. The ones you keep coming back to are a collection. Vinyl Player doesn't replace Apple Music; it sits on top of it. Your subscription, your library, your queue. It just changes how it feels to press play. A ROOM MADE FOR YOUR MUSIC Plaster, walnut, velvet, a midnight room with smoke hanging in the light, or a night sky. Lamp moods from candlelight to neon, or let the record light the room in its own colour. Lighting that breathes with the tempo of the song. A tonearm that sweeps inward as the side plays, and a needle drop you can feel. The interface settles the longer a record plays, so the music is what's left. YOUR RECORDS, ON THE WALL Swipe up from the deck and the room opens onto your collection: sleeves on wooden ledges, sorted onto shelves you name. Tap a cover and the sleeve rises, the record slides out, and the tracklist scrolls up behind it. Play a side, or a song, or spin the record in your hand just to look at it. EVERY ALBUM GETS ITS OWN PRESSING Each album is pressed once, just for you. If a pressing doesn't feel right, re-press it until it does. Keep coming back to a record and it may come back to you a little changed. EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN The record on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it plays. The same pressing spinning on your Apple Watch, with the crown to skip and a complication to show what's on. Your wall, shelves and pressings follow you to the Mac through iCloud. Vinyl Player needs an Apple Music subscription. No account, no tracking, nothing to sign up for.

About

Record Picker

This app helps you decide which vinyl record to play next from your collection. It offers weighted draws, filtering options, and a wishlist, with a dedicated interface for Apple Watch and iPad.

Highlights
  • Weighted random record selection
  • Filter by year, genre, format, speed, favorites
  • Temporary record exclusions
  • Barcode scanning for quick entry
  • Metadata from MusicBrainz and Discogs
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Export to CSV or JSON
Features
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Your records. More music. Record Picker helps you catalogue vinyl records and CDs, find an album on your shelves and choose what to play from the music you already own. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION Add a record manually, choose a cover photo or enter a Discogs Reference ID. Import a collection or Wantlist CSV with a preview before applying changes. Keep your wishlist separate from the records you own, and move a wish into your collection when you buy it. FIND YOUR NEXT LISTEN Search your catalogue, filter by format, sort your albums and keep your favourites close. Random Pick helps you rediscover your shelves without repeating records during a draw cycle. Open your chosen music in a supported streaming service. LIGHT: THE ESSENTIALS One purchase, no subscription. An unlimited collection and wishlist, all import methods, search, filters, favourites, Random Pick, Today’s Pick, Mood Pick, backup and restore. PRO: EXPLORE FURTHER Listening Journeys, collection graphs, review keywords, batch enrichment and private pressing dossiers add ways to explore and maintain your library. Existing Pro purchases keep their access. RECORD DETAILS THAT RESPECT YOUR COPY Keep the release ID, format, speed, media and sleeve condition, notes and classical or contemporary music credits together. Reviews retain their original language; keyword analysis brings musical concepts together in a shared dictionary. YOUR COLLECTION STAYS YOURS No Record Picker account is required. You can back up and export your collection. Metadata and listening links may use external services; their availability and any required music subscriptions depend on those services. ON IPHONE AND IPAD Photograph a cover or scan a barcode with the camera. Browse your collection wherever you listen, with layouts for iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

Vinyl Player4 screens
Record Picker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vinyl Player at none against Record Picker's 1. Vinyl Player also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Record Picker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vinyl Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Vinyl Player versus Record Picker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVinyl PlayerRecord Picker
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyβ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
MonetizationFree β€” betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, Mac, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size11 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeart & HustleYves Durand

Customer experience

Vinyl Player

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Record Picker

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Vinyl Player

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Record Picker

One-time1
  • Record Picker Pro$8.99

Questions

Is Vinyl Player free?
Vinyl Player is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Record Picker free?
Record Picker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vinyl Player or Record Picker have ads?
Neither Vinyl Player nor Record Picker shows ads.

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