Orphea vs aud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orphea
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Orphea analyzes your music taste across all your streaming services (SoundCloud, TIDAL, Deezer & Apple Music) using AI to reveal your unique musical DNA. DISCOVER YOUR MUSICAL IDENTITY • Get a deep AI analysis of any track: beat, lyrics, structure & emotion • Uncover your Musical DNA profile across all providers • See your taste evolve over time with weekly recaps THE CUT: DAILY MUSIC DISCOVERY • Swipe through 20 curated tracks every day • Build your streak and discover new favorites • Rate, save, and share your discoveries MULTI-PLATFORM • Connect all your streaming accounts in one place • SoundCloud, TIDAL, Apple Music & Deezer • Cross-platform library and analysis history COMMUNITY • Share your musical vibes and discoveries • Join real-time channels with other music lovers • Discover what others are listening to FREE TO START Get 5 AI analyses per month for free. Upgrade for unlimited analyses, Vibe Search, and more.
aud
This app combines your local music files with your Apple Music library into a single, beautifully organized interface. It offers advanced playback features and multiple ways to import your music without merging your collections.
- Combines local and Apple Music libraries
- Organized by artwork, artist, album, song, playlist, genre
- Multiple import options: Files, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, folder watch
- Supports FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, WAV, and more
- Advanced Pro features: native resolution, gapless playback, EQ
- Cross-platform: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay
- Offline playback
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Your music. On your devices. Beautifully. aud-io is a local-first music player for the music you actually own, with the option of adding your Apple Music library alongside it. Two libraries, one beautiful app, never merged and never overwritten. EVERYONE ELSE MAKES YOU CHOOSE Local players cannot touch Apple Music. Apple Music players cannot touch your files. aud-io does both, and keeps a hard line between them, so your collection stays exactly as you built it. MEET THE SHELF Cover Flow, rebuilt. Scroll through your own artwork, from your own files, and tap to play. Browse by artist, album, song, playlist or genre when you know what you want, and use The Shelf when you do not. BRING YOUR LIBRARY IN, YOUR WAY Import from Files, share or AirDrop from anywhere, watch a folder, open a ZIP, or send your library straight from your Mac over local Wi-Fi. Peer to peer, device to device, no cloud in between. aud-io reads your existing metadata and artwork. FLAC, ALAC, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and CAF. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY The free player handles your whole library, in every format, at up to 256 kbps. Pro removes the ceiling: every file at its native resolution, bit-perfect to your DAC, with automatic source rate matching, true gapless, crossfade, a 10-band EQ and EBU R128 loudness normalisation. EVERYWHERE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN iPhone and iPad, with a native Mac app available separately. Apple Watch as a remote. CarPlay for your library and playlists on the road. AirPlay to your speakers. Home screen widgets for Now Playing, Recently Added and The Shelf. Use aud-io on iPhone as a remote for the Mac from anywhere in the house. BRING IN A WHOLE COLLECTION Import CDs. Connect a NAS. Point aud-io at the library you already have, wherever it lives, without running server software. DISCOVER MORE IN THE MUSIC YOU ALREADY HAVE Find deep cuts. Surface recently added music. Group by genre. Build mixes from the files on your device, generated on your device. OPTIONAL, AND ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Add your own Google Gemini key and aud-io can curate mixes, suggest radio-style listening and enrich music details. The key lives in your device Keychain. Your audio is never uploaded. Without a key, it is simply off. Apple Music, if you connect it, uses your own subscription through Apple's system permission. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The free player is a capable local music player. One Pro purchase unlocks advanced listening. There is no recurring fee, and there never will be. Pro on iPhone and iPad is a separate purchase from Pro on Mac. Works fully offline. No aud-io server. No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Made in Sydney by DIGITAL x DESIGN, for people who still care about their music library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: aud at weekly against Orphea's monthly. Orphea's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Orphea sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and aud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Orphea ships an update monthly, aud weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Orphea | aud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amilcar Ayat | Sanjiv Sathiah |
In-app purchases
Orphea
- Starter$3.991 Month
- Orphea Pro$7.991 Month
- Studio Monthly$8.991 Month
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- Producer$29.991 Month
- Starter$29.991 Year
- Orphea Pro$59.991 Year
- Producer$249.991 Year
aud
- aud-io Pro$14.99









