MediaDrift vs Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MediaDrift
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- Track your top artists with beautiful, data-driven charts and generate stunning Yearly Recap Posters to share your musical journey. - Total Personalization: Craft your vibe with customizable vinyl players and personalized backgrounds for every track. - Interactive Lyrics: Add and sync time-stamped lyrics to any song in your collection. - Creative Freedom: Remix your tracks, trim audio with precision, and edit metadata to keep your library flawless. - Pro Tools for Everyone: Effortlessly extract audio from videos and convert between high-quality formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV and more!
Drift
This app transforms your music library into a dynamic, animated wall of album artwork. Explore your music and discover new releases with a visually engaging interface that responds to your touch and device orientation.
- Animated album artwork walls
- Horizontal shelf browsing
- Library, artist, and album navigation
- Personalized music discovery
- Adjustable animation speed
- Mini-player with controls
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Your music, in motion. Drift is a visual player for Apple Music that transforms your library and music discovery into an animated wall of album artwork. Tap a cover to play, watch rows drift in alternating directions, or rotate your iPhone to browse a tactile horizontal shelf. EXPLORE YOUR LIBRARY Move between playlists, artists, and albums, then choose the collection you want without leaving the wall. DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW Browse personalized picks, new releases, and song charts from the Apple Music catalog. A PLAYER BUILT AROUND COVER ART • Seamless animated cover walls • Smooth landscape shelf with natural momentum • Original-order and shuffle playback • Focused or always-visible song titles • Adjustable wall speed • Mini-player with play, pause, previous, next, and swipe-to-skip controls • Local artwork and metadata caching for faster return visits Drift requires Apple Music authorization and an active Apple Music subscription for library access, catalog discovery, artwork, and full-song playback. Content availability may vary by country or region. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://oaky.ltd/drift/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: MediaDrift at 3 against Drift's 1. MediaDrift also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | MediaDrift | Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 186 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | KASUI TONG | 一晟 沈 |
In-app purchases
MediaDrift
No in-app purchases
Drift
No in-app purchases
