Comparison

MediaDrift vs Penta

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

Head to head
About

MediaDrift

Features
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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!

About

Penta

Experience your Apple Music library with a virtual five-disc CD carousel player. Browse albums, load discs, and control playback with a realistic interface, complete with tactile sounds and a retro display.

Highlights
  • Five-disc carousel simulation
  • Apple Music library integration
  • Realistic tactile interface
  • Customizable display
  • Save and reload disc sets
  • iCloud sync for favorites
Features
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Penta turns your iPhone, iPad or iPhone Duo into a five-disc CD changer — the hi-fi component you grew up with, rebuilt for your Apple Music library. Open a jewel case, drop the disc into the carousel, and play. Every detail is here: the fluorescent display, the motorized carousel, the power-on self-test, a disc winding up to speed before it plays, and the clunk as it comes to a stop. ON IPHONE DUO The phone is the jewel case. Close it and you're holding the album; open it and the case opens with it. Open flat for the whole deck, or fold it like a laptop for your CD wallet above the tray. FEATURES • A real five-disc carousel — load, spin, and swap discs by hand • Real sounds, recorded from a five-disc changer: key clicks, the tray, the platter turning and a disc set down • A different deck each way up: the full carousel sideways, a CD wallet over the tray upright • Jewel-case browser — open the case and drag the disc out, or drop it straight into any of the five slots • Plays your Apple Music library in full, with real album art on every disc • Keys you can feel — on iPhone every key clicks under your thumb • Magazines — save a set of five discs and reload the whole cartridge later • Favorites, whole-library search, and Apple Music catalog search • A vacuum-fluorescent display with track, time, and format readouts • Any way up on iPad, and in resizable windows • Favorites and saved magazines sync across your devices via iCloud PENTA PRO A one-time unlock: Real CD Artwork (beta) shows the actual printed disc instead of the album cover, plus the full phosphor-colour set, the analog needle and VU meters, a gentle readable spin, the minimal readout, and unlimited saved magazines. The free deck plays your whole library with no limits. Albums you own play without a subscription. Streaming from the Apple Music catalog needs an Apple Music subscription.

Screenshots

MediaDrift4 screens
Penta4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MediaDrift at none against Penta's 1. MediaDrift also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Penta sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MediaDrift asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MediaDrift versus Penta: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMediaDriftPenta
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKASUI TONGJohn Seubert

In-app purchases

None

MediaDrift

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Penta

One-time1
  • Penta Pro$0.99

Questions

Is MediaDrift free?
MediaDrift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Penta free?
Penta is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MediaDrift or Penta have ads?
Neither MediaDrift nor Penta shows ads.

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