Shelv Player vs Pixel Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shelv Player
Stream your personal music library with a native client. Enjoy offline listening, smart playlists, and synced lyrics. This app offers advanced queue management and cross-device synchronization for a seamless listening experience.
- Offline music downloads
- Smart playlist generation
- Global search with lyrics
- Transcoding support
- Advanced queue management
- Cross-device sync
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Shelv is a native music player for Navidrome and Subsonic-compatible servers. Stream your own music library, download it for offline listening, add radio stations, and enjoy smooth playback with gapless, transcoding and smart pre-cache. Shelv also includes mixes, synced lyrics, queue sync and listening insights. Features: - Smart Mixes - Instant Mix - Infinity Mix - Random Albums - Shuffle All - Radio Stations - Offline Downloads - Full Library Download - Listening Insights - Synced Lyrics - LRCLIB Support - Gapless Playback - Transcoding - Smart Pre-cache - Queue Sync - Scrobbling - ReplayGain - Multiple Servers - AirPlay & CarPlay - iCloud Sync Shelv requires your own Navidrome or Subsonic-compatible music server.
Pixel Play
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Music that knows you. Every song you skip, every mood you carry, every drive you take — Pixel Play is paying attention. Not in the spy way. In the way a close friend learns what makes you smile, what calms you, what energizes you. We built Pixel Play because music players forgot why we listen to music in the first place. It is not for a trending list. Not for an algorithm built around someone else's taste. It is for that moment — when the right song meets the right second — and the world quietly aligns. HEART. The invisible intelligence. HEART quietly learns your taste — your language, your tempo, your time of day, the way you hold the disc. Within five songs, it stops guessing. It starts knowing. Whispers in your language. Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi. Over 210 hand-written messages from a system that gets you. Skip a song, it nods. Find a new artist you love, it celebrates. Silently, never in the way. Built for the moment. — Mood-aware autoplay that stays in your feel — Lock-screen and AirPlay controls that work like they should — Swipe the vinyl disc to scratch, skip, scrub — Smart Records: your library, sorted by feeling, not file name — Music-only filter: no trailers, no podcasts, no reviews slipping through — No ads. No subscriptions. No login required. Search. Play. Feel. That is all. This is version one. The best version of Pixel Play is yet to come. Made with HEART in India. creativepixels.in
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pixel Play at 15.0 against Shelv Player's 18.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Shelv Player | Pixel Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Vasco Kugler | Akshay Khandelwal |
In-app purchases
Shelv Player
No in-app purchases
Pixel Play
No in-app purchases
