Sound Room vs Soitin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sound Room
Stream your self-hosted music library with bit-perfect quality and advanced audio features. Enjoy real-time shared listening sessions with friends and customize your music experience. Supports Apple CarPlay and offline playback.
- Bit-perfect DAC passthrough
- Automatic hardware clock switching
- Studio-grade 10-band EQ
- Real-time shared listening (Jam)
- Apple CarPlay integration
- Multi-server and multi-account support
- Offline downloads
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The modern Subsonic client built for audiophiles and everyday music lovers. Stream your self-hosted music library in pure bit-perfect quality, listen together with friends in real time, and enjoy a deeply customizable music experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple CarPlay. NEW IN VERSION 5.0 : THE AUDIOPHILE SUITE • Bit-Perfect DAC Passthrough: Stream unadulterated master audio directly to your external USB DAC, bypassing software mixers and unwanted downsampling. • Automatic Hardware Clock Switching: Sound Room automatically commands your DAC’s clock frequency (from 44.1 kHz up to 384 kHz and 768 kHz) on iOS and macOS to match every track in real time. • Studio-Grade 10-Band EQ: Low-latency SIMD vectorized DSP engine with 9 tuned presets, custom curves, and pre-amp gain control. • Live Signal Path Inspector: Tap any quality badge on Now Playing to inspect your real-time audio pipeline from source file to output hardware. JAM: LISTEN TOGETHER IN REAL TIME Our signature shared listening experience. Start a Jam, share an invite link, and keep everyone on the exact same queue with synchronized playback. Built for listening parties, road trips, and shared music moments. • Privacy by Design: Your audio files and server credentials never pass through the Jam service. Jam only coordinates session membership and playback states. APPLE CARPLAY Take your music library on the road with a complete CarPlay experience: • Browse Home, Library, Artists, and Playlists directly from your car dashboard. • Integrated search with voice dictation and on-screen keyboard. • Live animated equalizer indicator on playing tracklists. • Full album art thumbnails and instant automatic playback resume. MULTI-SERVER & MULTI-ACCOUNT Switch effortlessly between multiple accounts and different servers (Navidrome, Subsonic, LMS, and more). Each server maintains its own distinct cache, offline downloads, and credentials. OFFLINE WHEN YOU NEED IT • Download albums, playlists, and individual tracks for reliable offline listening. • Smart auto-caching preloads upcoming tracks for instant, gap-free playback. • Detailed storage manager with batch download actions and queue controls. DEEP PERSONALIZATION • Custom Tab Bar: Choose your favorite sections, reorder tabs, and select your startup screen. • Curated Themes & Accents: Personalize the app with custom accent colors. • Typography: Choose custom fonts for the app interface and synchronized lyrics. • Flexible Home & Library: Reorder and toggle rows and sections to match how you browse. LIBRARY & EXPLORATION • Seamless browsing by Artists, Albums, Songs, Genres, Years, and Playlists. • Quick shortcuts: Recently Played, Most Played, and Recently Added. • Rich artist screens with merged artist discographies and smooth navigation. • Search prioritizing exact songs, followed by albums and artists. SMART SHARING • Long-press any song, album, or playlist to copy a direct share link. • Shared links open directly in Sound Room on friends’ devices. • Generates web server links that anyone can open in a browser. IMPORTANT Sound Room is a client application and does not include music or hosting. You need access to a Subsonic-compatible server (such as Navidrome) with valid credentials. Available features may vary depending on your server’s capabilities. Privacy Policy: https://soundroom.valaki.in/privacy-policy Terms of Use (Standard Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Soitin
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Soitin plays music from your Navidrome server on iPhone and iPad. Built around albums. DJ mixes and live albums play without gaps. Shuffle a list of albums and each one still plays in order. Unplayed Albums shows the ones you haven’t finished, and any playlist can be shown as the albums in it. Smart playlists you can edit on your phone. Rules on any field, groups inside groups, saved straight to your server. Works offline. Download albums and playlists. Plays made offline are sent to your server once you’re back. Requires a Navidrome server. Soitin is not affiliated with the Navidrome project.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Soitin at none against Sound Room's 5. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Sound Room sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Soitin asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sound Room ships an update every 2 days, Soitin every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Sound Room | Soitin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alpesh Valaki | Aero Deko |
In-app purchases
Sound Room
- Sound Room Premium3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Thanks$2.99
- Thanks so much$5.99
- Generous thanks$9.99
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- Huge thanks$14.99
Soitin
No in-app purchases









