Plus Media Player vs Faraday

+media is a clean, fast player for the music and video you actually own — now with a full music editor built in, so any song in your library can become a custom ringtone, text tone, or just a perfectly trimmed clip. Drop MP3s and MP4s into iCloud Drive (or any folder on your iPhone), point +media at it, and your library is ready. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. MUSIC EDITOR & RINGTONE MAKER (NEW) • Trim any song with IN/OUT handles on the waveform — pinch to zoom for sample-precise edits, drag to scrub • Change speed without changing the pitch (0.5× to 2×) • Fade in, fade out, and adjust the level • Quick-trim presets for 30s text tones and 40s ringtones • 3-band EQ — low, mid, and high rotary knobs • Reverb with five room presets: Room, Hall, Plate, Chamber, Cathedral • Peak Normalize: one-tap loudness boost to just under 0 dBFS • Loop your edit 2× or 3× to extend a short clip • Stereo VU meter, live peak dB readout, and a clip LED so you see exactly what's coming out • A/B compare and full effects bypass for instant before/after • Export as M4A back to your library, or as M4R and send to GarageBand to install as a ringtone or text tone MAKE IT YOURS • Customize every color — background, text, accent, and buttons — in Settings • Your theme syncs across iPhone and iPad via iCloud • Titles stay readable on any background you choose LOCAL FIRST • Plays MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAC — anything iOS can decode • Reads ID3, iTunes, and common metadata tags for artist, album, and artwork • Auto-groups your library by album • Sort by title, artist, album, or date added • Edit track and album tags — title, artist, album, artwork — right on your files IMPORT & SYNC • Open in +media: send audio and video straight from Files, AirDrop, or any share sheet • Sync over Wi-Fi with the +downloads desktop app • Import and export M3U playlists APPLE MUSIC, TOO • Connect Apple Music and your iTunes-purchased songs appear alongside your local files • One unified queue across local and Apple Music • An Apple Music subscription is not required to play songs you already own PLAYLISTS AND FAVORITES • Build playlists from your unified library • Heart any track to add it to Favorites • Playlists and Favorites sync across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud NOW PLAYING DONE RIGHT • Full-screen player with album artwork and scrubber • A-B Repeat: loop any section of a track • Time-synced lyrics • Lock-screen, Control Center, and CarPlay support • AirPlay 2 to any compatible speaker, Apple TV, or HomePod • Sleep timer with countdown or end-of-track modes • Reorderable Up Next queue SHARE • Turn a moment from a track into an animated video clip with a waveform • Share a track card or clip straight to Instagram Stories VIDEO TOO • Drop MP4s next to your music files • Tap to watch in a clean full-screen player MADE FOR PRIVACY • No analytics SDKs, no ad networks, no third-party servers • Crash and performance reports stay on your device — nothing is uploaded • Privacy Policy link in Settings REQUIREMENTS • iOS 17 or later • Optional: Apple Music subscription for streaming, iCloud Drive for syncing files between devices Built by one person who believes you should own your music.

Faraday plays music that belongs to you: MP3 and M4A files from a folder in iCloud Drive that you choose yourself. No account, no subscription, no catalogue to pick from. The app exists because of dead zones. Music made with Suno can only be streamed in their app, and without a connection it goes quiet. Faraday downloads tracks to the device and plays them from there, in the car, on the train, on a plane. FOLDERS, NOT RULES Your folder structure stays as it is, as deep as you like: genre, artist, album, or something else entirely. A folder may hold tracks and subfolders at the same time. A button at the top plays a whole folder in one go, one album after the other. An artist folder shows all albums with their tracks. TWO LEVELS, SO YOU KNOW WHAT PLAYS OFFLINE A tap streams, the download button keeps a permanent copy. Each row shows whether a track is downloaded, whether iCloud is holding it on the device right now, or whether it is not there. In airplane mode you know beforehand what will play. FAVOURITES AND PLAYLISTS A heart marks tracks and albums across all folders. On iPad you can also mark a single disc of a multi-disc album. Playlists are files in your music folder; on iPad you create them, fill them by dragging and reorder their tracks. Rename or move an album folder and playlists and favourites follow it. GENRES AND DECADES Two cards on the start screen sort your albums by genre and by decade. A decade can be played in one go. IPAD At full width the iPad shows folders and playlists in a sidebar, all tracks as a table sortable by any column, and lyrics or the queue on the right. The queue takes tracks by drag and drop and can be saved as a playlist. A full-screen visualizer reacts to bass, mids and beat. CARPLAY The same folder tree as on the phone, plus your favourite tracks and albums. Repeat, shuffle and a heart below the timeline. LYRICS THAT FOLLOW ALONG Suno puts the lyrics into the file, but without timing. Faraday creates the timestamps on the device and stores them as an .lrc file next to the music. Analysed once, it stays. Requires iOS 26. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS "Remember this track in Faraday", "Repeat this track in Faraday", "Shuffle in Faraday". All of them are available in Shortcuts and can be put on the Action button. WHAT FARADAY DOES NOT DO No account, no sign-in, no ads, no tracking. On iPhone and iPad the app talks to no server. What it stores lives on your device and in your iCloud folder.