Comparison

Mossca Remote vs PMDA

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

Head to head
About

Mossca Remote

Features
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Mossca Remote is the official remote control app for Mossca on Mac, allowing you to control your desktop music playback experience directly from your iPhone or iPad. Whether you are sitting on the sofa, relaxing in another room, or listening through your home audio system, Mossca Remote makes it easy to browse albums, control playback, adjust volume, and manage your listening experience over the same Wi-Fi network. Key Features: • Real-time playback control: play, pause, skip tracks, and jump to specific songs. • Playback queue management: view and manage upcoming tracks with ease. • Volume and output control: adjust volume remotely and switch between Exclusive and Shared Output modes. • Now Playing display: view the current album artwork, track title, artist, and playback status. • Multi-language support: Chinese, English, and Japanese interface support. • Stable local connection: automatically discover and connect to Mossca on your Mac over the same Wi-Fi network. • Lightweight interface: clean, focused, and easy to use. Ideal For: • Controlling Mac music playback from your sofa or listening position. • Switching albums or adjusting volume without returning to your Mac. • Using Mossca with home audio systems, external DACs, or desktop speakers. Privacy & Security: • No personal data collection. • Communication happens within your local network. • Designed for private and secure home listening. Feedback: Any feedback or suggestions are welcome. Contact: mynameisfung@gmail.com

About

PMDA

Features
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PMDA (pronounced "pimda") is one music lover's take on building the music library of his dreams — and now yours. Point the app at your own self-hosted PMDA server and enjoy your entire collection, beautifully organized, anywhere you go. WHY PMDA Most music apps lock you into a subscription and their catalog, or leave your carefully-built library a mess of mismatched tags and missing covers. PMDA is different: 100% self-hosted, private, and it actually understands your music. WHAT YOU GET • Your whole library, everywhere — browse artists, albums, genres and labels, with rich, clickable artist pages. • Real listening — gapless playback, history, cross-user recommendations, synced lyrics and waveforms. • Lossless, your way — stream bit-perfect FLAC or save data with smart transcoding; download albums for offline, even on a plane. • Clean and yours — your files, your server, your rules. No cloud lock-in, no ads, no tracking, no AI. HOW IT WORKS PMDA mobile is a companion to the PMDA server (a free, self-hosted music library app you run on your own machine or NAS). Enter your server's address, sign in, and your library is in your pocket. Nothing is stored on our servers — the app talks only to the server you point it at. Built for people who are in love with music. Welcome.

Screenshots

Mossca Remote3 screens
PMDA4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mossca Remote and PMDA are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Mossca Remote versus PMDA: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMossca RemotePMDA
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer꘎ꘟ å¼ Raphael Vael

In-app purchases

None

Mossca Remote

No in-app purchases

None

PMDA

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mossca Remote free?
Mossca Remote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PMDA free?
PMDA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mossca Remote or PMDA have ads?
Neither Mossca Remote nor PMDA shows ads.

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