Jukebox vs aud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jukebox
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Jukebox plays the music you own — from your iPhone, iCloud Drive, or your own WebDAV, NAS or Jellyfin server. No subscription, no account, no ads. • Your files: MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and more • Your own server: WebDAV, Nextcloud, a NAS or Jellyfin • Karaoke: removes the vocals from your own songs, right on your device • Synced lyrics from your own .lrc files or the song's tags • Gapless playback, 5-band EQ, speed control and a live spectrum • CarPlay, Apple Watch, Siri, widgets and AirPlay • iPhone, iPad and Mac • No data collected YOUR LIBRARY • Add a folder from the Files app — On My iPhone, iCloud Drive, an external drive or an SMB share — or connect your own WebDAV or Jellyfin server, and Jukebox builds a fast index of your artists, albums and songs • Browse by genre, artist, album or song, or by folder; search finds all of them as you type • Cover art from the file, a cover.jpg in the album folder, or (optionally) looked up online • Download songs from your server to play offline • Playlists, synced between your devices with iCloud KARAOKE • Tap Karaoke under the song title, or add songs to the Karaoke playlist. Jukebox separates the vocals on your device in a minute or two per song — nothing is uploaded • Sing on a full-screen karaoke screen with the current line large and lyrics that follow the music • Switch the singer on and off without a gap, or blend them back in with Guide vocals • Nudge the lyrics timing, send it to the TV with AirPlay, or hide everything but the lyrics THE PLAYER • Gapless playback, so live albums and DJ mixes play straight through • A mixer with volume, a 5-band EQ with presets and speed from 0.5× to 3× • A large cover in portrait, a retro desktop-player view in landscape, and a real-time spectrum • Shuffle everything, one artist or one album; repeat; sleep timer; Up Next • Lock Screen, Control Center and Dynamic Island controls, and a Now Playing widget EVERYWHERE YOU LISTEN • CarPlay: your playlists, artists and albums on the car's screen • Apple Watch: see what's playing, control it, and play music synced to the watch • Siri and Shortcuts: "Play Deep Purple on Jukebox" • In English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese PRIVACY Jukebox collects no data about you: no account, no analytics. It only talks to your own server and, if you allow it, looks up missing album art. Free for 1 hour of playback a day. One in-app purchase unlocks unlimited playback forever — no subscription.
aud
This app combines your local music files with your Apple Music library into a single, beautifully organized interface. It offers advanced playback features and multiple ways to import your music without merging your collections.
- Combines local and Apple Music libraries
- Organized by artwork, artist, album, song, playlist, genre
- Multiple import options: Files, AirDrop, Wi-Fi, folder watch
- Supports FLAC, ALAC, MP3, AAC, WAV, and more
- Advanced Pro features: native resolution, gapless playback, EQ
- Cross-platform: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay
- Offline playback
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Your music. On your devices. Beautifully. aud-io is a local-first music player for the music you actually own, with the option of adding your Apple Music library alongside it. Two libraries, one beautiful app, never merged and never overwritten. EVERYONE ELSE MAKES YOU CHOOSE Local players cannot touch Apple Music. Apple Music players cannot touch your files. aud-io does both, and keeps a hard line between them, so your collection stays exactly as you built it. MEET THE SHELF Cover Flow, rebuilt. Scroll through your own artwork, from your own files, and tap to play. Browse by artist, album, song, playlist or genre when you know what you want, and use The Shelf when you do not. BRING YOUR LIBRARY IN, YOUR WAY Import from Files, share or AirDrop from anywhere, watch a folder, open a ZIP, or send your library straight from your Mac over local Wi-Fi. Peer to peer, device to device, no cloud in between. aud-io reads your existing metadata and artwork. FLAC, ALAC, M4A, MP3, AAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, Ogg Vorbis and CAF. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO LISTEN CAREFULLY The free player handles your whole library, in every format, at up to 256 kbps. Pro removes the ceiling: every file at its native resolution, bit-perfect to your DAC, with automatic source rate matching, true gapless, crossfade, a 10-band EQ and EBU R128 loudness normalisation. EVERYWHERE YOU ACTUALLY LISTEN iPhone and iPad, with a native Mac app available separately. Apple Watch as a remote. CarPlay for your library and playlists on the road. AirPlay to your speakers. Home screen widgets for Now Playing, Recently Added and The Shelf. Use aud-io on iPhone as a remote for the Mac from anywhere in the house. BRING IN A WHOLE COLLECTION Import CDs. Connect a NAS. Point aud-io at the library you already have, wherever it lives, without running server software. DISCOVER MORE IN THE MUSIC YOU ALREADY HAVE Find deep cuts. Surface recently added music. Group by genre. Build mixes from the files on your device, generated on your device. OPTIONAL, AND ONLY IF YOU WANT IT Add your own Google Gemini key and aud-io can curate mixes, suggest radio-style listening and enrich music details. The key lives in your device Keychain. Your audio is never uploaded. Without a key, it is simply off. Apple Music, if you connect it, uses your own subscription through Apple's system permission. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. The free player is a capable local music player. One Pro purchase unlocks advanced listening. There is no recurring fee, and there never will be. Pro on iPhone and iPad is a separate purchase from Pro on Mac. Works fully offline. No aud-io server. No third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. Made in Sydney by DIGITAL x DESIGN, for people who still care about their music library.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Jukebox at every 3 days against aud's weekly. Jukebox also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). 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. Jukebox sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and aud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Jukebox ships an update every 3 days, aud weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jukebox | aud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Popov | Sanjiv Sathiah |
In-app purchases
Jukebox
- Support the developer$0.99
- Unlimited Playback$2.99
aud
- aud-io Pro$14.99









