Offline Music Player vs LyricTap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Offline Music Player
This music player consolidates all your audio libraries, including local files, streaming services, and personal servers, into a single, unified interface. Enjoy a visually immersive playback experience with dynamic album art and customizable controls, all without ads or subscriptions.
- Consolidates all music libraries
- Supports local files, streaming, and personal servers
- Visually immersive playback with dynamic album art
- Gapless playback and 10-band equalizer
- Synced, karaoke-style lyrics
- CarPlay integration
- iCloud backup for playlists and settings
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Your music, the whole screen. Every library you have, in one player. Drift is an offline music player for people who still own their music, and for the rest of their listening too. No buttons on the playing screen. No account, no ads, no subscription: seven days of everything, then one purchase. A PLAYING SCREEN WITH NO BUTTONS • Tap to play or pause. Swipe up or down to change songs — real paging, like flipping vinyl. • Swipe right for your library, left for the drawer or the wheel: every place you can go, under your thumb. • Double tap to fill the screen with the cover — or make it your favorite gesture instead. • Tap the song's name for its format, its details and its controls. EVERY LIBRARY, ONE DECK • Your files — imported over Wi-Fi from any computer's browser, from the Files app, or played straight off an SMB or WebDAV drive. • Apple Music and Spotify — connect an account and it browses like the rest of your music: the same shelves, the same rows, the same playing screen. • Your own server — Navidrome, Subsonic, Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex (beta). Browse the whole catalog, stream on demand, download to keep offline. • Each library is a card: swipe its row to Albums, Artists, Songs and the rest. A strip at the page's edge changes the song from anywhere. PLAYS WHAT YOU OWN • Everything, natively — MP3, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, plus OGG, Opus, WavPack, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, TTA and more. No conversion; your files stay byte-identical. • Gapless playback for your own files (over AirPlay, with the equalizer on). AirPlay 2. Real codec detection. • Ten-band equalizer with eight tuned curves, and any curve you build saved by name. • Synced lyrics from your own files — embedded, a .lrc file, or pasted in — with the line you're on in the middle. MISSING COVERS AND TAGS, FIXED • Titles, artists, albums and artwork completed from iTunes and MusicBrainz as you play — or pick the release yourself from the suggestions. • Every correction can be reviewed, and put back. Only a title and an artist are ever sent. • Editions and remasters shelve as one album. A duplicate finder recommends the best-quality copy to keep. MADE OF YOUR ALBUM ART • Covers extend edge-to-edge; the empty space is painted to continue them. • The app recolors to match what's playing — or pick a background: Drift, Mono, Song or your own colours. True-black OLED dark mode. • Eight title typefaces, set on the left or the right. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN, ON IPAD, IN THE CAR • Widgets in every size, with controls if you want them, or the cover filling the tile. • Drift on iPad, full screen or in a window. • CarPlay: pick up where you left off, the mix for right now, your playlists and your library, with the controls where your hand expects them. YOURS, KEPT • Playlists, favorites, play history, lyrics you added and your EQ curves back up to your own iCloud Drive — and come back on a new phone. • Optional Last.fm scrobbling: your plays go to your own account, and Drift never reads anything back. MIXES, IF YOU WANT THEM • For Now: a mix for this moment. Daily 15: a fresh mix each morning that holds steady all day. Everything is worked out on your phone — no suggestions on the playing screen, ever. Seven days of everything, then one purchase. Drift Unlimited is bought once and is yours for good: every format, every library, every drive and server, the wheel, CarPlay, and the automatic work — tags and artwork completed on import, whole-library maintenance in one tap, duplicate cleanup.
LyricTap
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Make your lyrics match the music. LyricTap is a lyric syncing and subtitle tool for musicians, cover creators, and anyone working with their own music and lyrics. Import a song, add your lyrics, fine-tune the timing yourself, or use AI to sync an entire track. Export subtitles, create manual karaoke timing, separate vocals and instrumentals, and turn synced lyrics into videos — all from iPhone or iPad. SYNC AND EDIT LYRICS Import music from your device, paste lyrics, or open an existing lyric file. Play the song while adjusting the start time of each line, then preview the result directly in the player. Manual lyric editing does not require an account or AI credits. EXPORT MULTIPLE LYRIC FORMATS Export your lyrics in the format you need: • LRC — standard synced lyrics • SRT — line-based subtitles • TXT — plain lyric text • ASS — manually timed karaoke subtitles • Enhanced LRC — lyrics with word or group timing Use the exported files with compatible music players, subtitle tools, or video editors. CREATE KARAOKE TIMING BY HAND Need more precise timing? Play the song and tap along to set the start time of individual words or lyric groups. Adjust the timing and line endings as needed, then export the result as ASS or Enhanced LRC. Word- and group-level karaoke timing is created manually. AI does not generate word-by-word karaoke timing. The LyricTap player and exported lyric videos display one lyric line at a time. Word-by-word karaoke effects are intended for compatible external software using ASS or Enhanced LRC. AI AUTO-SYNC Don't want to time an entire song manually? AI Auto-Sync analyzes your music and lyrics and generates timing for each lyric line. A completed AI sync also creates: • Vocals • Instrumental One AI credit is used only when a full sync completes successfully. Failed tasks do not consume a credit. After processing, you can save the synced lyrics, vocals, and instrumental. Saving those results again or creating a lyric video from the same completed song does not use another AI credit. AI results may contain timing or recognition errors. Play back the result and make manual adjustments when needed. CREATE LYRIC VIDEOS After a song completes full AI Auto-Sync, you can turn it into a lyric video. Choose your own background image, then select: • 3 lyric styles • 9:16 vertical video • 16:9 horizontal video Preview the result, export it as MP4, save it to Photos, or share it through the system share sheet. Lyric videos display one lyric line at a time and do not use word-by-word karaoke highlighting. YOUR MUSIC, YOUR CONTROL Manual lyric editing and video creation are performed on your device. Audio, lyrics, and language information required for AI processing are uploaded only after you choose to start an AI task and consent to the upload. LyricTap does not provide music downloads. Please use only music and lyrics that you own or have permission to use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Offline Music Player at weekly against LyricTap's every 2 months. 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. Offline Music Player sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LyricTap sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Offline Music Player ships an update weekly, LyricTap every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offline Music Player | LyricTap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kunyu Zhang | 一苇 叶 |
In-app purchases
Offline Music Player
- Drift Unlimited$14.99
LyricTap
- Auto-Sync Credit ×1$1.99
- Auto-Sync Credits ×10$12.99
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