Offline Music Player vs Streamless Music
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.
Streamless Music
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Streamless Music puts the library you built on your Mac in your pocket, synced over your own Wi-Fi, played entirely offline, owned entirely by you. No cloud. No account. No subscription. Your music never touches a server, because there isn't one. HOW IT WORKS Streamless Music is the companion to Streamless for Mac, the app for people who rip their CDs, keep their own files, and sync them to the devices they love. Open the app on your iPhone, and your Mac spots it on your network like any other device. Pick the albums and playlists you want, hit Sync, and the music transfers straight from your Mac. Files, artwork, playlists, everything. WHAT IT DOES • Plays fully offline — airplane mode, subway, middle of nowhere. It's all local files. • Every format your library holds, including FLAC and Apple Lossless. • The classic EQ — Bass Booster, Rock, Small Speakers, Spoken Word, and the rest of the list you remember from your iPod's Settings menu. • Playlists flow both ways. Make one on your iPhone and it lands in your Mac library on the next sync. Edit anywhere; the newest change wins. • Plays and ratings sync back too — listen and rate on the go, and your Mac library keeps the score. • A Home Screen widget with playback controls. • CarPlay — your playlists, albums, and artists on the dash. • An Apple Watch remote with transport, volume, ratings, and a sleep timer. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No streaming. No recommendations. No ads. No telemetry. No "sign in to continue." Streamless Music plays the music you own, and that's the whole idea. GOOD TO KNOW Streamless Music syncs from Streamless for Mac (macOS 14 or later) — download it at streamless.app with a full-featured 14-day free trial, no card required. One $19 purchase covers everything; this app is free. Your music. Your machine. Your rules.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Streamless Music at none against Offline Music Player's 1. Offline Music Player's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Streamless Music asks for nothing beyond the download.
Offline Music Player ships an update weekly, Streamless Music every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Offline Music Player | Streamless Music |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kunyu Zhang | Sodium Studio, LLC |
In-app purchases
Offline Music Player
- Drift Unlimited$14.99
Streamless Music
No in-app purchases
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