WayPlayer vs Open Music Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WayPlayer
Enjoy your local music library without interruptions. This app offers seamless CarPlay integration for safe driving and supports a wide range of audio formats. Manage your music collection offline across multiple Apple devices.
- Offline music playback
- CarPlay integration
- Supports MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAC
- No online notifications or ads
- Multi-device support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- Local music management
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Local Import, Free Management • Supports MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, and other mainstream audio formats. Completely Offline, Pure and Undisturbed • No online push notifications, no social features, no ad pop‑ups. Perfect CarPlay Support, Great news for CarPlay car owners!!! • WayPlayer deeply integrates with Apple CarPlay, allowing you to browse playlists and switch tracks effortlessly on your car's display. All operations are optimized for driving scenarios, so you can stay focused on the road while WayPlayer handles your music. Multi-Device • In addition to CarPlay and iPhone, it also supports iPad and Mac. Purchase once and use on all your devices. WayPlayer does one thing: lets you enjoy your local music purely. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Open Music Player
A private, local music player that lets you control which audio files and folders are added to your library. Enjoy background playback, a sleep timer, equalizer, and song identification without ads or required accounts.
- Manual file and folder selection
- Background playback and lock screen controls
- Equalizer and sleep timer
- Song identification
- Ad-free and no account required
- Multi-language support
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Open Music Player is a private, local music player for your own audio library. It does not scan your entire device: you choose the individual audio files or folders you want to add. Features: • Add individual files and selected folders. • Refresh connected folders to find new, changed, or removed files. • Browse songs, favorites, albums, artists, playlists, and smart collections. • Control the play queue, shuffle, and repeat modes. • Use the equalizer and sleep timer. • Control playback in the background and from the Lock Screen. • Identify music playing nearby or from a selected audio file. • Clear the app library without deleting the original audio files. Your library, favorites, playlists, queue, listening history, song-identification history, and settings stay on your device. There are no ads and no required account. Optional technical diagnostics can be enabled or disabled in Settings. The app interface supports English, Russian, Bulgarian, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. It automatically follows a supported device language, with a manual language choice available in Settings. Playing files available on your device does not require an internet connection. Song identification requires internet access. Automatic technical diagnostics are off by default and are enabled only with your consent. A vinyl player with two appearances for the whole app: Light vinyl and Graphite & lime. Choose in Settings, with shuffle, repeat, the sleep timer and equalizer beside the record. To transfer music from a Mac, connect your iPhone or iPad by cable and copy a folder to Open Music using Finder. Then connect it using Add folder in the app settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Open Music Player at Free against WayPlayer's $4.99. Open Music Player also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Open Music Player is free to download; WayPlayer costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WayPlayer against 5.0 for Open Music Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
WayPlayer ships an update fortnightly, Open Music Player every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | WayPlayer | Open Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CircleLynk (Guangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. | Vasiliy Tatarli |
In-app purchases
WayPlayer
No in-app purchases
Open Music Player
No in-app purchases









