Beat Bazaar vs Flex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Beat Bazaar
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Works Fully Offline Your music lives on your device. Play anywhere: on a plane, in the subway, or with Wi-Fi off. Your library stays private and always accessible. Plays All Your Files MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, MP4 audio, WAV, and FLAC. One app for your entire collection with no conversions needed. Fix & Organize Your Tags Beat Bazaar reads titles, artists, albums, genres, and artwork directly from your files. Fix missing or incorrect details, bulk-edit entire albums in seconds, and save changes back to the files. 10-Band Equalizer Shape your sound with up to 10 bands of EQ from 31Hz to 16kHz for more bass, brighter highs, and clearer vocals. Pitch & Speed Change playback speed and pitch independently. Slow down to learn a part, speed up to save time, or shift pitch without affecting tempo. Synced Lyrics Lyrics scroll in time with the music, fetched from a public database. Follow along word by word. Customize Everything Pick a theme preset or create your own colors and font. Supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Background Playback Music keeps playing while you do other things. Control it from your lock screen with full track info and artwork. Stay Informed Stay updated on new features and announcements without leaving the app. Organize Your Way Browse by artist, album, genre, playlist, or folder. See your files exactly as they're arranged on disk. Search, filter, and sort to find any track instantly. Waveforms & Smart Queue Tap anywhere on a track's waveform to jump to that moment. The queue supports shuffle, repeat, and reordering and remembers where you left off. Free with Optional Ads Beat Bazaar is free with light ads. Watch a quick video to disable ads for your session, or subscribe for permanent ad-free access.
Flex
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Your music library should feel like yours. Flex Music is an independent music player and playlist manager for personal Plex Media Server libraries. Sign in with Plex, pick your server, and your music is there โ at home, in the car, on your wrist, and offline. No Plex Pass required. BUILT AND TESTED FOR BIG PLAYLISTS Forget the endless scrolling. A song pops into your head, you type a few letters, and there it is โ search works inside a playlist, not just across your library. Then reorder by drag, or swipe a track straight to the top, the middle, a random spot, or the bottom, and map each of the four swipe slots to whichever action you use most. Add whole albums. Add what's playing. Clone a playlist and tidy up the copy. All of it tested on playlists of more than 17,000 tracks. A PLAYER WORTH LOOKING AT - Lyrics that scroll with the song, full screen, in four sizes. If they drift, tap the line you're actually hearing and they snap back into sync. The screen stays on while they're up. Pulled from your server, with an automatic LRCLIB fallback when it has none - Six visualizer styles that move to the track's own decoded audio once it has been analysed, and ambient motion until then - An optional waveform progress bar drawn from the song's own loudness - Colors pulled from the album art, and seven themes including true black - Star ratings saved straight back to Plex OFFLINE, PROPERLY Download a playlist and it keeps playing on your iPhone when the server is unreachable. Set a storage cap and Flex clears out whatever you play least, or turn on Keep favourites offline and it downloads your most-played tracks for you โ over Wi-Fi only, if you prefer. IN THE CAR CarPlay is included, free. Browse your playlists, albums and recent listening on the head unit, with artwork, and rate the playing track without touching your phone. ON YOUR WRIST The Apple Watch app is part of Flex Music Pro. Start a playlist, see what's playing with its artwork, rate a track, browse what's coming up next, and use the Digital Crown as the volume. The iPhone does the playing; the watch is the remote. HANDS FREE Ask Siri to play a playlist by name and Flex Music starts it. MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN iPhone and iPad, with a side-by-side queue and lyrics on larger displays. Background playback with the iOS lock screen and Control Centre. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS Rearrange or hide almost anything โ the six home rails, the navigation bar, track numbers, the swipe actions, the lyric size. No ads. Your credentials are stored locally and are never sent to our servers, and Flex Music has no account and no advertising profile of its own. FLEX MUSIC PRO Free, always: browsing, playback, search, ratings, lyrics, every theme and visualizer, editing playlists of up to 100 tracks, and downloading up to 100 tracks at a time. Flex Music Pro unlocks editing playlists over 100 tracks, downloading more than 100 tracks in one go โ including choosing an exact number โ keeping more than 100 favourites offline, and the Apple Watch app. Buy it once, or take a monthly or yearly pass; all three give the same access. Purchases are processed by the App Store and can be restored from Settings. REQUIREMENTS - A Plex account - Access to a Plex Media Server containing a music library - Network access to that server for streaming and library management Flex Music is an independent app developed by Elixir Consultancy Services Ltd. Flex Music is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Plex, Inc. Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Flex at none against Beat Bazaar's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Beat Bazaar sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Flex sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Beat Bazaar | Flex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | โ |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Thibaul | Elixir CS |
In-app purchases
Beat Bazaar
- Beat Bazaar Gold Month$1.99
- Beat Bazaar Gold Yearly$12.99
- Beat Bazaar Gold Lifetime$19.99
Flex
- Flex Music Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Flex Music Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Flex Music Pro Lifetime$49.99









