Comparison

Beat Bazaar vs Sonarch

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Beat Bazaar

Features
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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.

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Sonarch

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Sonarch plays the music you already own. Point it at folders on your Mac, a drive on your network, or a cloud account, and it builds one library out of all of them. Nothing is streamed from us, nothing is counted, and nothing about what you play leaves your device. ONE TRACK, HOWEVER MANY COPIES A track you have as FLAC and again as MP3, sitting in two different places, is one row in your library โ€” with every format and every place it lives behind it. EVERY FORMAT, GAPLESS BETWEEN THEM FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC and OGG, with ReplayGain so a library built from many sources plays at one loudness. BROWSE VIEWS THAT FOLLOW THEIR RULES Any view can be restricted to the locations you choose, and a browse view takes rules as well, composed in its own filter engine. Each one is live and stays where you left it. WHERE YOU LEFT OFF A browse, a playlist and the albums wall each keep their own place, and quitting loses none of them. Bookmarks save any moment inside a track, to come back to later. WHAT YOU PLAYED, AND WHEN History keeps every play with the time it happened, counts a track that came round twice, and remembers the view each one was played from โ€” so it can be played again, or opened where it came from. FOLDERS, NETWORK SHARES AND CLOUDS Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud, a WebDAV share or a Subsonic server, connected straight from your device with your own credentials. Your files never pass through our servers. Take what you want offline for the train. TAGS THAT STAY FIXED Correct a tag once and it survives every rescan โ€” written into the file where that is possible, kept by the library where it is not. ON THE MAC Send audio to another output with a keystroke, mid-track, without a trip into Settings. Schedule a start time and decide what happens when it ends. Drag in a ZIP from Bandcamp and it joins the library, with the shop's own tags stripped on the way past. ON IPHONE CarPlay, the Lock Screen and Control Centre, through the system player rather than a second interface to learn. Control the Mac from your phone over the local network. ALSO An editable playing queue. Lyrics from your tags or from LRCLIB. Scrobbling to Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Stop after this track, album or artist. Playlists, statistics, and a queue you can reorder. NO TELEMETRY, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier and no third-party SDK of any kind. There is nothing counting what you play. An account is optional โ€” the player works perfectly without one.

Screenshots

Beat Bazaar4 screens
Sonarch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sonarch at none against Beat Bazaar's 3. Sonarch also leads on ads (none vs shown). Beat Bazaar's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Beat Bazaar sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Sonarch asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beat Bazaar ships an update every 3 days, Sonarch every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Beat Bazaar versus Sonarch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeat BazaarSonarch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size61 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin ThibaulAliaksandr Siamionau

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Beat Bazaar

One-time3
  • Beat Bazaar Gold Month$1.99
  • Beat Bazaar Gold Yearly$12.99
  • Beat Bazaar Gold Lifetime$19.99
None

Sonarch

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beat Bazaar free?
Beat Bazaar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sonarch free?
Sonarch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beat Bazaar or Sonarch have ads?
Beat Bazaar shows ads; Sonarch does not.
Which is updated more often, Beat Bazaar or Sonarch?
Beat Bazaar ships an update every 3 days, and Sonarch every 2 days. Most recently, Beat Bazaar was updated on October 4, 2026 and Sonarch on October 6, 2026.

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