Neo Music vs Audio+MIDI Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Neo Music
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Neo Music turns your Apple Music library into something you can touch — not a flat list, but a wall of records, a crate of vinyl, a pocket cassette player. SEVEN WAYS TO BROWSE • Music Wallet & Music Stack — albums layered like wallet cards, from first to last in one flick • Vinyl Crate — flip through sleeves one by one; the whole page takes the cover's color, long-press for details • Infinite Canvas — pinch to zoom from a few big covers to your entire collection • Cassette Tape — a perspective stack of tapes, and a player that looks like a nostalgic portable recorder • Retro Handheld — your whole phone becomes a click-wheel player: spin to scroll, scrub and play • Pocket Deck — a white pocket recorder with a live waveform, a big counter and tactile keys A PLAYER YOU WANT TO LOOK AT • Vinyl turntable player with colored vinyl, splatter and marble finishes — drag the tonearm to play or pause • Immersive full-screen player with an ambient backdrop, a scrub bar and volume right at hand • Colors follow each album's artwork, from the player to the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen Live Activity • Shake your iPhone to play a random album TAKE IT TO YOUR SCREENS • Home Screen widgets: Cover Flow, Retro LCD, Cassette Deck, Record Wall, Player Deck, Top Chart, Ambient and more • Today's Listening Wallpaper — turn the albums you played today into a mosaic for your Home or Lock Screen JUST YOUR MUSIC • Browse by artist, and the Dusty Shelf brings back albums you haven't played in ages • Listening stats and a library health check • No ads, no recommendations. Every layout and widget is free; Pro unlocks unlimited albums and playlists • Available in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語 and 한국어 Requires an Apple Music subscription and library access for playback. Neo Music — rediscover your music library. Privacy Policy: https://neomusicapp.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Audio+MIDI Player
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MIDI and music, in one player. Audio+MIDI Player plays MIDI files, MusicXML scores and audio files from a single library. Play them on the iPhone's own grand piano, or send them to your Mac or digital piano — one output button switches where the notes go. ■ MIDI, scores and audio • Standard MIDI files (.mid), with tempo, meter and key • MusicXML (.musicxml / .mxl), played with dynamics, accents, fermatas and more • mp3, AAC / m4a, WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC and ALAC — hi-res FLAC and ALAC as they are ■ On the iPhone, or on your MIDI gear • The built-in grand piano, or an imported General MIDI SoundFont • Wi-Fi (network MIDI / RTP-MIDI) to your Mac or DAW • Bluetooth LE MIDI to digital pianos and wireless MIDI devices • Low-latency USB to a Mac or MIDI gear over one cable • Connects to MIDI Speaker on your Mac automatically ■ A player that's fun to watch • Live spectrum analyzer • 12 effects including vinyl record, cassette, aurora, shooting stars, fireworks, galaxy, snow globe, VU meters and piano keys • Effects like the piano keys follow the notes — even for audio files, analyzed right on the iPhone • Playback speed 0.5–2.0× ■ A library that finds it fast • Group by album, artist, year and more • Search, sort and favorites • Cover art and song info editing • Thumbnail and list layouts, and editing many songs at once • Automatic folders by artist, album, year or type ■ Keep your songs where you like • On this iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or in a Files app folder (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox…) • With iCloud Drive, songs download when played, and ones you haven't played can be removed from the iPhone automatically • Favorites, playlists and song info sync between devices using the same place ■ Playlists • Your songs in your order, reordered by dragging • Shuffle and repeat ■ Songs from anywhere • Import many files at once from the Files app or iCloud Drive • "Open in Audio+MIDI" from other apps' share sheets • Take just the sound of a video in Photos • Copy from the Finder on a Mac over File Sharing ■ Widgets and the Lock Screen • Home Screen widgets (small and medium) show and control what's playing, with the spectrum • Dress up the medium widget with classic skins (.wsz) ■ Apple Watch • See what's playing, and play, pause, skip or move through the song from your wrist • Pick from songs, favorites and playlists, and switch the output and the effect ■ Share songs via iCloud • "Share to iCloud" hands songs to our piano app Lesson One and MIDI Speaker Every feature is free (ads appear on the Library and Settings screens). Available in English, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Audio+MIDI Player at none against Neo Music's 1. Neo Music's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Neo Music sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Audio+MIDI Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
Neo Music ships an update every 3 days, Audio+MIDI Player every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Neo Music | Audio+MIDI Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 金苹 卢 | Albos Inc. |
In-app purchases
Neo Music
- Neo Music Pro$3.99
Audio+MIDI Player
No in-app purchases









