DYSC vs RoadSonic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DYSC
This music player focuses on your personal collection, offering a tactile album-centric experience. Discover new music through daily picks and personalized radio stations, with interactive player controls and customizable mixtapes.
- Album-centric browsing
- Daily album recommendations
- Interactive DJ scratching player
- Customizable mixtapes
- Personalized radio stations
- Offline playback
- CarPlay and AirPlay support
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DYSC is a collection-centric music player for the music on your own Jellyfin, Navidrome or Plex servers. Instead of turning your collection into another endless streaming feed, it puts albums first, recreating the feeling of owned physical media. 1. YOUR COLLECTION Browse your library as a tactile stack of albums. Sort by artist, title, release date or recently added. Search across albums, artists and tracks, then jump straight back into the collection. 2. DISCOVER YOUR MUSIC AND FIND THE ONES YOU'VE MISSED BEFORE Album of the Day gives you one album to listen each day, with an a widget support and an optional notification. Recommendations and always streaming Radio stations help surface music you don't even know you had. 3. A PLAYER YOU CAN SCRATCH DYSC supports (and endorses) custom disc arts on your library. Shows if there is one on album view and let's that take the whole scene on the custom designed player. Hold the disc to pause, drag it for a quick reversal, or enable DJ Mode and try some scratching yourself. Haptics make the controls feel physical. 4. WTF IS A PLAYLIST, YOU MEAN MIXTAPES? Sometimes an album doesn't cut it, and that's why we've had mixtapes. Create, edit and reorder your Mixtapes. Add a track or a full album, choose a custom cover, colour and font for it and keep your favourite mix of music ready to play. 5. TUNE-IN TO YOUR OWN RADIO DYSC builds stations from the most populated genres and decades in your library. You can also create a station from a song or album, assign it a frequency and tune in to see new suggested music based on those everyday. Hop in and out anytime you want, but do you want to hear that music again? Too bad, you can't control it, it's called radio for a reason! AND MORE... • Downloads and Offline Mode • CarPlay • New/Old Siri Support with additional Shortcuts • AirPlay • Sleep Timer • Synced lyrics (Requires files on server) • Background and lock-screen controls • Direct Play, lossless formats and streaming quality controls • Volume normalisation (Requires server tags) • Light and dark modes (So we don't blind you) • Designed for iPhone and iPad DYSC does not include or provide music. A Jellyfin, Navidrome or Plex server and your own music library are required. DYSC is an independent client and is not affiliated with Jellyfin, Navidrome or Plex.
RoadSonic
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Your music server, made for the road. RoadSonic plays the music you already own — on your Navidrome or Subsonic server, in the Files app, and in Apple Music — from one library that keeps playing when the network doesn't. BUILT FOR THE CAR A tunnel or a dead zone should never cut the music. RoadSonic keeps a verified reserve of complete tracks on your iPhone (20, 30 or 60 minutes, your choice), downloads the next tracks ahead while you listen, and falls back to what is already on the device before silence ever happens. When the reserve is ready, the app says so: "Ready for the road". CARPLAY DONE RIGHT Listen, Artists, Albums and Find directly on the car screen, with artwork and Now Playing. Large targets, no menus to dig through, and playback resumes where you left it. YOUR SERVERS, ONE LIBRARY Connect any OpenSubsonic server — Navidrome, Ampache, gonic, LMS, Airsonic, Nextcloud Music, Supysonic, Funkwhale or any Subsonic-compatible server. Plex, Jellyfin (with Quick Connect) and Emby are supported too, and you can import folders from the Files app. Artists, albums, favorites and search are merged across every source; exact duplicates are recognized by their MusicBrainz and ISRC identifiers, and you never have to pick a "server" to find a song. APPLE MUSIC, OPTIONAL Link your Apple Music subscription to search the catalog, play your Apple Music library and get recommendations next to your own files. Discovery mode adds a few Apple Music picks to your Radio. Apple Music playback stays managed by Apple. SEARCH THAT NEVER WAITS Your whole library is indexed on the device. Type two letters and results appear instantly — artists, albums, tracks — even offline, even on a slow server. Jump to a letter, sort by year or title, browse recently added. RADIO, ARTIST AND ALBUM Play an album in order or shuffled, start an artist's top tracks, or let Radio build an endless queue from your favorites, your play counts and community popularity — without repeating what you heard in the last three days. Say "Not for me" or "More like this" and the queue adapts. SMART PLAYLISTS Daily Mix, Favorites, Rediscover, Never played, Your essentials and Recently played, computed on the device from your listening across all your sources. OFFLINE ALBUMS Download any album for a road trip. Downloads are visible, resume after a lost connection, are verified and never silently deleted. Choose a cache budget of 2, 5, 10 or 20 GB; RoadSonic manages the rest. LYRICS AND KARAOKE Synchronized lyrics from your server or LRCLIB, with a karaoke view that follows the song line by line. SOUND 10-band equalizer with presets, loudness normalization per track or per album, gapless albums and crossfade — with a separate sound profile automatically recalled for the iPhone speaker, wired headphones, Bluetooth, CarPlay and AirPlay. AirPlay compatible, to any speaker or receiver. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS "Play Depeche Mode", "Play my favorites", "Start the radio", "Like this track": full voice control, plus Shortcuts actions for albums, artists, playlists and downloads. ARTISTS AND CONCERTS Artist pages with biography, artwork, top tracks, latest releases and upcoming concerts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. Passwords are never sent in the clear: Subsonic token authentication and HTTPS, with plain HTTP allowed only on your local network and only if you explicitly confirm it. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Delete everything in one tap. SIMPLE PRICING Free to download with a full 7-day trial that starts after your first library sync. Then a single one-time purchase unlocks RoadSonic for good. No subscription, no ads. Requires iOS 18 and your own music: a Subsonic-compatible, Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server, local audio files, or an Apple Music subscription. RoadSonic is independent and not affiliated with Navidrome, Plex, Jellyfin, Emby or Apple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DYSC at none against RoadSonic's 1. RoadSonic's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. RoadSonic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DYSC asks for nothing beyond the download.
DYSC ships an update every 2 weeks, RoadSonic every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DYSC | RoadSonic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tunahan Ekici | Emmanuel BORGES |
In-app purchases
DYSC
No in-app purchases
RoadSonic
- RoadSonic Lifetime$4.99









