CloudBeats Offline Music vs mikMPD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CloudBeats Offline Music
Stream and organize your entire music collection from various cloud services and local storage. Create custom playlists, download tracks for offline listening, and enjoy gapless playback of multiple audio formats.
- Cloud service integration (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.)
- Offline playback with downloads
- Playlist creation and management
- Supports MP3, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, M4A
- Syncs music libraries
- Gapless playback
- Supports audiobooks and podcasts
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EASIEST WAY TO STREAM & ORGANIZE YOUR MUSIC Take control over your music and enhance your music listening experience with CloudBeats – cloud music player. Whether you need an offline cloud music player listener, or a music cloud player to sync all your music albums and download mp3 songs on multiple devices, CloudBeats is the only app you need. It simply allows you to create your own music streaming service. All you audiophiles and die-hard music fans finally have a simple app that will organize and play your vast music collection the way you want it. Anywhere. Anytime. It’s time to easily upload, store and access your music on the cloud seamlessly with CloudBeats. ► CLOUD MUSIC PLAYER ● Works with the popular cloud services for music streaming: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Box, pCloud, HiDrive. Personal clouds that support webDAV, including ownCloud and NextCloud. Network-Attached Servers (NAS) by Synology, QNAP, Western Digital (WD) and others that support webDAV protocol. These integrations make our cloud music internet song player one of the most versatile cloud music song organizers. ● Plays audio files in different formats: Our free local music player offline app allows you to play mp3, m4a, wav and lossless FLAC and ALAC audio. Meaning our music cloud player can play almost any song you have on your iPhone. ● Works online and offline: Want to enjoy cloud music with no wifi? Well our no wifi music cloud player allows you that. Simply swap between offline and cloud tabs. Also supports shuffle mode & CarPlay. ► MUSIC MANAGER & ORGANIZER ◉ Sync music libraries: The cloud music organizer app auto detects all the music on your phone and syncs all your music libraries. All songs are grouped by artist, album, genre. ◉ Create playlists: Want to organize your music and create cloud playlists? Add files and entire folders to playlists, change the order of the tracks in the Playlist section of our free music player. ◉ Organize & download music, audiobooks, podcasts: download, upload and sync any of your music across multiple devices on the cloud with this free cloud music organizer. Our intuitive song manager & song organizer will give amazing control and effectively organize your music the way you want it. It also supports audiobooks and podcast file formats so you can listen offline without wifi. ► ALL FEATURES: ・Supports most cloud services, personal clouds and servers. ・Works without internet. Download albums, playlists, folders or files onto the device for playback in offline mode (Premium feature) ・Playlist maker. ・Sync your music library with connected network accounts. Sync manager will scan selected folders and add audio files to your music library. ・Supports mp3, wav and m4a, lossless FLAC & ALAC ・Advanced buffering technologies to provide smooth gapless playback ・Repeat all, repeat one and shuffle mode. Shuffle the entire library, a single folder, artist or album. ・Sleep timer to automatically stop music when the timer ends ・Playback speed control (tempo) within the 0.5x-3.0x range.. ・Play offline–no internet or WiFi needed ・Add music to your favorite playlist ・no ads Cloudbeats is free with unlimited streaming capabilities from a single cloud account. With a one-time purchase of Premium pack you get: ・ download albums, playlists, folders or files onto device for playback in offline mode without internet ・ connect multiple cloud sources ・ connect to Carplay * Please note that the app cannot play drm protected files purchased on iTunes Store. ** 'Sync Multiple Devices' is an optional service to keep your Playlists and My Library database in sync between multiple devices.
mikMPD
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This requires a running MPD server on your network. More information about MPD and how to configure it can be found here: https://www.musicpd.org. mikMPD should work with other MPD implementations as Mopidy, OwnTone, Chord Poly etc. Album art (fetched from MusicBrainz/CoverArtArchive), synced lyrics (via LRCLIB). Browse by albums, artists, genres, or playlists with search filtering. Album and artist detail views include Wikipedia summaries. Play or enqueue entire albums/artists with one tap. Playlists — Full stored-playlist support: browse, rename, and delete playlists. Radio — Built-in Swedish Radio streams (SR P1–P4 Göteborg) plus custom station management with persistent storage. CD — Play audio CDs directly via cdda:/// URIs with per-track control. File Browser — Navigate the MPD directory tree. Single-tap enters directories, double-tap plays files. Swipe actions for add/play. Search — Concurrent search across songs, artists, and albums with debounced input, batch selection, and album art thumbnails. Queue — View and manage the current playlist. Double-tap to jump to a song, drag to reorder, swipe to delete, clear all, toggle consume mode. Outputs & Partitions — Toggle audio outputs on/off, switch between MPD partitions, create and delete partitions, move outputs between partitions via long-press context menu. Multiple Servers — Save any number of MPD servers and switch between them with one tap. Nearby servers advertising over Bonjour/Zeroconf are discovered automatically and can be added directly. Passwords are stored in the Keychain, and the last-used partition is remembered per server. Listen on Phone — Stream audio from an MPD httpd output directly to the device via AVPlayer. Configure the stream URL per server, then toggle "Listen on phone" in Now Playing. Supports background playback with lock screen metadata (song title, artist, album art) and lock screen transport controls. Snapcast — Control a Snapcast multiroom server from the More tab
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: mikMPD at weekly against CloudBeats Offline Music's every 2 weeks. CloudBeats Offline Music's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CloudBeats Offline Music ships an update every 2 weeks, mikMPD weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CloudBeats Offline Music | mikMPD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.1K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roman Burda | MIKAEL PER JOHAN OSTERDAHL |
Bugs and requests
CloudBeats Offline Music
Reported bugs
3 issues- Disappearing files from cloud storage
- Playback stops unexpectedly
- Inability to restore purchases across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Equalizer
- Crossfade playback
- Offline mode for downloaded music
- Ability to edit metadata
- Folder-based playlists
mikMPD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CloudBeats Offline Music
No in-app purchases
mikMPD
No in-app purchases









