Sonevia vs BrainDance Music Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonevia
This app is a lossless music player that plays your owned music files with high fidelity. It supports a wide range of audio formats, offers advanced playback features, and syncs your library across devices. An optional Pro subscription unlocks further customization and advanced audio processing.
- Lossless audio playback (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, etc.)
- Gapless playback and crossfade
- Graphic and parametric equalizer
- Syncs library across devices via iCloud
- CarPlay and AirPlay support
- Offline downloads from media servers
- Headphone correction profiles
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Sonevia plays the music you own, the way it was recorded. On iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and in your car with CarPlay. FREE • FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Opus, WMA and DSD, with gapless playback and crossfade • The format, bit depth and sample rate of every song on show • Your files and folders, from this device, iCloud Drive or any Files location • Albums, artists, playlists, liked songs, Recently Added and search • Synced lyrics from your files • A graphic equalizer with 26 presets • Star ratings, smart lists, full-screen lyrics and ListenBrainz scrobbling • Likes, playlists, ratings and listening history kept in step across your devices with iCloud • Sleep timer, Sound Check, CarPlay, AirPlay, Lock Screen controls and a widget • In English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish SONEVIA PRO: monthly, yearly or once for good, on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a free 7-day trial • Parametric EQ, a profile for each output, and corrections for thousands of headphones • Effects: reverb, echo, crossfeed and a chain of your own • Audio Lab: every step from the file to your ears • DSD over USB: DSF and DSDIFF songs reach a DoP DAC as DSD, on iPhone and iPad • Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby and Plex Media Server, with offline downloads • Play on Sonos, Google Cast and DLNA speakers, or a Navidrome Jukebox • Apple Music in Sonevia (needs your own Apple Music subscription) • Mixes, listening history, stats and recaps • Immersive Now Playing, animated artwork, themes, Edit Info and Edit Tags The trial is free and renews into nothing: when it ends, Pro features lock and your music and settings stay. Monthly and Yearly are subscriptions that renew automatically until you cancel them in your Apple Account settings, at least 24 hours before the period ends. Lifetime is one payment. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ No account, no ads and no tracking.
BrainDance Music Player
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BrainDance Music Player is the companion app to your BrainDance Music account. Sign in with your email and the albums in your library are ready to play, with your favorites and playlists exactly as you left them on the web. LISTEN • Stream any album in your library, track by track or on shuffle • Keep playing with the screen off, with lock-screen controls • Set a sleep timer and let the music stop on its own • Repeat one, repeat all, or play in order FAVORITES AND PLAYLISTS • Tap the heart on any track to keep it in Favorites • Build up to ten playlists, each holding up to three hundred tracks • Everything syncs with braindancemusic.com, so a playlist made on your laptop is on your phone, and the other way round FIND MUSIC • Search the whole catalog by album, artist or genre • Filter by genre with one tap • Recently played keeps the albums you keep coming back to one tap away • Every album in the catalog plays as a 20-second sample, so you can hear anything before it is in your library SIMPLE SIGN-IN • No password: a one-time code is emailed to you • Any email address works and gets you a free account • Sign in with the same email you use on braindancemusic.com to hear the albums you already own PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No advertising, no tracking, no third-party analytics • Your listening history stays on your device • Delete your account from inside the app at any time BrainDance Music Player is free. It plays what your account already owns, plus samples of everything in the catalog.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrainDance Music Player at none against Sonevia's 4. BrainDance Music Player also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.4). Sonevia's advantage is device support (4 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Sonevia sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. BrainDance Music Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Sonevia | BrainDance Music Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manasvin Yadav | Patrick Magee |
In-app purchases
Sonevia
- Sonevia Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Sonevia Pro Yearly$7.991 Year
- 7-day TrialFree
- Sonevia Pro Lifetime$14.99
BrainDance Music Player
No in-app purchases





