Comparison

SilentBonusTrack vs Cabin Vinyl

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

Head to head
About

SilentBonusTrack

Relive the nostalgic experience of listening to music on cassette tapes. This app simulates the physical characteristics of tape players, including reel movement, tape wrapping, and operational sounds. Organize your music library with cassette-style index cards and enjoy a unique way to play your albums.

Highlights
  • Cassette tape reel animation
  • Tape wrapping and end animation
  • Player with counter and auto-reverse
  • Cassette index card song list
  • Album title lettering
  • Random album selection
Features
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This is a cassette player for albums. I have reproduced experiences of listening music with a cassette tape. For example, changing rotation speed of reels based on tape amount, animation of wrapping end of the tape to reels, the player with counter and auto reversing, a sound of operation, song list like cassette index cards, lettering album title. Would you listen to albums like you did in old days? What you can do You can strain to hear before the first song starts. On skip operation, The tape may run over the position you want to set at. You can skip efficiently with referring the counter. If difference occur in counter, you have to back to top of side A and push the reset button.(*) While you see the song list, you can realize which order the current song is on its side, and connections to a previous or next song. You can switch a song experimentally by pressing the button to play the other side. If you cannot get a current song name, you can infer which song is playing from the amount of tape on each reel. You can look at the tape that seems to be about to end but doesn’t readily end. The sound of changing side makes you feel renewing and expectations of a new side. You have to push the start button again if auto reverse doesn’t work as the setting. With albums released in CD, you can bother which boundary separates it into A and B. You can verify changing speed of rotation while fwd or rev processes. You can be deep in lingering of the album with reels rounding after the last song played. The mechanical sound at end of tape makes you feel a sense of achievement and a little missing. (*)The ways that avoid time and trouble are included. How to use Select an album and play it. Features An album is divided into two sides automatically. If a result of auto dividing is not desirable, songs can be transferred by an operation. Auto reverse(none, A to B only, both ways). Index cards represent song information as cassette tapes do. You can now use handwritten fonts for the characters of index cards. Selecting an album at random If you do with “random” button. Index card colors are sourced from album artworks. Album title lettering which is like a printing sheet. Caution This app imports music included in the device as an album. Cloud sources don’t be selected. The button drawn right direction on the player is assigned playing side A. Left direction is side B. Auto dividing executes as even as possible. A result of dividing may differ from actual dividing of an album. You can’t change song order. This app plays songs with using the iPod function on iOS. Another app using it as same may courses problems. Playing time is one minute longer than displayed time.(In case of 46minutes tape, each side has 23+1=24minutes) Lengths of tapes are about 10 kinds as actual. Albums having over 120 minutes songs are added a few blank minutes. After you change song division, the length of tape change to fit time. This app uses year data set in a song. If a set year is newer and an actual year is older, it is treated as a new one. When an album you played once is selected, it is set the previous position. But you can’t know which side played last time. Sound effects like tapes(hiss noise, warm high frequency) don't be installed. About playing in background You can listen to music behind another app by two ways. 1: Close this app by pushing the home button(as you usually do) - it plays songs in the current side only. 2: Before you close this app, change to BGM mode - it plays blank time after the last song, plays machine sound at end of side, obeys setting of auto-reverse. To change to BGM mode, you tap the button(drawn browser and musical notes) in the bottom while playing a song. In case setting of auto-reverse is endless, it plays whole songs a few times. While you listen to an album with a tape, blank time is part of it. This is the concept. This app divides the album into side A and B and adds blank time on each end.

About

Cabin Vinyl

Features
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Put an album on. We’re staying in tonight. Cabin Vinyl is for intentional music listening—appreciate albums in their entirety. Experience browsing albums like in a record store. Discover new music or revisit classics. Drag an album to the player, close the app, and enjoy. Cabin lifestyle—Simple, Beautiful, Intentional. No subscription, no in-app purchases. Pay once, own forever. Requires Apple Music subscription. No additional accounts or data collection.

Screenshots

SilentBonusTrack4 screens
Cabin Vinyl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SilentBonusTrack at $2.99 against Cabin Vinyl's $9.99. SilentBonusTrack also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). Cabin Vinyl's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SilentBonusTrack costs $2.99 and Cabin Vinyl $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SilentBonusTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, Cabin Vinyl every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SilentBonusTrack versus Cabin Vinyl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilentBonusTrackCabin Vinyl
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB8 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMotonari HibiBeehive Engineering, LLC

In-app purchases

None

SilentBonusTrack

No in-app purchases

None

Cabin Vinyl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SilentBonusTrack free?
SilentBonusTrack costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cabin Vinyl free?
Cabin Vinyl costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SilentBonusTrack or Cabin Vinyl have ads?
Neither SilentBonusTrack nor Cabin Vinyl shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SilentBonusTrack or Cabin Vinyl?
SilentBonusTrack ships an update every 6 weeks, and Cabin Vinyl every 2 days. Most recently, SilentBonusTrack was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cabin Vinyl on November 3, 2026.

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