Comparison

Soundwaves vs Derecom Music Player

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

Head to head
About

Soundwaves

This app connects your iOS device to your Subsonic music server, allowing you to stream audio and video content. It supports various audio formats and can also play movies, making it ideal for home theater setups or car audio systems.

Highlights
  • Connects to Subsonic music servers
  • Streams audio and video content
  • Supports FLAC, Opus, Ogg Vorbis
  • Plays movies from server
  • Works with other Subsonic API servers
  • Adjustable max bit rate for limited connections
Features
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Soundwaves is a client for the Subsonic music server. Soundwaves focuses on simplicity, making it the ideal client to connect your iPad or iPhone to your home theater setup. Optionally setting a suitable max bit rate, enables Soundwaves to work well even over a bandwidth limited connection (e.g. a mobile connection). It will also play nicely with your car radio, connected via USB, Bluetooth or CarPlay. In addition to audio formats natively supported by iOS (e.g. mp3, AAC), Soundwaves can also play FLAC, Opus and Ogg Vorbis content. Soundwaves can also play movies from your Subsonic server, as long as they are in a supported format (.mov, .mp4, .mpv, .3gp) or a proper transcoding has been configured on the server. Soundwaves works with other media servers which implement the same Subsonic API's, such as Madsonic, Airsonic, Supysonic, LMS or Ampache. Note about privacy: tracking only happens when using the free, ad-supported version. Removing ads via the in-app purchase also stops tracking and data collection.

About

Derecom Music Player

Customize your music listening experience with vibrant themes that dynamically change based on album artwork. This app allows you to play your music library, manage your playback queue, and set reminders for library organization.

Highlights
  • Play music library albums and playlists
  • Manage playback queue (add, delete, reorder)
  • Set reminders for library organization
  • Dynamic color themes based on album art
  • Supports Apple Music playback
  • Native iPad support
Features
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Derecom is the brand new music player that finally brings some colors into your listening experience. With Derecom you can: - play all your albums, playlists, and favorite songs from your Music library - manage your up next Queue (e.g. add, delete, reorder, and search items in the queue) - set up Reminders to help you keep your Library in order - choose your favorite Theme, and watch the colors of the app reflect the beautiful artworks of your albums and collections! What else? - Derecom supports playback of Apple Music songs, albums, playlists, and radio stations! - Derecom now supports iPad natively (even split-screen and slide-over) This app is exactly for you if enjoy curating your own music library, but also like streaming new songs and discovering new artists. Feel free to reach out with new ideas that can make Derecom Music Player even better. Known app limitations:  - Apple Music support is limited to playback. You cannot add or delete tracks to your playlists or to your library. However, you can use the Reminders to stack these tasks up until you find the most convenient time to apply these modifications through iTunes or - in a lesser extent - through Music.app - Any reordering of songs in the playback queue is not immediately applied to the actual system queue, because of current iOS limitations (i.e. that's why most players similar to Derecom don't offer queue management features). Derecom will find the right opportunity to apply the new queue (e.g. at song changes), unless you just click the Apply button yourself.

Screenshots

Soundwaves1 screens
Derecom Music Player4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Derecom Music Player at none against Soundwaves's 1. Derecom Music Player also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 60%) and price ($0.99 vs $3.99). On update cadence, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Soundwaves costs $3.99 and Derecom Music Player $0.99 up front. Soundwaves sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Derecom Music Player asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Soundwaves ships an update every 2 months, Derecom Music Player every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Soundwaves versus Derecom Music Player: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSoundwavesDerecom Music Player
Price$3.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.1 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimone TelliniGiuseppe Samela

Customer experience

Soundwaves

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral12.5%
Negative27.1%

Derecom Music Player

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Soundwaves

One-time1
  • Ads-free Edition$3.99
None

Derecom Music Player

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Soundwaves free?
Soundwaves costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Derecom Music Player free?
Derecom Music Player costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Soundwaves or Derecom Music Player have ads?
Neither Soundwaves nor Derecom Music Player shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Soundwaves or Derecom Music Player?
Soundwaves ships an update every 2 months, and Derecom Music Player every 3 months. Most recently, Soundwaves was updated on November 9, 2026 and Derecom Music Player on November 3, 2026.

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