Instacall vs The Record Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Instacall
This app offers a smart T9 dialer for efficient contact searching and calling. It features a user-friendly interface with customizable colors and speed dial support.
- Smart T9 dialing
- Fast contact search
- Speed dial support
- Customizable colors
- Simple interface
Read full descriptionHide full description
Instacall is the best T9 Smart Dialer It's incredibly easy to find names and make call FEATURES • Great Interface • Simple Design • Support Speed Dial • Color Customization
The Record Player
Read full descriptionHide full description
A musical hourglass. One album. One mood. One moment. Let the music flow like sand through an hourglass. The Record Player picks a random album from your library and plays it from beginning to end. No shuffling. No skipping. No decisions. You don’t choose the album - your library is the choice. Each play session is a reflection of your taste, your memories, and your current state of mind. It’s a moment of calm. Or energy. Or something in between. Whether you’re working, relaxing, commuting, cooking, or falling asleep, one album is enough. Use it to frame time - about 40 to 50 minutes - and give your attention a soundtrack. This is focus music for people who still love music. What can you play? • MP3 albums from your iTunes library • Apple Music albums you’ve saved to your library • Napster albums (with an active subscription) What makes it special? • Local album support with offline playback • MP3 playback includes pops, scratches, and all - perfect for digitized vinyl • Spatial record view - see a virtual record spinning in smooth 3D • Augmented Reality mode - double-tap outside the album to anchor the record in your room • Siri voice control - just say “Hey Siri, spin some vinyl” • Designed for simplicity, focus, and flow The Record Player was built for people who love albums. It’s not a playlist builder or a background noise machine. It’s about honoring the full arc of an album - start to finish - and letting that shape your day. What’s coming next? We’re just getting started. Here are a few ideas we’re exploring: • Power Hour Mode - one song per minute for 60 minutes • Auto-play toggle - keep going after each album or stop and reflect • Support for the full Apple Music catalog (not just your saved albums) • Light and dark themes that reflect album art • SharePlay support for listening to albums together remotely We’d love your feedback. Please leave a review and tell us what features you’d like to see next. Created by Sumner Internet Marketing Environments Corp. (SIME Corp), blending art, audio, and digital tools since 1994.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Record Player at Free against Instacall's $5.99. The Record Player also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and device support (3 vs 1). Instacall's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (216 vs 1). 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
The Record Player is free to download; Instacall costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Record Player holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Instacall has 216 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Instacall ships an update every 2 months, The Record Player every 30 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Instacall | The Record Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (216 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 216 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | hbull | SIME Corp |
Bugs and requests
Instacall
Reported bugs
15 issues- Settings crash on launch
- App crashes when accessing settings
- Paid version settings crash
- Lite version settings work, paid version does not
- Unable to search contacts
Show 10 moreShow fewer
- No missed call history
- Watch app screen is cut off
- Vibration not working on iOS 14
- App crashes when trying to access settings menu
- Purchased app crashes when accessing settings
- Cannot search contacts with numbers or asterisks
- App crashes when pressing certain 초성 keys
- App crashes when trying to dial
- App crashes sometimes
- Contact search is clumsy and glitches
Requested features
20 requests- Support for WhatsApp and social network calls
- Contact backup feature
- Display call duration
- Support for e-sim
- Option to disable confirmation before dialing
Show 15 moreShow fewer
- Seamless integration with call history
- Support for voicemail access
- Ability to customize widget size and description
- Option to change font size and background color
- Add Russian language support
- Support for T9 search with Chinese Pinyin
- Add automatic area code feature
- Option to hide call list or auto-delete
- Support for 10-key Korean keyboard for 초성 search
- Option to sort frequently searched contacts at the top
- Option to disable the 'Instacall' logo on the recent screen
- Support for direct dialing without confirmation
- Add contact marking feature
- Support for Force Touch like original dialer
- Add option to select which line to use for calls
The Record Player
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Instacall
No in-app purchases
The Record Player
No in-app purchases
