SONOCA Player vs MaximumMPD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SONOCA Player
This music player allows you to play audio downloaded from a special music media card, as well as music already stored on your smartphone. It offers features like video content playback, iCloud backup, and PC transfer via iTunes. Customize your experience with three theme color options.
- Play music from SONOCA cards
- Play local smartphone music
- Download and play video content
- iCloud backup for downloaded files
- Transfer files to PC via iTunes
- Choose from 3 theme colors
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Simpler and easier SONOCA Player SONOCA Player is a music player for the music download card “SONOCA.” You can play music downloaded from SONOCA, and also the music already in your smartphone. -Download/Play video contents -Save downloaded files on iCloud as backup -Transfer downloaded files to your PC (using iTunes) -You can choose from 3 theme colors *About SONOCA SONOCA is a music media card which can download music onto smartphone. It is a new solution for the creators, a crossover of a sense of ownership as an object and convenience by downloading service.
MaximumMPD
Control your Music Player Daemon (MPD) server remotely. Browse your music library by artist, album, or song, generate random playlists, and manage outputs. It also supports album art downloading and server discovery.
- Remote MPD server control
- Random playlist generation
- Artist, album, and song browser
- File browser
- Quick search functionality
- Output selection
- Album art downloading
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MaximumMPD is a MPD (Music Player Daemon) client providing remote control over all your MPD based songs Features: Random Playlist generation Multiple connections Server Discovery via Bonjour Artist, Album Song Browser File Browser Quickly search for artists, albums and songs Output Selection Quickly create and edit playlists AlbumArt downloading via MPD (if version >= 0.21), HTTP and UPnP Requirements : An MPD Server running in your home network. See http://www.musicpd.org/ for more details Various images provided by Icons8 https://icons8.com
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Verdict
SONOCA Player and MaximumMPD both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of MaximumMPD's written reviews are positive against 32% of SONOCA Player's. MaximumMPD also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for SONOCA Player against 4.1 for MaximumMPD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaximumMPD has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of SONOCA Player's written reviews are positive against 86% of MaximumMPD's.
SONOCA Player ships an update monthly, MaximumMPD every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SONOCA Player | MaximumMPD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Crypton Future Media, Inc. Apps | Richard Backhouse |
Customer experience
SONOCA Player
MaximumMPD
In-app purchases
SONOCA Player
No in-app purchases
MaximumMPD
No in-app purchases
