MEGAPLAY vs StarTone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MEGAPLAY
A stylish and customizable music player designed for in-car use. It offers a comfortable and safe interface with features like color customization, background playback, and touch sound feedback. Includes a widget for easy song control without leaving your current app.
- Interface color customization
- Background playback
- Touch sound feedback
- Song title size reduction
- Downloadable song graphic covers
- MEGAWIDGET for song control
- Landscape orientation support
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The Music Player based on your Music App Songs, made to be Comfortable, Safe and Stylish. Thanks to the Interface Color Customization it will fit perfectly with your car interior lighting. Perfect to using in the Car, and so much more. ● Fast. ● Easy. ● Readable. ● Complete. ● Light. ● Wide. ● Run in Background. ● Customizable. and also.. ● Commands Layout studied to increase easiness in frequent actions. ● Landscape Orientation supported. (iPhone) ● Does Not Interrupt the Songs being played when opening. ● Dark Theme to save battery. ● You can set a Sound on the Touch. To know when you are interacting, without looking at the screen. ● Sophisticated system to Reduce songs'Titles Size. ● It allows you to Download for Free songs graphic Covers for a good looking playlist. ● Choose your favourite color! MEGAWIDGET (new): the MEGAPLAY Widget. ● It Allows you to change the song without exit from current app. ● The large alternative to the bottom system control center. ● It's also a shortcut to open MEGAPLAY tapping the song title. ● Instructions to enable: open the notification panel --> tap on "edit" --> tap on "+ MEGAPLAY" ● We recommend to move it on to the first position. Please support us writing a 5 stars review. Thank you. Support: feedbacks, bugs and infos: info@soponext.com
StarTone
This music player allows you to rate songs with stars and love statuses directly from your device's library or audio files. It offers convenient rating options via widgets and Apple Watch, with iCloud sync for your ratings.
- Rate music with stars and love statuses
- iCloud sync for ratings across devices
- Rating support on Today Extension and Apple Watch
- Play and rate common audio formats including Flac and MIDI
- Embed lyrics and support for .lrc files
- Smart playlist creation
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StarTone is a music player which can play songs in your "Music" library and audio files stored in your device, including common format like mp3 and lossless format of Flac, also it support MIDI playback and support customize sound bank. StarTone was came out for rating music with stars and "love" statues. The rating bar stands out in the main page, so it just need one touch to make the rating, no need to open many submenus. In addition, StarTone provides Today Extension and Watch app, so you can also make music ratings on the Widget Screen and your Apple Watch. StarTone now also equips some handy features to make the music listening easy and happy. Please try to play with them. Features: 1. Quickly set star and love ratings for music on your local library, Apple Music or audio file. 2. Sync music ratings with other devices or iTunes via iCloud on the go. 3. With iCloud Sync enabled, love / dislike rating are available. 4. Support rating on today extension (widget). 5. Share music ratings with family and friends. 6. Support embed lyrics, .lrc lyrics file and online lyrics. 7. Support automatically play when launch the app. 8. Support star music rating on Apple Watch. 9. Play and rate audio files of general format and Flac lossless format. 10. Support MIDI playback. 11. Smart playlist for both Music Library and audio files. 12. Play audio files on Apple Watch. 13. Scheduled music playback.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StarTone at every 5 weeks against MEGAPLAY's every 12 months. MEGAPLAY's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
MEGAPLAY costs $0.99 and StarTone $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for MEGAPLAY against 4.1 for StarTone. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of MEGAPLAY's written reviews are positive against 67% of StarTone's.
MEGAPLAY ships an update every 12 months, StarTone every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MEGAPLAY | StarTone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (20 ratings) — better | 4.1 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | SopoNext | 乃波 黄 |
Customer experience
MEGAPLAY
StarTone
In-app purchases
MEGAPLAY
No in-app purchases
StarTone
No in-app purchases
