Helium Streamer vs Audio Extractor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helium Streamer
Stream your personal music library from your PC to your iOS device. Access playlists, search your collection, and view track details, all through a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. Enjoy your music anywhere, away from your computer.
- Stream music from PC
- Multi-user support
- Play/Pause and track selection
- Set rating and favorite status
- Album artwork and details
- Search music library
- Scrobble to Last.fm
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Helium Streamer enables you to playback your personal music collection on your iOS device. It streams music from Helium Streamer on your PC. This application is ideal if you want to listen to your Helium music collection away from your PC. It uses the Wi-Fi connection to receive streamed music from Helium from anywhere in and around your home and 3G/4G if you are out and about. Helium Streamer enables the playback of Playlists, Searches and User Favourites. Details of the currently playing track are shown; as is information about the playing track's artist. Helium Streamer interacts with Helium Streamer's in-built Web Service to stream and download music to the device. Features +Easily stream music from Helium Streamer on your PC +Full support for Helium's multi-user capability +Play or Pause your music +Select Next or Previous track +Set rating and favourite status for the playing track +Album artwork and details shown for the playing track +Built in play queue handling +Search Heliums library for albums, artists, titles, genre, recording years, release years and publishers +Browse Playlists / Smart Playlists +Browse Playlist / Smart Playlist contents +Browse Favourite Album, Artist and Tracks and play them +Scrobble played music to Last.fm Requirements +This App requires Helium Streamer 5. +Wi-Fi or 3G/4G connection to the PC running Helium Streamer 5.
Audio Extractor
Easily extract audio from videos and convert it to various formats. Create custom ringtones, crop, splice, and adjust audio volume. Supports batch extraction and playback at double speed.
- Extract audio from videos
- Convert audio to multiple formats
- Create custom ringtones
- Audio cropping and splicing
- Batch audio extraction
- Adjust audio volume
- Double speed playback
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Audio Extractor allows you to quickly and easily extract audio files from videos, and can easily convert audio in various formats or make ringtones - Support to extract audio from various types of videos - Support audio cropping - Support audio splicing - Support audio to make ringtones - Support audio batch extraction - Support audio transcoding in multiple formats - Support audio volume adjustment - Support audio playback and export at double speed - Support custom sampling rate, number of channels, bit rate Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/appaudio/audio/privacy User Agreement: https://sites.google.com/view/appaudio/audio/agreement Feedback Email: feedbackapp@126.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Helium Streamer at Free against Audio Extractor's $4.99. Helium Streamer also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). Audio Extractor's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 15.1). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Helium Streamer is free to download; Audio Extractor costs $4.99 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 — 3.0 for Helium Streamer against 3.0 for Audio Extractor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Helium Streamer ships an update every 6 weeks, Audio Extractor every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Helium Streamer | Audio Extractor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imploded Software AB | 宝锋 吴 |
Customer experience
Helium Streamer
Audio Extractor
In-app purchases
Helium Streamer
No in-app purchases
Audio Extractor
No in-app purchases
Questions
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