MPDluxe vs MaximumMPD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MPDluxe
Control your networked music playback system remotely. Browse your music library, manage playlists, and control playback functions like play, pause, and skip. This app is designed to seamlessly connect to your existing MPD server.
- Browse music collection
- Manage saved playlists
- Control playback (play, pause, skip)
- Edit current playlist
- Search MPD database
- Control playback mode
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MPDluxe is a remote controller for MPD, an open-source networked music playing system which can run on a variety of UNIX- and Linux-based systems. MPDluxe allows you to browse the music collection and saved playlists on the MPD server, play, pause and skip tracks, add tracks to and edit the current playlist, search the MPD database and control the playback mode. MPDluxe can handle music collections of any size, and is ready to work as soon as it connects to the MPD server.
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
The clearest difference is review sentiment: MaximumMPD at 86% against MPDluxe's 30%. MaximumMPD also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and rating (4.1 vs 3.0). MPDluxe's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.4). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
MaximumMPD is free to download; MPDluxe costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MaximumMPD holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MaximumMPD has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of MPDluxe's written reviews are positive against 86% of MaximumMPD's.
MPDluxe ships an update every 2 months, MaximumMPD every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MPDluxe | MaximumMPD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.2% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Page 112 | Richard Backhouse |
Customer experience
MPDluxe
MaximumMPD
In-app purchases
MPDluxe
No in-app purchases
MaximumMPD
No in-app purchases
