MPDluxe vs Stylophone
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.
Stylophone
This app serves as a modern, open-source remote control for a Music Player Daemon (MPD) server. It offers full playback control, playlist management, and library browsing, optimized for iPhone and iPad. It requires a separate MPD server to function.
- Full playback control
- Playlist management
- Library browsing
- Control Center integration
- Album art support
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A modern, open source Music Player Daemon (MPD) client optimized for iPhone and iPad. Buy once, get updates forever. “Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music. Through plugins and libraries it can play a variety of sound files while being controlled by its network protocol.” This application is meant to act as a remote for a MPD server and won't play any music on its own. Features: - Careful design that makes the most out of your screen real estate - Full playback control - Playlist management (Create, Add/Remove tracks, Delete) - Integration with Control Center - Local Playback of your MPD server's music stream if available - Browse library by albums, or directly by folders - All data is pulled from your MPD Server only - Support for both albumart and readpicture commands for maximum compatibility with your server's cover art library
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stylophone at 100% against MPDluxe's 30%. Stylophone also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). MPDluxe's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months) and price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
MPDluxe costs $2.99 and Stylophone $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stylophone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of MPDluxe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stylophone's.
MPDluxe ships an update every 2 months, Stylophone every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MPDluxe | Stylophone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Page 112 | Vincent Alves |
Customer experience
MPDluxe
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In-app purchases
MPDluxe
No in-app purchases
Stylophone
No in-app purchases
