Compare Prismatic Music
Prismatic Music is a free offline player for music you own, on iPhone and iPad. Here it is next to the other ways to play your own songs, including where those fit better.
Head-to-head
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Alternatives
For people leaving one particular app.
There are no alternatives pages yet. The offline player roundup below covers Flacbox, Evermusic, Doppler, VOX, foobar2000, Melodista, and VLC one app at a time.
Roundups
Several apps side by side, for one job.
Best offline music player for iPhone
Prismatic Music, Flacbox, Evermusic, Doppler, VOX, foobar2000, Melodista, and VLC, compared on formats, import, visualizers, ads, and price.
Music players with a visualizer
The players and visualizer apps that draw live visuals from your songs, and how they differ.
FLAC players for iPhone
Prismatic Music, Doppler, Flacbox, and VLC, with a reason to choose each.
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The Prismatic Music column
New comparisons here start from these facts, kept in one place and checked against the App Store listing.
| Feature | Prismatic Music |
|---|---|
| Price (US) | Free. Optional Prismatic Pro: $2.99 monthly, $19.99 yearly, or $49.99 lifetime1 |
| Devices | iPhone and iPad (iOS and iPadOS 18 or later). Android: not yet released |
| Formats | MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, Opus, OGG |
| Copy music from a computer | Over Wi-Fi from a computer's web browser |
| Import from the Apple Music library | Yes, for songs you own that are downloaded to the device2 |
| Streams from cloud drives or servers | No. Copies music from Navidrome, Jellyfin, Emby, and OpenSubsonic servers to the device |
| Plays offline | Yes. Every song plays from the device, with no internet needed |
| Equalizer | 10 bands with 22 presets. Custom curves with Prismatic Pro |
| Visualizers | Live scenes that react to the music. A selection is free; every scene with Prismatic Pro |
| Gapless playback | Yes3 |
| Ads | Visual ads in the free version that never interrupt the music. Prismatic Pro removes them |
| Account required | Not required |
- 1.US prices. Free listening includes visual ads.
- 2.Apple Music subscription downloads are copy-protected and can't be imported.
- 3.Songs with a different sample rate or channel count can pause briefly.
Sources
- Prismatic Offline Music Player on the US App Store, checked
- Prismatic Music equalizer, checked
- What is gapless playback?, checked
What Prismatic Pro adds
- Removes ads
- Online lyric search for songs without lyrics
- Custom EQ curves and saved presets
- Every visualizer scene
- Conductor, visualizers that read the whole song (also needs iOS or iPadOS 27)
- AI playlists built from your library (also needs iOS or iPadOS 27 and Apple Intelligence)
- Cast the visualizer show to a TV
How we compare
- We make Prismatic Music. So every fact about another app links to where we read it, usually the app's US App Store listing or its developer's site, with the date we checked.
- Facts come from listings and documentation, not hands-on testing, unless a page says it tested something.
- Comparisons include what other apps do better, such as streaming from a server or having no ads at all.
- Prices are US App Store prices in US dollars. Other countries and offers differ.
- Our automated site checks fail when a fact is more than 120 days old, until someone reads its source again.
- App names only identify the apps compared. Prismatic Music isn't affiliated with their developers.
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Try it with your own music
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. No account needed.