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Best Audio Playback Apps for iPhone (2026)
Offline Music Player is the top-ranked of 26 audio playback apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.6/5 from 60,389 ratings.
- 1
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 60,389 ratings · score 94 - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 19,702 ratings · score 93 - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 19,171 ratings · score 92 - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 60,099 ratings · score 89 - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 16,097 ratings · score 88
What belongs in this list
Play audio files already saved on my phone or in my cloud storage with a simple player.
Not here: streaming music service alone; video player that also plays sound alone; voice or audio recorder alone; ringtone or sound effects pack alone; the word audio or player in the app title alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →
Compare every app
- 1Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 60,389 ratings · score 94 · best in class
- 2Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 19,702 ratings · score 93 · best in class
- 3Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 19,171 ratings · score 92 · best in class
- 4Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 60,099 ratings · score 89 · excellent
- 5Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 16,097 ratings · score 88 · excellent
- 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 8,583 ratings · score 87 · excellent - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 57,652 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 29,749 ratings · score 86 · excellent - 9
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 3,156 ratings · score 84 · good - 10
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 7,486 ratings · score 82 · good - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 39,419 ratings · score 72 · good - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 3,251 ratings · score 71 · good - 13
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,209 ratings · score 71 · good - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 4,187 ratings · score 68 · situational - 15
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,718 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 16
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,334 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 17
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 3,216 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 1,964 ratings · score 65 · situational - 19
$4.99 · ★ 4.6 · 28 ratings · score 62 · situational · provisional - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 2,359 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional - 21
$9.99 · ★ 4.7 · 3,430 ratings · score 59 · weak - 22
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 8,446 ratings · score 58 · weak - 23
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,524 ratings · score 51 · weak - 24
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 3,079 ratings · score 48 · avoid · provisional - 25
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 7,646 ratings · score 39 · avoid · provisional - 26
Free + IAP · ★ n/a · 0 ratings · score 35 · avoid · provisional
New in the last 30 days
- BookPlayer (S)
- Evermusic: Cloud Music Player (S)
- Cloud Music Player - Listener (A)
- FoxFM Offline Music MP3 Player (A)
- VOX - MP3 & FLAC Music Player (B)
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- Fileplay - Documents Player (B)
- SonicNest-Music Player (C)
- Shufl FM - Music Player (C)
- Solo Offline Player (C)
- CloudBeats: Cloud Music Player (D)
- Musica XM-Offline Music Player (D)
- CloudBeats Offline Music (F)
- Music Cloud Offline (F)
Questions people ask
- What is the best audio playback app for iPhone?
- Offline Music Player, S tier, ranked #1 of 26, rated 4.6 by 60,389 people.
- Which audio playback apps are free?
- 24 of 26 are free to download: Offline Music Player (S), BookPlayer (S), Evermusic: Cloud Music Player (S), Music Player : Songs, Videos (A) and more. 15 of them sell in-app purchases.
- Which audio playback app has the best App Store rating?
- BookPlayer at 4.8 from 19,702 ratings.
- How many audio playback apps reach S or A tier?
- 8 of 26. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.
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