Doppler MP3 & FLAC Player

I can understand that the fee after the trial might be a turn off for some considering that an application of this quality would be free within any other ecosystem, like as a desktop app, but regardless, this is still leagues better than every other music player app on the App Store, in my opinion. If you want another no nonsense music player app that actually doesn’t charge you, then go install foosbar2000. That one does the job and might be good enough for some, but the features and interface aren’t nearly as nice on there as they are with this app. This app looks beautiful and feels smooth to use and lets you organize and transfer over your existing playlist collection from another device with ease. I genuinely do see enough value to warrant the purchase, personally, and I recommend everyone give it a shot. It is free to see if you like it or not before the trial period is over. Just a great “just works” app with no ads, bare minimum data collection, nothing that makes it obnoxious or annoying, and good interface. Plenty to love with this one.

This app was very thoughtfully designed, it’s a great music player interface (and not just a generic media player like VLC). It’s very easy to add all your music and then you’re good to go (I have like 30GB so I just plugged into my laptop’s usb and copied it all over, but you can also use WiFi or share files over from other apps on your phone). One tip is that the app’s music library is included in iCloud backups, so if you want this then great, but if you’re like me and don’t want all that copied over the Internet and maxing out your iCloud limit, go into your iCloud settings, into Backup, and you can toggle off backing up of Doppler (like any app). The app is free to try for a week, personally I really like the one-time purchase vs having subscription fees. The bad news: I submitted both a feature request and bug report (“Import from Cloud Services” black screens for me, so doesn’t work at all) and got no response, so this app may be abandoned, which would be too bad. It’s still worth $9 to me but does lack some features (lyrics, album info, visualizations). And after mass-updating my song library’s metadata offline, the easiest way I could figure out to refresh it in Doppler was to delete the app, reinstall and start fresh.

I’ve been looking for so long for an iOS app that just provides a simple, understandable, and aesthetically pleasing user interface to listen to local music files. Doppler has pretty much everything I wanted. It doesn’t require me to transfer files from my computer in a clunky fashion, it doesn’t make me link a streaming service, all I had to do was copy my music files to the app’s folder in my file manager and I was set. I also really appreciate that I can edit track and album information in the app itself; it saves me a lot of headache when my songs aren’t organized correctly for one reason or another. To top it all off, it’s just a one time, reasonably priced purchase at the end of a generous ad-free, fully featured one week free trial. I’ll be using Doppler to listen to my music from now on!