App Profile: JPLAY
Android / Games / Puzzles
JPLAY
Installs:
Rating:
4.20
Total Reviews:
40
Top Countries:
FR, DE, GB
$10k
/mo
< 5k
/mo
Reviews: What People Think About JPLAY
Kanak699
Rating: 5/5
JPlay, an iOS-exclusive app, comes with a hefty price tag of $50, which raises expectations high. On the plus side, the app offers a bit better sound quality than the competition, enhanced by its intuitive feature that suggests similar songs based on your listening habits, particularly shining in niche and/or sub-genres. The ability to access detailed artist and song information, not commonly found in many other players, adds value to the user experience.
However, JPlay's drawbacks are hard to overlook. The app struggles with resuming playback, particularly frustrating with Raspberry Pi devices, and often fails to identify players on the same network swiftly. Most critically, its inability to play DSD files, despite being a fundamental feature for many high-end users, is disappointing. Overall, the steep price tag feels unjustified, leaving me feeling let down after spending $50.
Update (July 2025): After extensive experimentation with this app over several hours and days, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s indeed an excellent app for high-fidelity streaming. I can happily live without DSD through this app and without using it on my Raspberry Pi. The app plays exceptionally well on my esoteric streaming DAC, and I can also use it with various other streaming devices. Ultimately, I’ve decided to purchase the lifetime license, which I highly recommend. 👍
Small Time Drummer
Rating: 5/5
This app is just awesome. After trying almost a dozen other apps, this is the only one that does exactly what I wanted. I was able to seamlessly stream Qobuz to my KEF speakers with less than a minute of setup. The interface is clean and easy to navigate, and has some features that I love that seem basic but are surprisingly hard to find - like the ability to sort playlists by name and easily navigate through them (I have almost 1500, so good navigation is highly appreciated). Sound quality is far better than Airplay (and doesn’t bog down my network). Well worth the cost of the subscription.
Update April 2025: After a little over a year of use I continue to love this app. I even use it to play music over Bluetooth headphones, even though they’re not hi-fi, because the UI is so much better than the native Qobuz app. Also, the developer has been highly responsive and has added / adjusted features based on feedback. I’d give 10 stars if possible!
fatherzosima
Rating: 5/5
Revising my review. This app out of the box did not work well. Tracks would stutter at initial play, lag for 10-20 seconds or just wouldn’t play. This still happens intermittently but much less after a few days of experimentation with settings and rollback of renderer firmware to a more stable version. Now streaming on both Qobuz and Tidal are stable. Enabling proxy also helps with stability. The interface and sound quality are really excellent and merit the extra work to get this app working. This also has native integration for HQPlayer control which just adds to the value of the app. I’ve come to believe running this with HQPlayer is the ideal setup. It’s very stable and sounds glorious.
This app is highly recommended if you’re willing to have some patience. You will be rewarded with pristine sound and a beautiful interface.
About JPLAY
JPLAY is an award winning music playback app for audiophiles. It works instantly with nearly every streamer or network DAC on the market. It combines Qobuz, Tidal and local content in a single interface allowing user to access each library separately.
Main features:
• Beautiful, clean and easy to use app allowing you to play music on nearly all streamers/network DACs - no core needed! (UPnP AV/DLNA)
• Plays from Qobuz, Tidal and files on local libraries
• HQPlayer Control API – Seamlessly integrate and remotely control HQPlayer directly from JPLAY
• Dramatically better sound quality thanks to minimizing network traffic
• Radio feature discovers new music for you
• Single library, individual library and folder views
• Extended playlists management
• Advanced search, sort, focus
• Artists bios, album reviews etc
• Highlighted audiophile formats
• My Activity, My history keep your playback stats
• Native iOS controls from locked screen
• Sharing your favorite music on social media
• And much, much more!
JPLAY requires an active subscription to access its content and features. Sign up for a JPLAY subscription in the app. New users can enjoy a 14-day free trial period that will be automatically converted into a yearly subscription. Subscription is automatically renewed and charged on a yearly basis. You can cancel it at any time up until the day before renewal and you can at any time turn off the auto renewal.
Main features:
• Beautiful, clean and easy to use app allowing you to play music on nearly all streamers/network DACs - no core needed! (UPnP AV/DLNA)
• Plays from Qobuz, Tidal and files on local libraries
• HQPlayer Control API – Seamlessly integrate and remotely control HQPlayer directly from JPLAY
• Dramatically better sound quality thanks to minimizing network traffic
• Radio feature discovers new music for you
• Single library, individual library and folder views
• Extended playlists management
• Advanced search, sort, focus
• Artists bios, album reviews etc
• Highlighted audiophile formats
• My Activity, My history keep your playback stats
• Native iOS controls from locked screen
• Sharing your favorite music on social media
• And much, much more!
JPLAY requires an active subscription to access its content and features. Sign up for a JPLAY subscription in the app. New users can enjoy a 14-day free trial period that will be automatically converted into a yearly subscription. Subscription is automatically renewed and charged on a yearly basis. You can cancel it at any time up until the day before renewal and you can at any time turn off the auto renewal.
File size: 45756416
Launched countries: USAUCACNFRDEGBITJPKRRUDZAOARATAZBHBBBYBEBMBRBGCLCOCRHRCYCZDKDOECEGSVFIGHGRGTHKHUINIDIEILKZKEKWLBLTLUMOMGMYMTMXNLNZNGNOOMPKPAPEPHPLPTQAROSARSSGSKSIZAESLKSECHTWTHTNTRUAAEUYUZVEVNBOKHEELVNIPYAFGEIQLYMAMZMMYEBJBFCMCGCIJOLAMLSNTZUGZMZW
Minimum OS version: 13.0
Release Date: 1670054400000
Published by Marcin Ostapowicz
Website url: http://jplay.app/
Publisher country:
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