Apple has always kept music playback as one of its top priorities and the iPod family is one of the most fascinating examples of its music-related innovation. While iPods have become more-or-less obsolete, their philosophy has carried through iPhone and services like Apple Music. But, if you want to play local music files or want a more personalized music experience on your iOS device, we have listed out some of the best iPhone music player apps that you must try.  Here are the 15 best iPhone Music Player apps that you should use in 2022.

These apps let you not only enjoy your own offline music but also support a host of cloud-based sources. They also support most hi-res music file formats, to give you the best listening experience. When it comes to music, it all comes down to personal choice. However, let’s first check out the things that you should look for while selecting an iPad or iPhone music player!

While we have emphasized the offline music players for an uninterrupted music listening experience, we have made sure to pick the apps that offer support for cloud syncing. However, if you are looking for full-fledged music streaming apps for iPhone, head over to our extensive roundup by clicking on the link.

1. Vox Music Player – Intuitive Interface with Smooth Swipe Gestures

Focusing on a fluid and intuitive interface, Vox Music Player is among the best offline music player apps for the iPhone, iPad, or other iOS devices. Interaction with the music player relies on swipe gestures, thereby eliminating basic playback buttons from the interface. While play/pause works by tapping anywhere on the player window, you can swipe left or right to change tracks. Swiping up opens the queue, whereas swiping down can close the current window and take you to the penultimate menu.

  • Vox Music Player

  • Radsone Hi-Res Player

  • Flacbox

  • jetAudio

  • Onkyo HF Player

  • Foobar

  • ARIIA

  • New Monaural

  • Jams On Toast

  • Cesium

  • Stezza Music Player

  • Ecoute

  • Evermusic

  • TapTunes

  • Musi

  • Inbuilt equalizer with a ton of presets

  • Ability to link your SoundCloud, LastFM, and Spotify accounts

  • Eliminating basic playback buttons

  • Smooth swipe gestures

Install (free, $4.99/month for pro version)

Radsone Hi-Res Player promises analog-quality audio and has a score of options to enhance the playback quality over other iPhone music player apps. One of the key highlights of this music player is Distinctive Clear Technology (DCT) which optimizes sound to suit different music listening scenarios by eliminating the losses due to digital compression.

  • Distinctive Clear Technology
  • A variety of presets
  • Neat user-interface
  • Fairly good swipe gestures

Install (free, in-app purchases start from $1.99)

Flacbox is perhaps the most versatile music player apps for iOS and among the handful that let you play downloaded music files directly, without going through the usual route of syncing your music library with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. Flacbox features support for multiple high-quality audio formats including FLAC, MP3, AAC, OGG, M4A, WAV, AIFF, and many more. It also allows you to seamlessly browse music stored on your cloud storage, including Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, MEGA, and a few more.

  • Option to bookmark your favorite part of a particular track
  • Multiple high-quality audio formats l
  • Supports major cloud services
  • Handy inbuilt equalizer

Install (free, $9.99 for pro version)

Another great player for iPhone users seeking various options to tweak playback, jetAudio is developed by the South Korean company COWON that manufactures portable media players. The jetAudio music player app on iPhone shows the majority of playback actions within the main player screen itself. Each action has several options which can be accessed by tapping on the respective icon.

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Install (free with ads, paid version for $3.99, in-app purchases starts from $2.99)

Onkyo HF Player is designed to offer you the best hi-res music playback experience, which it achieves by optimizing the sound based on the make and the model of headsets. The player supports a bunch of popular headsets from Philips, Pioneer, and Onkyo itself, apart from Apple EarPods. While the player interface is very minimal and designed for utility, it scores big when it comes to the customization options, including a 10-band equalizer and the option to download EQ presets based on different artists.

Install (free with ads, paid version for $9.99)

Offering support for a vast array of music file formats, Foobar gets full points for simplicity and utility. The playback interface only features the essential options alongside a rich settings interface. In Foobar, you can either sync your library or manually add your high-resolution music collection. It supports several file types, including MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, and more.

Install (free)

Road trips are incomplete without music but any distraction while driving can often be disastrous. As a solution to this problem, ARIIA music player offers an immersive experience, which only works in the landscape mode and includes only the most basic music playback options. The simple interface allows you to move back and forth in your library by swiping left or right across the display.

New Monaural is a clean and simplistic music player with a quirky feature for aurally-impaired users who can hear with only one of the ears, or unequally from both. The music player converts stereo (or binaural) tracks into monaural ones by smartly layering both the channels over each other, letting the specially-abled enjoy stereo tracks with just a single ear.

Jams On Toast is a music player app for iOS which puts emphasis on organizing music in the form of individual records and albums. Inspired by the age of vinyl records, Jams On Toast shows you an album-wise layout. It also lets you tidy up the interface by stacking albums on top of each other.

With a nifty combination of attractive looks and ease-of-use, Cesium lets you take control of your iCloud library seamlessly. It groups tracks based on albums and artists. You can also choose to simply show a list of all the tracks. When it comes to navigation, Cesium aces with its swipe gestures.

Install ($2.99)

For keeping all of your music perfectly organized, Stezza Music Player could be a fine option. This app is more geared towards offering a simplified experience thanks to an intuitive interface coupled with easy-to-use tools. Beyond simplicity, Stezza is also quite good at customization.

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Install: ($2.99)

Claiming to be a beautiful music player, Ecoute has got all sorts of tools to warrant attention. But unlike most of its counterparts, it has kept the user-interface minimal so that there is less amount of a learning curve. Aside from the clutter-free UI, the app features several cool gestures that let you control your music fast.

Install: ($0.99)

Evermusic is a feature-packed music player for iPhone and iPad. The app features a clean interface and comes with a range of tools that let you keep all of your songs organized using the proficient playlist manager. Thanks to the support for all the major audio formats, including MP3, AAC, M4A, WAV, AIFF, and M4R, it also ensures you don’t have to deal with incompatibility issues.

Moreover, Evermusic allows you to stream your music to Apple TV and Google Chromecast devices. Add to that the support for Apple CarPlay as well as ID3 tags editor and it becomes really hard to beat as an iPhone and iPad music player.

Install: (free, $9.99)

Putting more emphasis on offering a simplified music listening experience, TapTunes is one of those iOS music player apps that tick of all the essential boxes. So, if ease of use matters a lot to you when it comes to managing music, you should try it out.

The music player features a clutter-free interface and comes with a range of sorting and display options. Thus, you can organize your music in line with your needs, so finding specific tracks never becomes a hassle. What I love the most about the app is the nice-looking design of the player that amps up the music listening experience.

Install: ($1.99)

Musi is what you should pick to take control of all of your songs without getting into any complexity. The app may not have an eye-catching user-interface, but it has got you fully covered when it comes to creating and managing playlists. With several sorting options, you can keep your entire collection perfectly organized for quicker access.

We hope these music players will enhance your music listening experience on your iPhone and other iOS devices. These apps will not only widen the gamut of file formats that you can access on your iPhone but should also inspire you to further enrich the quality of audio by tweaking the equalizer and other sound enhancement settings.