a music player for people who buy the record. And for those that make them.

your music. your crate.

A local library player and a pocket studio — built for musicians and audiophiles, not for charts and corpo-algorithms.

Your files. Your taste. Your recordings. Everything on device — no accounts, no tracking, no cloud lock-in. Built for the people who still read the liner notes.

↓ iOSiPhone · iPad ↓ macOSApple Silicon ↓ visionOSVision Pro
What's inside →
for musicians. informed, not generative. no subscription. homecrate across iPhone — player, recorder, amp, tuner
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On-device AI
00 a short note

Streaming made music convenient. It also made it forgettable. homecrate is for the people who still have a favorite pressing, who read the sleeve before the track list, who prefer a shelf to an algorithm.

On-device Learning for your benefit, not for a data profile tied to growth metrics.
Free · always
01 the player

A local
library player.

The tape deck in your pocket — with a good librarian behind it.

Library AI Algo Tuner Liner Notes Weather Mood Analytics Plex Sync
Pro · $9.99 once
02 the studio

A pocket
studio.

The 4-track on the rehearsal floor — now with a brain and a voice.

8-Track DAW Voice Control NAM Amp Spatial Audio Theory AI Drum Machine
01 the player · free

The stuff
in the sleeve.

Everything a record used to come with — liner notes, band members, lyrics, discographies — tucked into a player that actually remembers what you like.

Library AI

Ask your
library anything.

Your collection is the training set. Not the internet.

A librarian, not a recommender. It answers questions that are actually about your music: who's in the band, which albums you've skipped, what you reach for on Sunday mornings. Grounded in your files. Processed on your phone.

  • Band member search — "anything with Josh Homme in it"
  • Mood-aware playlists from real audio analysis
  • Listening habits — peak hours, repeat offenders
  • No accounts, no tracking, no cloud inference
Free
ask anything. on-device. always. Library AI — chill evening vibes playlist generated on-device
an honest algorithm. you set it.
Weather Mood game — pick a song that fits clear weather Listening Algorithm — time of day, weather context, skip learning
Algo Tuner & Weather Mood

You set it.
The queue
reflects it.

No black-box "for you" page. Real sliders, real rules, one live weather game.

Three sliders you can see. A no-repeat window you can enforce. A tiny daily game that looks at the weather, gives you three songs, and uses your pick to lightly steer what plays next. The algorithm is a musician's tool — not a corporation's growth lever.

  • Discovery, energy, mood, frequency — as sliders
  • No repeats for X days, your choice
  • Weather Mood nudges "Up Next" without interrupting now-playing
  • Save presets: Sunday morning. Dog walk. Last call.
Free
Liner Notes & Analytics

The stuff
in the sleeve.

Metadata for millions of songs. Synced lyrics out of the box. Grounded answers only.

Import a zip of FLACs and get word-by-word lyrics, verified biographies, band members, discographies — pulled from a curated database, not hallucinated. The AI cites its sources, and admits when it doesn't know. Liner notes for the people who read them.

  • Synced word-by-word lyrics on import
  • Verified artist bio, members, origin, albums
  • Per-track music theory analysis
  • Personal analytics, on-device only — peak hour, skip rate, mood map
Free
metadata for millions of songs. read the sleeve. Liner notes — track info, synced lyrics for Reality TV Argument Bleeds
02 the studio · pro

There's a
studio in here
too.

Eight tracks. Voice control. A neural amp. A theory AI that knows what key you're in. Spatial export. The full signal chain from practice through release — in your pocket, once you've paid for it.

8 tracks. stereo or spatial. homecrate recorder — multitrack with lyrics & notes
homecrate Studio

Eight tracks.
One pocket.
Full DAW.

A full mobile DAW inside the music player. What you make is yours — saved as a hidden track, kept out of your listening algo.

The rehearsal room fits in your bag. Latency-compensated overdubs. AUv3 plugin host. Per-channel USB-C interface support. Export to stereo, or to Apple APAC spatial on iOS 26.

  • 8 audio + 8 MIDI tracks
  • Per-channel USB audio interface support
  • Latency-compensated overdubbing
  • AUv3 plugin host — any third-party plugin
  • Mixdown to library: stereo or spatial
Pro
Voice control

Talk to
the DAW.

Hands on the instrument. Voice on the DAW. Informed, not generative.

Say what you need while you're playing: arm a track, move a clip, change the tempo, generate a MIDI part. Over twenty studio commands, interpreted by on-device AI — no cloud, no wake word required during a take.

  • Always-listening (pauses during record) or press-to-talk
  • Transport, track, clip, and plugin control by voice
  • Confirmation prompts before destructive actions
  • MIDI generation from a sentence
  • On-device AI — with a switch to turn it off
Pro
count me in from the top. informed, not generative. Voice-controlled DAW — export mixdown, open project, lyrics, tuner, chat, 3D spatial mode
Neural amp modeler · AUv3
Neural amp modeler · AUv3

Tone that travels
with the player.

Neural amp modeling built into the recorder. Cross-app plugin that follows you anywhere.

WaveNet and LSTM neural amp modeling under the recorder's hood. Drop in a .nam profile, load a .wav impulse response, stack them across tracks. Also works as an AUv3 in any other iOS DAW — homecrate never leaves your signal chain.

  • NAM (WaveNet, LSTM) neural amp modeling
  • IR cabinet loading from any .wav
  • 5-band EQ + reverb tail
  • Factory presets + user bank
  • AUv3 cross-app — works in any iOS host
Pro
Spatial audio

Put the band
around you.

Spectral binaural engine. Per-track position. APAC export on iOS 26.

Drop the rhythm guitar behind your left shoulder. Put the vocal front and center. Place the drums a step back. Spatial positioning runs live, drift-corrected, and toggles per-track without pausing playback. Export as APAC on iOS 26+, or stereo with spatial metadata on earlier devices.

Pro
3d spatial studio. put the band around you. Spatial mode — assign positions: Global, Center, Front L/R, Side L/R, Rear L/R, Above
Theory AI · Drum Machine
Theory AI & Drum Machine

Ask for
a riff.

On‑device theory. Knows your key, your tempo, your chord grid. Answers with MIDI — not mush.

The recorder's theory assistant listens to what you've got, detects the key and the feel, and hands back a MIDI clip in context. Ask for a 16-bar bass in D dorian. Ask for a shuffle kit. Drop it on a track. No generative lofi, no vibe-filler — it's an instrument for your part.

  • Detects key, BPM, chord structure from the mix
  • MIDI clip generation — bass, chords, melody, drums
  • 16-pad drum machine with English → pattern
  • Preview inline, insert to any track, or export
Pro
Tuner · metronome · drum

Save tunings.
Ask for new ones.

A proper YIN tuner, a metronome with swing, and a 16-pad drum machine that takes English.

Drop D to pedal steel E9 — homecrate knows every tuning, and it'll generate custom ones with per-string Hz targets and gauge warnings when you invent your own. Metronome does subdivisions, swing, accent patterns. Drum machine turns "eight-bar halftime with open hats on the &-of-4" into a playable pattern.

  • YIN chromatic tuner, cents + needle
  • AI custom tunings with per-string Hz & gauge warnings
  • Metronome: subdivisions, swing, accents, tap tempo
  • 16-pad drum machine, English → step sequence
Pro
Tuner · Metronome · Drum
03 also inside

The stuff you'll reach for anyway.

// midi i/o

Hardware MIDI.

Class-compliant USB-C or Bluetooth. External clock, Song Position, per-track routing. The recorder acts like a proper MIDI host.

— on every track
// editor

Piano roll. Step seq.

Full piano roll for melodic parts, step sequencer for drums, automation lanes for any AUv3 parameter.

— velocity · quantize · automation
// video

Video over playback.

Overlay the camera on the recorder. Audio and video captured together, with your backing mix baked in.

— capture the performance
// analytics

Your stats. Just yours.

Play counts, skip rate, peak listening hours. Monthly personality summary, generated on-device. Stored locally, visible only to you.

— never leaves the phone
// plex sync

Your server. Your files.

Point homecrate at your Plex server — same player, same algorithm, same liner notes. Over Wi-Fi or offline.

— bring your own library
// karaoke

The whole sleeve, lit up.

Pro mode hands the lyric column a karaoke vibe — big type, word-by-word highlight, whole-album mode.

— pro only
04 pricing

One time.
No subscription. Ever.

Own the app. Own the algorithm. Own your data. One purchase, yours forever.

the player

free

// always free · no account · no ads
  • Local library player — FLAC, AAC, MP3, ALAC
  • Liner notes — artist bios, band members, discographies, track metadata
  • Lyric metadata for millions of songs (karaoke / synced mode is Pro)
  • Algorithm Tuner + Weather Mood — set it yourself, explicitly
  • 4-track recorder — 2 MIDI tracks, factory amp/tuner presets
  • AUv3 devices with factory presets (custom presets are Pro)
  • On-device analytics & personality summaries
↓ iOSFree ↓ macOSFree ↓ visionOSFree
// free forever · no account required
the studio

pro

// $9.99 · once · yours forever
  • Everything in free
  • Library AI — ask your collection anything, grounded in your data
  • Karaoke mode — synced lyrics, word-by-word
  • Plex sync — your server, your files
  • homecrate Studio — 8-track DAW with voice control
  • Save custom amp & tuner presets, load your own IR cabinets
  • NAM amp modeler + AUv3 cross-app plugin
  • Spatial audio — per-track positioning, APAC export
  • Music theory AI + drum machine — on-device MIDI generation
  • MIDI I/O, piano roll, tuner AI, video, AUv3 plugin host
↓ iOSPro $9.99 ↓ macOSPro $9.99 ↓ visionOSPro $9.99
// iOS · iPadOS · macOS · visionOS · one purchase · no subscription · ever
your music. your algorithm. your crate.

Built by a musician, for the people who still buy the record.

still buying records?

Good. This was built for you.

↓ iOSiPhone · iPad ↓ macOSApple Silicon ↓ visionOSVision Pro
// no account · your library stays on your device